Old zen micro battery problem wont fully cha

okay lets see my zen micro is really old. 5gb its like the really old generation. anyways i havent used it for like months. now im giving it to my lil sister so yea of course the battery is drained. so im charging it. i've been charging it for 2 weeks now at least 5 hours a day. why not continuous? because no computer in my house is on for that long. but anyways yea at least 5 hours a day for at least 2 weeks and its not fully charged yet! its charge time has been like total almost 00hours and its still on 2 bars. is it messed up or what?! any suggesions

well yah im like 60/50 i've had batterys for a while and the end up dead ofr some odd reason also dont let ur sis down the new battery all the way let her use it til its like 20 or 30% juice left if u drain ir completely it litterally will kill ur battery much earlier than expected

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Zen Micro battery problem e

Hello!
i have zen micro wich is about a year old or so.. i was listening to it normally couple of weeks ago, when it suddenly crashed.. i had to take the battery off to shut it down, and after that it crashed allways in the creative logo screen for a while.. i plugged it to my computer and it began working normally.. i thought it was nothing and transferred some music to it and started listening to it.. it worked normally for a while but soon began crashing again and didn't power up at all after a while... i formatted it and reloaded it's firmware and now it works fine until the battery's powerbar's wich can be seen in the player's display go from 3 to 2 in usually 30 mins :| then it crashes and wont shut down again after a while when i have taken out the battery i can restart it for a while but it say's the battery is empty. so, is the battery broken and has to be replaced or is there something wrong in it's HD or something?
-Bane02

To both: It seems to me that your battery is dying, or has died already. If you are saying that it goes from 3 to 2 bars in just minutes, you might want to get a replacement. Did you maybe overheat the battery and left the player in a place with high temperatures? It can greatly affect your battery and the player-but the battery more. If you tried everything in recovery mode and still didn't work, call costumer support or get your player replaced, but I think it's only a one year warranty, that's always a bummer, unless you have a protection plan....
Good luck to both. Hope that helped a little =S

Windows Vista vs Zen Micro: Software Problems

Hey guys,
Looking for a little help and this seems to be the right place to get, lots of helpful people!I have a 3 year old Zen Micro, 4/5Gb I think and it worked fine with my old Dell laptop which ran XP, I used to drag and drop mpg files easily with the bundled software, all was well. Back in January the Dell laptop reached the end of it's life and I layed my hands on a new Sony Vaio laptop, running the all singing, all dancing brand new shiney Windows Vista. For whatever reason, I had no need for the MP3 player for most of this this summer and now I've come to need it again and it obviously needs updating (all my music is 6 months out of date) and it seems I've lost the original software disc, bummer. So I downloaded the ZenCast Organiser & Sync software off the Creative site as it said it ran withVista and plug in the Micro and .........nothing.
The Sync manager thing just says that there's no player attatched and it won't hook up. Am I missing something? Do I need another driver for it'sor something I've had a look through this site and all. I seem to be able to find is what I've already downloaded. Help!

MiniMan64 wrote:
ow stupid is this though! Why aren't Creative releasing any updates to allow older players to work on new machines?!
Well they are releasing updates, the trouble is you need the old OS to apply them. I suspect there's technical reasons for updates not working on newer OS's. After all Creative couldn't anticipate Vista problems when making older devices (Vista wouldn't have been on hand to test at the time).
BTW Firmware upgrades can be found here (UK version)
or here. (US)
Gift.

Zen Micro Battery Wont Cha

I recently bought a Zen Micro for a 2 week long vacation I was going on. I got it home and fully charged it like everyone says to do the first to you charge, and during the vacation i tried to charge it with my dad's laptop via the usb ports. I noticed once that it had one little line on the battry icon, so i plugged it in, and when i came back 4+ hours later, it hadnt charged at all, which mad me mad because the very first time I charged it it only took around 2-3 hours to fully charge it. What I am wonderin is if there couldve been some way I damaged the battery so it wont charge? If so what kind of warranty does this have? i'm so mad because i had around 50 songs on it already and about 0 playlists set up. any help would be appreciated, thnx

ok one more question. Is the only reason I would need to update my zen micro's firmware is to add music from supscription music download companies? What exactly would I need to download a new firmware for?Message Edited by augi55 on 06-26-2005 08:44 PM
Oh and I Checked the instructions and there is nothing on the removable media mode. Any help on getting to it'sMessage Edited by augi55 on 06-26-2005 09:06 PM

Zen micro battery doesn't cha

I accidentally drained my battery completely on my zen micro. I plug it into the wall plug to charge, but after 8 hours, the battery's still dead. I try to turn it on while connected to the wall plug, but it only shows the start-up screen that says "creative" on it, then it turns off again.
The strange thing is that this happened once before, and after several attempts at charging, each time for several hours, I finally see one bar and my zen micro can start up again.
No luck this time, however, as my zen is still dead. Help me!

