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I love the passion for this king of the nuggets, here's more context! I tried for ages to get it to appear without wiping it but it was MIA. I just edited out the 15 minutes of "awh noe, this aint a real guy is it?". Folks think the OS was lost after its battle with Disk Utility but it booted into it afterwards! I shouldn't have removed the footage of me browsing the settings as it was way boring but totally showed that it was working. It happily took files from the computer! I also tried FAT32 off camera but again, way boring. It's a nugget. In retrospect I should have tried using it before wiping it and for that I blame Frank but also apologise on her behalf. But it was a ScamPod, the idiot didn't even know how much storage it really had. It crashed and boot looped the whole time using it and I bet it was never meant to actually "work". But I could pull it apart like an orange and that's what really mattress 🛏. Frank says nothing.
@@docsnavely1010 cluster size, partition table madness. if you shove it into gparted and give it a clean mbr with a fat32, it should go back to 8gb. Dont expect any of it to work still. seems like ths software on the cd was specifically needed to encode files in a certain format for the player to understand them.
Reason for the disk error was probably formatting it into a Mac OS file system. This kinda junk usually expects FAT32 or NTFS. Not that that would have saved it from the allmighty 1 Grit.
I thought I would see if anyone had put this in before me. Yes, it would have needed FAT32 for certain. Interestingly, I do wonder if it was a fake 8GB device that really had a faulty 1GB chip.
That looks like the kind of shit grandma buys you, and you cant tell her that she's wrong because the box does in fact say iPod and has the the Apple logo, and attempting to tell her that she's wrong will only lead to disorder in the family.
@@CODMarioWarfare I think you nailed it. The firmware (or OS if you will) would almost certainly be written to a chip separate from the flash memory. The flash memory then got formatted to a mac specific format that the terrible firmware couldn't read from.
I mean I love all types of content here but something about having an Aussie man become frustrated and amused by transparent pieces of junk is next tier.
what if the folks who built this actually wanted to build the highest quality knock-off possible but were scammed themselves by their memory supplier who shipped them one of those fake chips that is rigged to over-report its capacity.
The expressed realization at [ 01:40 ] is so good, its on par with a wizard seeing a rare ancient spell being cast after hundreds of years of him witnessing it.
I'm afraid the disk errors were because you formatted it to OSX Extended rather than FAT32. Most non-apple devices cannot read that filesystem. I am sure it wouldn't have made a huge difference though. Awesome vid dude :)
@@Ferrari255GTO and he could switch to Windows 10, because of the whole seamless thing Microsoft had done with both OS’ Not my fault Dankpods is immensely picky, and has 0 tolerance with anything windows, or also literally 0 knowledge of modern windows.
@@Ferrari255GTO the new ones a literally worth it far more than those old ones. More powerful and actually reliable. He just keeps old ones for other old iPods sometimes. Also last time I checked, dankpods has an iPad Pro. Also smh, fake fan. He has an iPad 4
@@Thewaterspirit57 oh, right, firewire is a thing XD. To be honest he would be just as capable of working with ipods with a modern one, it's just that whenever he needs a jumpstart he will need to get a firewire charger
I suspect loading files from a pc might have worked. Also I love the energy you bring to these videos. You start out a bit chill and then ramp it the hell up and it's great! Stay Aussie my friend!
I almost think it would use some sort of iTunes ripoff to sync. Most nuggets would just run as flash drive via drag'n'drop, but the makers of this nugget clearly went the extra way. And OSX should be able to read and write FAT32, which basically all of the nuggets use.
When you erased it it would have been more likely to work if you picked “FAT32” instead of the OSX Extended Jounaled, just a tip for the future. Great video as always!
@@amnottabs But he has always preached for Linux to take over. He said it in this video, he said it in his 1 Million video, and bashed windows in his “Using and iPod as an SSD” video
Off camera I tried every format when wiping it, remember it wouldn't even show up on the computer as it was! This is an absolutely cooked nugget. Also every other bootleg lets you wipe them without losing the OS!!
The thing with bootleg devices is that, although they aren't real, some parents buy you these bootleg devices because they genuinely want to see you happy despite their financial quo. That's the magic with bootleg devices.
I like how everyone on the desk started panicking once Dank took the One Grit to the ScamPod. They were probably convinced it was a genuine nano and thought their boss had finally lost his Vegemite.
I Just found this Channel Like 4 days ago, i dont Like Apple and i dont have iPods or mp3 Players, but Mate U are so entertaning i cant Stop Nearly Watched all your vids in 2 days
The best thing about the packaging for me is that they decided to take the walkman logo, flip it upside down so it looks like an M and then just added "P3" and "P4" to make in MP3/MP4
03:21 - Oh wow, it even has a legit iPod Nano 3rd gen's serial number. The iPod whose serial was reused for this bootleg was manufactured in 2007, though.
not quite, looks like by the font the original number that actually exists ended on "0P" and they subbed it in with "OP" (zero vs O), which does not actually have an apple SN tied to it. subtle but effective. aaaaand that's why apple requires SN reader scans for all devices before any repairs can be made.
@@kapilbusawah7169 On older Apple products, the 3rd digit of the serial number represented the year of manufacture (3 = 2003/2013, 4 = 2004/2014 etc) and the 4th and 5th digits represent the week of manufacture. Other sections of the serial number also denote the model and variant of the product.
oh dear god, i had this knockoff!! You conjured up memories of middle school with that! I remember I had so much music loaded on mine and I used that cover, I can't find it anywhere but that was years ago.
