2nd Gen Vado HD Lock-Up from Express Charging

I have managed to recreate this problem every single time I have used the express charge feature so far. I just bought my Vado HD directly from Creative this week and it has the newest firmware on it already.
What happens is that while all things seem fine with normal charging, if I use express charging and it finishes a full charge (makes the screen turn on and stay on) its permanently stuck this way. No button presses will change it, the power button will not work. Nothing short of removing the battery gets it back to an operational state.
This is not o.k. for me since I have to remove the silicone case to do that and also my unit probably has a defecti've battery door latch, it takes absolute inhuman strength to push the release latch in so that the battery door can come off, so much force that I am affraid it will break every time I have had to do this.
I searched the forums well and checked all the first 5 or 6 pages for a similar topic and did not find one. So I do not think this is a known and acknowledged problem but its a rather odd issue for a unit to be broken in this manner so I wonder if its not a firmware bug.
Please let me know if this is a known issue and a fix is on the way or if my unit is considered defecti've and needs to be RMA'ed.

Not sure of the lock up problem, but I have the same problem with my battery door on my st generation HD. I use a dime to gently pry open the door and that seems to work.

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