MP4 Digital Player Review
I bought myself an mp3 player. Finally. It was going to be the fourth time than I almost bought one, but this was the definitive one. I had two important rules about the whole subject.
I was close. This one costed me $113.99 USD so I did a bit of cheating there, but I wasn't too comfident carrying around more than the equivalent to $350 ARS in my pocket all the time, and (as it was proved with my spycam) that is an important usage factor. So here it is:
Wow that almost looks like a nano. Yes, it does. It's exactly the same size. The only difference is the buttons, that aren't a smooth scroll like in the real nano, but only five simple buttons; and of course, the luxurious and simple apple UI. Apart from that, the thing is a chinese generic beauty.
You can see it doesn't have any kind of brand, not even one like TOPMARK or POWER or maybe EUROSTAR, nothing. It doesn't even say where it was made. The back is made of metal that loves fingerprints, just like the real one, and the front cover is black. The lcd screen is color, and 128x128 if I'm correct. It also has a very decent refresh rate.
Let's take a look at the features:
So that's pretty much it. The thing has a flash memory of 1GB, which is enough for me so far, an internal battery (which was against my first desires, but then liked it) that lasts for about 5 hours or so of playback, and charges to 100% in about 3, or to 80% in 2 hours aprox. Good enough. It connects through standard USB cable, and charges through that too. It comes with a handy AC adaptor to charge it without the computer, and that was a blessing too.
Oh, it's recognized as a generic external drive by Windows so you can do all the USB stick things you wish, like putting a TorPark there, or maybe MyPodder (very useful). I'll explain any of this further is someone asks me to, but I think this is long enough as it is for now. I've also found an useful forum of user of these kind of players where you can ask for advice or help or find several utilities, test files, etc. They look all different but have the same chipset and similar firmware inside!
UPDATE 1: David found a pdf manual for these kind of generic players, there are usually small differences between models but those are mainly on the graphics. Thanks David!
UPDATE 2: My glass protective screen broke and I fixed it DIY style. Check my post for the whole story, step by step.
UPDATE 3: Due to great demand, I've uploaded my dump.bin file extracted which should be my firmware backup. You can get it at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H0Y19W9P or http://www.filefactory.com/file/c8c093/
No need to say I don't encourage people to go and change their firmwares, and even in a desperate situation it's more likely mine won't work in yours, but maybe, maybe it helps someone that already knows how to reset and flash it in case of need.
- It cannot be over the $100 USD.
- It should have at least 1GB of memory.
I was close. This one costed me $113.99 USD so I did a bit of cheating there, but I wasn't too comfident carrying around more than the equivalent to $350 ARS in my pocket all the time, and (as it was proved with my spycam) that is an important usage factor. So here it is:
Wow that almost looks like a nano. Yes, it does. It's exactly the same size. The only difference is the buttons, that aren't a smooth scroll like in the real nano, but only five simple buttons; and of course, the luxurious and simple apple UI. Apart from that, the thing is a chinese generic beauty.
You can see it doesn't have any kind of brand, not even one like TOPMARK or POWER or maybe EUROSTAR, nothing. It doesn't even say where it was made. The back is made of metal that loves fingerprints, just like the real one, and the front cover is black. The lcd screen is color, and 128x128 if I'm correct. It also has a very decent refresh rate.
Let's take a look at the features:
- MUSIC It plays MP3s, both CBR and VBR, as well as WMA and WAV. Sorry, no OGG here (I was surprised, considering it's from the eastern hemisphere) so I guess i'm back to Lame encoding. That was a shame. The audio quality is pretty good, and the volume is enough (more than safe anyways) it has some interference which you can notice at very low volume settings and without external noise, coming from the player itself. I guess the quality of the components and the shielding of each connection must have to do with that.
- RECORD & VOICE It records wav at 32kbps and also a compressed strange codec that can be restored with included software, for extra duretion. The quality is not good, of course, it has an embedded mic and a automatic gain that is very strong, which makes it very good for recording a lecture but absolutely useless for a concert. In VOICE you can browse and listen to your recordings.
- FM RADIO Yes it has a radio included, and it's internal, uses the headphones as antenna too, and the quality is very very good. Has 20 memories for stations and an autoscan with customizable threshold. Nice and useful.
- TEXT for viewing of simpe TXT files.
- PICTURE You can see JPGs and GIFs here, browse by folder, etc.
- PHONE BOOK Haven't and probably won't use this at all, you have to manually edit the info on the computer on a special format. It's also too risky to have that info unencrypted on an easy-to-stole item such as that. A cellphone is easy enough.
- GAME Three games to choose from, a Tetris clone named Bricks, one also known called BoxMan, and another called Color Bead. Nice feature for bus trips.
- MOVIE It plays movie clips with sound encoded in AMV format . It's an obscure chinese format but there's am encoder available on the net all over the place, and works. It's obviously not the main use of the gadget, but it's a fun feature that I've used quite a bit to show short clips taken with the spycam and does the job. The compression is quite good too (should be considering it's a 128x128 video) so putting an entire TV episode or even a feature film there is not a problem.
- SETTINGS You can configure LCD brightness, auto power off, clock, encrypted volume, language, and see memory and firmware info.
So that's pretty much it. The thing has a flash memory of 1GB, which is enough for me so far, an internal battery (which was against my first desires, but then liked it) that lasts for about 5 hours or so of playback, and charges to 100% in about 3, or to 80% in 2 hours aprox. Good enough. It connects through standard USB cable, and charges through that too. It comes with a handy AC adaptor to charge it without the computer, and that was a blessing too.
Oh, it's recognized as a generic external drive by Windows so you can do all the USB stick things you wish, like putting a TorPark there, or maybe MyPodder (very useful). I'll explain any of this further is someone asks me to, but I think this is long enough as it is for now. I've also found an useful forum of user of these kind of players where you can ask for advice or help or find several utilities, test files, etc. They look all different but have the same chipset and similar firmware inside!
UPDATE 1: David found a pdf manual for these kind of generic players, there are usually small differences between models but those are mainly on the graphics. Thanks David!
UPDATE 2: My glass protective screen broke and I fixed it DIY style. Check my post for the whole story, step by step.
UPDATE 3: Due to great demand, I've uploaded my dump.bin file extracted which should be my firmware backup. You can get it at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H0Y19W9P or http://www.filefactory.com/file/c8c093/
No need to say I don't encourage people to go and change their firmwares, and even in a desperate situation it's more likely mine won't work in yours, but maybe, maybe it helps someone that already knows how to reset and flash it in case of need.
looks pretty fun! i've been wanting to buy an mp3 player for a while now, something like this that does all that looks even better, though.
where'd you buy it?
i bought it through MercadoLibre, which is a kind of latin american eBay. so i'm sure you can find several options there too.
hey thanks for sharing this! no-where on the net will offer info like this!
hello, i from leon, gto. i need help, I have an equal reproducer, where I can obtain firmware, my email is paisra@gmail.com
thanks.
there was another cool site i can't seem to find with now, but they have some firmware downloads at http://www.mympxplayer.com/
(you may need to register to get them)
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i can c ur face in the 2nd pic haha anyway i have one of these players and its pretty good
yes, that's not an accident. ;D
Just got one of these while visiting Shenzhen China. Cost wass 450 RMB for the new 8GB model. That's about $56 US. Good deal.
just bought one exactly like that on ebay. havent gotten it yet but the only difference is that it has 4 gigs and only cost 75.00 us dollars. not a bad little toy ;-)
is it possable to change that little harddrive to something else bigger?
i guess it would technically be possible, but i don't think it's worth the effort and cost!
Hello, i have a player like yours, but 4 gb.
When i plug to pc and try to acess it, the system say it is not formmatted and ask to format.
I read i should not format, because i can losse space memory.
What do you suggest me to do?
