MSI P240 User Manual

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Notice

 Before use this product, please read this menu

carefully.

 Your hearing ability may be harmed permanently

due to listen to the music at the highest volume

level continuously for a long period of time

 Do not use the player at the highest volume while

driving as it would divert your attention, it may

cause the traffic accident.

 It is every person’s duty to protect the

environment, please don’t throw the disused

battery randomly.

Notice for using this product

 Please do not disassemble or repair the player by

yourself. Otherwise, it may affect the quality

guarantee of the player. MP3 player itself has no

parts available for the user to repair by oneself.

Please contact the professional personnel in case

the repair is required.

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 Please not use this product in the environment at

high temperature or high humidity, such

environment include:

1. The environment temperature much higher than

50℃or lower than-10℃.

2. Sunshine Point blank or near to the heat head.

3. High humidity environment (such as bathroom).

 Please not use the organic impregnant to clean the

product, such as benzene.

 Please backup your important data frequently, and

it’s not our company’s fault if the loss caused by

the lost of the data at any condition.

 If you do not intend to use the player for a long time,

please take out the battery, otherwise the battery

may leak, corrode and damage the player.

Description of the player

⎫ Outline and key

Play/Paus

e

VOL-

VOL+

Back

Forward

LCD

HO LD

MOD E

Headphone

US B

STOP/POWER OFF/POWER ON/A/B

Display screen

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MP3

Ba tt er y lev el

ID 3 Display

Song counter

Re pea t mo de

Spect rum s tatus

Play status

Play time

Volu me

Bit rate

Re pe a t m o de

Musi c t im e

Play format

Accessories

Earphone; PC connecting cable; Installation software CD;

User’s Guide, Battery

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Ba t t ery

The chart of the player function

Voice Record FM Tuner Setting Info.

Pl ayer

Pl a y M u s i c Folder

Play Voi ce

Preview

About

Fold e r

Exit

Record

Play Musi c

Setting

FM Tuner

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The condition of the battery

(Time unit: hour)

AAA alkalescency

battery

Play time

Size 7 8

The life of the battery may be different in the use

condition, the manufacture company and the produce

date. The condition of the electricity level showed

below:

enough middle low empty

Please change the battery when the electricity is empty.

The method about fixing the battery: Open the cover of

the battery, then put the battery into the slot (attention

to the anode and cathode) then cover the battery.

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Definition of key functions

1. “PLAY”: PLAY/ PAUSE, hereafter referred to as

“Play key”.

2. “Stop”: Stop/Power off/Power on/ A/B

3. “Mode”: to select the entry and to enter the menu,

hereafter referred to as “mode key”.

4. “VOL+”: volume increase, fast increase.

5. “VOL–”: volume decrease, fast decrease.

6. “Forward”: next entry, fast forward.

7. “Back”: last entry, fast rewind.

8. “USB”: USB jack.

9. “Earphone jack”: standard earphone jack.

 Definition of key operation

The key operation includes short press, long press,

press and hold, and press. The paragraphs below

refer to short press unless otherwise stated.

Short press: Press the key for one time and the key

comes into effect right away.

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Long press: Press the key for more than 1.5 seconds

before the key comes into effect, and only coming

into effect for one time

Press: Press the key, which will only come into effect

at the moment the hand releases from the key.

Press and hold the key: The whole process starting

from pressing the key to releasing the key, the event

comes into effect in multiple times at a certain

frequency, such as “Fast forward/fast rewind”.

The function of the player

 Play MP3 music

Open /Close the player

When you open the player please press the stop key for a

long time, after 2 seconds, the screen will display “Hello”

it is showed that your player has been opened, the picture

as below:

Hello!!

You can press the play key for a few seconds, and if there

are music files in the player, you will see the interface

below: music item, play time, bit rate, name of the

music playing. Press the mode key again, and then

begin to play. The LCD showed as:

Title:t ake m e to your heart.mp3

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MP3

B atter y le ve l

ID 3 Display

Son g co unter

Repeat mode

Spect rum status

Play status

Play t ime

Volume

Bit rate

Re peat m ode

Music time

If you want to select the Forward/Back music, please

press the Forward/Back key. In the music play mode,

press the Forward/Back key for a long time, the

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selected music will be fast forward/backward, during

the music play if press the pause key, the music will be

paused.

If you long press stop key to turn off the power the LCD

will show as below:

When you press the stop key more than 3 seconds until

the LCD showed “Bye Bye!!” that indicates you have

turned off the player safely, the picture as below:

ByeBye!!

