Having Firmware problems NEED HELP A

I had tried to load an update to the firmware to my Creative Zen Touch, and during the installation, the power flickered and my computer turned off. I am now stuck with a Zen Touch with no OS and it isno longer recognized by my computer or the firmware upgrade program.... HELP PLEASE

I'm kinda of new to this but I would recommend trying to enter recovery mode on the device. I have the Zen Nano plus and you hold the power button as you plug it into the USB cable - continue to hold it for 0 seconds. The screen will show nothing but windows XP pops up with a new device detected. Connect to the internet and let windows find a new driver for the recovery device. Then start the upgrade program again (at least this is how it works for the Nano plus). You might have to call or email tech support (email is free) if that doesn't work.

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Ok, if you are having firmware problems, like you can do nothing to your mp3 (in my case Zen Vision: M) or you're stuck in recovery mode because you erased your firmware and now you pc isn't recognizing your mp3 and you can't upgrade you firmware, don't worry, I got trought all of it and my Zen is now working =D I had to do a lot of things in order not to loose my mp3, and one of those things was reinstalling my windows xp =/... took me 2 or 3 days to install everything again and put the whole pc in order, but once it was finally done, I was able to upgrade my firmware, so if you are having this kind of issue, you can reinstall you operational system and it'll go back, at last came back with me But before reinstalling it, here a few things you can do: try to reinstall you USB drives, and when I say reinstall I really meant it! Fully unnistall it, get your motherboard cd drive and install it again, before downloading any upgrade for your USB, try it as it comes from the cd, if it doesn't work, then upgrade your USB drive. Since I had to reinstall everything from my computer, that includes that I had to reinstall SP and SP2, so if reinstalling USB doesn't work, you can also unnistall SP and SP2 and see if that can work, although is pretty hard and annoying to do it, if you really like you MP3 and if you don't want to waste more money on it, I highly advise you to do it. So after you reinstall SP, SP2 and USB and your mp3 is still coming up with firmware error, DON'T WORRY! Go to creative.com, look for support, download, and check for firmware download, they have firmware upgrades, mine goes for the name of Creative ZEN Vision:M 30 GB Firmware .62.02, at http://us.creative.com/support/downl...type=4&x=8&y=9 If still none of these settings worked for you, then you can reinstall your operational system, having in mind that althought it was very simple for me (yeah, I know something about computer and I've reinstalled my XP a ton of times), it can get some people into trouble and it can damage your HD if you have no clue on what you're doing. If that's your case, call someone you trust to do it. You can also find some tutorials at the internet teaching you on how to do it. I hope this can help all of you that had the same problem as I did Anything else I can do for you, just ask.YoursMonttanha

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johnnnyp wrote:
hi, i have a problem with my creative vision m. i wanted to watch a movie and it froze. i tried to shut it down but it wouldnt respond, and now is frozen. please help me if you can!
You know its kinda rude to derail XBenzinoFla thread with your own problems, make your own thread next time.
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Hello All,
This is the problem I am stuck with right now.
I have two array lists one producer array list and one consumer array list denoted by a and b
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
5 6 7 8 9
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
2 3 4 5 6
Now we find all those producer consumer pairs which satisfy the criteria Pi>=Ci
We have the following sets
(5,2)(6,2)(7,2),(8,2),(9,2)
(5,3)(6,3)(7,3),(8,3),(9,3)
(5,4)(6,4)(7,4),(8,4),(9,4)
(5,5)(6,5)(7,5),(8,5),(9,5)
(6,6)(7,6)(8,6),(9,6)
Let us done each of them with Si
so we have S1,S2,S3,S4,S5
we assign a third parameter called weight to each element in Si which has satisfied the condition Pi>=Ci;
so we we will have
(5,2,ai),(6,2,bi),(7,2,ci)....etc for S1
similarly for S2 and so on.
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if we have (5,2,3) and (6,2,4) then 5,2,3 should be chosen.We should make sure that there is only one pair in every set which is finally chosen on the basis of weight.
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P0 P1 P2 P3 P4
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C0 C1 C2 C3 C4
we have So as (P0,C0) and (P4,C0)
assuming that the one with the smaller index has lesser weight PO is selected.In the program I have used random weights.from set S1 we select the pair PO,CO
S1 =(P0,C1),(P1,C1) and (P4,C1)
since P0 and P4 are already used in previous set we dont use them for checking in S1 so we have (P1,C1) as best.
S2=(P0,C2),(P1,C2) and (P4,C2) so we dont use P0,C2 and P1 and C2 because PO and P1 are already used in S1.
So we choose P4,C2
in S3 and S4 ae have (P0,C3),(P1,C3),(P4,C3) so we dont choose anything
and same in S4 also.
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(P0,C0),(P1,C1) and (P4,C2).
My program is trying to assign weights and I am trying to print the weights along with the sets.It doesnt work fine.I need help to write this program to do this.
Thanks.
Regards.
NP
What I have tried till now.
I have one more question could you help me with this.
I have an array list of this form.
package mypackage1;
import java.util.*;
public class DD
private int P;
private int C;
private int weight;
public void set_p(int P1)
P=P1;
public void set_c(int C1)
C=C1;
public void set_weight(int W1)
weight=W1;
public int get_p()
return P;
public int get_c()
return C;
public int get_x()
return weight;
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ArrayList a=new ArrayList();
ArrayList min_weights_int=new ArrayList();
ArrayList rows=new ArrayList();
ArrayList temp=new ArrayList();
Hashtable h=new Hashtable();
String v;
int o=0;
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d=new DD();
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System.out.println("Consumers");
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
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System.out.println("Weights");
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
System.out.println(d[i].get_x());
for(int i=0;i<4;i++ )
int bi =d[i].get_c();
ArrayList row=new ArrayList();
for(int j=0;j<4;j++)
if( d[j].get_p() >=bi)
d[j].set_weight((int)(StrictMath.random()*10 + 1));
row.add("(" + bi + "," + d[j].get_p() + "," +d[j].get_x() + ")");
else
d[j].set_weight(0);
row.add("null");
rows.add(row);
System.out.println(rows);
int f=0;
for(Iterator p=rows.iterator();p.hasNext();)
temp=(ArrayList)p.next();
String S="S" +f;
h.put(S,temp);
String tt=new String();
for(int j=0;j<4;j++)
if(temp.get(j).toString() !="null")
// System.out.println("In if loop");
//System.out.println(temp.get(j).toString());
String l=temp.get(j).toString();
System.out.println(l);
//System.out.println("Comma matches" + l.lastIndexOf(","));
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f++;
for(Enumeration e=h.keys();e.hasMoreElements();)
//System.out.println("I am here");
int ii=0;
int smallest=0;
String key=(String)e.nextElement();
System.out.println("key=" + key);
temp=(ArrayList)h.get(key);
System.out.println("Array List" + temp);
for( int j=0;j<4;j++)
String l=(temp.get(j).toString());
if(l!="null")
System.out.println("l=" +l);
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