Thanks.
david.
the only thing i can think of now is to put your player on the mass storage mode only, and disable the encrypted volume. you can probably do that on the player's configuration menu.
Hello, anhdres,
Your suggest were really perfect. I choose mass storage mode and the device is working now.
Really thanks.
When it is in use the display is always on, and consume much more energy. Do you know a way to save more energy in this device?
I really thank you for your last help.
David.
david, also in the configuration menu there's a setting (on mine at least) called "power off" and another called "sleep" you can set a parameter in sleep of say, 30 seconds, so that 30" after you stop hitting any key the lcd turns off. it turns on again by pressing any key.
I just read a review on Ebay about these things not having the capacity they say they do. The article recommended reformatting and finding the actual capacity, not the reported capacity.
i suppose that's something that can happen when you buy some gadget that doesn't even have a brand! hehe, lucky me, mine says and is 1gb.
Hi. I've bought 3 players that look very similar, though may be smaller as referred to as 'mini'. They are great little MP3 players (the first I've ever had) but I have a problem with the games (I know they're not great but the kids will like them). The 'down' key which is actually the 'vol' key doesn't do anything in the games!!! Any ideas? I asked the same question in a forum on mympxplayer but site doesn't seem to be working anymore. Thanks
i wouldn't know, really. on mine the VOL key works as the down key as expected. perhaps you might try to do a firmware update or sth, but i wouldn't recommend it unless it's really important, and i wouldn't know how to do it.
Can someone explain me why my mp4 is not charging , i left 2 days in the row and still can not turn on.?
Sirs,
I bought a 4gb MP4 player, very similar to ipod one.
As I synchronize it with my pc and download folders, my windows explorer shows it has done it successfully and I can see the new folders/files inside. (it shows 4gb of space)
But when I turn the mp4 on, go to the local folder, I cannot see any of the files I´ve downloaded.
Its strange, because I first downloaded some mp3 files/folders and it worked ok. After this time, I tryed to download other ones and this thing happens !
There are some folders I downloaded that I can see thru windows explorer, but inside of it, in spite of music, there are many folders with strange characters that cannot be erased. Its "eating" memory but without working !! And more...I erased other files but the memory free space did not change anything !!!
One more problem, to finish here....Sometimes I plug the usb cable and it synchronizes correctly...others no...I have to reboot the pc in order to do it...
What should I do? Do you know what is the problem with it?
Its firmware is: B204G2V1 from 2006/06/20.
Thank you, hope you can help !
hey lester and others, i wouldn't really know, i'm just a user like yourself. searching i found two useful links, the article on wikipedia with more info and links about mp4 players and another forum with info and firmware downloads and instructions.
your specific problem seems to come from a defective unit, unless there's some silly small detail we are not taking into account, like incompatible unicode on the filenames or similar.
i brought a mp4 4gb, for some reason it only allows 99 songs on there, but the memory info says i've got 4087M, but why does it not allow any more songs to be put on it? HELLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so confused.
i brought a mp4 4gb, for some reason it only allows 99 songs on there, but the memory info says i've got 4087M, but why does it not allow any more songs to be put on it? HELLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so confused.
Firware version: SC85051F FROM 2006/04/25
i brought a mp4 4gb, for some reason it only allows 99 songs on there, but the memory info says i've got 4087M, but why does it not allow any more songs to be put on it? HELLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so confused.
firmware version:SC85051F FROM 2006/04/25
i think they have a 99 songs limit per folder. just create subfolders based on artist, or style, and that's probably it.
Hi, this may sound pretty lame, but I've just bought new mp4 player. I downloaded several music folders onto it and then I wanted to browse them. But what a surprise. No matter what I do, I cannot enter the sub folder, I have to press forward/backward to manualy go over all the songs trough the subfolders one-by-one. This is pretty boring, what's the problem? I really don't understand :-/
using the menu, star browing from "local folder" and up, when you find the folder you want to listen to, don't enter it, just hit the play button. that will place you straight into that folder ready for playback. note that from within that folder you don't have other method than manually skipping song to reach your desired one.
hello, i got mp4 4gb, and i have put songs on it, my compter detected the mp4, but now, the compter does not detect it, and when i put the usb in, the mp4 screen keeps going onto the music screen. please help. i dunno why its doing that. thanks
umm i bought one and when i look at the picture they look all wierd and stuff but when i look on the computer there fine the pictures on the mp4 player has line and dots going through. is this normal?
mmm i wouldn't know, really. mine shows them ok, although the resizing is pretty bad and pixelated.
