32GB Touch Screen MP3 MP4 MP5 RMVB Media Player FM ZT-In Snowierasha, mp3 plays YOU!!
 

In Russian, the word "eBay" sounds close to "ebat", a rude one for "to f*ck". The expression to shop "on eBay" gives even more convincing "na ebai", meaning to "get youself f*cked". So it's basically
"you've been pwned".

In a wild hunt to replace my iPhone 3g 16gb (hate itunes! hate jail!) till I get a nokia N900 for a reasonable price, I bought a
32GB Touch Screen MP3 MP4 MP5 RMVB Media Player FM ZT32
player off Ebay for 49.99$ shipping included.

Here's the listing:
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2...enmp3mp4mp.jpg

Of course, it is a hacked player. The actual memory size is around 4Gigabytes.
BTW, found an easy way to test a hacked player:
1) use any filemanager with transfer speed indication (I use Far Manager)
2) select a mass of files for say 8GB and start copying it to the device
3) the moment transfer speed jumps from 3-4mb/s to 25-30 mb/s is where the physical flash ends and the player starts to copy to /dev/null


Here's our hero:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3299/321p.jpg

It's a Rockchip RK27xx player. The battery indicator works, the audio speaker works, but I cannot set time. It also remembers file position (good for audiobooks).
It doesn't brick or hang if you copy over 4gb, the files are just not accessible (however visible in the filetable and can be copied to HDD as zeros).
The things I didn't like is there's no fast listing, so when you have 600 mp3s it's kinda annoying to navigate through them one by one. Same way you can't just tap of the scrollbar to go to a specific location in a song or a movie. You can click on the progress bar in movies and mp3 and even radio, it visually moves, but doesn't jump to the point.
The video playback is quite nice, it even played a 704x384 movie without problem. A 1.7GB avi without conversion!
It doesn't have problems with Cyrillic fonts, which is music to my ears.
The LCD is rather stylus-screen than touch-screen, but responsive anyway. Bright, with good angles. Then it is on, there's an audible hissing sound, probably from the illumination circuits.
The player can be operated while connected to a power source (i.e. when data pins of the USB are not used), which is crucial for me as I plan to use it in home theater.
Recording works okay. It stores wavs, mono 11khz.
Ebooks are stored in .txt. The codepage must be ANSI. For Russian, I had to switch to Russian menu language which is frustrating. In English interface, Cyrillic symbols in books are shown as Chinese.
Russian Mp3 tags will also be Chinese, however, and file names are displayed ok. When Russian interface language set, Cyrillic is displayed OK.
Radio module is quite powerfull and clean. But it shuts off when you go out of the radio applet. So you can read books while listening to mp3s, but not radio.

Anyway, that's a decent player, but not 32GB which could store all my music of some 20gbs and leave space for the future.
Of course I was so frustrated, I actually talked the seller to a complete refund without returning the player.
The seller's name is bestall, his paypal account is wujiarun88@gmail.com
So now I have a free player to brick.:)

Removing the memory hack is quite easy.
I followed Random667 and Skinski solutions (thank you guys) with some slight changes.
So that's what you've got to do:
1) Use Check Flash 1.10
2) selected the drive, selected as a “physical device”, Selected “low level initialization”. Hit Start.
3) In the new window, you should see 4 empty partitons! Select the 0 (zero) one.
4) Click new, and create a FAT32 partition of 3.84GB
5) After finishing with CheckFlash, format the drive in Windows (I use XP)

Viola!

Questions left:
1) A way to get some fast listing and touch-the-scrollbar navigation?
2) How to fix clock and date?

I got the same player from the same seller last week. Inside the chip says RK05. I copied all my music over to it and it made a bunch of duplicates. So far I haven't been able to theme it either as it replaces the firmware files after they have been deleted. Looks like I am just going to have to live with it. Oh, now I will be getting a refund.

I got the same item. I got a lot of problems. I follewed your instructions and correct the hacked memory. The most of them resolved so far. The battery time indicator is always at 2:30 hours and I cannot set time and date.(its not so importand) I thought to put an sd card so I increase the memory. Do anybody knows which is the maximum capacity card I can put in the mp3?

I think that maximum card is a 2Gb. However, this needs to be tested.

As for the time, actually, it could be important: I use shuffle option, and the tracks keep appearing in a pretty the (or almost) same sequence, which is annoying. Probably the ramdomizer is based on the clock.

hi
 

so how you think can set time and date? have you tried firmware update?

nope I can't, I also need a FW update

Hello. Looks like I've got the same model, but with "16"Gb flash drive on-board.
Thanks for the way to limit flash disk size to fail-safe, now I don't need to worry about data loss.
The only problem now is a poor functionality of current firmware, so I join KPAH's request.

P.S. I was wrong, poor functionality is not the only problem, there are more:
1. Contents of a firmware partition(at least the first of two appeared after I put a tag in a root directory) resets after I reconnect my MP4
to PC, so I can't modify firmware resource files.
2. Clicking sound can be heard while playback , you can check it by reducing sound volume to 0 and starting a playback of any mp3.

I like the sound clicking. That's an indication you're pressing the right button while in the pocket.
Would be glad to reprogram the middle button to a next-track. The power button swithces to next track, but it is usually down in the pocket (with the jack facing out).

Unfortunately, for chinese players, the first fw is usually the last.

I mean this sounds plays repeatedly together with mp3, it's very quiet, but it can be very annoying sometimes.

KPAH
If you want to read Cyrillic symbols, you can save you texts in Unicode, then you won't have to switch interface language.

P.S. Still looking for firmware update.