One quick eBay search of "mp4" is bound to bring up a myriad of results like the ones above... What do all of these mp4 players have in common? They are all hacked. When most people think of hacking it conjures up a dark basement with some fat guy with glasses typing away in a fury to steal your personal data. This is actually a lot closer to that idea of a hacker than the real deal. These mp4's are coming from china by the thousands, and not a single one of them over 4GB, for the nice models, and 2GB, for the regular cheap ones, are real.
These hackers trick the controller chip into reporting massive amounts of storage to your operating system. In other words the mp4 says 16GB, but there's actually only 2GB of storage available. What's the big deal? After you go past the real data storage everything gets a little crazy. Files duplicate and disappear, change filenames, move around in folders, and worst of all your mp4 will report the oh so infamous disk error. Lucky for most of us there's a couple of fixes freely available here - http://mympx.org - and my own personally perfected fix here - http://mympx.org/forum/support-how/45003-chkflsh-method-revised.html - feel free to contact me via email or via MyMpx.org under the name frozensoda.
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