Does firmware determine your memory

fanz · #1 (**permalink**) 21st Dec 2007, 3:55 pm

I bought a 4 GB Ipod clone in China. It died on me when I was trying to load it up with music. Reflashed it with some firmware I got from this site. It is different interface but seems to work, but my memory only says 128 MB. Do I have the wrong firmware? or did i get dupped? the chip says hy27ua081g1m which is supposed to be 1 GB?

fanz · #2 (**permalink**) 21st Dec 2007, 4:32 pm

Here is the sheet on my chip, is it Gigabit or Gigabyte?

http://www.chipsinfo.com/Hynix/HY27UA081G1M.htm

nzer_4_lyf · #3 (**permalink**) 21st Dec 2007, 5:41 pm

Unfortunately, it is only 128mb.

From that article:

Memory Cell Array
- 1056Mbit = 528 Bytes x 32 Pages x 8,192 Blocks

Notice it says Mbit not mb or MB.

fanz · #4 (**permalink**) 21st Dec 2007, 5:45 pm

Wow...... these guys are pretty good.... selling me a 128 MB as an 8GB. Life and learn.....