The S1MP3 is a Chinese MP3 player branded by at least 50 different manufacturers. Some only play music, but others can play MP4. Have a look at the gallery to get an idea of the variety. S1MP3.org has been developed to support users of the players and create opensource firmware. Here’s their guide for upgrading the memory of a player. If you can’t get a donor player, the site says you can get a new 1GB memory chip for $9.
[thanks ex-parrot]
these are the kinda hacks i love.. when people actually get into the guts of the thing..
these are the kinda hacks i love.. when people actually get into the guts of the thing..
I’ve already posted this … 3 or 4 month earlier :/
I checked my email and Dr Lous did send this in Apr 29. I thought it looked familiar.
this looks sweet, i suck hard at soldering percisely.
an easy way to pull a flash chip is to heat a razor blade red hot in a pair of needle nose plyers and use it to heat the pins on one side of the chip, then pull it up off the board, lather rinse repeat on the other side
looks like the perfect way to make an Mp3 player into what ever I want! Oh the possiblities
wow that’s so cool! tho, i have never been able to solder surface mount pins without totally fuxxing up with too much solder :(
I had no clue that memory was that cheap. Companies have led me to believe that charging $30 more for 512mb more was fair. I am very angry now.
I bought one of these, it broke within the week.
can I use a video card memory to replace it if not , why
(ati video card memorys 64 mb, i have 3 broken ones )
Hooray, now I have instructions on how to use my Nano clone that aren’t in engrish.
It’s pretty frustrating to not have a manufacturer name anywhere on a product. It makes it hard to look for help, or a user community.
Excellent, thank you!
Nick
http://www.marlboroselfstorage.com
hey dude!
is there a limit to memory upgrade? can it be upgraded to more than 1GB?
regards
The “upgrading your memory” gives a “404 not found” error. The most recent “archive.org” cached page from 2010 is a copy of a “404 not found” error as well, and the same for 2008-2009 (and most 2007) caches. However, 2006 cached pages do contain such information, and some early 2007 caches throw a “302 error” that redirects to a better-formatted cache (where the CSS was preserved, unlike from 2006). Try this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070208212308/http://wiki.s1mp3.org//index.php/How_to_add/change_a_memory_chip
Thanfully, archive.org’s wayback machine lets us dig it up and reanimate it. Where y’all did up that long-dead link?
Is something lost in translation at that (archived) link? They seem to replace “heat” with the infamous “f-word”, consistently…
I see that the “gallery” link is also a 404-error. Considering that the archive.org caches are mostly 404-errors (for years), perhaps this site only works for certain IP addresses, except when the stars align “just so”?
Umm… How did I get to such an OLD post? I got here from today’s blog, somehow. I thought this was a new thread. No wonder it has dead links…
Aha, it was the “next” link in Brian’s joke BACKDATED post from today:
http://hackaday.com/2006/06/08/i-just-invented-bitcoin/
He even used period-authentic links to ancient posts. Clever but deceptive trolling there, Brian!