Mp3 player bricked?

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

So i have a Creative Nomad MuVo TX Mp3 player(512 MB version). It had started to turn off randomly, so i followed Creative’s advice, updating it. I downloaded the update utility(yes, i made sure it was the right one) with the version 1.22.03. While updating, at the Allocating Table phase, i got an fatal error that said “Operating system reported error: The semaphore timeout period has expired.”. I get this error every time i try to update. I also tried the MP3 Player Recovery tool from Creative, and it crashes when it is starting to download the firmware. Also, my MP3 player now won’t turn on, and it doesn’t show up in Explorer, but Windows recognizes it as a device in recovery mode. I have tried this on 2 PCs (Windows XP Pro and Home), and both have the same errors.

Anyone know of something?

#2

Having been through a bricked Sansa express a couple of times, my advice would be the following:
find the community forums, there should be threads about different techniques to unbrick it.
try downgrading the firmware. That’s what I had to do the second time my sansa bricked. There should be a way to do it (at least manually). If it works you can upgrade then back again.

It’s good that you’ve tried it on a different PC, but make sure it hasn’t got precisely the same apps and drivers on it. When my mp3 was bricked, I could only get it working on my friends PC. I assume it’s because some of the external device drivers I had (probably nokia’s) were fucking shit up.

#3

Windows XP doesn’t need drivers or programs to put files on this MP3 player, but when i updated it needed drivers, so it shouldn’t be a fucked up driver or program. But i’ll check out their forums ;D

#4

Or you could get a new player with more capacity. They’re not that expensive.

#5

I know, but it has worked really well, good battery capacity and stuff, and i don’t listen to more than 512 MB of my music anyways. I have an iPod too, but the headphone plug is broken… :frowning:

#6

get on ebay and buy a new iphone headphones jack its like 99 cents and free shipping

#7

no the hole where you plug it in is broken

#8

Yes, that’s what he means.

#9

easy to replace the hardest part is cracking it open

#10

oh, you have a link?

EDIT: nevermind, found it. it’s 3.45$ and the shipping is 29.95$ to norway. i’m also buying a safe opener tool which this page recommended, and that’s also 29.95$ for shipping :frowning:

#11

With $60 you could probably buy a new player.

#12

you wish you lived in Canada, I have a friend who has a dead ipod touch with a working screen so I can fix mine (I bought one for 30$ and smashed it a while ago)

#13

i’m not buying the safe opener tool, taking a chance. it’s worth a try

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