Anhdres, I wish everybody would take this efford to help other people..... GREAT !!
I just bought mine, an 4 gb and it seems to be working perfectly, no problems at all. And the sound quality is imo superb! You shouldn't expect too much of the 1,5 inch display in video mode but thats okay since I bought it especialy for the music mode and fm-receiver.
So it's a great apparatus. the only complaint I have is that when surfing trough the menu's or changing any settings, looking though the music-maps, is that it takes a lot of time, you have to be very patient. It will enter the desired map or anything but it take some time.... I now learned to be patient.... I guess it's because the memory is fairly big to go trough for the player.
Again: thanks for putting up so much information !
Greatings Drikus
Someone bought me exactly the same piece in China for $40. He was told he could get an even cheaper one if he kept on looking..
hello
i bought a mp4 player nano like
its 1 gb
how do i convert avi to amv
please help thanks
Hi guys,
Seems to be popular. Just got my 4Gb player and have been playing with it quite a bit, and finally found the tip to sort out my problem in relation to copying the file i.e. switch off encryption, but I'm still discovering an awfull lot of bugs in the os i.e. reboots when I try to access recorder, when I play a song and press the vol button down and it changes some option i.e. B, then a-b but then reboots, and that's just a few of the ones I have discovered.
Also someone mentioned having problems having to go through every file and the solution was to use folders. That's not the case for me, I have to go through each individual files which is an absolute killer, if you end up having 500+ songs on it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Great blog btw!
T.
To convert WMV i AMV download
AMV converter S16Set3_06.....
There is a new version firmware up to V 3.5.35 for nano like mp4?
TNX
Grisou
Just bought 2 gig version in Bangkok labelled as iPod, but does so much more than a Nano
MyMPxPlayer.com doesn't seem to exist anymore. I have found that http://www.mympxplayer.org is just as good with the same information, AMV Converter Tool, firmware download and themes download. Hope that helps everyone.
How do u make the lyrics appear on the screen....
i think you have to put an equally named file as the mp3, but with .lrc extensions that contains the lyrics. i don't know where do youget them either. mine came with just one demo.
Hello everyone,
I've got also an 4 gB player like this. And i have a few questions for you guys ( and/or gals).
I also found out that it has some bugs in. Sometimes the wrong song starts to play after entering a song by the folders. The random play isn't realy random. The player seems to have its own favorite songs...
Also when i made some folder the way i want them but the player turns them back automaticly when connected to the computer! It makes his own folders and if you change this he will make it undone later! This happens in a rather slow pace, you can actually follow the procedure on your computer! slowly the maps are beeing re-made.
But ok perhaps you shouldn't expect too much of a player with a price-tag like this.
But a real problem for me is that it is virtually impossible to select songs from folders, that is, it works but it takes so much time that it's not done. It takes about 30 seconds to select a song from a folder. Question: is this normal?
Is there any way to upgrade the player by program a new software-version and if so, how ?
i don't think a newer firmware will make the player faster. there's also a big risk associated with flashing and upgrading, i don't think it's worth it.
Hello everyone,
I've got also an 4 gB player like the photographs (model: SC85051F). but I can´t use the voice recorder, because when I choose this option, the mp4 resets. And my PC (Win XP SP2) detects the mp4, but appears a message ''you need to format, do you want to do it?''.
Are these problems because of the firmware??? where can I download them??
THANKS!!!
oh my god!
I have upgraded the firmware of my mp4 (4gb) and it doesn´t work now. I can´t switch on it.
