player stopped copying, and displays now a hour glass
 

My father happened to pass by China before coming home, and a salesman there showed him some mp4 players. He just bought an ipod, but since the mp4 players the salesman showed him were really cheap (+ considering the extremely destructive nature my younger siblings and I naturally seem to have), he decided to buy three (one for each of my two siblings + me), in a pathetic attempt to preserve the ipod's life. Anyway, the mp4 player boasted of an 8GB memory, so I was extremely delighted to receive the gift. At first, the problems I experienced with the player were very minute. One was that when I tried to organize my music files into folders (way too many folders due to a little obsessive compulsive behavior I sometimes have), the files in the folders get a little funny. So I merely resolved to reformat the drive, which actually solved the problem.

But the minute problems became big with this one instant (and I daresay my player is now totally nuts). I was uploading a folder which contained around a hundred or so music files. I was doing it in my room using my laptop, and so I started drifting off (due to the slow copying time). When I came to my senses, the player just stopped copying, and all it displays now is an hourglass. I know not what to do. Can anybody please help me? I am starting to go deranged since my siblings' players are still working, while mine is showing nothing but a useless hourglass...


HELP!!!!!


If anybody could email me with answers, it would be highly appreciated.

capslock_balieu@yahoo.co.uk


Anyway, I'll try getting a picture of my mp4 player here (once I find my camera,which, btw, has been missing for a couple of months now... jaja...)

andie, At the moment these cheap Chinese iPod clones will only support a maximum of 2GB memory so anything over that is hacked. This is a process where a small memory chip is manipulated so that it reads a lot larger than it's true size.
Loading over the memories true size eventually leads to corruption of files, restarts, and in some cases complete breakdown of the players firmware.

If the player is the same as the others you could try using s1fwx to extract and repair the firmware from one of the other players and then load it on to yours.

You will find s1fwx in the Downloads>Tools section and there are guides on extracting and loading firmware in the Knowledge Base.

Re: MP4 (from China) PROBLEMS!!! HELP!!!
 

Hello, sure you have a 1Gigabyte nano, the hacked firmware show a 8 Gigabyte when really are 8GigaBite (a letter make difference :lol: ) you can download from download section the tool for formating or google for HP USB Format Utilility then when you use it the drive become a 1GB disk but you will never get a data lost, sorry :( for you capacity lost :cry: