How To: Removing Memory Hack

[markv]

so what for the people who have AK202X or 9.5.54 firmware?

[sqeeek]

Originally Posted by ftanl

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

Okay, I agree, don't use this guide, but you most likely have 1gb instead of 17.2mb. Try formatting it with the format tool so that the 'normal' partition is less than 1gb. Worked for mine and a few others.

[ChuckR]

I just recently bought this mp4 player off eBay. As you can see from the pic it was supposedly 8GB but seems if I put more than 2GB of music and videos on it I start getting a "The File Not Exist" error message. So obviously it's memory hacked.

Anyway, I actually do like it so I was wondering. It has a mini SD slot. Does being memory hacked interfere with being able to use an SD card with it. Like would I get the full capacity of the card or not?

[sqeeek]

You should be able to use all the memory on a micro-sd card, as long as it's small enough for the player to support. If I remember correctly, these only take up to about 4gb, but you shouldn't have any problems with using normal micro-sd cards. The hacked memory does not interfere with the usage of your card, they're separate, as far as i know.

[geester]

another 8GB player with 9.5.54 firmware bites the dust O well i could use it as a door stop

[sqeeek]

Originally Posted by geester

another 8GB player with 9.5.54 firmware bites the dust O well i could use it as a door stop

Or you could solder very long wires onto the battery, plug it into 120 volts, and watch it explode
But u didn't hear that from me.

[geester]

I have just tested my players memory with H2testw 1.4

this is the result of the test
The media is likely to be defective.
961.4 MByte OK (1969046 sectors)
7.0 GByte DATA LOST (14756970 sectors)
Details:7.0 GByte overwritten (14756970 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
0 KByte corrupted (0 sectors)
8 KByte aliased memory (16 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000003c172c00
Expected: 0x000000003c172c00
Found: 0x000000003c170c00
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 4.41 MByte/s
Reading speed: 6.44 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Now where is my soldering iron and wire so i can shove 240v up its arse

[geester]

I couldn't find my soldering iron but what i have managed to do is get it working again by setting the partition to 7208 with format tool which gave me 961.MByte of usable disk space so i now have a musical door stop

[wdnshu]

I.ve found that Cryptomax Clean USB 1.0 removes memory hacks in Chinese MP4 players and Phoney Kingston usb sticks.For me it's the only one that worked out of all the recommended utilities on my Dell Inspiron 520 with Vista 32 bit

[shafted_the_west]

I tried following the guide at the beginning of this thread, but the software recommended (most recent version, MP3 Player Utilities 4.05), said it couldn't see the disk while plugged in! I tried running the firmware update program included but it stopped responding without doing anything at all (WinVista).

Right now I am muddling through by completely reformatting the disk, then loading up whatever I want all in one go, but can anyone help a complete numpty get this little chipod nano working properly?

Thank you

Myscha