Please Help! Dodgy MP3 Player

[Mr B]

I bought a cheap MP3 Chinese Player from e-bay, and on the first day of recieving it ive managed to break it!
It will work as a data stick but will no longer play my MP3's.
When I first recieved it there was some random chinese music, which I obviously wanted to delete. Forgetting my P.C was set to show hidden files i deleted everything, including system files!
I have tried to reformat it but its still dead! I have also ran a system recovery, looking for deleted files, but still no joy!
I know its a long shot but does anyone think they can help?

 

[Mr.Monkey3]

I'm guessing it didn't come with any software.

Does the manufacturer have a website? Even if it is in a font you have to DL, it's worth a go.
Maybe you'll be lucky and it'll be in english. Or use one of those webtranslators. No good usually, but better than a beating with a big stick.

 

[Mr B]

Thats the thing I dont know who made it. it has no brand names, numbers or other markings.
It did come with a CD Rom but it only has drivers and a manual on it!

They are still being sold, listed as 'MP3 Player &128M USB &Voice Rec &FM'
I should be able to copy the files if anyone has the same one.

Other than that I think I might have to go with the big stick idea!

 

[Tom]

contact the seller, ask him if he has any more, and if he could email the files to you.

 

[Xavier]

Do you have a picture? Maybe from the auction?

Xav

 

[Mr B]

This is the picture from the auction, mine looks slightly different though, but its definatly the same make!

 

[phlash]

Bingo! That's sold by Aria (www.aria.co.uk) under their own brand name (Arianet DB685 mp3). Hopefully they can help you with some files, or even me (since my son just bought one)!

 

[Mr B]

Thankyou!
I have e-mailed aria and the seller, and hope for a reply soon!

or even me (since my son just bought one)!

Whould you mind checking if it does have any hidden system files.
I whould be very greatfull if you could help!

Thanks again!

 

[Mr B]

Thanks Everone! Managed to fix it!
The seller replied to my e-mail with a link to the file i needed.

here it is, just incase anyone is as dumb as me!

http://www.salesway.com/digital/download/$NANFLA$.rar

Ime proper chuft now!

 

[bahblah]

My mp3 player died too.

I've the same problem with mine, but the firmware you've linked to doesn't seem to support fm. Nor does it produce any sound. The player I've got uses an ATJ2073 chip from Actions Semiconductors. These are used in your mp3 player I think, though mine is made by HY from Hong Kong. I've tried e-mailing the manufacturers but I've had no response. Any help appreciated as I've just got a very expensive usb drive at the moment.

Thanks.

 

[kitkat]

and so is my mp3 player...

my brother accidentally formatted my flash drive today and now, i couldn't play the mp3 files. it still works as a usb drive but that's it. i also got it from ebay and im still waiting for a response from the seller. i tried to download the file that previously posted here but alas, it didn't work. if anybody can help me, i would really appreciate it. thanks!
here's the exact picture of what i have.

 

[Tom]

Charge your brother for a new one.

 

[DanIY18]

I have the same problem. I tryed the link on this forum for the firmware upgrade but the files corrupted. Could someone please send me the english firmware upgrade or a link where i could download it?

 

[kitkat]

it's already fixed

i was able to fix my flash drive now but you're right, Tom. My brother just gave me a new one today so I have 2 of them now. Oh well, he can have the old one though.

 

[RandomBastard]

Seems to me that when people buy these noname stylee mp3s players the first thing they should do is backup all the files to a rar on there pc or a cd or sumit so they can restore them to there inital state.

 

[Pbs]

I've founds the files!!!

Hi everyone,
After much searching I've found the site (I think!) fo rthese MP3 players.
It's at http://www.cvc-cn.com/38601.html One there on the third drop down list pick the model number 3860..this wil lprompt a download of a zip file with the files in...I've used it and I now have a fully working MP3 player ..yippeee!!!
Only one snag...once it was installed , it came back up in chinese..bt if you use the MP3 players menus you can change this...it does work honst.

 

[Ralki]

Chineese firmware

When you flash the firmware on the mp3 device how to you change the language to english.
Any help will be appreciated.

 

[LabRatt]

Thanks

I had the same problem, though I'm not sure what caused it (my theory is that the beta firmware failed to interpret an "auto-off" setting of 0 seconds as "Disable"). After two and a half days of research, taking the thing apart, emailing out and waiting for replies (which still haven't came) I found this thread, followed Mr B's post, and now have a working MP3 player again.

Just wanted to post and say thanks. I'll stick around for a bit and see if I can help anyone else...

 

[bcuk2003]

What do you do with the .urg file? Sorry for being thick!! I dloaded it but still cant get my player working.

 

[anonymo1]

Same Problem

What do you do with the .urg file? Sorry for being thick!! I dloaded it but still cant get my player working.

I've got the same problem, I don't know what to do w/ the .urg file. Did you figure it out?

 

[amatthews]

I too recently bought unbadged MP3 player which is faulty. I bought ID833 1GB from mp3players.co.uk (terrible support service) which seems to be similar product to the arianet one mentioned in previous posts. Problem I have is that PC recognises device and starts to install but then says there is a problem. The player itself comes up with the connection screen (as per instructions) then screen goes blank and then says "starting..." and it keeps going through this cycle continuously. I sent device back to supplier who said they can connect to it, put some songs on it and returned it to me. I still have same problem. Can't seemngly do anything because I can't get into file system of player. I have tried on three PC's and have same issue on each. Anyone got any ideas?