Help with MP4 Digital Player

It looks like a nano but no logo has 1.5 screen and 2GBspace. Myfriend gave it to me it worked fine for him we are both running XP. Problem is it is not being detected at all! No pop ups on PC however the player lights up and shows me it's charging. I've tried to search for it and nothing~On CD the only drivers are for win 98. There is some MP3 Player utilities on the CD too but that won't seem to install either. The CD whizzes round lots tho and I had something saying "I/O error" The instructions are in some funny translation of English with an apple sign in the corner lol... Needless to say this was bought on EBay a couple of months ago.

On the MP3 player the menu shows these options. Music,record, voice, FM radio, text, picture, phone book, games, movie, sys setup.

I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me getting this thing connected to my PC...

Many thanks

Chrissy

sadly enough thats a scam. 2GB is meaning 2 gigabits meaning I think 256megs. Also the software that is packaged with them is garbage. wikipedia has a great article about MP4 players

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_MP4/MTV_Player

Warning: If you do get it working do not flash it because the firmware cannot be recovered and this makes the player useless.

Thanks for the info... What I really would like to know is if there is a way that I can get my computer to detect it and be able to transfer some mp3's n stuff on to it? pLEASE HELP... x

the software is meant for windows 98. Its pretty bad stuff but I know from experience that you can't use another program. Thats even if it cam with a disc.

Shouldn't this thing be plug and play with XP? My friend had it working fine on his PC. I still have his tunes on it, shame I'm not into Christian Rap! I so want to put my own tunes on it.. Surely there must be a way?

I don't even know why that data CD came with drivers for Windows 98, as in my experience I have never got an iPod to work with Windows 98 - only to charge it but nothing other than that!

As for XP - indeed it should be Plug & Play, but due to the nature of the iPod device and the secuirity protection on it, Windows will attempt to find drivers for it but will then ask you for the iPod driver CD, which you do not have.

I would try hunting on Google to see if you can download a copy of the iPod driver CD or try to borrow one from a friend who has a Nano too.

Other than that, iTunes needs the drivers to be installed before you can use it to transfer music, so without it, I'm afraid you can't do anything.

Good luck!

sorry to tell you this. Ipods and MP4s ae different.

Hi just to let you know that I am fully aware that this thing of mine is not a IPOD. It just looks a bit like one :wink: My problem is windows does not detect it! Would really appreciate if someone has some kind of solution or something I could try to get it detected! Many thanks!

Chrixxy

Heh - I know that! :P

@chrixxy: My solution would be to attempt to use the iPod drivers with it and see what happens.

yo ok i got the same fake ipod that chrissy has and i guess i have windows 98 cuz im able to transfer music. my problem is that i cant transfer videos i got it off of ebay and it said i could play videos and it even has a video already on it so i know that's true. its just when ever i hook up to windows media player and transfer my videos onto it it looks like it transfered but then i check my player and look through every file on it but the videos arent anywhere on there so if you guys know any thing that im doin wrong then please tell me

hook it up and see if it detects it. then drop and drag the files into the mp4 folder that should be located in my computer.

ok my comp detects and im using windows media player to put music onto it and i do the same thing with videos and when i transfer videos it says that it has been transferred but when i look on my mp4/3 player the videos are not there

u said there is an mp4 folder well i got this little disk about the size of a gamecube disc and i put that in and it has some stuff on it but its all in like korean or some kinda weird symbol language and i cant read so is there like a transferring program on the disc? like itunes for an ipod? cuz all it has on there in the way of programs to transfer is windows media player 9 and i have windows media player 10 so should i get 9?

wait a minute ok i just plugged my "ipod" into my comp and windows media player accessed it and then started playing the two videos i put on it so im guessing that my videos are on the mp4 itself but i cant figure out how to access it so if ya got any info on that please say so

oh and i havent installed the firmware thing or whatever upgrade there is for it. it has firmware some where in the name so if that would affect it then pleas say so