missing folders

[CRAPmon2]

hi ppl,
i am new to this forum.
i recently was given a mp4 player as a gift.

Mine is a nano look alike that read 4GB mp4/amv/rec/fm but has no radio features.

my problem is after puting folders into the drive thru my PC, i cant see them in the player. Sometimes i could see 1, sometimes 2, but never all together. i also tried dumping all the music folders into a "root folder" but its seems it could read 1 folder in a folder at any1 time.

another problem is it seems i could not delete the "missing folders" even thru my pc. An error will pop out whenever i try delete it. i could only seems to clear it by formattin the drive..

Any remedy will be greatly appreciated thanks

[admin]

CRAPmon2,

Sorry to say this, but majority of the time, a 4 GB player is a 'hacked' player. This is where a smaller size memory chip is installed in your player but it has been hacked to show a larger (4GB) size instead.

From your post, those are generally are the symptoms of a hacked player.

What you can do is this:
1. Backup the files you want to keep on your player. Use the "MP3 Disk Tool" from "MP3 Player Utilities" to format your player. When you do, select the "low" format option. This should clear (most of the time) the hacks put in and generally fixes majority of the problems.

2. Backup your firmware using s1fwx so you have a backup of your player's firmware.

3. If after Step #1, you're still having problems, then follow step 2 then this step. After extracting your firmware with the s1fwx tool, RELOAD the firmware back on your player. Strange as it may seem, this has also fixed these kind of issues.

Try that and let us know how you get on.