Imitation Ipod Nanos

[stangdaman]

I have a friend who bought what he thought was an ipod nano but turned out to be an imitation. It's a pretty convincing little imitation actually until you power it up. The firmware looks a lot like the ipod firmware but navigating the menus is a little clunky and it could just use some improvement all around. I knew about Rockbox because I've seen it discussed at mrobe.org and I happen to have an m:robe and was wondering if it would be possible to load rock box onto this little mp3 player. It's got an 8gb hard drive and if it had some decent firmware it wouldn't be half bad. The current firmware read as the following:

LG MP3 Player
QS91B13
CM70048
2008/03/01
ACI_V9.1.52

I did try googling that firmware but really couldn't find a lot about it or about this device in general. He gave me the address he bought it from but they had a number of these different imitation ipods and it was really hard to tell which one was the one he got. Not to mention they don't tell you much about the hardware anyway.

[psycho_maniac]

I remember somebody else talking about this and had pictures of the player as well. Looked just like an ipod.

[Chronon]

It would be a completely new port.  And with cheap knockoffs like this I would have doubts about how many other players would have the same hardware in them.  Frankly, it does not sound like it would be worth the effort.  How would you find other users who have the same kind of clone made with the same set of components?

[stangdaman]

It would be a completely new port.

That's what I was wondering about. I didn't know if I could just put an existing build on it. I thought maybe since the firmware is very similar to the ipod firmware that maybe I could load the ipod nano rockbox onto it. I guess that's a no though huh?

[Chronon]

You are noticing a similarity in the user interface.  This does not equate to a direct similarity in the code needed to implement said interface.  To put it simply, different hardware requires different code to operate.