Off to Hong Kong
Due to the vagaries of the China tourist visa, I have to leave the country every 2 months. So I’m off to Hong Kong for a week. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a longer term visa there, this site makes it sound possible, even easy, to get a 6-month multiple-entry visa for China in Hong Kong.
I don’t think my China cell phone will work there, but my old US number has now been ported to the internet. So if anyone calls my old US number and leaves a message, it’ll be sent to me via email. Pretty cool that.
April 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
I linked here from a post of yours on slashdot where you write about having upgraded the firmware on your Andus Resound mp3 player. Since Andus/Voigo/Frontel seems to be out of business, the firmware update seems not to be available. Thus, I have not been able to find the firmware to update my device to allow my mp3 player to be update to a generic USb storage device. Do you have the firmware available somewhere where it can be downloaded, etc.? I would be very grateful for your help.
Thanks, Leo
May 9th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Hi Leo,
Your comment makes me smile, because it reminds me of all the times I’ve tried to hunt down drivers for ancient devices. I would always end up emailing people who’d commented in discussion forums or usenet several years previously and would never hear back from them.
I wish I still had the installer for the firmware that causes the player to work as a generic USB storage device.
I did a little bit of google searching and found the following messages that might help you:
This post contains all the instructions for installing the firmware:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/arcmessageview.php?start=20&catid=18&threadid=212060
This just might be the firmware — or it might not:
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=395411
Here’s a company that still makes mp3 players based on that chip I think:
http://www.vintion.com.cn/vin2001cn/support/supportcontent.asp?id=48
Hmmm, here’s a page with downloadable firmware (I think) for a “SigmaTelMSCN”, which sounds like it’s on the right track:
http://www.penpower.com.tw/dl/driver.asp
As always, installing firmware can make your device unusable — especially if you install firmware not made for your particular device. I can’t guarantee that any of these links are to the right thing, although the fatwallet forum discussion is the exact information I used when flashing the firmware in my andus resound so long ago.
Good luck!