How To: Removing Memory Hack

nandato · #41 (**permalink**) 19th May 2009, 1:57 pm

Hi boys,

just received my 16GB MP3/MP4 player : it worked well, and I made what said on this topic to see how much memory it has. Now, when I put music on it, it always saiy "empty memory", damn, why ? :evil:

thx

edit : all right, I found a "solution" : I copied again the default directory, named "1.8", and it worked... (fortunately, I made a backup of this default directory !)

RugeAcoustics · #42 (**permalink**) 21st May 2009, 9:43 pm

Thanks, will try this tonight. Im constantly getting files hanging...... bought an "8GB" player.. i bet you its 1GB *sigH*

RugeAcoustics · #43 (**permalink**) 22nd May 2009, 1:01 am

Hmm nice tute... but hwen I select "memory info" my player has frozen!

nandato · #44 (**permalink**) 22nd May 2009, 4:32 am

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Originally Posted by RugeAcoustics";p=&quot

Thanks, will try this tonight. Im constantly getting files hanging...... bought an "8GB" player.. i bet you its 1GB *sigH*

same for mine

ftanl · #45 (**permalink**) 25th May 2009, 2:59 am

It's confirmed!!! After I used this How to guide I end up with 17.2mb of usable memory!!

I've formatted..redone the steps in the guide and If I complete the steps I end up with 17.2mb..

2 drives appear as stated above...Drive F & Drive J
Drive F has 17.2 MB & drive J has 4GB

What is drive J? a ghost drive or what??

I should also add that drive F is in FAT and Drive J is in FAT32 I can't get them both in the same format..thus I'll never get to use the 2GB of actual memory on these players..

Check your firmware.. if i's 9.5.54 stay away from this Guide.. it will destroy any & all memory..it doesn't destroy the firmware, but renders it useless with 17.2mb of usable storage..

It has been excellent guide for players I've purchased in the past, but these newer ones must have some NEW HACK that works around this guide.. It was first posted in 2006..I'm sure by now the Chinese sellers have caught on to it..In fact they have because I actually seen screen shots of it on one of the eBay listings

If anyone else experiences the problems I did above please PM me with the details..

Thanks
FTANL

MattIbiza · #46 (**permalink**) 22nd Jun 2009, 4:43 am

HI ALL,

I have the mp4 player 8gb with memory hack with mp3 player utilities 4.15 , but is impossible remove the memory hack

see this :

Ruge · #47 (**permalink**) 15th Jul 2009, 9:35 am

I just followed this guide and I still have "8GB"......

And still have issues once I exceed a certain volume of my player.... any tips?

norrec · #48 (**permalink**) 20th Jul 2009, 11:51 am

Hello!
I bought a lot of player from ebay and the players always hacked. It wasn't problem for me because I resized them to the real memory. BUT in the last month I bought 4 mp4 player. I can't resize them. But I don't know why. Somebody pls help me!
(I tried with MP3 Player Utilities and with test_disk)

sqeeek · #49 (**permalink**) 26th Jul 2009, 8:10 pm

DO NOT format using windows if you have one of the newer Actions AK202x chips. It screwed mine up for a bit. Other than that, great tutorial.

sqeeek · #50 (**permalink**) 26th Jul 2009, 8:17 pm

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Originally Posted by Ruge

I just followed this guide and I still have "8GB"......

And still have issues once I exceed a certain volume of my player.... any tips?

Open it up and google the number on the NAND flash chip. My 8gb player had a 1gb chip in it. This tutorial doesn't work with the newer firmware.

Once you find out how big it really is, just set the 'encrypted' partition to be as big as everything except what's really there, i.e. 7gb encrypted, 1gb normal. then set it to only show the normal one in the Online Mode menu, under setup on the player.

srry i can't be more specific, i gotta go. good luck