Megastick 256 firmware bug ?

My Megastick 256 (F/W 2.10) has a strange problem in that every so often the music stops for about 1/2 second and then continues. This is not connected with the compressed file due to the fact that when I rewind the song to the same period that caused the problem, it plays no problem.
If I did not know better I would say the pause button had been pressed and the released. This sounds to me like a memory latency problem with the flash memory. If the player can not stream the music file off the Flash fast enough then it will empty its cache and we have a blank spot in the music.
It could be 2 things, the first is the firmware not managing the memory efficiently enough or the decoder is not optimised efficiently to work with the memory.
Additionally it could be a badly compiled file, this I doubt as the files have been produced using the MP3 coding done in Sonic Foundary's Sound Forge 6 and the associated MP3 encoder. If the file was badly compiled then chances are the fault would be repeatable but it is not.
I also use this to compress things in WMA with most of the music encoded at 64bit as I am not entirely worried about the overall quality, If I want that I listen to the CD. I find that I can get about 7 hours of music on the megastick and when riding the bike it is not an essential thing that we have CD quality.
As an interim solution has enyone tested the megastick with different compressed WMA or MP3 files to see if there is a better or preferred compression method that prevents this problem. I wondered if the larger files would have less for the decoder to do thus preventing the problem.
Finally, without the problem shown above this is a great piece of kit. I would like to see some form of organisation towards the song lists, maybe a category system would be nice.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Very useful.
Yes, I have found the volume control a bit restrictive as well, although unfortunately I suspect that this may be a limitation of the hardware rather than something that can be fixed by firmware. Anyway, hopefully MSI will listen and take it into account for future releases.
The headphones supplied don't seem too bad. I think they are better than the ones supplied with earlier models? Having said that, the quality is rather better with an expensive pair of Sony ones instead...
I noticed with interest that quite a few issues raised in this forum DO seem to have been addressed, which is most encouraging. Companies that really do listen will certainly get my custom!
On another note, I have just been experimenting with WMA files (variable bit rate). I'm pleased to say that I have not experienced any of the spurious noise that was reported in some other posts.
- Steve

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Megastick 256 firmware update failure (USB 2.0 version)

When I update the firmware of my Megastick 256 (the new "silver" USB 2.0 version), it would not turn on anymore and seems completely dead. I can "revive" it by removing the battery and connecting it while the "Play" button is pressed and "downgrade" to the firmware version from the included CD (version 2.000.008). I would like to update to 2.011.002, 2.100.000 or 3.000.013, but all of them turn the stick into a dead brick. My computer only has USB 1.1, but I don't think this is the problem.
Ths update utility tells me that my stick has "chip version" 3500.
Another problem is that the firmware update utility will report a timeout when I connect the stick with pressed "Play" button, and the firmware version present in the "msi-5112" directory is not 2.000.008. I can only update by connecting the stick normally.
Has anyone managed to update the firmware of the new revision of the Megastick? If so, how exactly did you go about it?
Thanks in advance

- Do you also have the USB 2.0 version of the stick?
it is usb 1.1
- Does your computer support USB 2.0?
yes
- How exactly did you do the update (when did you press "Play"?).
Held play down,plugged into computer, kept holding play
until recover device was visible.
Copied and unzipped the new firmware to c:Program Files\MSI\MSI551X
Ran the program START->Programs ->MSI->MS 551X Update
Check the update firmware was 3.xxx and click Start or Okay.
waited for it to finish. unplugged mega stick and powered it on.
- What was the original firmware of you stick?
2.11.2
- Did you use the update program from the CD or the one from the MSI page?
from the cd
- Did you have the battery in the stick for the update?
yes.

Review/Analysis of the new 3.00.13 firmware for Megastick 256

ok people i've done some comparisons between firmwares 2.11 and 3.00.13 for megastick 256 to see if its worth the upgrade or not
i have my Megastick with a bunch of mp3 and some files in a couple of folders, pretty standars stuff, i've saved all these files in a folder of my hard disk to do a fair comparison between both versions
THIS IS MY MEGASTICK WITH FIRMWARE 2.11 WITH STUFF IN IT
MEGASTICK JUST UPGRADED TO 3.00.13 WITH NEW SETTINGS.DAT AUTO CREATED (notice how the new format to Fat32 reduces the file size of settings.dat to 2kb instead of 4kb)
MEGASTICK WITH 3.00.13 FORMATTED TO FAT32 AND FILLED WITH SAME PREVIOUS FILES
as you can see, the new firmware eats up about 3 MB of your total available memory,
OTHER THINGS
- WORST OF ALL, The volume steps problem is back, just like version 2.10 megastick has too few volume steps and you can hear that the volume makes jumps ( one level too silenced and the next too loud)
- My megastick works considerable slower with Fat32 on it, takes like to 2 extra minutes to fill up the same amount of stuff in it than with just "Fat " and sometimes fails to delete files when i tell him so, i have to insist and it does it
- Also, the inclusion of chinese languages in the Language menu has screwed many of my song titles , song names with tildes in it are sometimes not correctly recognized , for example i have a song called "Ave María" (with tilde on i) and the screen shows a chinese character instead of the i
my suggestion is dont upgrade to 3.00.13 and stick to 2.11 if you dont have any of the bugs that the firmware corrects
i'm going back to 2.11 now
hope MSI corrects these problems

uh...really disappointed with this firmware. The volume steps have been decreased from a favourable amount to an amount worse than that of the 2.01 firmware. Instead of adding support for multiple languages, I personally think that MSI should focus more on implementing new features like time elapsed, OGG playback, and a fix for the background noise when recording.