PLEASE, help!!!
I have the same problem
I put new firmware on it and now My computer doesnt recognize it as new device when i connect it on UBS.
Please help
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hey guys
I have the same problem with the version sc85051f (2 gb).
I never put new firmware on it. From the beginning my computer doesnt recognize it as new device when i connect it on USB.
What should I do???
Please help
try setting it to "normal only" on the "online mode" screen on the configuration section.
hey anhdres
I changed the settings to normal only but still the same problem...
Have you got another goof idea???
You can get this for $50 at
http://contents.fifthunit.com/html/products.5th/sku.490.html
I got one. 1 hour movies use about 150meg of space, not bad!
how the hell do i put videos on it man
lol iv been tryin for ages.tired lol
plz or its goin in the bin dan
Hey, I just got one of the mp3 players as a bithday girf, just like the one in the pics, but I can't find any video converter to the amv format... does anyone know any site to download one?
Thanks!
marisol_lopez85@hotmail.com
Thanks for the infro I have the same MP3 player but i cant get it to play my downloaded songs from Yahoo tunes help me download music to my MP3 Player
some people have problems with selecting musicfolders. I had the same problem. It was possible to select a folder, but every time the same old folder was starting. I found out that the repeat option was set to repeat folder. I changed it in normal and now everything works fine.
I hope this is usefull for other people.
I would like to make a comment about the memory in some mp3-players from China.
I've had an experience with a 4GB player which turned out to be a 2GB!
On the player the memory was vissible as a 4GB and even in Windows XP. But after formatting the real memory size was 2GB.
I looked inside the player and searched on the internet for the code mentioned on the memorychip. It was a 2GB memory!
I bought it on ebay.
People, be aware!!!
How do i put in video's????????
Hey,
after one day of searching I finally found this great page to download the (broken) software that comes with the mp4 player.
the program, mp3 player utilities 3.57 which is actually on the miniCD delivered with the mp4 has a defect MSI.CAB file in it.
so here is the same program but working :)
http://zupload.com/download.php?file=getfile&filepath=27046
it works fine and because it's the same program that originally comes with the player it assures max compatibility :)
so about my player:
It's a 2GB "ipod nano" at least that's the fake brand they put on it :P
It has a little crack in the screen but that's only seen from certain angles so it doesn't really bother me.
I formatted it using FAT filesystem after I had the disk crashed when putting over 1GB in files on it.
now it still says the size is 2GB but I wont add more then 1GB in data this time :P
Apart from the TERRIBLY SLOW songsearching I have no complaints about the thing....
ohw and before I forget the only page I found containing as much info as this can be found here:
http://www.mediacollege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1312
other useful threads in there as well just browse around a bit.
ohw and 1 last addition:
If anyone bought (or is buying) this thing for the videos, I feel sorry for you, because it's really no use on such a small screen :(
well that's about all :P
I might look back here if I need some more info later on or if I have solutions to some of these annoying problems.
regards,
Silverfang24-7
ohw and I forgot about this one:
I bought it for 400 yuan = 40€ = like 50$ atm
Silver
hey i really would like someones help. . i have the mp4 digital player (so it says on the box) but i cant get rid of the stupid flower background picture, how do you change it!?
hahaha that's what i thought first when i saw mine, but i'm afraid the only way to remove the background flowers is to alter the firmware and then update it. and i'm no so fond of that so far...
ok when you say alter and update the firmware.. im lost. So im stuc kwith the flowers? what exactly did you do to get rid of them?
ok when you say alter and update the firmware.. im lost. So im stuc kwith the flowers? what exactly did you do to get rid of them?
hey i brought a 4gb mp4, i was just wondering how do you find out how much memory it ACTUALLY has on it, as alot of people say that the memory it says it has, isn't the right amount??? thankssssssssss
I bought a MP3 Player SC85051F, 2006/04/25, ACT_V3.5.35. The problem is when i copy some mp3 files into the Misic folder, the songs dupicate itself.i.e. 1 song because 3 in the folder. when i deleted one, all the three files disappeared. Any suggestion will be will come and thnak you.
