firware upgrade failed

[cavok]

hi,

today during firmware upgrade of my 1-day old g3 player, windows xp rebooted the machine.
the player is now dead. i cannot turn it on, i don't see it connected to the pc, i'm not able to restore the firmware :((

how should i do? please help.

thanks
domenico

[cavok]

hi again,

i somewhat restored my iaudio g3 player, i don't really know how ;)

i removed the battery and connected the usb cable while holding the play button. windows xp then configured a "Recovery Player Class Device" and asked me the driver disk. i had to put the iaudio cd and select the stmp3rec.inf file in the win98 folder. i was told the system stmp3rec.sys file was more recent (i don't know why it didn't used that one at first) and then kept the more recent one, of course.

things then happened quickly and finally i got the player back online with firmware 0.0. upgraded to the new 1.20 firmware, everything now works :)

(is anybody able to tell me what really happened?)

cheers
dom

[Piggen]

A miracle :D

[p999]

There is a safe mode like booting machine while you holding "Start" button and connect the player with PC.
Some how your refresh the firmware in its initial stage, at least your PC can find it as a thumb drive. Then you just so lucky to upgrade the firmware.
Be careful when you flash your firmware, make sure your player comes with enough juice in the batttery!
Enjoy your player!

[basavruk]

I have a similar problem with my 1Gig G3,

XP configured a "Recovery Player Class Device" and I installed the stmp3rec.sys file from the "drivers" folder of 1.25 firmware. After that XP rebooted and I tried to update firmware from 0.0 to 1.25.

BUT every single time I try it there is a message "media state is not initialized." I click OK and proceed with firmware and it kinda starts the process but freezes at the "allocating table" stage.

I can see that there is a mass media device connected to my computer but I cannot get into it:( Right click menu doesn't work either--cannot format it, cannot do anything:(

And no matter what I do and what drivers I install (tried the one from Iaudio CD too) it comes to the same message "media state is not initialized." Is it hardware failure or is there a way to fix it? Help! SOS...———...

Loved the player for six months I had it, but now I'm really really puzzled.

[gatilyo]

hi guys!!
my problem is that when i connect my mp3 player and i tried to install its driver suudenly when windows searches.. a message appears that it is searching for recovery player class device and then it says it need the file stmp3rec.sys file but i tried to locate it on my driver but it was not there.. i could not complete the installation of my mp3 player due to this.. please, is there any kind of solution to my problem or any software that may help resolve this??.. please help me i dont know what to do..

[GSV3MiaC]

Uninstall the cowon Iaudio software (from control panel add/remove programs) and then install it again, then rebooot, then try again. That driver should be found under both %windir%\system32\drivers (%windir% being usually c:\windows), and wherever you installed the cowon software to (e.g. c:\program files\cowon\iAudio G3).

If you looked there and can't see it, the installation did not complete properly.

[LeDoubleD]

The same thing happened to me. I did everything the instructions said to upgrade the firmware and XP restarted the computer and now I can't do anything with my G3. I've tried deleting everything that has to do with the new firmware off the box and starting for scratch with the download from recovery mode instructions but when I go to upgrade the firmware it gets to allocating table and then I get a message saying, "Operating system reported error: The semaphore timeout period has expired" and it closes. I need more ideas as to what to do.

[vili13]

Try to upgrade with another fw version (1.55 or 1.58 beta1)!

[knackers]

Try the following:
Go to a fresh computer that has never seen iAudio. Do the recovery-mode firmware update.

If you do it, let us know how it went. It might be a good solution for people who are not confident to clean out their system, hack the registry, or whatever.

[LeDoubleD]

Got it to work. I tried a different computer with the beta firmware and that worked, but I'm thinking it worked because I rebooted the computer when XP told me to? I'm not 100% sure though because I restarted the first time and that didn't work, but then again I did ignore the message the first time and restarted the computer myself :\ . Anyways, the point is that it works now, yaaay, thanks for the suggestions.

[marshall_law]

today during firmware upgrade of my 1-day old g3 player, windows xp rebooted the machine.
the player is now dead. i cannot turn it on, i don't see it connected to the pc,

A similar thing happened to me today when I upgraded to from 1.40 to 1.55.
After the firmware upgrade, the player went dead. I repeated the firmware download part of the process and the player came back to life.

[em4links]

Hi! I have an A-DATA MF1 2GB that didn't work after flashing it using this official firmware http://www.adata.com.tw/adata_en/support_driver/ADATA_MF1_050906.zip which was supposedly the latest firmware even at this time. After flashing it I tried to start it it didn't work... previously I had v2.000.something and flashing it with 3.0000.291 rendered the player unusable! (and no there's no backup old firmware option before flashing)

The firmware program said something like "Media state is not initialized." that I've seen above in this thread. And current version in the player was 0.000 (now that the player is unusable) and the new version which I was about to flash was 3.0000.291 (3.291)(which rendered the player unusable) and it kept freezing while flashing it again at around something like 'Allocation table' or 'Allocating table' ...
A friend of mine gave me the 3.0000.297 (3.297) version which I installed and tried successfully to flash this MF1 player. So it worked! However I couldn't find this firmware anywhere on the internet at the moment.

V3.297_1209.rar 4,297,037 bytes md5sum: 2a3cd76a7147001f8b07ebd3742b60a6

Also for those that are interested here's the manual for A-DATA MF1 mp3 player. (http://www.adata.com.tw/adata_en/support_driver/MF1Tenlanguage.zip)

I wish i could include the file here but it keeps saying "Upload of file failed" and for obvious reasons: max file size is limited to about 100KB even if I'd rename/recode it to .zip . However I will put it somewhere such that if you google for "V3.297_1209.rar" you could find it (note that at the time of this writting I couldn't find it on google) or searching for it on torrents [yes]

[em4links]

http://www.badongo.com/file/3077782