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Samsung YH-J70 is here
It’s now available in the States. No reviews yet, but it looks beautiful and the features leave no-one complaining.
- comes in 20GB and 30GB versions
- weighs 0.3lbs
- measures 0.5×4x0.5 in.
- 1.8-inch color LCD, 128×96 resolution
- plays MP3, WMA, and WMA-DRM (firmware upgrade allows reproductions of tracks from subscription-based services)
- video playback, photo (JPEG) viewing
- voice & line-in recording
- USB On-The-Go
- battery life rated at 25 hours for audio playback, 7 hours for video
- price for the 20GB version is $299
Another picture of the player after the jump.
UPDATE (Nov.30, 2005): CNET Asia has a “First Looks” article on the YH-J70.
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can you please help me on this,i have a problem with my YH-J70.it is blocked on “loading system”.when i turn it on it does not start,it get stuck in the system loading forever. and i cant connect as a hard drive to operate on it.its always on the charge mode.can you please help me on this.
Thank you.
...added by Yassine /// August 15th, 2006 at 03:35 AM
Yassine, I don’t own the particular unit so I’m afraid I’m not able to help you, sorry.
Did you try contacting Samsung support about it?
...added by Konstantinos Christidis /// August 15th, 2006 at 03:59 AM
i have one its pretty simple there is a restart button on the back that should restart the whole thing dw u wont loose anything
lol i have a feeling the reason why they put a restart button is because problems would occur …...
...added by andy /// August 15th, 2006 at 15:18 PM
im stuck, i have the manual and it says to get videos to download you use the menu on the device to select removable disk from the pc conect mode, but theres no such thing in the menu!!!!!!!! how am i ever going to get videos on it?!?!?!?
...added by lea /// October 10th, 2006 at 22:00 PM
Hi
I already tried the reset button in the back of the player.but when i turn it on again,it is always stuck in the “system loading”
thanks for your help
Yassine
...added by Yassine /// December 16th, 2006 at 03:21 AM
can i get any help on this please!!
...added by Yassine Sakri /// January 2nd, 2007 at 14:01 PM
Hi, sorry can’t help with your dilemma but have one of my own. Just got the yh-j70, have installed the software etc, but when i plug the player into my pc via the usb port, it just says ‘updating..do not disconnect’ for ages. I can’t access any menus on the player while it does this and, although my pc is recognising there is hardware, its not being displayed anywhere. i have checked in my devices and it is not showing in my disk drives either (as recommended by the manual)..what am i doing wrong??
...added by Caz /// January 6th, 2007 at 14:50 PM
Just to add to the above – I have also tried using the re-start button and uninstalling/ installing the software..please help!!
...added by Caz /// January 6th, 2007 at 14:57 PM
Yes help would be good…. same problem happened to mine yesterday and hard drive seems to be vibrating
...added by Robyn /// January 7th, 2007 at 13:20 PM
Yes me too! tried all of the above too – when I connect it’s stays on USB connecting… for ever and my PC (and several in work I’ve tried it on) go veeery veeery slow! Without connecting it to PC does get past “sytem loading” part so I can see it looks good but just can’t get it to be seen on PC and the two demo tunes are driving me mad now! – anything been back from samsung ? I am begining to think this could be gubbed!
...added by Rory Shearer /// January 10th, 2007 at 00:46 AM
i have a black yhj70, and decided to change some music i had put on it, after a format, it went wrong, and now displays font error on startup, this is annoying but does not stop it from working, i’ve tried to update it but failed as it wont accept any update in any folder. It did freeze on startup once, but the reset button on the back did the job.I have problems with folders showing on my pc, some show, others dont, if i try to reload them i end up with duplicate folders, which then hide themselves from the pc.
If you have a problem with connection,disconnect the player from the pc, open its programmes look for connection and try mtp only not mtp charge, this sometimes shows missing items.As a player its really good, pity about the software.
...added by james /// February 27th, 2007 at 14:20 PM
i tried to upgrade the firmware for my yh j70 but i get stuck on no 3 of the intructions which says to “open USB driver….” Does anyone know how to do this as i have absolutely no idea and samsung has been no help at all.
For the person who could not find the pc connect mode on their player, go to system then select and if you see “about” come up then scroll up or down with the navigation button this gets you to the next page. I hope this is useful for u.
