Partial solution to fixing corrupted storage Innioasis Y1

Hi,

This is a temporary account as I don't use Reddit much so I won't be replying I'm afraid. So far, I've only tried this on Linux. I don't know if this works on Windows or Mac

Recently my Innioasis Y1 was acting up in the following ways:

1. File system was not mounting correctly - When connected to the computer and mounted, player only displayed about ~400mb of storage. Clearly, the player was not reading the SD card properly.

2. Constant freezing, player was unable to play music - When the player did eventually read the SD card, it could not play music. A popup displayed saying that something was wrong with the file.

Solution:

1. In order to get the MP3 player to actually be able to read the SD card, factory reset it a couple of times and wait until it's finished scanning the file system. Once it's done, plug the player into your computer and see how big the storage is.
2. If the storage reads ~400mb or something tiny, repeat step 1 and try again. Otherwise, if it reads ~100gb or the normal size, continue.
3. In terminal type "lsblk". This lists all internal and external drives connected to your computer. You should see a bunch of lines with sda, sdb or even nmve and lines directly underneath them with sdX followed by a number like sdXn e.g. sda -> sda1.
4. Carefully find out which of the drives corresponds to your MP3 player. You should see a device with size ~116gb. If you are in doubt, unplug it and type out lsblk again and look for the missing item. Now note down which sdX it is. For me it was sdb with a single sub partition sdb1 underneath. This may not be the case for you, do not copy this blindly. If you have more than one partition i.e. there is an sdX2 branch underneath, do not proceed.
5. Check that your file system is fat32. Use KDE disks or gparted and use the interface to see what your file system is. You should see a bar with the name of the drive on it i.e. a bar with "sdXn" on it. If it says fat32 continue. If not then do not proceed.
6. Unmount your drive by typing "sudo umount /dev/sdb1"
7. Run "sudo fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdX1" where X is the corresponding letter to your player. For me it was sdb1. Then wait for this to finish. This should repair the FAT32 filesystem. Once this is finished, you should be done.

You can probably tell, I'm not very familiar with tech. Please proceed with this at your own risk.

I know that my Innioasis Y1 player was not working well at all, in fact when I was able to mount the drive, I was having trouble even trying to delete music files off it and the system had locked into read only. However, once I did this, everything has seemed to work fine and I was able to put songs back onto it without any fuss.

Please also not, the only step where you actually change anything in the player is step 7. All the other steps are basically just checking if everything else is ok, if something goes wrong before then, don't worry you haven't damaged anything.

If you do not have Linux and still want to do this, consider using a live USB and running linux on your computer temporarily, you won;t need to install anything onto your computer. If you are unsure about this, just Google "Linux Mint" and follow the installation instructions to create a bootable USB but just don't install it once you boot up from it.

Hope this can help somebody!