What Kind of Firmware Is This, Teclast? You've Got to Be Kidding Me~
Translated from Chinese by Claude. Read the original
The day before yesterday I happened to wonder whether there was a firmware update for my MP4 player, so I went to Teclast’s official site to check, and sure enough there was one, from September this year. Mine is a Teclast TL-C300-VE (bought in ‘09; the one before it was an Aigo. Why did I switch to Teclast? There’s a little story behind that, see the PS below). The firmware it came with was version 5.0, and now 5.1 is out. So I downloaded it and planned to flash it tonight.
In the evening I opened the software, switched modes, loaded the firmware, started flashing, and everything seemed OK. Formatted the MP4, rebooted, and damn, the touch buttons stopped working. I couldn’t select anything… I figured I’d done something wrong, so I tried 10 times, and it still didn’t work. You’ve got to be kidding me! So I decided to flash it back to the original 5.0 firmware… but there was one big problem: where was I supposed to find 5.0? So I started Googling. Since 5.0 and 5.1 came out a year apart, and Teclast’s official site doesn’t keep old firmware versions, seriously, are you kidding me! I gritted my teeth and searched for over half an hour and finally found it, in some dark little corner of the internet. Then I went through the same steps and finally managed to flash it back… Teclast, you’re ripping us off… What kind of upgrade is this… it’s a downgrade! A heads-up for other TL-C300-VE users: just stick with the original 5.0 firmware. Do not flash 5.1… once you flash it the touch controls stop working. If you’ve already flashed it, flash it back… I’ve put the TL-C300VE-V5.03-C4C5 firmware package and tool up for download here: TL-C300VE-V5.03-C4C5 firmware and mass production tool PS: Teclast, you rip-off, when you update firmware could you please keep the old versions available? Sigh, I’m broke and can’t afford an iPod… so I’ll make do with Teclast… The one before was an Aigo. I remember I bought it on August 8, 2008, the day of the Olympics opening ceremony. One day in ‘09, a classmate asked me in the morning to download some dirty movies for him, and I said yes. In the afternoon I went to school on the bus, which was seriously packed. I got shoved around on the bus and ended up pressed against a handrail. I had put that Aigo MP4 in the outermost pocket of my backpack. At the time I just felt something crack, but it didn’t occur to me that it was the MP4. In afternoon class, I gave the MP4 to my classmate. “Huh? Why is the screen all messed up?” he asked, confused, and right then it hit me… it got crushed, and the screen was broken. So in September ‘09 I bought this one. I’ve noticed a lot of things don’t last a year in my hands… except my laptop, of course… Addendum: the night of January 6, 2011. I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and snapped the power switch… Damn, I’m a real genius.