...added by Moji Akintoye /// March 5th, 2007 at 02:27 AM
Hi i got another problem with my yh-J70…everytime I try and plug my player into my computer, I get the message saying usb has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize the device. I dont know what happenning because I am able to plug in any other device and it works just fine. someone please help me.
THANX
...added by qqaassww /// March 7th, 2007 at 22:20 PM
Hi i got another problem with my yh-J70…everytime I try and plug my player into my computer, I get the message saying usb has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize the device. I dont know what happenning because I am able to plug in any other device and it works just fine. someone please help me.
THANX
...added by qqaassww /// March 7th, 2007 at 22:20 PM
I got A Yh-j70 and it wont turn on…it just has a bland screen. Same when i charge it and connect to my pc. Wonts going on?
...added by josh /// March 20th, 2007 at 08:01 AM
Hi i had the same problem with my samsung pressing the restart button didnt work either. In the end i sent it back to where i got it from and they sent me a new one.
The only problem i have now and dont know where to start is how do i get my music dvds , onto the mp3 player to play them as videos?
...added by beckie /// March 20th, 2007 at 18:20 PM
Hello all,
Ive had mine for about 6 months. I use it every day at work and love it.
No problems at all.
I add and delete files everyday (podcasts).
Great sound , long battery life.
Sounds like a lot of hdd failures above.
...added by Darren /// March 24th, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Hello,
i bought the samsung yh-j70, i pluged it to my PC and anything happened, the payer not be recognased by windows XP, Please help ?
...added by hicham /// March 25th, 2007 at 15:45 PM
hi i have had the same problem as some of your other customers. the problem is when i turn on my mp3 YH-J70 it comes up as loading but when i turn it on it does not start. i also cant connect it onto my hard drive because it is on the charge mode. can you please help me
Thank you
...added by adrian /// March 26th, 2007 at 19:44 PM
Hi Adrian,
i still have this same problem 9 months ago,i tired all most eveything but always the same problem.and as i can see many people encouter problems with this Samsug device. it seems that it often malfunctions all i cherished its features.
Thanks for your collaborartion!
Yassine Sakri
...added by Yassine Sakri /// April 26th, 2007 at 13:48 PM
Ive had all sorts of problems with my Yh-j70 and have attempted to update firmware and it gets stuck at 99%. Now it wont load at all. I tried reformatting the disk. Does anyone know what format it is )FAT, FAT32 or NTS ?
Thanks
Rod
...added by rod /// June 9th, 2007 at 15:41 PM
I have a problem with my YH-J70:
I tried formatting the player using the “Samsung Media Player” software and as soon as the format got completed, the software caused a blue screen and the machine restarted. Since then, whenever I try to start the player it displays the Samsung logo and then restarts…this goes on in an infinite loop untill I press the restart button at the back of the player.
Has anybody encountered such a problem before? Does anybody know the solution to this problem? Samsung support didn’t help me…they are asking me to replace the HDD. Does anybody know any other interface of connecting my HDD to a PC so that I can try and format it again?
Thanks,
Varun.
...added by Varun /// June 30th, 2007 at 18:55 PM
I have had my first YH-J70 (LB 30Gb version purchased in Hong Kong) since Aug05, and has given me not one single bit of trouble…and have used it extensively. So when I lost mine 2 weeks ago, I was keen to get another, cos of its superior features it wins hands-down. I bought the replacement (20Gb version) off eBay, and this seem to suffer the same problems as experienced by many…WinXP not liking the USB ,YH-J70 freezes upon USB connection which requires a Reset…Surely, this is a failure in the design, and Samsung should provid more assistance.
I will update should I succeed in rectifying this disabling problem.
Peter
...added by Peter /// July 10th, 2007 at 21:28 PM
Hi,
Just thought I’d check any ideas from the last comments a while back – Please do let us know if you hear anything from Samsung. Mine has been in a box for a while …as it was bought in Dubai customer services over here wanted to charge me £130to fix it- eventually they told me this after much deliberation on my warranty and their requested proof of purchase! I hope Samsungs reading all these emails above for training purposes sounds like everyones been in the same boat! – anyways don’t know if this helps but before this the repair centers report said this would require a “HDD replacement” nothing more specific than that I’m afraid.
If anyone does get anywhere with Samsung and hears of any other way round these issues do let us know as it does look good! – Thanks, Rory
...added by Rory Shearer /// July 24th, 2007 at 01:29 AM
Hi,
I have same problem of YH-J70 start up. when i start the device it goes to endless “Loading …” and stucks. I handed over the device to Service Center and they repaired it but soon after getting it back i got same problem again. I tried Restart button of the back and it worked. Is it the final solution? Is there any proper workaround for this?
