Thanks for the procedure! It all seemed to go just as you described, except that what I'm left with is a player with a black screen that shows up as two removable disks -- one that's about 62 meg, and one that's the remainder of the 4 gig. Both disks are empty. I tried just copying the firmware files that I initially sucked out of it back into the 62 meg disk, but when I rebooted, those files were gone. A couple of questions:

What's this "boot code" that the RK27Upgrade V2.5 tool needs?

When you said "it doesn't work if your firmware partition is good", does that mean I have to mess it up before starting this procedure?

Yes, I had to do it this way when the 62mb partition wouldn't open using rkusb.tag, so it must have got messed up somehow.

afaik the "boot code" doesn't matter much, my player isn't matched to the "boot code"

There is one "boot code" with the RKDM tool and another different one with the upgrade tool and it doesn't seem to matter which you use.
I take it you copied the 4 folders into the 60 meg hidden partition and then rebooted:-


APPDATA
RESOURCE
SYSTEM
SYSTEM00

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...a/rkusbtag.jpg

Your firmware copy may be damaged, have you tried all the other firmwares in the downloads that look like your player.?

try formatting the 62meg partiton and then copy the files and also format the main amery as well, and you did disconnect safely via the taskbar icon??

can not understand why the files would keep getting wiped

are you copying the files manually, i would do it manually if you are not

i have never used the upgrade tool yet just the rk27dm tool and press the R button to get m partition back and copy over iles again

Re: Did anyboby buy this PMP from Tinydeal?
 

I tried this same thing with some other firmware from a similar player (don't remember which one now), and it did work OK -- sort of. The "M" and the arrow buttons don't do anything -- but I believe that was already discussed earlier.

As far as "copying them manually", I was using Windows to drag-and-drop the folders. Would any other way be different?

I just arrived mine took 9 days after I got shipment notice
It's a really good player except the fact that I paid extra for TV-Out and then the TV-Out only works for audio(While any player can use a 3.5MM Jack to Component audio worth $1.5 on dealextreme)
So I'm going to ask the seller some money back tough I doubt it because I'm knowledged with these sellers they probably don't even make 6 Euro on my sale more like 1 or 2 Euro

did you get any tv out cables

and which player did you get

Yes I got TV-Out cable with Yellow Red White but the Yellow for picture doesn't do anything while playing movie
I got this one:
http://cgi.ebay.nl/NEW-GENUINE-8GB-8...QQcmdZViewItem


Oh And something Else I want to mention I Use a Macbook and it works perfectly fine on a Mac, in Disk Utility it even shows the Hidden Partition, tough as it's hidden Mac doesn't automatically mount it but I can see it's existing withouth the trick

movie and tv out

what system does the player support and on the movie player screen is there no icon for tv out, if not get some money back

be creful with mac as sometimes it copies over extra files which can cause problems, also do not try any other firmware on this player at all it may not work and also if you can see the hidden partition make a copy/backup of these files for when the player dies

I will make a backup copy first thing I'm going to do
And there is nothing that indicates TV-Out, but does it normally do on these players

Oh and to my surprise the manual is for the new rockbox players

And another problem I transfered a Family Guy episode as test it only plays 9 Seconds then it shows "file format error"
Tough I think because something got wrong in transfer

Oh and I wonder if I can change the theme on this thing(I have windows using bootcamp)

As for TV out cables, I've seen two different kinds. They look the same, but they are wired differently. I would hope that any A/V cable you got with the player would be the right one.