[Solved] Yup...definitely messed something up...

[nobody special]

Hi all, i'll just get straight to the point.

I have an iPod clone, and I mean a REAL iPod clone, it actually says "iPod" on it, not "mp4" (dunno f it makes a difference), and it's the near exact size and dimensions of an iPod Nano. The screen is micrometer'd at 1.142" tall x 1.042" wide and I have verified 4GB worth of storage. What is this reffered to on this board, since everything seems to be called "iPod clone"?

Earlier today it played music with no problems, now, after some excessive deleting, it dosen't play music just says "initalizing" then restarts, doesn't play movies (says wrong format), no text files (says wrong format), no images, voice files, nothing. I can see that they're there, but it doesn't interact. turns on, full color screen and everything, I see the lotus and the koi, I can see all of the menus, just no successful interaction with files. Games still work.

I took all the deleted files out of my trash can (including the ones in chinese) and put them back on the player to no avail. I ended up here and read about firmware this and that and what not, I have no clue what's suppsed to be the right or wrong one. The current version is "ACT_V3.2.16".

I feel like I'm so close, yet so far. Is there anything I can do? Thank you.


Mark

[admin]

nobody special,

Here are some things to try:

1. FORMAT your player. It could be a error with the flash memory and formatting it might help. Of course, backup whatever files you want to keep. You can format your player through Windows. If it's a fairly new player, try it with FAT firstly, otherwise FAT32.

2. From Windows, do a error disk checking as well. Select the drive from Windows Explorer, right click to Properties then choose "Tools" then "Error Checking".

3. If those still don't work, then use the s1fwx tool (can be downloaded from our "Downloads" then "Tools" section) to extract your firmware. Run the repair.bat against it, then reload the firmware file back on your player. It's a 'funny' procedure, but reloading your firmware has known to fix some problems similar to yours. There is a Knowledge Base which guides you through the whole process of extracting your firmware then updating the firmware on your player as well.


Try those and let me know what the result is.

[nobody special]

Thanks "Admin" the format option did the trick on the first try! I used the USB formating program found in your Tools section.

PS, I'll edit with "Solved".


Mark