Quick question regarding backing/restoring firmware

[MattH]

Hi guys,

Well, this is my problem. After buying an mp4 player for my mum for her b-day, the darn thing doesn't seem to want to show the songs in the directory.

It will play them, just not display them inside their folders.

Now the good news is that my friend has the exact same player from the same guy on ebay and its all fine. He's willing to make a backup of his firmware so i can restore it onto my mums player.

The only problem i have now, is i have no idea how to backup the firmware.

Would anybody be able to spend a couple minutes and just write a quick how-to backup your firmware please? I've got software to restore it, but it doesn't come with a backup bit with it.

Many thanks in advanced!!

Matt

[admin]

MattH,

It depends on the board your player has.

Please be wary when using other people's fimware on your player as even though the casing looks the same, the chip inside it might be completely different! Flashing your player with an incompatible firmware will render your player 'dead' in most cases.

If you have an ACTIONS board (a player that plays .AMV video files), then you can read the Knowledge Base - "How to: extract firmware of your player using the S1fwx tool" from here.

If you have another board (Sigmatel/Sunplus), I haven't got instructios for that yet. I will post it soon.