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There has recently been a rash of "hacked" mp4 players coming out of China and most promenantly showing up on eBay.
Hacked refers to the practice of altering the firmware of the player so that it incorrectly reports more storage capacity than actually resides on the "chip" (nand flash memory chip).
This is a relatively new phenonenom, and it is unclear which manufacturers are responsible. What has been discovered so far is that the chips common to most of these mp4 players are manufactured by either Hynix, or Samsung. Here is an email response from a Hynix representitave to a question about this problem:
" Dear sir
we do apologize for late reply there may be some fake products using hynix chip in the market the maker make a software trick so this fake product seemed to have more density than it really should be. so you'd better contact the mp4 maker for complaint.
we can't help you to recover the initial density because it seemed to be software fake and original chip's density is 128MB.(HY27UF081G2M has 1Gb=128MB Density)
If you have purchased your fake Player through PAYPAL, first of all you can make a legitimate claim against the Seller develop this into a full blown claim. PAYPAL acknowledge this and advise;-
We will make every effort to resolve this claim within 30 days, although we
may require additional time to complete our investigation.
Our investigation will be made on a best-effort basis and PayPal cannot
guarantee recovery of the funds. If the claim is decided in your favour,
you are eligible to receive $200.00 USD coverage with a $25.00 USD
processing fee. For more information about how PayPal investigates
complaints, please review the User Agreement.
Yours sincerely,
PayPal
Follow this up annd remember that PAYPAL are owned by EBay so you can claim against the parent company also.
Honestly...... you've got to be a dumbass to buy something from China and expect it to be a quality product as all fot he m03 nano style clones are all made by INDIVIDUAL manufacturers. What a shocker, a country of counterfeiter counterfeiting each other.
HACKED MP3 MP4 players.
