4gb Really a 4gb? How can I Check?

[Spawn_20240]

Idk it seems okay,

I bought it for 50.50 shipping was 23.99 :shock:

Total: $74.44 USD

2gb usually go for $60 cheapest with shipping*

[admin]

Have a look at some of these posts regarding 4GB players:

My Fake 4GB MP3 Player - Detailed Findings! from here.

Fake MP4 4GB player - Files corrupted from here.

4GB MP3/MP4 Players from here.

I had 4gb now only 2gb from here.

sc85052a FRUAD 4g from here.


Maybe you're the first to get a proper on?
Do let us know how you get on with it.

[bsaylors]

Hey Spawn - if you got a 4GB thats great, but for the price you paid for it, it seems like a fake, but you know, I think you might be lucky unlike some others and only got a 2GB fake and not a 256MB fake..

[Spawn_20240]

Ya i guess i got lucky with the price. I've notice Black ones always go more expensive then white and pink. That guy is only selling black ones now.

Heres my Frimware version

SC85051B

2006/03/17

ACT_V3.535

....

Ive seen a topic that the SC85051A had problems ... Mine has a B

[jthspace]

Weird one. Copied 4 GB of music and data files across and the data files were all corrupted, so suspected a hacked 4GB drive. Formatted in XP Disk Management, formatted as 4GB FAT. Suspected trick was still working. Downloaded HP formatting utility as above and it formats as FAT at 4GB. Used full format, not Quick. Still strange. Only route now is to take it apart and check the chip. More news later on that one.

BTW, I bought this player off ebay :-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

TH028_V2
2006/07/11
ACT_v3.5.37

Jeff

UPDATE - It's got the Samsung 2GB chip - but I cant seem to force the format to tell me that. Files over 2GB definately corrupt though.

LAST UPDATE - OK, formatted with the HP utility, then used MP3 Player Utilities 4.03 and it formatted to 2GB, which is what it was reporting. Now to query it with the HK seller above. One for the rip-off section.

[Zaidon]

You won't be the only one in the rip off section
Good luck with your seller ... mine agreed to only do an exchange but that would cost me $20 in postage and i'd bet $1000 i would end up with another fake one. I'm going to send him photos of the serial number and links to the samsung documents ... like i really care about the warranty on this thing. Other than that, there's not really much i can do short of taking a holiday to Hong Kong and dropping in for a friendly visit :evil:

Spawn, i would recommend you copy all of the data on your mp3 player back onto your computer, and then queue it all up in your music program. If you start to hear music all over the shop you know they are nonsense files and the capacity was really only 2GB.