Updating RK260x

[Ricky1]

Hey!

I recently purchased one of the Rockchip 8GB MP3 players using the RK260x chipset off of Ebay, and immediately ran into trouble with MP3s skipping while playing.

I, of course, have no idea why it would choose to do that, especially since my MP3s are high quality, and have never been problematic on any other MP3 player I've owned.

Well, in my obvious brilliance, I tried a few of the tech tricks I know, formatting the drive to FAT32, running chkdsk with the /f feature on, just to make sure I ruined anything that I might later need.

chkdsk came across quite a few broken links, which I attempted to forcibly repair, which made them appear as useless, dead hidden folders on the drive.

I never was able to get the hidden partition to appear, and am not too happy at this point.

I'm wondering, is there a way to get into the hidden partition on an RK260x, so that I can update and try to fix the thing, or would it be totally worthless and I should save myself the trouble by sending the player back to Hong Kong?

Thanks a lot, nice site, I think I'll be visiting often in the future.

[knob]

hi Ricky1

Is you player a touch screen?
There is no hidden partition on RK26xx players, updating is not recommeded.
Have a look here:-
http://mympxplayer.org/viewtopic.php...ote=viewresult

Do your mp3's have album art? these players can act up with embedded album art, they also work best with ID3v1 tags only.

[Ricky1]

Hello, knob!

Thanks for replying so quickly, I wasn't expecting such a quick reply.

Yes, this model is a touchscreen, and it looks exactly like the one in the post you linked to (though I'm finding that that doesn't guarantee anything, actually). The mp3s do have album art, and the player I am using, Winamp, includes ID3v2 in almost all of the songs.

I'm not sure if that would be causing the skipping and low quality, though, since some of the songs work perfectly, but others skip in the first few seconds, or have a "blippy" noise in the first few seconds, sometimes just a few skips, but sometimes so bad you don't even want to listen to the song. It may be the problem, but it seems odd, since they almost all have artwork and ID3v2.
I had a theory that low-bitrate songs weren't working, since my fiancee had thrown on a few songs that were 64kbit/s and other ridiculously low bitrates, so I tried loading it up with songs that were 128 kbit/s and better, but still that didn't work.
Then, after I'd plugged and unplugged the player a few times, Windows started reporting, "The file or directory G:\whatever song is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility."
But.... the song would still play perfectly (on the player, that is).
After that particular message came on, I could no longer get Winamp to play the songs off of the Rockchip, it would just keep skipping from song to song to song.

It seems to me that there must be some dire failure in the player itself, so I think I'll try to get my money back, and preferably a replacement, since this was a gift for my fiancee.

I will go through and pick songs with no artwork and only ID3v1, and see if that changes anything, thank you for the suggestion! I'll post back if it changes anything.

If you have any other suggestions, I'd appreciate it a lot, and be more than willing to give it a try, but I'm beginning to feel the fool for wasting my time (and yours).

Thanks a lot! Your help is the only help I've been able to get!

[knob]

If you get a replacement try to get a Rk27xx series Rockchip, they are a much better player and cost no more.

The RK2608 touch screen players are very unreliable.