Creative Zen Touch Time reseting problem.

When my player is off for more then 24 hours the time resets back to jan 200. i realize the player has a hard shutdown after 24 hours but everything else stays the same well except the songs that were in the playlist and the time. i have tried reloading the firmware and other such methods. has anyone else had this problem and able to correct it's

If you've tried everything from rescue mode it unfortunately sounds like the player is faulty.

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Hi!
I bought my Creative Zen Touch almost a year ago now. Yesterday my hard dri've went crazy. The sound was a funky rythm, 0 DJ "scrathes" then one more high-pitched sound. In the Rescue menu I try to format the hard dri've and it responds with "Hard dri've problems."
Yes, it has fallen down several times. I don't know what caused it to malfunction this time though. It suddenly just stopped working. It looks like a mess, was bought over internet under the name of a mother of my frien; to make a long story short. I have no warranty :/
So here's what I decided; I opened it up to take a look inside it. Here's what I found:
- One loose battery, too much dirt on the sticky stuff.
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And here is my main questions:
- Can I use a 40gb Hitachi dri've in my 20GB Zen Touch? This is just the big brother, so the dri'ves are pretty much the same except storage space. http://tinyurl.com/4yurr
Thanks
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Tweaking 'n' Hacking Your Creative Zen Touch 20GB
Thanks for your reply SSR. I'm a clueless as to what the controller is, but at least I've found out that the Creative Zen Touch 20GB uses a .8" harddri've. So the larger Fujitsu Siemens 2.5" dri'ves, which the Creative Nomad Zen Players use, aren't compatible.
For anyone reading this post who wants a step-by-step guide to upgrading the harddri've of a Creative Nomad Zen Player (but NOT the Creative Zen Touch 20GB), visit PC World magazine online for a "how to" article: http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...67,pg,7,00.asp
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If anyone has experience of tweaking/hacking the Creative Zen Touch 20GB or if anyone should come across a similar "how to" guide for upgrading its harddri've (and knows of specific models of compatible .8" hardri'ves) - then please post on this forum.
Cheers........... Tim Holmes.

Creative Zen Touch 40 GB - Problem/Recovery M

I Have a big trouble with this player...
After I would update the Firmware, my pc restartet in the installation process...
and now now iam until in the recovery mode and i cant get out and i didnt have the newstest firmware... it ist the oldest....
No i will start installion new but my pc dont "see" my Zen also with other programs of zen touch...
Can Somebody help me!!!!!! Please!!!!!!
Sorry for my low english skills...

but it makes this problem sometimes ....for exampletoday it skips in the middle of the songyesterday it didn't do that... and the song is minit'sskips sometimes in 6min .. 9 minbut sometimes and particular songs?i think it is not problem?im using firmware?version?2..0i cant change files in my?jukeboxi must copy the song?.. then change?propertiesafter that?paste to the jukebox?how can?i solve this problem?thanks?

Creative Zen Touch...problems with getting it to turn

ok so last friday im on the bus going to school....normal day no big deal listening to music watching kids make fools of themselves...but back to the point, anyway we pull into school so i hit power button and it says "Shutting down.." so i put the 'hold' button on and put it in my backpack...well i get out of school get on the buss pull it out and it still is saying "shutting down". seems to be caught in a continuous shut down cycle because it wont let me do anything so i put it in my bag and wait till i get home...well stupid me i forget about it until i pull it out monday and it wont turn on....what should i do...the blue light just flashes as i try to turn it on....thanks

attach the player to the adapter, while attached hold play and press the reset button, it will start up in recovery mode, leave it there for a few hours to properly charge the battery, then attach to computer and run firmware update

Please ! creative zen touch 20 gb problem with firmw

okay hallo,?yesterday i wanted to update my fireware, then my pc restartet. and the updating doesn't finish.now i'am at the Recovery Mode with this 4 point. i tried every point but it doest help.and wenn i start the player it says..fireware problem. so i musst put new firmware on my player, right ? but how can i do this ?wenn i start the firmware update.exe it says that there is no connection with the player.please tell me in steps what to do ...or is there no help anymore ?please !!Message Edited by bugati on -3-200605:45 AM

it's the blue power light, not the backlight. and no, i havent tried calling costumer service yet. i read another topic about how this happened to someone, and they said the little light eventually made the battery go dead and when they plugged it to charge it, it worked. so i figured i'd try that. but i have to take a really long train ride in 2 days and thats going to SUCK without music, and i don't think the battery will be dead by then. so i think i'm going to call costumer service

Creative zen touch chronic problem

This problem has been bugging me ever since I first receive creative zen touch 20 gb, and make me change to another brand, and leave this unit in the warehouse The problem is the back button and the next track button has been annoyingly randomizing all tracks, so I GET tracks randomized almost all the time Upgrading firmware doesn't fix it, creative lousy customer support in my country even make me more nausous I bought it in 2004 and since then, I never wanna buy another creative product Recently someone mention how to fix this button problem, but the link he provided is dead, can someone enlight me ?

