Philips GoGear?

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Overview

This pages summarises what is known about the Philips GoGear? devices. This information is based on the following sources:

• wiki
• Philips Songbird resources

List

Many devices comes in several generations and Philips way of naming players is known for being confusing. The only number which is reliable is the model name but even in some cases, it might depend on the series number (like on the Vibe 8GB) ! The USB VID of Philips is 0x471 for all devices, only the PID is relevant. When two IDs are given, one is for MSC and the other for MTP.

USB PID	Device	Model	SoC	Comment
0x20A5 0x20A6	Activa	ACT1	STMP3780	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear Azure	SA5AZU?	Actions
	GoGear Ariaz G1	SA1ARA?	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20B8 0x20B9	GoGear Ariaz G2	SA2ARA?	STMP3780	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20EA 0x20E9	GoGear Ariaz G3	SA3ARA?	STMP3780	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x2146 0x2145	GoGear Ariaz G4 DRM version	SA4ARA08KF_37	STMP3780	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x2138 0x2139	GoGear Ariaz G4 non-DRM version	SA4ARA?	ATJ213x
0x2070	GoGear Mix G1	SA1MXX?	STMP3700	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear Mix G2	SA3MXX?	Rockchip RkNano?	RockChipNanoB
	GoGear Mix G3	SA3MXX?	Rockchip RkNano?	RockChipNanoB
	GoGear Mix G5	SA5MXX?	Actions
	GoGear Muse G1	SA1MUS?	Telechips
0x20C5 0x20C6	GoGear Muse G2	SA2MUS?	Rockchip	recovery id 0x71B:0x3228, might be RK28
0x20EC 0x20EB	GoGear Muse G3	SA3MUS?	Rockchip	recovery id 0x71B:0x3228, might be RK28
0x211D 0x211C	GoGear Muse G4	SA4MUS?	ATJ2127	Unlikely to be ported
	GoGear Raga G1	SA19xx	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20B4	GoGear Raga G2	SA2RGA?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20E3	GoGear Raga G3	SA3RGA?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x213D	GoGear Raga G4	SA4RGA?	Actions	recovery id 0x10D6:0xFF76
	GoGear Spark G1	SA29xx	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20A3 0x20A4	GoGear Spark G2	SA2SPK?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x2117	GoGear Spark G3	SA3SPK?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear ViBE? G1	SA1VBE?	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20B6 0x20B7	GoGear ViBE? G2	SA2VBE?	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20E4 0x20E5	GoGear ViBE? G3	SA3VBE?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20FD 0x20FE	GoGear ViBE? G3 India	SA3VBE04KX_94	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x213F 0x213E	GoGear ViBE? G4 non-DRM version	SA4VBE?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x2142 0x2141	GoGear ViBE? G4 DRM version	SA4VBE04KF_37	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear Opus G1	SA52xx	Telechips
	GoGear Opus G2	SA1OPS?	Telechips
0x20FF	GoGear Connect 3	SA3CNT?	i.MX51
0x2112	GoGear SDR	SA3SDR?	Unknown	recovery 0xFF76:0xFF76
0x2113	GoGear SDV	SA3SDV?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x2122	GoGear Tablet 8	PI7000	Rockchip	recovery id 0x71B:0x2123
0x2131	GoGear SoundDot?	SA4DOT?	ATJ2127	Unlikely to be ported
0x2130 0x212F	GoGear Maxtreme	SA4MAX?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear Mini	SA4MIN?	Actions
0x2153	GoGear ACT4	SA4ACT?	STMP3770	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
0x20C1	GoGear CAM	SA2CAM?	Vimicro VC082X? SuperCube?	recovery id 0xAC8:0x8200
	GoGear Luxe	SA24xx	STMP	SigmaTelSTMP3xxx
	GoGear Lite	SA4LIT?	Actions

Firmwares

Philips doesn't publish the addresses of the firmware but I found a pattern. Each player's firmware can be found here:

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/s/NAME/NAME_hf1_LANG.zip

where NAME is the technical name of the player and LANG is the language. Here are known working examples. Generally speaking, the name is of the form PREFIX GEN BRAND SIZE SUFFIX where PREFIX is sa for most players, the generation can range from 1 to 5 currently, the brand is ARA for Aria, RGA for Raga, and so on. The size is 08 for 8GB, 16 for 16GB and so on. The suffix depends on DRM vs non-DRM and possibly other stuff. Common suffixes are kf_37 for DRM and kf_12 for non-DRM but other exists.

Note that the server usually contains 4 files per player:

• the firmware (hf1_LANG.zip)
• some XML file (hf4_LANG.xml) but it doesn't work all the time
• a change log (hf2_LANG.html)
• an upgrade DLL (hf3_LANG.dll) but it doesn't work all the time (*)

(*) the upgrade DLL can anyway be found in the Philips SongBird? resources.

player	NAME	LANG
GoGear Ariaz G4 non-DRM version (8GB)	sa4ara08kf_12	fra

-- AmauryPouly - 08 Dec 2013