Earphone Trouble - Zen Mic

<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">I had a Zen Micro last year, the earphones broke and I tried to use some others, they made the sound very echoey and impossible to listen too. I was constantly having to turn them round to try and get some clear sound.<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">That Zen got stolen last year.<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">?<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">Finally, as a present for my birthday, I got a new one in July. It was fine, perfect in fact. Until the earphones just stopped working again. The echoey sound returned. I tried an old pair of earphones I had, same thing. So I purchased a fairly expensi've pair of Sony earphones. They worked for a few hours then the next time I used it, the same thing again.<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">?<div align="center">[size="3" color="#993399">This has really upset me as I LOVE my Zen. I've read some other similar issues but I was wondering if anyone has any advice for me? Would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Canderella wrote:
<div align="center">I hope so because this is the second time now.<div align="center">It's sooo annoying because I use my Zen daily.<div align="center">To not be able to is a nightmare.
it sounds like you all have a broken headphone jack socket. it would certainly seem so if other headphones don't work. this is caused by soldering on the socket being broken. creative will repai it for you. in the uk you have year parts and labour warranty, but in the usa you have year parts warranty but only 30 days labour (I'm not entirely sure, i am in UK). you will need to contact support to get a relacement or repair. if you can return it to the shop, try that first

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<SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN>Is it good? Can you recommend any other cheap in earphones for 30-60 euro/dollar? Am listening very much on the bus and train so I want them to isolate good so I can have as loud as possible, and of course good sound. And don't mention koss the plug, worst Ive ever listened to!
Message Edited by Androas on <SPAN class=date_text>06-25-2005<SPAN class=time_text>08:45 PM
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There are many threads about ear phones, these one have been covered before here but i suggest having a search through the forum there are quite a lot of suggestions, especially for the canelphone type thing.

Earphones/headphones for the zen mic

anybody can recommend a good brand/model for earphones/headphones to use with my zen micro?

Take a look here for a couple of links to good review sites.
Headphones are very much a personal thing in both style and audio response, so it depends what you like.

Whar are th earphones to buy for my zen mic

the ones u recieve dont stay in my ear to welll, wat are cheap and work well with the micro?

<EM> I used to use the sony range of in ear phones but find that they broke a long time ago after not much use. I now have for my Zen touch a pair of JVC big cans which give a decent sound but only cost about ?30. I am also in the process of saving up for a pair of Bose Triport cans which should give good bass but are very expensi've (around ?20).</EM>
My husband is a hi-fi nut. His religion is the constant search for the perfect hi-fi system matched by the perfect headphones to hear it out of. He will not touch/consider any in-ear phone thing. I have taken his advice and stuck to the JVCs but am going to save for the Bose ones. My advice is, try something a bit more than you would normally pay like Sennheiser or Bose (who are supposed to have a good reputation) and don't touch Phillips (2 year built in obsolence) or (approach with caution) Sony.

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I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but I'm wondering what is taking so long for a decent array of accessories to show up for the Zen Micro. Is there a Micro-specific FM transmitter? Armband Carrying case? Cassette adapter? Jogging-friendly earphones (the ones that come with it are great for everything but jogging). I'd rather get accessories that aren't generic, but I'd also like them soon, so if anybody can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks

No to all of the above. There are a lot of accessories compatable with the zen micro, but none made specificly for it. Creative E-mailed me that there may be new zen micro accessories this month. It's just a matter of time.
In the future, if you know that these questions have been asked, look for the thread that already has these questions.

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I bought a zen micro a few months ago and had no trouble installing it.
then i accidently uninstalled it, and had to reinstall it. when i connect it to the computer it says "Found New Hardware - Creative Zen Micro" and instructs me to insert the CD. i do, but it says that it can't find the software.
i have also tried just putting in the cd and reinstalling everything, but Real Player still won't detect it.
Please Help.

well... i dont know about your setup... but the zen micro is automatically detected when you have playsforsure firmware installed. The playsforsure firmware is designed to work specifically with windows media player 0... I don't know about realplayer... but if you were using it with realplayer previously... then that might be a valid setup. I don't know why it won't detect your micro after the installation and reinstallation...