As well, you might wanna try going to the rescue mode (see the sticky post on top of the forum), and just do a reboot.
Afterwards, charge your player by first attaching the USB to the player, and 2nd the AC adaptor in the wall plug. What firmware are you on, btw?

Zen micro firmware problems, HELLLLP pleeee

i hope someone can help me...
i just got a zen micro for christmas
and it was working great
then today i was listening to a song, and i hit the pause button to hear something my dad was saying, and it didn't pause, i tried again, no luck. so i pulled the battery out and put it back in, and the screen says Firmware Problem and wont respond to anything i do. I tried downloading new firmware, but my computer like doesnt read the connection, when i plug it in nothing happens.
has this happened to anyone else?
can anybody help me?
help is much appriciated
seriously.
thank you!

nevermind i figured it out by myself
i just deleted my old firmware, and downloaded new.
is that correct?
well, it works. so it probably is right.
if not...oh well.
im floppy finished. :smileytongue:

Zen vision M problem wont work/turn on please h

Hi, I bought my dad an early christmas gift of a Zen vision M 20gb black mp3 player. I was using my zen micro mp3 charger to charge it because it was compatable so it was charging up the unit. After about 2 hrs i decided to turn on the unit and look at the functions of it. It played music and picture fine, but then i went to the video function and clicked play on the unit. The screen went black, and the battery bar in the top right corner dissapeared. The clicking sound from the scroll wheel was still working but nothing else was working. We tried turning it off from the swith up top but that didnt work, then we tried using the reset button thingy at the bottom and still no luck. What is the problem if anyone knows thanks for your information and input. The software wasnt installed on the computer or registered yet if that means anything.

I just got the Zen Version:M 30 GB for Christmas and after charging the thing for 6 hours, I seem to be having the same issue that a lot of folks are having ?It doesn?t seem to work when unplugging the device from the A/C charger?. I noticed that the device wasn?t charging and on the unit it was displaying an ?A/C plug? icon (means that the unit is fully charged and running of AC power) and not the ?battery / lightning bolt? icon as it should when charging.
The Fix:
Upgrade the device?s firmware. I was running ver. .0.xx (shipped with this version). After downloading the updated firmware for my Zen M to the latest version (.6.0), my device started to charge. I now see a battery / lightning bolt icon indicating that the device is now charging.
Firmware can be downloaded at:
http://www.creative.com/language.asp?sDestUrl=/support/downloads
Message Edited by rwdavis0530 on 2-25-200605:2 PM

Zen Micro battery drain: Is there ho

After reading through the boards the past couple of weeks, I'm starting to think I may be completely stuck, sadly. The Zen Micro features are great, but the battery drain is a problem for me. I've completely emptied the unit and fully charged it to do some testing. I confirmed that it will indeed (as mentioned by others) completely discharge itself after a while if left unattended a few days. With no music installed, default factory settings intact (save for firmware update), and the earbuds unplugged. It almost seems the only way to get 0-2 hrs out of the unit is to practically use it all in one sitting or with very brief periods of nonusage. I really don't want to have to constantly charge the unit every single night just to ensure I'm not bleeding away a bar on the power indicator by the time I pick it up again.
Is there anyone whose Micro does not suffer from this, perhaps a more recent one purchased directly from Creative itself? If so, that gives me some hope, but I'll still be calling customer service today to explore my options. If a firmware can fix this, great, but I don't want to have to wait months for it (but I do realize that these things take time and Creative wants to do its best). I'd rather wait for the bugs to be (hopefully) worked out in the Zen Micro Photo, but as it's basically the same architecture it may have the same issue. Other option would be to get a iRi'ver H0 (though not as good s/n ratio as the Zen), depending on its quirks. However, my 5-day refund period at PCMall for my Micro has definitely expired and I don't want to pay for a second player and be "stuck" with this one. Wonder if I can trade it in toward Zen Micro Photo credit. That or I'd have to recoup what I can of my costs on eBay or something. This would sadden me as this is otherwise an excellent player. Any input or advice is appreciated. Thanks gang.