I have the same as the guy above and the cd wont work for my PC how do I find out where a Driver that actually works is?
oi i want feed back man how do i stick videos on to the mp3
and how do i convert them plz coz i havnt a clue tanx
hey I really need help I just bought an 1GB mp4 player and when I stick the usb in the computer the computer does not regonize it. What do I do?
Hi Anhdres,
Thanx for your indications. I have another battle to fight...
As it´s not recommended to format the unit thru windows format tool, I tried to do so using the software that comes with the player.
It recognizes the unit but could not format it.
Anyone knows how to deal with this?
Thanks
Lester
Hi - I also purchased the 4bg ipod lookalike and have had nothing but problems with it; but as you say, what can you expect for £40 on ebay. I experienced problems with songs not playing, not deleting etc etc so I formatted the drive using FAT32 on windows explorer. This meant I could delete everything and start again - All is now fine!
Hope this helpd
I'm looking for the SC85051F firmware, please help...
Hi everyone!
Few days ago I bought MP4 player 2 GB SC85051F on ebay and I have similar problem as Silverfang24-7. I can't put over 1GB. I formatted it a few times (using both FAT or FAT 32) but it didn't help :( What is also annoying is that when I choose Music I can't go to Voice Recorder or any other mode, unless I turn off the player. Does anyone have solution to that?
I bought one of these 4GB nano lookalikes and can only get one movie to work. Trying different versions of the software to see if that makes a difference. It is slow, sound is a bit tinny. But, hey, it was £40. Its a decent stopgap until you can raise the money for an iPod (£200). Has anyone else experienced the movie problem? I will check back on here as I think this is a good site for info.
Got a site for the software, including a .mtv converter that seems to work....I havn't tested it fully yet though.
http://www.free4storage.com/mp3_support/download.html
The URL once again for the software
http://www.free4storage.com/mp3_support/download.html
the video on mine is still kind of an issue. i use the amv converter app and it works fine, but once int he player the video doesn't play as smooth as desired, which makes a weird annoyence on the audio, specially. i've tried with many cominations of resolution, frames per second, and audio, but it doesn't make any difference.
anhdres, I will keep trying at the settings myself and let you know. It would be good to find an optimimum somewhere. Meanwhile, the first movie I encoded as a .mtv file seems to play ok. Have to play around with encoding settings to see if I can get a good result.
" Anonymous | 1/9/06 7:09 PM
some people have problems with selecting musicfolders. I had the same problem. It was possible to select a folder, but every time the same old folder was starting. I found out that the repeat option was set to repeat folder. I changed it in normal and now everything works fine.
I hope this is usefull for other people."
This guy/gal is my hero, thanks a lot it was getting so fustrating that it wouldn't open the other folders; now it does! :o)
Now to chase up the ebay seller as we bought a 4gb and it's only got 2gb of space....
I have just brought one. It all works really well except i cannot set it to random play.
I went through and changed it to random under "tempo" or something, but that makes no difference - and I cant find any where else on the settings to change it to play randomly.
Any ideas?
hey, i recently bought my mp4 from ebay, i used the amv converter to convert a tv episode, it resulted in being 96mb, but when i tried playing it it plays 9 seconds and i don't have the intro setting applied. I'm really confused!
got problems with this mp4 player, couldn't read by pc after connecting it through usb, and problem with the cd driver, it is also unreadable, cd is damaged i think. is there anyone who can send it to me through email, pls. Also, is there any ways for mp4 digital player to be read by my pc, or is it damaged? i got it through auction in japan. ty.. (jrubico@yahoo.com)
Hey i also got a mp4 player 1gb
After i try to upgrade it, It just died and won start up. What should I do !!!!
Please help
Hey hey..I just got this fun little toy. Plays awsome so far..Nice and clear.. My only problem is..I cannot read Chinese..Could you tell me how to change the language to english? Cant figure it out :( Thanks!!!