Special_Ed wrote:
My Zen Touch stopped working on me, I formated it, nothing, then clean it up, still nothing. So deleted my firmware to try to update it. Had the update downloaded, connected my mp3 player opened the update and it says my player is not connected, please connect player. Then when I checked my player it said Creative Zen Touch v0.0.0That # is the version # for the recovery mode. I take it you had the Plays for sure firmware 2..0. You can't update the firmware on Vista. Must be done on a XP computer with WMP0 NOT WMP? Find it here http://support.creative.com/Products...me=MP3+Players
Message Edited by coachop94 on 2-20-2008 04:44 PMMessage Edited by coachop94 on 2-20-2008 04:49 [email protected]

Creative zen touch problem - mediasource says it's emp

i've had my creative zen touch for more than a year and a half and used it every day with it working fine. a couple of weeks ago mediasource loaded it as empty on my pc. however all my music is still on it and i can play directly from the player but not through my computer. i've tried opening the player through other programs but this doesn't work either. i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling all of the creative software that came on the cd with it (mediasource, nomad explorer etc.) but it hasn't worked. does anybody know why this is and how i can fix the problem it's a bit annoying because i can't put any new music on it. thanks very much in advance. jonny.

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itsVASH,
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PLEASE HELP - Serious problem with my Creative Zen Touch firmware

Ok, so I finally decided that I would upgrade to the latest firmware version for my Creative Zen Touch. I knew that doing so would erase everything on it, so I backed up everything onto my computer's hard dri've. So from that standpoint, I'm in the clear.
HOWEVER, during the upgrade process, my computer froze, leaving my precious MP3 player without ANY firmware. This then drove it into "recovery" mode, where I can either clean up, format, or reload firmware. I've gone through each of these options, but when I go to "reload firmware" my computer will no longer detect my Zen! I've tried reinstalling different driver versions, different firmware versions, etc. The bottom line now is that my mp3 player has no firmware, and my computer won't detect it.
I feel like I probably need to go back to the basics. Unfortuantely, I don't have my installation CD with me. Can anyone post the initial installation file please? Thanks in advance!
I really hope I can work this out, I don't know if I've gone a day without my Zen in the past two years!

Simon, this is actually a common problem with the touch. Mine did it about a year after purchase, so I was safe to open it up and fix it. It is actually a really simple fix and is due to a loose connector. I know alot of other people on nomadness.net were having this problem, so I posted a solution here. Hope this helps!
http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=42838

Problem with the Creativ Zen Touch 20

Hello,
I have a problem with my 20 Gb Creative Zen Touch.
Since today he gets stuck if "Zen Touch" on the screen appears. Put back nothing brings, he gets stuck further there at the same place. My computer does not recognize him and charge nothing also brings.
What can I do?

Hi, I get sometimes the same problem, try to turn on in recovery mode & clean up:
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& follow the instructions.
I cleaned up my player, but this action erased my songs. So,back up your files before do this.

Help!! Touch Pad problem (Creative Zen Touch 20

I dropped my Creative Zen Touch 20 GB accidently on the floor and now I have problems with my touch pad.... I can scroll down but can't scroll upwards anymore. This means I can't change my settings and it became quite difficult to select songs in long playlists. It is very annoying!!! Is there someone who can suggest me what to do? My warranty is already expired. Thanks for your reply.

Why not replace the part? Instructional video link also on the page? http://www.thegadgetdr.com/Zen-Visio...hpad-black.htm

A problem with a creative Zen Touch 20

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so i guess, no one can help me

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I've had problems with the software on my creative zen touch 20gb since i've had it. All i want to do is learn to creat a playlist of all my favourite tracks. Because of the software problems i've had (and i've tried everything to fix it) the only program it will let me use to synch files is Windows Media Player. I've read all the instructions about how to create a playlist but none of them apply to windows media player. Does anyone know how to create a playlist using the media player. the version i have of the zen touch is 2..0.

Yeah it synch's ok. I can transfer music over no problem, but the difficulty comes in creating a playlist. Say for arguments sake i had 0 albums on my mp3 player. I might want to take individual tracks from each album and put them into a playlist. I cant seem to do that with windows media player.

Problem with Creative Zen Touch DAP-HD0014

Hey,
I have the Creative Zen Touch DAP HD004 as listed in the subject. Version .0.03
In the "Information" part of the player, it lists it as having GB of music available, but in the menu only the 59 default classical music songs appear. (These are not knowingly mine!)
I was wondering whether there was any way to turn the player into Hard Dri've mode to retrieve these songs, or to use some sort of program to view them and put them back onto the player? Everytime I use My Computer to browse the MP3 Player, all that appears are the same 59 songs.
I hope this information can help someone to solve my problem!!

Re: Problem with Creative Zen Touch DAP-HD004
SmallBlue wrote:
Unfortunately not since the Zen has broken whilst I am travelling. Is the Nomad Explorer possible to download as Freeware? If so I will give that a shot. Thanks for the reply.
EDIT: I downloaded a trial version of "Notmad Explorer" and I can now see 2590 Data Files. Once I download a full version, is it simple to just conver Data Files into Audio Files?
Thanks so much for even getting me to this stage! I've spent weeks downloading all sorts.
Message Edited by SmallBlue on 2-29-2008 03:26 PM
Nomad Explorer find it here last app on the page? http://support.creative.com/download...le=033&nPage=2? What format are the files in now(wm,mp3,aac)

Creative zen touch problem

creative zen touch proHi, the touchpad on my zen touch has suddenly stopped working, my touchpad works but not properly..anywhere i touch it, it only goes down never up. i am unable to scroll up through my menu an through the recovery mode to make a firmware update and i can not tun of my creative zen touch please If you have any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

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