Creative Zen Micro Version 0.0.65 freezes in recovery mode. Please help!

Hi. My Zen Micro was not booting. When I removed the battery and replaced it, it would freeze in power up. So, I followed the instructions and got to recovery mode and it freezes there too. Please assist!? Thank you so very much!

That sounds like a bad hardri've. Very easy to replace with compact flash card. http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...ead.php?t=7459

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Ok, Here is a problem I am having.
My Zen is freezing no matter what program i use to place music on it.
The transfer will begin and rarely get or 2 songs on but more often it will reach about 30% on the first song, freeze and remain here till i unplug it and go into recovery mode by taking the battery out.
THINGS I HAVE TRIED:
*Changing the firmware (at least 0 times for each firmware available on this site)
*Formatting & Defragging (Don't even get me started how many times)
*Using different software (WMP0, Creative Sync and Every other one included with Creative Zen Micro Explorer)
*Upgrading software
Now i am a qualified electronic repairer and i have dismantled my zen and a friends (whom dropped it and bought a new one) i have from here changed the hard dri've thinking this may be the source of the problem (yes i am aware the warranty is void now but when i placed the battery in the first time i got it the sticker broke) This has done nothing so i have placed the original HD back in.
I have NO idea what to do now!
I can not afford a new mp3 player, have no warranty YET i do have the ability to repair this by myself.
If anyone has ANY suggestions whatsoever i am willing to try them, of course still sensible.
Please PLEASE PLEASE! help me out. i will be gratefully for any help i can get.
-Norb

/being venting
Why does Creative make it so easy to Reload the firmware, and why do soo many people choose this option!?!?!?
/end venting
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NO NO NO NO!!!!
I posted this in another thread :
If time is on your side TAKE IT BACK ASAP. Like you, I did plenty of research before putting out the money on an Mp3 player. I was impressed with what I read about the Zen micro so I went ahead and purchased 3. WHAT A MISTAKE!!!! I purchased them in May 2005. I've already sent player back twice for repair - and am awaiting the RMA label to send THE SAME player back again for replacement. Now the other 2 players are starting to act up. One won't hold a charge at all and when it does start it goes to the clean up screen and the other has started freezing up quite a lot. As far as I am concerned this product is a joke. I was patient with customer service, even after I was LIED to. I let them replace the product not once but twice and am actually going to see if I can't cancel the advanced RMA on the third replacement and try and get my money back on all three of the players through the replacement plans I bought on them. If I have to wait until May 2006 for the year manufacturers warranty to be up I'll stick them in a drawer and wait.
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You can send comments to [email][email protected]][email protected][/url]
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*popsicle*

Go to Support-> Downloads, and in the list, select your player (MP3 Players, Zen, Zen Micro). Click on Next, then click on Go. Then download these files, and install them in this order:
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I agree with Kerndrone. People come here mostly to look for solutions to their problems. This constitutes a lot to the negati've talk. Also,how many would purposely come into a forum just to praise a player?
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Yes I'm currently using 3.30.2
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When I tried to update my creative zen micro to the firmware version 2.2, the program froze, and I was forced to close it while the screen was stuck at "Player rebooting... please wait...". Now, when I hook my player to my computer, my computer recognizes it as a portable device under Device Manager named "Creative Zen Micro" and it is recognized in My Computer. When I right click and hit properties on the icon in My Computer it says Firmware Version: 2.2. But when I double click it says it only has a 20 MB space when this player is 5 GB. When I turn my Zen Micro on, the player quickly flashes to "Firmware Problem" before proceeding to the Recovery Mode Screen. Now, each selection in the Recovery Mode works. But, where I'm stuck is when I go into the (latest) version of the Zen Micro explorer, it tells me to connect my device. Also, when I try to downgrade my firmware or run any Creative software that requires the device to be detected, it can't detect it. This is quite odd, considering windows detects it under Portable Devices just fine.
-I reinstalled all the original software, still no go
-I reinstalled the original software and upgraded to the latest manually, still no go
-I reinstalled all my USB port drivers, still no go
-I cleaned and formatted the player under Recovery Mode, still no go
All I need to do is downgrade my firmware to a non Plays-for-Sure (since it is the version of installation that failed). But, I just can't get the Creative programs to detect my player.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Alas!
I got it to work!
Here's how I fixed it ( in case anyone else has this problem )
-I connected the player to another computer in the house.
DO NOT connect the player to a front of the case USB port because the computer had trouble using the player in that port, connect it DIRECTLY to the motherboard in the back of your computer.
-I installed the software.
Note: The computer did NOT have a previous version of the software installed at all, ever.
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hey, i have a Creative zen micro (orange, 6gb but i think it doesent matters"), but when i turn it on, it says "Firmware problem".
and it goes to the menu (think is called Recovery menu) and it shows:
Creative Zen Micro V0.0.65
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2.Format all
3.Reload frimware
4.Reboot
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i did.
then to "RELOAD FIRMWARE"
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listed as:
<i>. Creative MediaSource Plugin for PlaysForSure devices (version .00.8)3.98 MB 28 Apr 05 </i>
install the software by clicking on it.
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