Lock key function:

Push the HOLD key, the LCD Will show “Locked”. In

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the locked state, any pressing key will take no effect.

Note: If you push the locked key before start the player,

the player can’t be opened.

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Sub-directory function

In any state, long press the mode key, through the

Forward/Back key you can select the folder mode. Press

mode key again, then into root directory files, the

picture as below:

Into root directory through Forward/Back key you can

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choose the subdirectory which you had sited in your

computer freely. Select a subdirectory and press mode

key, then enter into the file of the directory. Through

the Forward/Back key you can select the music you

want, and confirm it by pressing the mode key, the

picture as below:

Play now

Delete ?

Press the play key then exit the root directory files

system.

Note: How to set up the sub directory in the player,

please refer to the section <<Connect with the
computer>>

Setting the volume

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At any state, you can adjust the volume through pressing

the vol+/vol- key .The volume will be displayed in the

LCD as below picture:

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 Play Music

At any state, long press the mode key, then you will see

the “Play Music” option, as below:

FM

Play Music

Press the mode key to confirm, then it will display:

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 Play Voice

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At any state, long press the mode key, and then select the

“Play Voice” option through the forward/back key,

picture as below:

FM

Pl a y Vo i ce

Press the mode key to confirm, and it can play recorded

files:

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 Record

At any state, long press the mode key, select the

“record”option through the forward/back key then

confirm it by pressing the mode key, you will get into the

record interface, the picture as below:

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Recor d

In the record interface, press mode key and begin record.

The record interface picture as below:

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Press the mode key again, then the record will be stopped,

and there will be a MIC_REC file in the player which

keeps record files.

Note: The record can only be saved as record files if the

record be confirmed by pressing the mode key, so, please

affirm whether the electricity of the battery is enough or

the player will shut off by itself, and the record files can

not be saved.

 FM Tuner

At any state, long press the mode key, through the

forward/back key; you can select the “FM Tuner” option,

and then confirm it by pressing the mode key, the picture

will show as below:

FM RADIO

After a short while it will get into below picture:

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You can press the play key, and then adjust the FM

through the forward/back key. Long Press the mode key,

you will get into the “FM tuner”option. Press the

forward/back key again, you can get below option: play

music, Play voice, save station, delete station, auto scan,

record and exit. .

 Play Music

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Play Music

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Play Music” option, you will get below picture:

MUSIC

After a few seconds it will get below picture
automatically:

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WMA

Title:Take me to your heart.wma

Press the play key, it will play music.

 Play Voice

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Play Vo ice

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Play Voice” option, you will get below picture:

VOICE

After a few seconds it will get below picture
automatically:

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WAV

FM000001.WAV

Press the play key, it will Play Voice.

 Record

Record

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Record” option, you will get below picture and it will

record

automatically.

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 Save Station:

Sa ve s t a ti on

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Save Station” option, you will get below picture:

Save?

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Press the mode key that is said you have saved the

station, and then the play will back to the “FM tuner”

option.

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 Delete Station

D e le te s t at i o n

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Delete Station” option, you will get below picture:

Delete?

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Press the play key, and then you will get below picture:

Delete OK

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And it will go back to the below picture automatically:

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 Auto Scan

Auto Scan

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Auto Scan” option, you will get below picture:

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And the frequency changed quickly. When doing auto

scan, any pressing will take no effect.

 Exit

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Ex it

After you pressing the mode key and confirmed the

“Exit” option, you will get below picture:

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Press the mode key, it will back to the FM tuner option.

 Setting

Long press the mode key and open the function menu,

select the “Setting” by forward/back key, picture as

below:

Setting

In this mode, you can give some parameter a simple

sitting for the player, below is the chart for it:

Equal izer

Re p e at

Mod e

Contrast Ba c kl i ght RecordSet Lan guage Exit

Settin g

Powe r Set

Pl ay M o de

 Equalizer

According to you favor, you can select different equalizer,

the detail chart as below:

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Po p

Ro c k

Cl as sica l

Ja zz

Ba s s

Eq ualiz er

Normal

You can through selecting the “equalizer” option to

adjust all kinds of the mode as below:

When you get into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key, and choose the “equalizer option”, the

picture as below:

Equalize r

EQ

Press the mode key, you will get into the equalizer,

through the forward/back key, you can choose the

different equalizer, and then confirm it by the mode key:

Normal

If you do not want to change the setting, you can press

the play key and exit the menu.

