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Posted on Feb 10, 2010

Coby 610 MP3 not powering up or being recognized when plugged in

My daughter received a Coby 610 8GB MP3 player for Christmas. She has been using it, however this week it has stopped powering on. When you slide the button down to turn it on it only comes to the small "coby" then nothing else. I thought it might need a charge so I plugged it into the USB to charge it but now the computer isn't recognizing it. I have one of these MP3 players myselft and I haven't had either problem with it.

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The same thing happened to me. Have you tried resetting it? Open up a paperclip and poke it in the back hole. The mp3 should reset. If this doesn't work, you are going to have to reformat it, although I did not have to do that so I don't know how.

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  5. Run the Firmware Update program 'MP610 T LCD Firmware Update for file sys err.exe'
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