Help with a RockChip-based mp4 player

jcberedo · #1 (**permalink**) 19th Nov 2007, 6:35 am

HELP!!! I have this Rockchip-based mp4 player... before it was working fine but my son did something on this player when i was asleep... I don't know what he did and the player suddenly won't play mp3 files. I says: "file format error" when im attempting to play an mp3. My firmware version is 01.04.0000 dated 2007-08-30. I want to reinstall the firmware but i lost the firmware CD. Anyone has a similiar version of my rockchip firmware and willing to share it with me? or can anyone help me how to fix my mp4 so it can play mp3 again. Please HELP!!! Thanks!

Here is a photo of my mp4 player:

DaremoS · #2 (**permalink**) 19th Nov 2007, 6:51 am

If the screen is 2.4" it looks like a Teclast C260... some questions:

. does this player have speaker?
. how are the touch panel?
. how many buttons it have?

Maybe with the proper answers this player can use a Teclast C260 firmware.

jcberedo · #3 (**permalink**) 19th Nov 2007, 7:12 am

No it does not have a speaker but rather it has a microphone. Yes it is a touch-sensitive panel. It has 7 buttons: a return button, pause button, 4 arrow keys and a selection button at the middle. This player is memory expandable up to 4GB with a miniSD. Btw, this player has a 2.0 inches, 262,000 color TrueBright TFT LCD. Please help. Thanks!

DaremoS · #4 (**permalink**) 19th Nov 2007, 5:20 pm

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DaremoS help please...

Being a rockchip player you need to search in the firmware for such chip that are here in the "downloads" section... unfortunately to have a touch panel based on thermal technology makes more difficult to find appropriate one.

A pair of questions your player doesnt light touch panel when you switch on?
and... does it have a slot for a external card?

Anyway I will be looking for a touch panel and screen 2.0" firmware... when you answer this.

*** EDIT *** there isn't a way to reset your player to default values??? this before to attempt to update the firmware for instance in "setting" choose "default set"

jcberedo · #5 (**permalink**) 19th Nov 2007, 7:49 pm

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Originally Posted by jcberedo";p=&quot

DaremoS help please...

Being a rockchip player you need to search in the firmware for such chip that are here in the "downloads" section... unfortunately to have a touch panel based on thermal technology makes more difficult to find appropriate one.

A pair of questions your player doesnt light touch panel when you switch on?
and... does it have a slot for a external card?

Anyway I will be looking for a touch panel and screen 2.0" firmware... when you answer this.

*** EDIT *** there isn't a way to reset your player to default values??? this before to attempt to update the firmware for instance in "setting" choose "default set"

your player doesnt light touch panel when you switch on?
===> the touchpanel lights when switched ON, actually the player still works fine for the other functions like jpeg viewer and avi player... BUT when im attempting to play .mp3 files... it always say "File Format Error". This didn't happened before until now.

does it have a slot for a external card
===> Yes it has one slot for miniSD

there isn't a way to reset your player to default values??? this before to attempt to update the firmware for instance in "setting" choose
===> I already tried this one but still it can't play .mp3 files.

DaremoS · #6 (**permalink**) 20th Nov 2007, 3:48 am

By what you are talking your player is working ok, except that mp3 files can't be played... which of course is really serious... then you can try to isolate the problem. I don't think it s a problem of firmware,

1. Format the player, in rockchip devices this haven't any risk, firmware is located in a different chip than data, so proceed formatting it (if you want you can WRITE DOWN your folders structure and SAVE the data you want to keep). No risk in this.
2. Create the folders structure you has. At least create a \MUSIC folder
3. Copy a small set of mp3 files and test them. Choose mp3 files you have played in your PC before.

A rockchip player doesn't require a special folders structure nor special files, because all actions are done using the browser. The folder structure is for let the user locate easier the data.

Do this and tell us what happend

DaremoS · #7 (**permalink**) 20th Nov 2007, 3:50 am

geez... I did a strange manouver and repeat the message

jcberedo · #8 (**permalink**) 20th Nov 2007, 6:17 am

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geez... I did a strange manouver and repeat the message

Whoa it worked!!! Thanks a lot man!!! Why didn't i think of that? :lol: A simple reformatting is the only solution... Fortunately i didn't throw this player against the wall. :lol:

DaremoS · #9 (**permalink**) 20th Nov 2007, 6:30 am

we are the "boy scouts" of MPx