Well I've got a new 8GB MP4 player as gift from my father this morning.
It is the AK 2025 9.54.5 Firmware Ipod NANO ALIKE.
Unfortunately while copying some songs the player disconected and the memory corrupted. So I decided to reformat the player, ¿What could go wrong?
Everything. DISK ERROR!
And there was no way to remove the damn error and at the same time my father (who bought the same) had issues with Format Error.
At that time I didn't know about memory hack so I didn't exactly know what happend. Later when I read about it on the old MPX forums I thought that the memory was real since when formatting it the amount didn't change... Still Disk Error!
Then I decided to follow the MyMPX guide [LINK] to remove memory HACK. STILL NO LUCK!
When I completed the steps of the guide I still had 8GIB on the Disk and DISK ERROR. Could that amount be correct?
It wasn't until I read the post of someone who had the same player and the same problem. He said that when he applied the encrypted slider to maximum the disk worked again... but you end up with only 17MiB of working memory.
I tried it and he was right... Then I thought that I could try reducing the amount of space allocated to the encryption partition and increase the size of the real "partition".
IT WORKED!
I kept trying with different amounts... and guess what I found?
The maximum amount you can give to the player is 1.9GIB of working space.
If someone has the same player as me they should try stopping the slider at 6023.. or was it 6003?
Anyways, the closest higher value to 5970
If you have another player with a different amount of memory try different amounts on the slider. You can
keep formatting and reallocating space as much as you want until the Disk Error disappears and you have the maximum sized partition. That, my friends, is the real memory of your player.
Now windows will recognize two partitions... the real one and a fake hacked partition which I guess is some virtual attachment of the first. You have to use the real one.
In case you did all this, disk error disapeared but now you throw in music and you get now DISK EMPTY error, then reformat the real partition to FAT32 using the windows program or your OS' favourite application.
As far as I know there is no other way to completely remove the fake parititon or the hacked memory and I have found no other information about it. The best thing you can do, as I described, is to reduce the memory with the slider to real amount.
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T DO THIS:
1- If you have not formatted your player yet then you will get many FORMAT ERRORS, you'll be unable to play your videos and unable to view big sized photos. Also you may get some other errors.
2- If you already formatted your player then you'll get the DISK ERROR. If you don't adjust the partition to it's real amount then you won't be able to get rid of the error and you'll end up stuck with a radio-settings player.
You want it or not, you have to discover the real amount of memory of your player.
I just registered to post this. It's the first contact I've ever had with chipods or MPx players and it's been a tough afternoon, scared that my player would never recover from the Disk error.
Cheers!
(BTW, the player works excelent, is there any difference between FAT32 and FAT(16) for a 2GiB player?)