That does make me wonder, though, if anyone has found significant differences using different batteries. And by significant, I mean a way reduced bleeding rate or a couple of hours time difference in playback. Perhaps I could even get Creative to do some testing along those lines on my unit. And, standard battery bleed aside, it'd be good to determine whether having headphones plugged in accelerates it or if there's no difference.

Zen Micro battery won't charge, can't turn on MP3 pla

Hey guys,
I;ve bought a Creative Zen Micro 5GB, 3 weeks ago and it was working GREAT...until now. I was using it one night until the battery completely drained off and the Zen Micro turned off by itself. The icon "LOW BATTERY" flashed for a few seconds and the unit basically shuts down.
I tried to plug-in the USB 2.0 cable provided by Creative into a PC USB 2.0 port
. the MP3 player wouldn't start up. The blue light glowed, followed up by the intro 'Creative' screen and then it died off. That happens everytime i plugged the unit into a USB port.
2. On the upper right screen on the unit, it showed that power is supplied by the USB port (battery + electric symbol flashing), but the battery wouldn't charge up and I can't turn it on either
My questions are:
a) Since the battery is dead flat, wont the unit still run/function normally if its plugged to a PC USB2.0 port?
b) Why does my Zen Micro die off a few seconds after it's been plugged on to USB?
c) Can't the PC USB power supply charge up my MP3 player battlery?
Please help,
Cheers.
JJ

I'm having the same problem, but in my case i didn't run out of battery, i used it last friday and it showed it had one bar left of battery, this morning (monday) i wanted to use it and it wouldnt turn on. I came to my office where i have my usb cable and plugged it in. and it shows like its chargin but it wont charge and wont turn on.
I will try woith the AC adaptor when i get home. But it looks weird... anybody else had/has the same problem and fixed it's?
I need help, this is the second Zen micro i have, the first one came defecti've so i returned it.

What is going on with my Zen Micro battery?

Ok, so far I have been fairly happy with my Zen Micro (only one freeze/reboot) but something is serioursly up with my battery. Yesterday, I used my Zen Micro for no more than 2 hours after a touch up charge and I had two bars left on the battery display. Then when I tried to turn it on this morning it wouldnt turn on, so I plug it into my power adaptar and it shows that my battery is completely drained! How can this be? Does the player use up battery power while the Micro is off?
The has already happened to me once. I charged my battery the first day I got it and used it for a while. Then the next morning the Micro wouldnt turn on so I plug it into the adaptar and it keeps flashing the Creative logo so I had to clean the disk.
Two different battery problems not even within the first 5 days of purchase
(I can still return it to Frys thankfully). Please tell me what is going on or I might have to just swap it for an Ipod......

Well my player has been fine after I ran the disk clean for the first time, but it is my **bleep** battery and its battery life.
Maybe I should swap in the extra battery I got. Any suggestions on how I should handle it's Like what should be my charging routine? Because when I popped in my first battery it had one bar on it and I was using it for a while, then I did a full charge and used it for a while and the next day is when I had the freeze. so for the new battery, should I pop it in and just fully charge it before using it's
::I have visited the ipodlounge and have seen alot of problems with ipod, but since there are so many Ipods out there I am not surprised. I am surprised at how many problems the Zen Micro is having without having sold as many units::

