Problem with music playback

R.O.D. · #1 (**permalink**) 19th Sep 2006, 11:05 pm

Yesterday, i bought my mp4 nano like player. I uploaded video on it following the usual procedure: Everything allright. Then I upload music. When i try to listen to music, it makes me listen only the frst song, then, whe the song finishes or i change song pushing the-> buttn, it stops then resets... What do I have to do? Firmaware change? answer me, cos'im goin crazy!

tadad1 · #2 (**permalink**) 19th Sep 2006, 11:34 pm

R.O.D,
There are a couple of basic troubleshooting steps you can take that may help.
Firstly you can format the player incase there are any problems bad sectors or corrupt files. If there are any files on the player you want to keep copy them back to your PC before you format.
Secondly you can extract the firmware from your player using s1fwx, repair it by running the repair.bat in the s1fwx folder then loading it back to your player.

You can download s1fwx HERE and there is a guide to using it HERE

Just so there will be no suprises when you format your player there are players on the market that are sold with hacked memory chips that read as being larger than they really are. Player restarts are a common symptom of this. If your player has a hacked memory chip when you format it the hack can be removed and the true size of your chip will be revealed. This may not apply to your player but you should know about the possibility. You will find other posts about this problem in the forums, they generally have titles about Memory problems.

R.O.D. · #3 (**permalink**) 20th Sep 2006, 4:23 am

i extracted the firmware, corrected it and re-installed, but nothiing changes... I try formating: How to format my mp4? Uploading a different firmware could resove this issue?

tadad1 · #4 (**permalink**) 20th Sep 2006, 4:41 am

R.O.D., Uploading a new firmware will quite possibly kill your player.
You can format with the MP3 Player Disk Tool with MP3 Player Utilities and do a low level format.
You can use the HP Format Tool HERE
You can use Windows Disk Manager by right clicking on My Computer and select Manage, go to the Disk manager, right click on you player and select format using FAt format.