 Play mode

If you want to repeat listen to a song, you need get into

the play mode, you can select: Normal, Repeat One,

Repeat All, Shuffle.

Details as below:

1. After you get into the setting option, select the “Play

Mode” option, then press the mode key again, the picture

as below:

EQ

P l ay M ode

2. In the repeat mode, through the forward/back key,

select the different mode you need, and confirmed by

press the mode key:

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S

A

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Nor mal

 Adjust the contrast

1. After getting into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key to select the contrast setting, and then

confirm it by pressing the mode key, the picture:

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Contrast

2．

In the contrast mode, through the forward/back key,

you can adjust the contrast level. The level is different

in four ranks, example picture as below:

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Contrast

 Backlight setting

You can set the backlight time according to your need:

1．After getting into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key and select the “backlight setting”, the

picture as below:

EQ

Backlight

2．You can shut off the backlight through the

forward/back key, you also can choose the backlight on

for 5 seconds,10 seconds ,and constant. Confirm your

choice by pressing the mode key, the picture as below:

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5

S

5 secs

⎫ Power Set

1．After getting into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key and select the “Power set”, the picture

as below:

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Pow er Se t

2．When you get into the “Power Set” option, you can

see the picture as below:

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DISABLE

10MIN 30MIN

2MIN

Through the forward/back key again, you can select the

time the player will be turned off.

 Record set.

1. After getting into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key to select the “Record set”, the picture

as below:

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Re cord Set

2．When you get into the “Record Set” option, through

the forward/back key, you can select: 32kbps, 44kbps,

64kbps, and 88kbps. The picture as below:

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8000HZ

11000HZ

Confirm the selected option by pressing the mode key

that you have done what you need.

 Language

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．After getting into the setting mode, through the

forward/back key to select the language setting, the

picture as below:

Langua ge

2．When you get into the “language” option, through the

forward/back key, you can see such as: English, French,

Chinese (Trad), Chinese (Simple), German, Spanish,

Italian, Portuguese. Press the mode key, you’ll get the

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language which you need. The picture as below:

 Preview

1. In any state, long press the mode key, through the

forward/back key you will get the “Preview” option, the

picture as below:

Pr evie w

2. Confirm it by press the mode key, you can see the

picture as below:

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Intro

 Memorizer info

Refer to the EMS memory size in the condition of

disconnected with the computer:

1. In any state, long press the mode key, through the

forward/back key you will get the “About” option, the

picture as below:

About

2. Confirm it by press the mode key, you can see the size

of the player’s EMS memory: (example for 128MB)

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TOTAL

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099MB

 Folder

If you want to delete the play file in the player, you can

use the menu option.

1. Long press the mode key and open the function

menu, select the “Folder” by forward/back key, the

picture as below:

Folder

2. Confirmed by press the mode key, it will display

below：

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3. Through forward/back key and select the files

which you want to delete, when you press the mode

key ,the LCD shows as below picture:

Play now

Delete ?

4. In the delete dialog box, confirming by pressing the

mode key, it will show “Yes/No”, the picture as below:

Play no wPlay no w

Yes

Play now

No

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Select “Yes”, then the LCD will display:

Then the file has been deleted.

Connect with the computer

 USB port connection

If your player has connected with the computer’s USB

port, the LCD will display below picture, it is showed

that the USB port has been connected.

V1.01

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After the connection, you can transfer the data between

the computer and the player, and then you can download

the music and other files

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 Set up the subdirectories for the player:

After the player connected with the computer, you can

get into “moveable disk” and set up the folder you need.

Remove the files into the homologize folder that you can

sort the files expediently. .

 Disconnection with the USB

In WIN2000/ME/XP operating system click the left key

of the mouse on the PC taskbar’s right corner that

shows the icon of“Pull out or spring out the hardware”.

Click the “stop” of the dialog box, then it will say “You

can pull out the player safely”.

Player Promotion

Note: (Before promotion please copy the content of the

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compact disc to the computer only then it is possible to

realize the software promoting, otherwise the promotion

would be unable to complete .In this compact disc the

software is the initial edition Warm prompt: Before the

promotion, please complete the data backup, after this

software promotion completes the procedure will

automatic formatting!

1、In the movement compact disc promotion tool, open

“Factory4”, then it shows below picture:

2、Must hold down “VOL-” only then it is possible

on-line with the PC machine then loose the player,

after that please click: “Yes”

3、After inputs successfully press the determination, this

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time the software promotes has been completed

4、Tear off USB, then may carry on other operations.