It seems that most of the people have the same problem with this device.
...added by Jandost Khoso /// July 30th, 2007 at 13:00 PM
hi, a friend gave me a yh-j70,i cant charge it,or dont know how?
i had a usb charger for ipod and got yh-j70 lead,but its not charging..
been tryin to charge it from computer but its not workin!!
any advice?
...added by grazz /// September 16th, 2007 at 23:31 PM
Hi,
I am really not satisfied with this device, i was the one who created this forum due to the “freezin loading” problem that i have had more than a year and a half ago.
i tried several solutions that i have either read or have been told by people but it never worked.
Yassine Sakri
...added by Yassine sakri /// October 9th, 2007 at 18:18 PM
hi. i had my yh-j70s for over 2 yrs now, i have the no system font file msg for over a yr but this didnt stop the player from functioning. however, after i recently connected it to my girlfriend’s macintosh the player started to have the `system loading` issue described by so many others before. i thought it might have been the mac or itunes so i had a look in the system files with total commander and i found some extra folders and files that were not there before so i just deleted them and the player now works again! hope this helps. i really like my mp3player, especially the line-in recording feature, excellent for dj mixes. word!
...added by krs /// January 20th, 2008 at 22:56 PM
Thanks Krs,
Thought I’d look to see if anything had been found on this issue. I recently bought a 2nd cheap one for ebay and the 2nd one actually works! – I see what the fuss is about now!
If other peoples are not working [like my first] then a thought I had was to replace the HDD with a cheap one from said ebay (luckily the player itself I bought actually infact did work after charging so there was no need to have to )
If anyone is brave enough or suitably at the end of their tether with samsung! to do this and completely ruin their warrenty then the HDD they need is a toshiba HDD1422 C – and you can get them quite easily on ebay. I do know the HDD is quite easy to get at but as I never ended up doing it don’t know at all if this works for this problem. – Rory
...added by Rory Shearer /// February 7th, 2008 at 01:40 AM
i got the same problem, i cant charge my device either, i plug it in and always USB Connected, can anyone help?
...added by Chris Voermans /// March 4th, 2008 at 03:28 AM
I had the same problem a year ago. The device would stop at “System Loading” and when connected to the PC it would stop at “Updating…” However I just revived it tonight. I did the following for one year and do not know exactly what I did right.
1) I took out the harddisk (Toshiba 1.8 inch MK3006GAL). Being curious I opened it and in the process damaged it.
2) Took my time and searched the net for solutions. Eventually bought a new MK3006GAL.
3) Bought a “3.5 inch Toshiba 1.8 inch” Adapter V.AO and peeked at the files in the disk.
4) Formated the disk using FAT system.
5) Connected the YH-J70 to the computer. PC recognised it as a harddisk but there are no system files in the harddisk.
6) Opened Samsumg Media Studio (provided when I purchased the device) and under “Device”, I clicked “Format”. Presto! Several folders were created together with a system file!
7. Downloaded version 2.07 from http://www.3friends.co.uk/j70/index.php
Unzipped the file. Copied the unzipped bin file to the YH-J70 (not in any of the folders created). Disconnected the device from the PC. Power on. A message appeared saying that the player is upgrading the firmware (there is an indicator to show the percentage upgraded). Player automatically restarted on its own.
8. A happy ending.
...added by tcd888 /// March 28th, 2008 at 22:27 PM
my samsung yh-j70 has been playing up for the past 3 weeks now all it does is load the starting screen and stay that way if any body nows how to fix this problem please email me thxs
...added by sean traynor /// June 24th, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Could somebody tell me where I can find a charger for this player?
Thanks a lot!
...added by caroline /// July 13th, 2008 at 17:31 PM
I have problems with charging this device. It’s impossible to reach baterries fully charged though there’s such information on the screen. It’ suffiecient to listen to one album only. Anybody knows how to solve the problem? thank You for any suggestions
...added by sebwoj /// July 20th, 2008 at 17:55 PM
Hi ,
I got one recently. But i cant put it on ..
I tried to format it in samsung media but it hanged. Please suggest
...added by Arvind /// August 17th, 2009 at 10:27 AM
anybody from India having this player and ready to sell ( even it is not working)
...added by sarveswara rao /// September 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 AM