Creative Zen Micro Photo Problem (Detecti

BEFORE I CONTINUE, REFERRING TO THE KNOWLEDGE BASE DOES NOT WORK FOR ME, I TRIED THE STEPS BUT THEY SIMPLY DON'T WORK.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM:
YESTERDAY, I RECEIVED MY ZEN MICRO PHOTO BLACK 8GB in the mail, and was able to get the charging started through my computer after installing the required software (mediasource, media player, wmp 9.5 codec, etc). Before I started the charging, I connected my player's USB cable to the back of my pc. Windows XP w/SP2 prompts that it 'found new hardware.' I go ahead and check in my computer if the player would be able to be accessed. I also confirmed with Creative's mediasource software, and it claims that 'no player was detected.' I did the same in windows media player 0, and says that no hardware was detected. I confirmed to make sure that the USB cable was properly connected, and it was. I tried all the ports and tried other devices through them, and they were able to be successfully detected and used, (i.e; web cam). I don't understand why my creative zen micro photo would not be detected by the software included. Windows is requiring me to install some sought of driver for the player, but I already installed all the required utilities and codecs. I believe it is charging and is detected by windows but not as a removable storage, etc, just 'FOUND NEW HARDWARE', and then no drivers found even through the CD creative provided me. I am also fearing that the battery is taking a long time to charge. This morning I saw that the player was on, but was still charging(I assume). I decided to charge while the player was turned off. Hopefully, now it will be fully charged while the player remains off. I will check when I get home. In the mean time, would some one please assist and respond to me for resolving this situation ASAP for the detection of the player. Thank you very much, Arjun (please do not further me to the knowledge base site as I have already tried all the steps, and no improvement what so what in successfully operating this player. Thank you. Just to add on, I also attempted for a firmware update, and the utility said it was not able to detect the player either, so I wasn't able to even complete a firmware update. Please assist me, URGENT. Thank you.

I sadly am very unhappy with the ZEN Microphoto 8. I was planning on leaving on a trip in the morning and found that suddenly my laptop no longer will recognize my device. I hasve been using the device for several months now with no problems at all, unitl this afternoon. It went into recovery mode and no matter what I tried I could not get it out.
I was finally able to unlock the unit by connecting the unit to my desktop. I was then able to install the firmware update. But now the unit will not work on my laptop at all. All of my media is on my laptop. I have tried several cables to no avail. I am sure that someone is going to mention the suggestion that the device not be used on a laptop, however I find it frustrating that after so much time the unit suddenly does not operate. I tried all of the suggestions in the support section. And it seems truly sad that this might just be due to the cinnection to athe laptop, considering the number of people that now use these as their primary PCs.
If any suggestions can be provided as to the cause of this problem I would love to get it fixed.
Eric

Zen Micro gets hot, wont recha

Have been loving my Zen Micro (5gig) but no that the battery needs recharging (2nd time, other than the inital recharge)---it won't. It looks completely dead but actually after I plug it into the wall, it heats up but no light/text comes on. It can't be that the battery's dead--it's bran new! Any ideas?

I have a very similar problem with my 5gb zen micro. It is close to 8 months old now and I have upgraded the firmware twice and am now running 2.2.02 in it. Ever since the last update, I haven't had any problems with the player except for this charging issue now.
I hooked it up to my usb to charge it one night this week and about 2 hours later I unplugged it to take it with me. When I picked it up it was really hot so I removed the device from the charger and popped out the battery. I let it cool off overnight and the next day I tried my luck with it again. It didn't get hot again, but it also only charged to one bar after about an hour. I let it charge for another hour or so (checking it often for the batt. to get hot) but then I noticed the battery life actually declined to zero bars... I've had countless issues with this thing so I'm sure it's some type of bug that will either work itself out or the solution may come in the form of another update.
Another thing is that the last time that it was charging prior to when the battery got hot, I may have been using the ac/dc charger for my Motorola Razr V3. Would that have screwed up my mp3 player? I've used this charger on it before with out any problems.
Please someone respond and help me out with this. If I have to send it to Creative, they might as well keep it, because Ill be buying the Ipod Nano 4gb in its place.

My Zen Micro Battery Te

Hi Everyone,
I've had my new Green Zen Micro for 2 weeks now and it's great, I love it! I've got about 000 songs on my Zen and they are mostly CD rips at about 28-92kb
ps.
I been doing a battery test for the last few days and I just leave it on continuous play from when I go to work and when I come home from work. I can get aboout 0 hours out of the thing, but would want the 2 hours as Creative have told us. I think the battery bar indicators are very inconsistant, the first bar will drop after 2-3 hours and the last bar can last for 3-6 hours. I think it's to do with the songs the player is playing during the time.
What I'm going to do tonight is to fully charge my Zen up, rip a cd at low quality (64kbps) and see how long that lasts. I will be posting here tomorrow and let you know how it goes.
So far so good....

