ipod nano 3rd Gen styled fake

[Bull Durham]

I bought a "8GB Slim 1.8"LCD MP3/MP4 Radio FM Player+Free Ship&Gift"

on ebay and cant find a firmware replacement for it.

9.5.54
QS_AK2025
2008/04/23

I used the MP3 Player Disk Tool on it but it keeps insisting it's 3827.22MB on the format tab and 7924MB on the partition and encrypt tab. I tried to fix it but now am getting Disk errors. There doesn't appear to be a Firmware replacement anywhere and the disk that came with it has no firmware file anywhere. Does anyone have one or can they explain how to at least get this to show its true memory? Before i did anything to it, it was fine untill more than 2 gigs of stuff was put on it and then it was having duplicate files and folders that cant be deleted short of formatting it.

Thanks

[lolita]

What's on the disc? A newer version of MP3 Player Utilities? Older versions might not be able to work with these new AK20xx players.

Have you tried using s1res v4.1 to extract the existing firmware?

The only way to determine the true capacity is to open it up and read the part# of the NAND flash.

[Bull Durham]

The disk has all software for converting vid files and utilities for formatting the flash memory but it wont recognize the player. has drivers for xibang but no firmware image anywhere on it. All the software is for windows 98 so it tells you right away its all useless. The little manual mentions about getting firmware updates online but there is no reference anywhere in the stuff that was sent about who made it or where your supposed to download it. oh yes, was also some video player completely in chinese that looks like media player for win 98 and my antivirus software found a trojan in one of the vid converter files. Is obvious all reference to the manufacturer has been removed so nobody can look them up and get the replacement firmware for that model.

[Bull Durham]

I opened it up and this was inside:

Samsung 905
=========================
Family: 16Gb-based [51nm] 4KB/page
Density: 16Gb mono
Part#: K9GAG08U0M-PCB0
Package Type: TSOP1
Org: x8
Vol(V): 3.3
MOQ: Tray -xxxx0xx: 960 T/R -xxxoTxx: 1000

Processor: AK2025 980028A

[lolita]

The memory is 2GB.

Repartition it with a single 2GB partition and it will work.

[sclute]

I have the same thing - let me know if the repartition works....

[Bull Durham]

I already tried that all I am getting is disk errors now.

[Bull Durham]

reformatting it is not working. always says there is 4mb of something on it and when the hidden files and folders are visible i can see a bunch that are probably labeled in chinese. i believe its the hack and it may be hardcoded to the memory

[sclute]

that stinks

[lolita]

Reformat it with the player tool so that it's showing the original (wrong) size. Then resize the partition down to the smaller size.