Oh my god! I am literally beating my head on my table right now. I am so angry I can't even put it into words. I hate Olympus so much... the motherfuckers... why couldn't they just make mp3 players like they were supposed to be made: portable. Why in the hell did they have to release a cheap rip-off itunes clone that is so terribly bug infested it should be burned... oh and that intern or whoever programmed that piece of junk, too.
Bought two m:robe 500i on ebay off of some wholesale shop. No equipment, the idea was to fiddle around a little, maybe hack the firmware. One unit had a working touch-screen but failing hdd, other unit vice-versa. Easily corrected, joined both into one fully working unit. Now it did boot but gave me a database error. No problem, database errors are common with these players (because the shit software used to "sync" the players always fucks it up!!!!!), did a reformat, attempted a firmware update.
Firmware update shows complete, rebooted the unit to see if it would install... nothing changes! WTF?!? How can olympus retard firmware updater say it updated to a new firmware when there is still the old one installed?
Well... I thought to myself "Let's swap the system boards, maybe the eeprom is done for".
NOW I BROKE THE MOTHERF***ING LCD CONNECTOR!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
You know how you have those little black braces on those micro-connectors? The ones where you are supposed to fix the tiny flat-cables with? Yes, it did fucking break on me.... no idea how it could have happened as I am really not an idiot and I didn't use force but it's broken, and guess what, it's broken on the second system board too.
All of this shit in vein. All of this hassle for nothing! I HAD IT WORKING BUT I JUST HAD TO BOG IT UP!
Now you might ask yourself: Why are you blaming Olympus? Because if they didn't think they were the uber-gods of consumer electronics, maybe they would have thought about what the hell they were actually designing here... maybe they would have programmed a firmware that reads mp3s directly of the hdd instead of using a database (xml by the way... worst format ever for this) if they didn't play with their penises all day long.
Now I just want them to die... and I want to cry a little.