Well i just tested my brand new Micro, using SSR's wise advice and I am pleasantly surprised.
When I opened my new micro, there was a small charge in the battery, so I ran that down to empty before I did anything (as advised by CL).
I charged for 4 hours, making sure I left it after the lights went out and showed as charged.
I actually left mine off overnight, to test for battery drain when switched off, turned it on 9 hours later and still had 3 bars, so I hope this means mine is not one that acts like its on when its off )
Started my test at 8am, 28kbps MP3, EQ off, SV off. Lasted till 6.50pm, so a decent 0hrs 40 mins from the very first charge. So that is looking pretty decent. Have to admit about half way thorugh I kept playing wiht it and set EQ to on, so even better results )
so far I am pretty happy mine already ahd the .0.03 firmware installed.
Only had one glitch, on the first switch on, it did not track the progress of the tracks, the indicators just stayed at zero even though the track was playing...........so tried to switch off micro, but it wouldn't switch off, stayed on the now playing screen. It wasn't frozen as I could get round all menus okay.
Removed battery instead and switched back on and it had resolved itself, the track indicators worked fine and it switched off okay, so seems to be a minor glitch easily solved.
So far I am very happy, no sign of any dreaded things happening yet, and my battery life seems to be great too, almost hours on first charge is more than I expected, hopefully that will rise more over the next few charge cycles. i will be fully charging and disacharging it for the next 4 cycles at least....
have just done a second charge for 4 hours, will see how long it lasts this time............
BTW on first charge the blue light switched off when full, on second it stayed on, constant not flashing, I remember someone else saying this happened too....................odd but no problems )
hugs
babyd

Creative Zen Micro 6GB/Problems with Power Switch and Firmw

The power switch on my Zen Micro has died. I can't turn it on or off unless I 'jump start' it from a USB cable and leave it alone to go into idle shutdown. I've had this player just three weeks and this is happened and frankly I'm disgusted. But wait, my story get's worse:
So before sending it back to Creative I thought that I should at least exhaust every possible cure. First on my list? A Firmware upgrade to v2.22.05. I downloaded the program and set about installing the new firmware but halfway through the process it hung and I had to end it prematurely. Now what I had was a ZM that apparently had v2.22.05 but was not being recognised at all by my computer. Media Explorer wasn't picking up on it and neither was WMP although strangely when I connect the device it's there in the Device Manager...
So, check back with the website and it said to download an update for Mediasource and that should solve the problem. Downloaded the patch but then realised that I hadn't installed Mediasource on my computer (can't remember why I didn't though). Went back to the downloads page and downloaded Mediasource. Tried to install it but I can't. The reason? because my computer isn't detecting the ZM and I can't install it until it recognises that it's there.
As a last resort I thought that I would try to use 'Rescue Mode'. Seemed simple enough, remove the battery and hold down the power switch. Then put the battery back in and wait for the rescue screen to come up. Seems easy enough. Oh wait, I don't have a working power switch.
What I do have though, is a small piece of plastic and metal that I can't turn on, can't turn off, can't put any songs on, can't listen to, can't fix and can't be bothered with. I have a ?60 paperweight.
Anyone at all have any idea what I should do? I just want to put it all in a box and send it back to Amazon with a request for a full refund or a threat to take them to the Small Claims Court.

Although a failed power switch is not unknown, I only recall seeing two or three other cases of this. It's not common.
If WMP isn't working with the device having v2 firmware something is wrong. Unfortunately this can be difficult to fix, but take a look here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net.
MediaSource won't detect the player if there's some issue e.g. WMP0 not detecting it. You can of course also try installing Zen Micro Media Explorer (Creative Zen Micro Media Explorer Web Update to be specific) which has MTP support.
Are you are presumably under guarantee, and as you bought from an Internet store, it's best to return it direct to Creative. Contact Creative Support to arrange this.

Zen Micro Battery L

I was just wondering what the longest was that anyone got a battery to last in a zen micro. I have managed to get mine to last approx 4hrs. Has anyone else had this sucess?
Blade

If you all don't have Firmware v.0.03 or higher, you may want to update.
Taken from the details of the Zen Micro Firmware .0.03 download:
"It has been reported by some of our customers that they have experienced reduced battery life after charging their Zen Micro. Our product development team has researched these reports and determined that the users may have experienced this after they plugged their Zen Micro into the AC adapter that was already inserted into a wall socket with the AC power on.
While this is not the conventional way to plug in a player for charging, we wanted to ensure our customers did not experience this problem, so we have developed a solution to address this which simply involves upgrading the Zen Micro's firmware."

Old zen micro battery problem wont fully cha

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