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Also, it's stuck on the "re-building library" screen. I did the clean-up and reboot, but it still gets stuck there and I left it on for hours. According the the FAQ, it says ["Next you should try [url="http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=FAQ&myfaq=yes&id_cat=8&categories =Nomad+Jukebox+Zen#23]reloading the firmware/OS[/url], but beware if you are having connection problems also with your PC you may end up with a player that has no firmware and cannot be reloaded."] But I'm having a connection problem, so I shouldn't do this?
Ahh...someone help! I just got it and I haven't even been able to use it yet! This was after waiting a week for it to be deli'vered.

Connection problems can be caused by numerous factors unfortunately.
The best test if you're able to do it is check on another PC. To see if the problem is with your player/cable or the PC.
There's a lot more advice here in the Zen FAQ at Nomadness.net.

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I'll leave this open in case of a miracle, but I now think the set's damaged. The mic also doesn't work: no Voice Control or Voice Memo, after all.
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i've never mis-treated my zen, always taking great care with it. but lately i've stopped being able to use it, because just plugging in the earphones will cause the 'shutting down...' message to appear, and it's bye-bye music.
one thing i've noticed is the little black ring inside the earphone part has gone missing. I've asked creative if they could perhaps send a replacement part out, but they refuse as i'm outside the warranty (I bought it from them refurbished). but even if i cover up the part that's now 'showing', it still does the same...which strays me away from the whole shorting out theory
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I have just received my second Zen Micro (I had to send the other one back a few days ago because it developed a fault and stopped working properly). Now I have my new one but I went to turn it on earlier and it got stuck on the Creative logo and wouldn't go any further. I have tried formatting it but it seems to be taking ages. Any ideas how long this should take?
Creative must have some serious problems with the Micro with the amount of issues I keep hearing about!
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FuFu wrote:
i hate that excuse. if a small percentage of electronics are faulty then you shouldnt very well expect a large percentage (00%) of the players you buy to be faulty.
You can't tally one figure against the other like this. It doesn't make any sense.
lots of people have had multiple problems with their micros.
Lots suggests a big number of people. Bringing this back to reality, I've seen a few, maybe 0-5. There are people posting here for which this may well be the case, but it may well be that some of these are here to cause trouble also. There's nothing to stop people posting here who don't own a player to spread the usual rumour and nonsense.

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And as for my earphones,the left earphone has stopped working.And now I am not able to use the microphone during calls.Its not working.When i insert the nokia earphones they display the message to use the manufacturer earphones.some one help please?I bought this phone with so much hope,and i really wanted to listen to music but now its just almost impossible with the low battery and faulty earphone.
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Less than two hours after posting this I made my way to the Apple store in Clarendon,VA.
After a few minutes of testing this is what Ryan the Genius told me; "here is your new iPhone sir, sorry for the trouble you had, have a great day"
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Well time for me to get a new mp3 player. Because Creative wasn't very good at honouring my warranty (four players didn't work properly and they wouldn't replace the fourth) I am reluctant to get another creative. But if you guys tell me they have come along way AND I can use my previous charger with a new player, then I'll consider it.Suggestions?

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tganani wrote:
Does this mean you'll be departing Creative's forums?PLEASE G*D SAY YES!(With our luck he'll probably be getting a Touch)
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Hello,
I've had my Zen Micro (Green) for 3 weeks now and now my girlfriend wants one a Zen Micro too, which she'll get in the next few days. I was wondering if there's any way to transfer mp3s from my Zen Micro to hers?
I was thinking if I plugged 2 Zen Micros into my PC and then load up the Nm=oman Player and just drag the songs from one Zen Micro to another......will that work. Or is it best to just drat the songs onto the PC and then transfer them onto my Girlfriend's Zen?

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I was looking for a way to save some lyrics in my Zen Micro, and I thought that would be a good idea to save them in the "Notes" area of the contact. You know, Start > Run > wab.exe, create a new contact, and in the "Other" tab, you write whatever you want in the "Notes" box. Then you can sync the contacts with Creative MediaSource.
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EDIT:
I'm editing to correct someting. For synchronising the Zen Micro I use the option "Sync music and Outlook data between PC and the device" (or something like that, it's in Spanish) in the Zen Micro Media Explorer. I guess it's the same.Message Edited by melado on 02-06-2005 :53 PM

Following your advices (thanks!), I wrote some text in the "Other" box of a contact, but the same thing happened. The text appears correctly until a part, after there it appears with \ and strange things, and it doesn't appear complete.
Maybe I could try with "Tasks"... but I don't have Outlook
Any idea?
Btw, I have seen that program in the forums of Nomadness.net, but I don't think it's a solution.

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