Megastick 256 - Yes or No

Hya
Looking at getting one of these for my birthday. Wife says limit £100 so i have decided on the Megastick 256 (will be useful for work CAD Tech).
Worries me seeing so many bad things, and no good points.
I have the Nforce2 Ultra Chipset on my K7N2- Delta ILSR board and I am concerned that it will not work at all!
I use 2 additional USB PCI cards (if necessary i will use these to avoid megastick problems) a Belkin 1.1 USB with Lucent chipset and a Belkin USB2 card with the NEC chipset.
I see most problems seem to occurr when updating the firmware (why do it if the device is already working).
Can anyone recommend me this product anything would be useful?
Thanks
John

now that i have fixed the problems that i had i would say this is a must buy for the price. sure, there are usb flash drives that cost less with the same amount of memory, but they are not that much less and this does way more (FM/recording, voice/recording). plus it's pretty readily availible and you dn't have to get it imported from japan. once they rid us of this USB 2.0 capatability issues on some hardware then this stick will be as good as gold! once i was able to format it using FAT as opposed to fat32 i was all set. and the firmware really must be updated to fix a problem that involved the player rebooting if the "next song" option was pressed too fast. but once flashing is completed the stick is all that i thought it would be. i hope this helps.

MS 256 Firmware confusion

I got this megastick 256 and checked firmware version.
it was 2.100.000
On the msi-site I found version 2.11.2 (looks higher than 2.1 to me)
The update software reports that I can update from 2.100.000 to 2.011.200
Of course 2.100.000 is newer, but I'm confused because the zipfiles name was 2.11.2 (which implies a newer version than 2.1)
Does someone know which version is newer?
tnx

had the same doubt so i checked by myself
i upgraded my firmware with the latest one (that reads 2.011 in the upgrade program as you mention)
but dont worry its just a mistake in the name, when upgraded, my megastick 256 says Version 2.11 in his ABOUT menu

Megastick 256 and usb2

I am looking to buy a new mobo with nforce2, maybe ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe but have read many posts about problems with megastick 256 and nforce2 mobos.
Does anyone have the A7N8X-E Deluxe? does it work with the megastick 256?
If not what usb2 motherboards do?

i have a MSI K7n2 delta (chipset Nforce ultra 400) yes the one that some people have problem with megastick on it
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Firmware bug: $CCERT must not be used in Report_Rule

Prolog
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As of 7.5.7 firmware, the 2048 certificates has been introduced and value of $CCERT variable may contain text "Installed (2048 bits)". It cause other issue related to Report Rule parsing.
Issue & how to repeat
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It is wrong result. In advance, it reveal the characters inserted into URL by variable expansion are not escaped properly.
How to fix
The order of parsing steps needs to be reversed. Report Rule need to be split into parts first, then variable expansion should be called for both parts independently. Also, strings expanded from variables should be url-encoded properly.
Disclaimer
I will not call SMB support to report this bug to them. Assuming the Cisco is interested to repair firmware bugs a staff member monitoring this forum will create ticked by self. I wish that all relevant information including the depth-in analysis has been disclosed here. I'm ready to provide further details or create test environment if necessary. I'm just not willing to call the Support center as I'm not willing to explain all those complex things described here by phone (and they doesn't accept written reports).
For those non-Cisco-staff users affected by issue - feel free to report the issue to Support center, if you are willing to do it. You are allowed to use information disclosed here, or just refer to this report. I don't care the authorship.

Post Author: CompositeID
CA Forum: .NET
You are not alone on this one, I am having the very same issue as you are and . Everything functioned just fine the last time the application was deployed was deployed and there was nothing changed to any of the reports or code which handles the reports; however, this time I am having the same issue. I added the parameters to the report to check to see if they were actually being recognized by the report and they do show up, but it refuses to filter the records and brings back every record. The report works properly if I run it just directly in Crystal though. I sure hope someone can enlighten us Paul.
Update: Well, I finally figured out what was causing my issue. The issue had to deal with the actual older version of the CrystalReportViewer control and the newer version supplied by the update. I had suspected it was something minor that I had overlooked when doing the update. Hope this gets you going as well. Cheers

Is there ANY way to report firmware bugs to nokia ...

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Solved!
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E55 Thread for Firmware Bugs

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- Organizer minor bug: when you open Organizer, and then open a memo, you have to select the information that you want to modify (text, date, synch) and click one more time to edit the memo. But: if you select the "date" or the "synch" row, instead of the "text" row, and then click "modify", the memo is open alway with the cursor on the "text" row. So, the capability of selecting others rows, is pretty useless.
I hope some Nokia guy will notice this thread so there informations can be useful for a future firmware release, also because I'm getting crazy with the memos issue!!
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Moderator note: word 'official' removed from title, as this may mislead users to believe that the information presented comes from or is in some way endorsed by Nokia.
Message Edited by michaels on 05-Oct-2009 10:06 AM
Message Edited by michaels on 05-Oct-2009 03:31 PM
Roberto Dapino
http://www.stormvision.it/blog

hi olandesevolante
about ur first and second issues u face they r not realy bugs, why?
for the first one: i faced that with my E51 in a place i visited before, that hidden WLAN maybe a conflict from another type of waves other than that of wlan using same frequency
and about the second issue: default phone numbers is a feature that only set for making calls but when u make an sms the phone will ask u to choose between numbers present unders the same contact name even if u set a default number, so it is not a bug but that is the normal firmware properties
for the rest of issues , they sound like real bugs
i hope i helped a little and i wish those bugs will be removed in the next firmware
Message Edited by michaels on 05-Oct-2009 03:31 PM
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Firmware bug? No Connect/Disconnect button on "Manual" PPPoE option

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Although already having twice sent in my Nokia 5320 XpressMusic for repair, I'm still suffering from severe firmware bugs concerning date and alarm of the device. Here some information on when and how the bugs are showing themselves:
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