Hi everyone, I from Mexico City, and I bought a MP3 player MP3 player
SC85051F 2006/04/25, ACT_V3.5.35, (It's a clon of IPod Nano)but the CD for install didn´t work. So, i don't know How to transfer music to MP3 player? Which is the software for Music? Please Help me
dave_alvarado@hotmail.com
If you have the lenguage in Chinese:
first Turn on the player, in this moment the fist screen is Music, so get back one menu with the left arrow, so you are in SYS Setup, click menu, here appear the submenus, first submenu is Clock, second is LCD set & third is Lenguage, here, click MENU button, and then appear the lenguage, you must use the second option (English)
Regards
Dave Alvarado
HOW DO I CHANGE THE BACKGROUND OF MY MP4 DIGITAL PLAYER?
HOW DO I CHANGE THE BACKGROUND OF MY MP4 DIGITAL PLAYER?
Q:? How do you set the clock.
POINT: Got the exact player w/8GB verified by format for 113.00
The product is made by Wilson Company LTD.
http://www.wilson.co.ltd.xfou.com
Firmware not updated yet.
Hi,
I wanna know how can I can change the background of the music player, also how to set the clock and I wanna know if I can do more than one action at the same time.
Thanks.
I have one same like this. Unfortunately I have tried to change firmware and it got dead...
Now even my computer doesnt recognise it as any device. Do you know if it can be fixted anymore...
Thanks anyways for putting all this information here,
Satyam
Hi everibody... I hope I have find a solution for MP4 dead after firmware change.
Look this link...
I haven't try it yet...
http://www.s1mp3.org/en/docs_deadrec.php
I got duped on ebay with a 2gb advertised as 4gb. I also killed my player but recovered it.
If you have saved a dump file of your firmware, and you cant get the pc to recognize the usb device, restart the computer then turn mp3 player on, with usb in. Press all buttons a few times. As soon as it was recognized, I uploaded the old firmware and it was fixed.
Hi
I also bought a 2GB player in Hongkong which has the same style then the Ipod nano. At first it looks fine but when I want to store more then 99 files on the player, I got problems. To fix the problem, I created folders with max. 99 files.
But I can't see the folders on the player, additional the folders have been copied into themself.
It's not possible to play a file which has been copied to the player from the PC (unkown file format).
Now I want to update the firmware but I have the fear that if it's not working, I can't use the player anymore. Is there a way to upload the installed firmware from the player to the PC?
Which firmware should be used?
How importent is it to know the chip no. and the chip board no.?
Where i can find them?
It would be fine if anyone can answer at least one of all my questions.
Thank you in advance
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$113 !!!!!!!!!!!! OUCH got the same one for £20 about $40-50 i think
I have been able to download music without too many problems using Windows Media Player. However I want random song selection. Windows or the MP4 insists !! on putting songs ripped from one CD together. Random then justs re-orders the songs within a folder not all of the songs.
Any suggestions ?
Hi,
I'm not as positive anymore as i was when i just got the player (4 Gb)
First: If you are just looking for a decent mp3 player.... save some extra money and buy a real i-pod!
It is just not working the way it should. It takes too long to select songs, if you are able to select at all..
The video mode is realy wurthless, the quality is very poor and hardly recognisable on the small screen and the audio is distorted... not realy usable.
In mp3 mode (music) It is too anoying to browse from folder to folder and select files becouse it take too much time, it's far to slow to use it as a usefull mp3 player.
Random play is actualy not random at all it picks out the same songs over and over again.
battery is down fast. Within 1 hour the player go's down and shuts off.
to cut a long story short: It's a nice try to copy the I-pod but it isn't one....
It probably has a reason why the real i-pod's are more expensive!
I mean: why is everyone here wondering if they can put the latest firmware on their player? You should not have a reason to do so !! It should be working fine, unfortunaly it appears it doesn't...
I rest my case..........