BTW, masquerading smalls disks as large disks is still something that happens when you buy modern USB drives and SSDs. See, your system doesn't actually check how much data it can read/write to a disk... (that'd take forever!) it just asks the firmware on the drive how big it is. The firmware/controller also determines what happens when you try to write too much data; so it could just not save anything or loop back and start overwriting at the beginning. So never buy storage from any brand you don't already trust, and always keep 3 backups of anything important.
For a moment I thought this was an actual iPod that failed QA with a buggy version of the UI. It’s not uncommon for factories to sell the knockoff versions of products they make legitimately and throw in failed devices in with that bunch.
@@OldSkoolWheniRide The brand owners don’t have control over it. The majority of businesses don’t own the factories that make their products, they just have contracts with them. Once the factory has met its quota, any extras that are manufactured after that and ones that don’t meet Quality Assurance standards are basically owned by the factory rather than the brand. Everything that fails QA still took time, resources and money so it’s very common for people try to recoup that loss by selling them unofficially. A lot of knock-off products that look a lot like the real brand are made in the exact same factory by the exact same people as the real ones.
This guy basically bought an overkill gaming laptop as a joke, whilst I pray for my $175 trashpile gaming rig to survive another day. But on second thought, I'll take my rig: its got Windows 7.
@@delbomb3131 windows can just decide to be dumb, I mean at one point (im not sure whether they fixed it or not) you used to have to pay shipping for the digital key for windows, you know, something that isnt shipped.
I've looked up the datasheet and that Samsung chip was an 8gb memory, so they didn't skimp on that. They clearly skimped on the people building the firmware, because that nugget did not enjoy being wiped. Hail the 1 grit
I looked at the datasheet too and it says it's a 1 gigabyte chip. The box and device is lying about its size. That's why it showed up as 1 gigabyte once he formatted it at 9:45. Not only is it a terrible device, it's also a scam because it clearly shows 8GB (8 gigabytes) on the box. 😂
@@kuirivito It's a 1 gigabyte chip. Since there's 8 bits in a byte that would be an 8 gigabit chip. GB with a capital B means gigabytes and Gb with a lowercase B means gigabits.
It's having "Disk Error" because you formatted the internal drive using a Mac, which is a criminal offense, and the drive also houses some of the UI and OS elements.
Absolutely loved the way those Stankbuds(tm) sounded, it's like super phat metal distortion. I would love a plugin (VST) that emulates that stank, other option would be to mic a pair and send it!
@@SilentProti yes, but all of the Nano, Shuffle, and Touch models are flash-based, and this is a 3rd-gen Nano clone. Many, if not all, of the iPods with hard drives also had Samsung SDRAM.
Eh, Dank? You realize that when you erased the nugget, you changed the bugger's file system from (most likely) FAT16/32 to MacOS, so it's no bloody wonder it was throwing that disk error.
@@bablela26 I just realized that the partition scheme was also wrong, so even if he had read the Manuel and realized that it was a FAT device, it still would've been unreadable (and one-gritted) :D
Just a little fun fact! I know you're laughing at it having a Samsung chip in it, but you'd be surprised to know that Apple and Samsung have had numerous partnerships over decades. Samsung is one of the only companies with factories capable of keeping up with the demand for Apple products, so it's not unheard of for Apple products to be full of Samsung chips and screens. Now, I highly doubt that specific chip (which looked like an embedded multimedia card when I googled it) was made for iPods, so that's still something to laugh about!
@@khristopherkomodoensis4734 Pre A-series iPhones had Samsung-designed CPUs and before TSMC's ongoing process node domination A-series chips came from Samsung foundries as well.
"When you erased it it would have been more likely to work if you picked “FAT32” instead of the OSX Extended Jounaled, just a tip for the future. Great video as always!" That and might have benefitted from putting the ocntent in subfolders as a lot of pre 2012 media players still need you to make 'music, video, photo' folders
it said the drive was formatted at "es" before. OSX should know FAT32. maybe even NTFS. So that drive probably was formatted at something else. What I assume is that it was meant for the eee PC generation, expecting the user to throw in the CD and install their face iTunes. And just as any legit of the time, it would only sync through iTunes.
You might not care at this point but the reason why it kept showing "Disk error" is because you keep formatting it to HFS , you should format it to Fat32 , that's the only disk format it reads
The i-m8 looks like that one craig nano which had the d-pad controls or was it a different bootleg that was the same size. The collossal one had a dpad too but well that's a giant one
I once owned a "mp3/mp4" music player. (Won it arcade) Gotta say, it worked great for a while (half a month), then it just ceased. Screw these bootlegs, the more expensive options last longer.
I think when you plugged in the "iPod" to your iMac and formatted it, you might've deleted some files that the "iPod" was using, or, even more likely, the "iPod" had folders in it, and it read from those specific folders, not from the main folder. I doubt you can use this info now judging from the... uhh.. state of the nugget in question, but I still wanted to post a comment about this.
Also could be due to the fact that macOS usually formats things specifically for macos, which the "iPod" probably doesn't support. (It most likely supports FAT32 only)
