Mitone Sigmatel player: need software and/or advice

[kblood]

Hello,

I have a player called Mitone MITMP15. It has 2Gb of space, based on a Sigmatel chipset, and has a colour 1.8 inch screen, 2 headphone jacks.
Supposedly it plays SMV, MP3, can display photos, and can even read text.

When I plug it in, it is detected, and seems to work: I can see the external drive, and copy files to it and back. All seems fine.
But when I unplug it, and I turn it on, the boot up process goes fine (I see the word "Mitone", then a short animation of a flower opening, and then I get an error message, telling me that I need to format the external media with the sigmatel formatter.

I have a big problem, then, because the minicd that came with the player is absolutely unreadable.

Here is an image of it (click to see bigger):


The admin in this forum seems to have the same player as well!

So... I need one or more of the following:

- The software that works with my player, if anyone has it.
- Some alternative player/manufacturer that has some sort of support online, because Mitone is absolutely impossible to find.
- Some suggestions on how to open it, so I can find out exactly which chipset it has, and then from there be able to locate some other options.

Thanks!!

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Format it under windows, try both FAT and FAT32 file systems, see if it works.

Good luck!

[kblood]

Mmmm... a bit late with the reply

Maybe it would have worked, but I got too eager and I already overwrote the firmware with a different one, and now it's really a dead player. It does work as external drive (or it seems to, I haven't put any important files in it to test), but the screen doesn't work, so it's useless.

Any suggestions for a firmware for it? Thanks!

[Riolist]

Are you sure it's Sigmatel? It looks like an Actions player.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

I'm pretty sure it's a Sigmatel player, coz if it would've been an Actions one it would've probably been dead for good after a bad flash. :P

Congratulations, you now got a slow flash drive in the shape of a MP4 player. :lol:

[kblood]

Now that's optimistic!

No idea about how I could track down some other possible firmwares for this thing?

I have nothing to lose!

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

There have been loads of discussions on generic Sigmatel-based players, but they're spread out on loads of forums, and some (like the CNET one) are very poorly organized.

It's gonna take a few good hours of googling to get to some firmware files, as unfortunately this site only has a few, and as far as i remember there aren't any for 1.8 inch screens.

[kblood]

I have found some interesting links, it seems the manufacturer could be called:
Shenzhen Midori
and the player itself looks like the MR920A.

http://www.fuzing.com/vli/0014719522...-Player-MR920A

[looly]

Can someone tell me from where can I download the firmware please because I had formatted it and it is not working now . If someone knows please tell me. Thank you for your help!