Conclusion: Nice for a day or two but then you start to get frustrated for it doesn't do what you want...
hey i bought one of these off ebay and im lost!!
when i connect it nothing happens and then i go into setup on the actual player and press firmware upgrade and a box comes up on the computer saying 'a usb device has been detected but has malfuntioned' and then i cnt do anything with it. any one else got this problem?
please help
HEY I bought one like this 2, but i have a problem, normal sized earphones cannot fit in the whole, cus the it has a smaller one, that only fits the the earphone it came with.
what can i do???
I have the exact same player accept the M button is at the top and the play/pause button is in the middle. Do you think they are made by the same people? Because i would realy like to find a better firmware version
dude, they riped your yankee ass off. my buddy just got the 4gb one in Shenzhen, and he paid 120 RMB for it. that's 12 euros, maybe 16 USD or so. and yeah, for the other guy who bought one of these in SZ too, they also ripped you off. duh! :D
Hello, i have MP4 player 4 GB (chinese, ebay, etc.) and the answer for my problem is:
http://www.mympxplayer.org/dload.php?action=file&file_id=326
Earphones - you can get an adapter from 2.5mm to 3.5mm. I have one and it works fine. The earphones I got with my player were tinny and rubbish. The ones I use now give a really good bass response. Have a look on ebay or on the Web for an adapter.
Very interesting reading :)
FWIW - We are a company selling Mp4 players on the Chinese mainland.
- There is no reliable flash memory available bigger than 2GB at this time. Buy greater than that and it's 99.999% that it's FAKE.
- The honest factories produce very reliable little players - well worth the money.
- As well as the 99 file limit per folder, you WILL NOT SEE sub-folders unless there's at least one file in the parent folder.
- The guy that got a 4GB player for 120RMB will find it's a (well-disguised)128meg chip.
- Many of the problems reported in these comments are because the player is config'd to show (initially) more memory than what you think you purchased.
- If you pay under 60$US incl. post, pkg, insurance etc., etc., for a 1GB MP4 Player on ebay to UK, Aus., USA, it's likely to be from an unregistered factory using reject/fake chips.
OMG...you guys got to be kidding me!! Fakes??
I recently bought a mp4/mp3 player SC85051F 2006/04/25 V3.5.35 with 4gb..
When I connected it to the pc, it appeared to be in two driver, one with 3,9 gb and the other with almost 0 gb..
I encrypted to one driver and suddenly I only got 2 gb driver!
Please help me or am I only being cheated?
I have an mp3 player SC85051F 2006/04/25 ACT_V3.5.35.
When I synchronize music from certain media programs (like Windows Media Player and Yahoo Jukebox), the software will say the device synchronization is complete, but when I turn my mp3 player on and go to Music, it says No Files!
Yesterday, I was able to put one song on there, but after I tried going to Windows to copy and paste music folders onto it, it doesn't show up.
Please help!
i got a problem i want to change the picture of a flower on the main screen but how do i do tht or does it not change? plz help
Thanks for publishing this site. I'm afraid that I have another bogus unit. I recently bought what was advertized as a 4GB mp4 player. (eBay ~$75 US) Same appearance as the pictures on this site. When I transferred more than 2GB onto the unit, my files would be corrupted. I fear that I actually have a 2GB unit. The nasty issue is that it was apparently designed to be a 4GB unit. That is what windows identifies it as. After one file is corrupted, no other file transaction will work unless I reformat the drive. It is a shame. I was hoping to buy them for my children for christmas presents. After hearing all the negative issues, especially an 8GB unit with only 128MB of memory, I won't. I would have paid the same for a legitamate 2GB unit. It is still much cheaper than a 2GB Ipod Nano. A legitamate 2GB unit would tell me when it is full instead of re-writing old memory and corrupting the disk. The only reliable way for me to transfer files is to format, then transfer < 2GB. There are just too many issues to purchase another one.
ok - here's a reputable Chinese site with some models to use as reference.
http://www.greatdeals-hk.com
The players are reliable/genuine, and the prices will indicate to you the minimum you should be paying on ebay.
Pay less, and buy more than 2