meerkat8472, if it possible, can you extract firmware from your device and post it here?
I badly needs that firmware for my dead device... pls!

Hello Stilen
I would if I could. So far my attempts at using s1res, the ATJ2137N tools and mp3 utilities have all failed. I don't even know how to find out what version firmware I have. If anyone can help me with that then that would be great, because it would help me and I could help Stilen.

Hi there :)

@frozensoda: T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just subsribed to thank you, I have tried the others methods, including the one from skinski, using also MP3 Player Utilities etc... I had "Err. Disque" (I'm french, I guess it's simply "disk error" in the warnings of english players) and I tried to format a thousand times with these utilities and Win7, but even if I finally managed to display the right size and copy files (first I had a size warning telling me something like "14 GB space missing" oO) I couldn't play anything, since I had the error message. I tried your method, and you saved my (damn fake) player :D

Thank you again !!

PS: if someone is wondering what model my player is, I don't know but it's something I bought from "superdealdaily2046" (now known as "cityin168") who sold a LOT of fake players (I thought I was buying 8GB, I actually have only 2GB). It's a nano clone, it looks like this. Be careful when unhacking memory if you have a player like mine... the only method that worked for me was this one!

OK! good to hear it worked, that is the same player i tested this with, as well as a risone 4gb touchscreen, i received the "big floppy" error from a ipod touch clone still working on a fix. any help appreciated.

good method to reset fake USB flash drives
 

I reset my fake USB flash drive (stick) using this method
I tested the 16GB with the well known h2testw program and this told me the stick only had 1.9GB of real memory

I guess this tanslates to 16gigaBITS and not gigabytes

anyway, after reformatting, I ran the h2testw again & it came back without errors for my 1.9GB's
so I now have a reliable stick of 2GB

:cool:

I also have an itouch clone, from ebay:

eBay.be: 16GB 2.8" LCD ECRAN TACTILE LECTEUR MP3/MP4 + CAMERA (object 220564205735 eindtijd 05-mrt-10 21:22:29 CET)

h2testw tells me it's another fake, only 3.5GB ok out of 16GB total

I would love to try this method on that too, but don't wanna ruin the player
it works fine, as long as I don't load over 3.5GB of data onto it..

edit:
chipgenius analysis:
PnP Device ID: VID = 10D6 PID = 1101
Serial Number: 5&&1ECB9C73&&0&&2
Revision: 0100/0100
Device Type: Standard USB device - USB2.0 Full-Speed (USB1.1)
Chip Vendor: Actions(??)
Chip Part-Number: ATJ209X/ACU75XX
Product Vendor:
Product Model: MP3 Player

I also use a (real) 4GB SD card with it, wondering if I screw up the onboard memory, will it still work fine of the memory card?:confused:?

the interface looks exactly like this, but only has one button (with blue backlight)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwuLjslQGe...00/TSMP4-1.jpg

found some pics of my player:

http://i.ebayimg.com/19/!BnTY69wBWk~...V,99w~~_35.JPG


http://i.ebayimg.com/17/!BnTY+iwBGk~...kiJEQ~~_35.JPG


any advise/tips on removing the hack would be most welcome..

@Still Life
That Player looks almost identical to mine but mine was an 8GB fake (actually 2GB) and of course it came in a different style box. Also I was unable to get h2testw to work with it properly. I have also had no luck removing the hack with this method or any other that I've found. Still hoping that frozensoda or someone else comes up with a solution.

h2testw works fine on mine, it said I only had 3.5GB of real mem,
did you have problems with yours after trying chkflsh?

I think I'll try this out in a few days, but I need the player to keep me company for the next few days,
can't afford bricking it now, maybe afterwards...

guess I'd better start a new thread on this type of player..

is this yours?

http://www.szprice.com/products/Enig...tion_2237.html
http://www.szprice.com/product_images/q/a__21495.jpg
guess this is a more recent version of mine, interface isn't exactly the same..