Charging Zen V Plus with travel char

My Zen V Plus charges fine through the USB charger. It will no longer charge on a regular AC (travel) charger which it used to. When I plug in the charger it turns the device on and does not charge. Any help out there. Again, this is new, did charge through charger. Thanks, Bob

This has been discussed a few times on here. If the charger you're using is not a Creative one or a 'modified' standard charger, the player will appear to charge but not actually take any power. The player will turn on and off like it's charging but nothing actually happens. Creative have added a few extra components inside their charger that the player tries to recognise when you connect. Depending on the firmware version you can mod a standard charger quite easily to work with the Zen V+. Do a search for charging problems and you'll see quite a few people have had the same problem.

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