The fixation promotional software can advance and

optimize the function of the player. If you not use

the software, the normal running would not be affected.

It would work unmorally if the fixation promotion

software operation is error! Please read the specification

carefully. The fixation promotion software for this

player is not for other player , and vice versa.

Computer connection and realization of
flash disk function

 USB transm ission and MP3 file up-load

1. If your operation systems are WinME, Win2000,

Winxp and Win2003, and they need no installation of

driver program. After proper connection of USB data

line, a movable disk will appear in the resource manager

of WINDOWS. In this case, it is available for you to use

MP3 player as a common disk as shown in the picture

below:

2.If it is the first time for you to connect MP3

player to PC with operation system WIN98/SE, it

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is required to install the driver program.

 Driver installation for Win98

For MP3 player at WIN ME/2000/XP/2003, etc.

operation systems, it is no need to install the driver

program. If it is the first time for you to use MP3 player

at WIN98 operation system, it is needed to install the

driver program before connection of MP3 player and the

operation step is given below:

(1). Insert the installation disk affiliated to the player into

CD-ROM.

(2).Use the right key of mouse to open the driver disk

and run “Disk icon SETUP.EXE” file. The following

picture will appear.

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(3). Click “OK” to enter the following picture:

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(4)After install shield wizard, then it will display below
picture:

(5) Click “Next” to enter the following picture:

(6) Click “Next” again to enter the following picture:

(7) Click “Next” again to enter the “ Setup Status”:

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(8) After“Setup Status” then you will get the picture as
below:

(9). Click “Finish” to enter the following picture, and
you have finished the driver installation for Win98

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 DRM10

Warning: Download operation of WMA music with D
RM protection to MP3-Player

On Windows XPII, WMA music with DRM should be
transferred by Windows Media 10.0 version to
MP3-Player.

Other download operation probably will cause MP4-Pla

-yer can not read the WMA music with DRM file.
Operation instruction: Windows XPII, user should
upgrade Windows Media Player to 10.0 versions.
A) On Windows Media Player 10.0 version:
(Windows XPII)

1) Connect your MP3.Player to PC press the mode
key, then the MP3 player will in MTP MODE.

2) Open Windows Media Player 10.0

3) Connect your MP3-Player to PC.

4) Choose the desired WMA music with DRM and
confirmed the music can be played in
WINDOWS MEDIA 10.

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5) Click Right button of mouse and choose Add to
Sync list.

6) On the open windows, choose “Sync” option.

7) On Sync window, choose the desired WMA
music with DRM. And choose “ Removable
Disk”.

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8) Click start Sync to transfer the WMA music with
DRM to your MP3-Player.

9) Safely remove your MP3-Player from PC.

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FAQ

Problem Solution

No
power

Check if the battery is installed
correctly.

Check if the power is ON.

No sound
can be
heard
from the
earphone
.

Confirm that the volume is not
at 0 status and that there is no
problem in the earphone
connection.

Please keep the earphone clean.

The damaged MP3 file may
cause noise of different levels
and even can be played. So, it
should be assured that the files
are intact.

Abnorma
l words
displayed
on the
screen.

Please confirm that correct
language is selected.

FM
rece

p

tion

As the earphone may be used as
antenna, ad

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ust position of

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effect is
not good.

earphone respective to the
player.

Turn off the electric devices
nearby.

It is not
available
to down
load
music
normally.

Check the USB connection line
and see if it is connected
properly.

Check if the driver is properly
installed.

Check if there is still space in
the memory.

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Technical parameters

Items Parameters

Music format MPEG 1, 2, 3, WMA

Record format WAV

Bit rate

Mp3: 8-320kbps
Wma: 32-192kbps

Frequency range 20Hz～20KHz

Signal/noise ratio ≥86DB

Separation ≥85DB (1KHZ referenced signal)

Frequency response ≤3DB (20HZ~20KHZ)

Output power of the
earphone

L 4mW, R 4mW

EQ mode

Normal, POP, Jazz, Rock, Classic,
Bass

Display 26*10.5(mm)

Type of port 2.0，Compatible with USB1.1

Memory media FLASH

Memory 64MB-2GB

Play current ≤80mA

Power off current ≤300uA

Battery One AAA No.7 alkali battery

Play time Above 8 hours

File system

FAT, FAT32

ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO BE
CHANGED WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE!

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