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Hiya all,

Sorry for not getting back to the comments and not approving new comments, was busy moving to new appartment, cause thanks to stupid ass condo conversion, our apartment wer were living in was marked for demolition this June, and with crazy 1% vacancy rate in the city, its a miracle even finding an apartment.

But anyways got GM truck from a friend at work, and was able to in 6 toes, over the 2 weeks period move everything over, not much loss as we can so far tell occured,  just that lost out plant, and air pump for my bicycle . Will try to see or trace where it might have gone, other than that, just minor cuts and scuffs on hands and brueses on the foot etc etc are left after the move, tomorrow big day for me, as i get to cable my puter and tv up and set the entertainment system and stuff.

Damn wireless D-Link router that my brother swaped his with happens to have no wireless at all and had to hardwire the puter in living room !! Atleast a 70 feet cable is required, keeping my fingers crossed for the video/audio system transfer from my puter to the TV in living room hopefully it will go all well and not much signal loss will be there !

Oh not to mention had to mark 43 comments as spam, so if your comments got removed do forgive me, was a mistake if you were not the spammer :). However, Spammers can just go to hell !!

Note to myself : Move completed April 25th,2008 to new place.

Hiya all, totally forgot to write this tutorial on how to fix your flashed/fake usb key you got off ebay which uses ICREATE - i5128 controller chip to flash it to wrong capacity, and uses Hynix memory chip.

First of all here are few pretty images of my fake usb memory stick i got off ebay :

Top View of my Fake Icreate Based USB Key.

This image below shows the use of Icreate i5128 -LG L726 Controller chip

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Thats right 5 Grand or more pending links waiting to be approved at 2 of my directories. I been slacking off in approving and now this happens, if I start today and do 30 links a day, that will take like 167 Days !! ZOMG , and by than i am sure there will still more links added , good thing is i get notifcations of payments for featured links, so those paid users do not have to worry about the wait.

Those directories i am talking about are :

H-log

and

Sbclansite 

ZOMG !! 5 K pending links to look at, I shall try to do maybe 200 links in a day, or would probably need to hire 2 or 3 editors to get the pending list down to 0 :).

Don’t let that happen to you, it’s going to be painful !!

Got scammed by some ebay seller, and want to fix your hacked key to its default memory to prevent data corruption on your memory stick. Well here is a simple step by step procedure to fix memory of your hacked or fake usb keys.

First lets fix a Memory / USB Key having AU6890 or higher controller/flash chip. I was scammed and was given a Hynix HY27UT088G2M memory which is by the way 1 Gigs space total and not 8GB or anything else. So, lets flash it back to its default 1 GB value and fix this sucker good.

First of all you will need to open up your usb key case, do not worry most ebay keys are easy to open, i opened mine with just my finger nails. Some might need exacto knife or something that will do the trick. Now look at the memory controller chip.

Flip the memory key and look at what memory you actually have on the darn usb key. Here is what I had Hynix HY27UT088G2M : (more…)

After first ebay usb key scam , i thought that this time the seller was legitimate as was selling Kingston Key for decent $36 or so price. But guess what, second time I was scammed again, good part is got full refund both times, so now i have on me 2 USB sticks , one I reflashed to make it work with 2 gigs without issue, but other one i am having issues flashing it back to original 2 gb memory. Any ways here is a simple test to check if your usb key is hacked/flashed to show wrong memory.

Download the Zip package. Place the test.bmp file on the USB key, and open testscript.bat with NOTEPAD, and change drive letter U: to your USB key Drive letter , you do not want to fill the wrong drive up .

Run testscript.bat from your desktop (i would suggest you place it on your desktop so you do not loose track where you put the file ) , and let it rip, it goes slow till it hits the key maximum capacity after which you will see files copied really fast !!!!.

If its a 2 GB actually capacity on usb key, it will start copying really quick when you hit about 190 ish files, as the test.bmp is exactly 10 MB’s in size. And you will see corruption of images, either lines across the image, or big black rectangular block in the middle of the images.Meaning that your key has a capacity lower than what you think it has. How much does it actually have ? Use thumbnail view option and look at the images and see at which image the corrupt started, select all images that are good and check properties of the selected good images, thats your key’s real capacity, now time to open your stick up and fix it up !! Details in other post

As per tools used to flash it back to original state i will post later. As am busy trying to figure out how to flash this key back to 2 gig (K after a day or rather 6 hrs or search was able to flash my new Kingston DT 100 back to original. Damn now those scammers are ruining company names too.

Warning :

Please CHANGE drive letter U: to your usb key drive letter.

Place test.bmp on your usb key, Please format your usb key first using
quick format.

This was the second time, I wanted to look at the time in my watch, and guess what, the darn thing was RESET again to Year 1995, and Time was wrong !!. Just like it happened once few weeks back.

Last time it happened I was ok w/e must be the Sun and heat or something !!(my room gets sunshine whenever sun is there duuhhh.. and at times i leave my watch in the sunlight by mistake/ or out of laziness ) . But this time, i am sure i checked my watch last night and time was showing ok , and so was the year. But at happy hour (lunch time) I noticed it was reset again :(. Darn watch…. In the image below 1-1 is month - date , and 95 is the year it was reset to (factory built date , yes watch is pretty old but still works)

By the way wondering what am i talking about when i say “Year” , well this watch displays year, date, day and time all at once :). Also has feature to store 30 Phone numbers, which ofcourse get erased too after the reset. Attached is the screenie of the watch (yes its in bad shape as i have not got time to go and buy it a new wrist strap, just using it as pocket watch for now ) .

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