How To: Removing Memory Hack

[c65]

Hi ,I bought 8GB, Gen 5 nano clones on ebay. I ran the H2testw program on both units, one unit appears to be a 2GB, not an 8GB, and tried to Removing Memory Hack with this guide but program didn't recognize player, can anyone help me. Thanks.

[atomicmiata]

Hi
Thanks for this great forum!

I have an 6 gen. Action player 1.8 touchscreen (8 GB claimed) nano clone.
I cannot get any of the suggestions on this forum to work at removing the memory hack.
The player is usless the way it came hacked. Nothing but errors trying to play mp3 and videos.
The radio and recorder work fine.

Is this no work around to reformat and remove the hack for this player?

thanks,
steve

[Binh@MyMPx]

Originally Posted by atomicmiata

Hi
Thanks for this great forum!

I have an 6 gen. Action player 1.8 touchscreen (8 GB claimed) nano clone.
I cannot get any of the suggestions on this forum to work at removing the memory hack.
The player is usless the way it came hacked. Nothing but errors trying to play mp3 and videos.
The radio and recorder work fine.

Is this no work around to reformat and remove the hack for this player?

thanks,
steve

Hi Steve,

Did you try formatting your player just through Windows? Did that help?

[atomicmiata]

Thanks for your quick response!

Yes I tried reformatting with the windows programs mentioned in the thread and also tried reformatting on a mac. I am guessing that the hack has been modified in these most recent version of the player (6 gen.) to keep the hack from being removed.

[atomicmiata]

Has anyone successfully removed the memory hack from this new 6th gen of Action players?

[atomicmiata]

success finally. not sure of the recipe.
I had tried all the suggestions on this forum.
THEN. I used the players internal utility to reformat.
that did it.

thanks
-steve

[Frell]

Well, The Chinese have really done it now! A friend bought 2 8GB Chipods, only to have the troubles you have indicated here. I happened upon your site, registered, and am very interested in what you might say to this. The players both have Action chipsets in them (confirmed). Neither of them will allow the format, and as many others have stated, the software will not locate a removable drive. The reason for this, in my case, is not that they do not have the proper chipset. Upon further study, I have found that the chinese are now write protecting the hacked portion of the flash! I have tried numerous software titles to remedy this with no luck at all. Any thoughts on this? And thanks!!

[Antz@MP4]

I have a 16GB MP4 (nano style) player with Camera, voice record, etc. Very nice for £12, but it has hacked memory. The true memory is around 4GB and yes I bought it on Ebay. So accepting that it is actually only 4GB I wanted to find a way to prevent writing to the non existent memory past 4GB (when all the problems start). I used H2testW 1.4 to show the true capacity and then used Minitool Partition wizard (free home ware) to reduce the partition to this size (leaving the rest unallocated). The MP4 player still reports the old capacity, but reports only the new partition size as free space. You can reformat this new partition size in windows without destroying it (the player rewrites the key directories when turned on).
I do not know why you can’t do this in XP with disk manager, and “MP3 Player Utilities” didn't work for me (wouldn't allow) or why most disk checkers (surface readers) report no issues with the memory (that isn’t there!)? But this has made the players very usable and stable. You will have to play with the partition size and check with H2TestW to get the partition size right, unless your good at converting size reported in bytes, Mb, MB and Gb etc.

[jamespoo]

hi please help i bought a fake clone ipod nano mp4 player 4gb worked fine before i copied music and videos too it fine

now i have not used it in like 5 weeks i got it out and my computer said to format the device before i could use it so i went and formatted it and then copied 2 .amv videos too it to watch but when i turned it on and went to videos it just comes up disk error i tried MP3 Player Disk Manager but get not detected removable disk! please check the disk connecting or reboot system then i click ok same thing pops up again then i click ok again under drive it shows the F: i click it the click low then click start and it says format failed and in the partition menu i can't move anything

but if i go to my computer and click F: im able to use the mp4 player like a flash stick

anybody know how i can fix this ?