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victimXX 4th Aug 2010 9:21 am
Need help on bricked fake player
 
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Hi there,

The first night I received this player:

16GB Touch Screen MP3 MP4 RMVB Player DV Camera FM 5GBY on eBay (end time 03-Jul-10 18:03:09 BST)

it stuck at the "Welcome @ Loading..." screen after I put a 5GB folder on it. Oh no, not again, after staying away from flash containing devices on ebay for 2 years.

Opening it up, it just has a single 2GB flash chip inside. Hence it is a 2GB fake like 2 years ago. I really did not expect this as the price of flash has gone down significantly.

I had not even noted its firmware version. Too bad, it bricked, not only corrupted the storage partition.

It has a ATJ2237T inside. It still comes up with multiple USB ID's (Action Chip??), one seemed a camera mode with snapshot sound, when connecting/disconnecting to a computer. However I am not able to mount it as a drive to look inside nor to reformat.

Would anybody know how to resurrect something like this.

It looks like we may need to reflash it with a suitable firmware. Does that exist?

It would be a waste throwing it into a landfill. Appreciate any help.

Thanks.

wkmccoy 4th Aug 2010 9:09 pm
Have you tried pushing the reset button ( small hole, use a straightened paper clip......push straight in, don't push too hard)
Hopefully it will reset to normal, otherwise, no harm done.


wkmccoy

wkmccoy 4th Aug 2010 10:19 pm
PS I looked at your pix and I have one like this. It is probably not 16GB, but is only 2GB so you overfilled it and overwrote files. Search for and download h2testw.exe which will give a harmless test to show it's true size. Ask it to test for only 2.5GB, otherwise, it takes awhile. There are ways
to set the Hacked Memory to the true size and some are in these forum.

wkmccoy

victimXX 5th Aug 2010 6:11 am
Quote:
Originally Posted by wkmccoy (Post 286992)
Have you tried pushing the reset button ( small hole, use a straightened paper clip......push straight in, don't push too hard)
Hopefully it will reset to normal, otherwise, no harm done.


wkmccoy
I have tried resetting, that is the only way I could turn it off, but it always stuck at Wecome Downloading. I tried holding the buttons on start up, that's how I got different USB ID's, but I can't get to the menu, or make it mounted as a drive. It is definitely 2GB hacked to show 16GB. Hence it bricked after loading 5GB into it. I can't run any tests nor reformat it.

wkmccoy 5th Aug 2010 8:24 am
My player looks exactly like yours, except no camera.
A couple of suggestions:
First thought: My wife dropped hers into the car door frame. It went completely white with no turn off or control at all. I let it completly discharge. When I recharged it, it came up--working properly.

Second thoughts: I have bought 5 or 6 of different players which seemed to have mostly similar firmware. See my posts under 'Support and How to' >> 'How to remove hack' -- see the last page of posts.

Overwriting the memory has never seemed to affect the firmware, at least not on my units. I overwrote all of them when
I tested with h2testw.exe (free). I could not redo the memories on my Vista machine, because it would not see the players to re-partition them (though it did re-format them).

One free program 'Active Partition Manager' did work on 3 of my units.
Download the free version at - -http://pcdisk.com/download.html – also download the PDF file.
Do this at your own risk….If your unit is bricked, nothing to lose----
Caution: The next steps will remove all files and directories from the memory (not the firmware)

Plug in your player and run Partition Manager Free. Hopefully it will see your player. Delete the Main Partition. Resize the Unallocated Partition to about 1.8GB for your player.
Reformat with Partition Manager or regular computer Format. The player
might format when you turn it on and off.

If you need the memory directories, I have them.

victimXX 5th Aug 2010 8:27 am
Quote:
Originally Posted by wkmccoy (Post 286993)
PS I looked at your pix and I have one like this. It is probably not 16GB, but is only 2GB so you overfilled it and overwrote files. Search for and download h2testw.exe which will give a harmless test to show it's true size. Ask it to test for only 2.5GB, otherwise, it takes awhile. There are ways
to set the Hacked Memory to the true size and some are in these forum.

wkmccoy
It is definitely 2GB inside, although I purchased as 16GB and it also showed 16GB during the first couple hours when it still worked..

It bricked the first night after I loaded it up with 5GB trying to find some video that it could really play. I bought this for playing rmvb but it did not play any of those I have. That is another story but we don't have to worry about that for now. It does not come up as a drive any more. I am afraid I cannot run any tests unless I can get it going again.

Can you tell me the firmware version on yours and see if I can find the firmware and a way to refresh it?

Thanks,

victimXX 5th Aug 2010 8:48 am
Quote:
Originally Posted by wkmccoy (Post 286997)
My player looks exactly like yours, except no camera.
A couple of suggestions:
First thought: My wife dropped hers into the car door frame. It went completely white with no turn off or control at all. I let it completly discharge. When I recharged it, it came up--working properly.

Second thoughts: I have bought 5 or 6 of different players which seemed to have mostly similar firmware. See my posts under 'Support and How to' >> 'How to remove hack' -- see the last page of posts.

Overwriting the memory has never seemed to affect the firmware, at least not on my units. I overwrote all of them when
I tested with h2testw.exe (free). I could not redo the memories on my Vista machine, because it would not see the players to re-partition them (though it did re-format them).

One free program 'Active Partition Manager' did work on 3 of my units.
Download the free version at - -http://pcdisk.com/download.html – also download the PDF file.
Do this at your own risk….If your unit is bricked, nothing to lose----
Caution: The next steps will remove all files and directories from the memory (not the firmware)

Plug in your player and run Partition Manager Free. Hopefully it will see your player. Delete the Main Partition. Resize the Unallocated Partition to about 1.8GB for your player.
Reformat with Partition Manager or regular computer Format. The player
might format when you turn it on and off.

If you need the memory directories, I have them.

Thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully it is only a corrupted storage partition. I had one PC where the ntfs status bit was wrong and could not boot windows at all. I just booted into linux to fix it up.

It may be something similar on this player. It is not totally brain dead as it shows the Welcome screen and also responses with USB ID's when connected to a PC.

I'll try de-soldering the battery directly and check if the partition manager to get to it when I get back home tonight.

This unit is virtually free now as I have received a full refund after filing a dispute via paypal.

It is new. I don't think there is anything wrong with hardware other than the flash size hack. It would be a big waste throwing it to the landfill.

wkmccoy 5th Aug 2010 2:57 pm
You asked for my player info (not much help, is it?)
Under the player system icon-- it has--- Players name: Media Player
Ver 1018_090212_dev_tp_CM_OV_S
Remember that I do not have a camera with it.

Please let me know about success or failures......Thanks

victimXX 5th Aug 2010 9:34 pm
Tried disconnecting/reconnecting the battery and running Active Partition Manager tonight, but it still stuck at Welcome loading and would not come up as a drive.

I am getting some USB devices on resets. It generates an Actions winUSB device on holding one set of buttons during reset and an ATD tools device holding another button. Find this on googling for ATD tools device:

ATD tools - GSM-Forum

So we may be quite close to the boot modes described there. If we can find the correct firmware and utilities, we may be able to reflash it.

That's all for now.

Good Night.


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