I need help with a new MP4 player, won't play any vids

[jman98]

Maybe there is a lesson to be learned that when you buy cheap crap on Ebay that's exactly what you get - cheap crap.

[Carrigon]

Maybe there is a lesson to be learned that when you buy cheap crap on Ebay that's exactly what you get - cheap crap.

LOL, yeah. I figured for what I use it for, it was worth it. I'm guessing since I managed to get it up to the three and a half gigs, it's probably a hacked 4GB that they are claiming is a 32. So I was definitely ripped off. But for the money, the camera and video cam work, albeit kind of blurry and crap quality. The music and radio work fine. And the videos it does play, they work fine.

On a side note, it keeps corrupting a txt file I put in. I'm guessing they use a different txt encode as well. Just annoying.

I bet this thing will be up on Ebay for twelve bucks in the next two years

[ulapines]

I had a similar problem with a SanDisk Cruzer micro 16 GB USB in Vista.
Occasionally when I plugged it in, Vista told me to format it though it was already formatted.
Never happens in XP.
I never managed to figure out what was wrong.

[Carrigon]

I did. I used forensic software on it. What happens is, first, we get fake memory because they gave us faulty hacked chips. As soon as you go over that fake memory's limit, the unit doesn't know what to do with those extra files. It becomes corrupt. The extra data sits there hidden in a mess. Vista will see it, but you won't, unless you do what I did and run it through some high level tools. So Vista tells you to scan it to fix it. But Vista can't really fix it that way. Vista will clean it up alittle, but there's still corruption there. The only way to really clean it is to format it, which will wipe it clean for you. Then when you put your stuff back on, you have to make sure you don't overstuff it again.

My unit is definitely a badly hacked one. It's no 32GB. As soon as I go over about 2.8 or .9, it corrupts the drive. I formatted it, put the stuff back on slowly, soon as I hit that threshhold, bang, ghosting, format errors, couldn't get it to take any more. Vista still shows 32GB, though. What's even more annoying is, even if I get a micro SD to expand it, the unit won't take more than a 2GB card. So this thing will never go very high with memory. I might as well buy another, but cheaper and just switch between them when I want different music and vids.