DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

Hello, Ive got an chinese MP3/MP4 player. Sold as 8GB, actualy only 1GB. After it got off working I tried to upload a firmware. When I upload a full FW the display is still lighting on white and nothing happens. But after that Win Xp recognise it as an USB drive. Is it enough for success and can I continue with formating and uploading a firmware? Or what functionality has the player to have after uploading full FW? Thanks.

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:37 am Post subject:

The hour glass just wont disappear after waiting more than 30 sec ...

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

i have a chineses mp4 player with a sunplus chipset : SPMP3050A and samsung k9g8g08u0m 1gbyte flash and i found on its board this id pmp-703-v11.00 . its like this one but with 1 gb :

http://www.mympxplayer.org/album_showpage.php?pic_id=278

he was blocked when i tried to unplug it from usb. and as i followed the recovery guide i was just able to let windows detect it as an uinknown device. xp doesnt want to install the adfu driver so i cant do anything now , can sombody help please ??

can i restore it ?? or its just good for the garabge can ??

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:16 am Post subject:

please i need help with my mp4!!! i guess one of you can help me with my mp4 is a nano clon last generation and its dead, the computer don't reconized it....please i need help!!!

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

Awesome guide, i just screwed up my player by loading a foriegn firmware and fixed it in an instant.. its not a long process if you do it a few times.. its pretty fast...
Now, to try out the other 3.5.37 fw's until i find the one that matches mine! My original fw has 0 volume on amvs

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:45 am Post subject:

yeah i wasnt able to load the "AdfuUpdate" file or whatever its called but i just clicked on the usb device on installed hardware on that same screen instead of have disk or whatever and then i loaded my old firmware.
So basically i skipped that step.. i had to follow the red directions, but basically i ended up skipping them i think.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:54 am Post subject:

yeah i ruined mine.. to blue screen so i couldnt do anything.. then i fixed it.. back downloading mp3s today

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1420/126gw1.jpg

On this step.. instead of clicking have disk(since i was unable to load up the AdfuUpdate), which is on the right, i just selected my device in the window and pressed next button or whatever .Just play around with that step til you get it.

Also, in the device manager, i had the wrong thingy selected, so go back there and make sure you have the right thing selected for your player. I have multiple usb devices connected to mine so i had to keep scanning for hardware to see which one updated then i knew which one was the mp3/4 player

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

i have to do it for my sisters player too.. which is harder.. the player wont come completely apart because the speaker in back is attached to the front via wires. It plays out loud as well as into a headphone jack

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

I too had the dreaded adfuupdate.inf error- "this file does not contain information about your device/hardware" with Win XP. I haven't seen this fix on this forum and I saw this on the S1mp3.org forum, and it worked for me- I opened up the adfuupdate.inf file in notepad and cut and pasted in these extra strings where KaiT said to put them (his english is a little off but his/her coding ROCKS! I have no idea how he/she figured this out):

Quote: › kai-t Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 6
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: ADFU ADFUUpdate.inf Reply with quote
Hi,

as i tried to recover my MP4 Player after i flashed a wrong firmware, i can't get hin to be detectet as ADFU Device. Even going through the dead recovery guides.
after trying a hole day i recognized that the Problem isn't that the player is not in ADFU mode. The Problem is that the Player has a other Hardwarename.
So you can edit ADFUUpdate.inf to match your Player.

For mine Player, a ATJ2091N with Board: B828 V6 i had to add 2 lines.
One at the beginning after [Upgrade] i added
%USB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66.DeviceDesc%=MDisk.install,USB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66

And one at the End of the file, in the [Strings] section:
USB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66.DeviceDesc="USB 2.0 (HS) ADFU Device"

After that the Player gets recognized when installing the Driver.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject:

My mp4 it ignites but the program does not start.

I have an equal Mp4 to which it is described in this forum. Mp4 it ignites but the program is not restarted and the computer does not recognize it.
Someone can help me. Thank you.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

How did u know the code for your player ?? can u help with mine ?? my player info can be found in page 47

thx

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

well i got as far as getting it to recognizing the player as a usb device and installing the driver but when i try and use one of the firmware's it just hangs on "Downloading the restorable main program" also i used that clone program to make a back up is that what i should use next? to get my player back into working order or do i have to do something else to that.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:56 am Post subject:

red_pen , s1clone requires you to have a working player, so that it could dump the firmware from it and flash it into the non-working player.

For a dead player recovery, and you are just trying random firmwares. You'll need MP3 Utilities Upgrade Tool, there are many versions of MP3 Utilities that you can download from the downloads section.

If you encounter hanging when you try to flash in some firmwares, try uninstall the MP3 Utilities, and re-install another version.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: Re: DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

i used the clone program before i crash my player but i'm guess i left songs on there and it also put that in the file cause the dump.bin is almost a GIG in size. also now i can't get to my player through explore, it's getting detected though and stuff but it doesn't show the drive under my computer, any thoughts?