My Creative Zen Microphoto won't char

My zen microphoto is new and it used to charge and now it won't. I redid my computer and before that it charged fine but now it will not charge at all. What is wrong? Dose anyone have any ideas?

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Hope u can help me!!?My 8GB Zen Microphoto will charge fine when i connect it to my computer, but i've bought a generic wall charger and when i plug it in, the player recognises it and the battery icon will flash that it's charging, but then i come back to it the next day and it's still at the same battery level!?Is it a problem with the mp3 player?What can i do?!!please help!?

Refer to this thread -
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=pmc&message.id=23985&jump=true#M2 3985
anyone who has any problem detecting, recognising or syncing ur zen microphoto with WMP beta 2, go http://www.oldap
ps.
com/windows_media_player.htm , download WMP beta , use winrar (explained in the above thread), INSTALL umdf.exe, and VOILA ur zen microphoto or any other MTP players will be detected straight after u restart WMP just like mine..
I HAD A REALLY REALLY HARD TIME TRYING TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THIS PROBLEM..
THANKS to whmehlig !!!!!

Creative Zen Microphoto 8GB hangs

Hello,
I have seen a lot of posts on the same subject here, but have not seen any resolution yet.
I am sure the story sounds familiar... hangs at "Creative" logo, I go into recovery mode, and run scan disk or format etc... They don't work. I have even left the player on "formatting" overnight until the battery drains and it never finishes, same goes for "Scanning".
I am on my 4th player now and am having the same issue again. This time the player is now out of warranty so I can't return it, and I am not paying money out of my own pocket to get this thing fixed. Please don't tell me this product is defecti've... I don't buy that excuse. And it isn't a corrupt file, because a reformat would fix that.
Once it hangs, my computer won't recognize it, so I can't even try to update the firmware or anything.
Any new updates or information on this issue? It is obviously a well documented problem...just google "Creative zen freezes" and see how any hits you get!
I am pretty disappointed with this player. I should have followed my gut instinct in the first place, and just bought an iPod. I spent a lot of money on this paper weight. Any help,advice,prayers,or donation$ (for a new iPod) would ge greatly appreciated!

LooKeng wrote:
Hello,I got a Creative Zen MicroPhoto 8GB - It's a Mp3 Player as u probably know and it got reseted or somthing i think and i've lost my driver CD incase that should solve the problemToday at the morning I tried to hear some music on my MP3 player and suddenly a weird menu that i've never seen before with some 4 options and a title like This:Recovery ModeCreative Zen MicroPhotoV0.0.65(Then the options) Clean Up2 Format All3 Reload Firmware4 Reboot?What Should I do now ?Thanke You In Advance..Message Edited by LooKeng on 0-2-20080:07 AM
Right you will need to download the latest firmware from this site.
Here is a hyperlink to where you can download the firmware:
http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor...lect=4&x=9&y=2
You might have to put some details in.
Once you have downloaded the latest firmware just start the program up.
Plug in your Zen into the PC and then press the "Reload Firmware" button on your Zen.
You should see your computer screen pick it up.
Then you click on your PC to install firmware.
That should be it.
I hope this hel
ps.
Got any questions you have just post on this space.
I do apologise if this does not make much sence my grammer is not that brilliant.

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Hello all,
I bought a Creative Zen Microphoto yesterday and when I try and plug it in to my USB port nothing happens. I've tried holding the on/off button, I've tried it when it's on. I've tried all of my USB Ports. I've tried it on two different computers.
My computers are running Windows XP with Service Pack 2. I've disabled Norton while trying all of the above. Before plugging my mp3 player in I installed all the software that come on the CD.
Just to clarify this:
The Microphoto won't charge, be detected, etc while in the USB port. It runs fine off my PC ( plays the pre-installed songs, etc ) but as I cannot plug it in to my PC to charge it, add, songs, etc I cannot add my own songs.
Windows doesn't even pop up saying new hardware has been detected, or a USB device has been detected. It just remains how it was before I plugged the device in to my PC.
My computer doesn't show it in removalable devices, nor in Windows Media Player 0.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Try this, go into the Control Panel and click Add/Remove Hardware. Just click next and see if it detects newly added hardware.
Can your computer detect any old flash dri've?

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Firstly let me say my Zen Microphoto has been syncing and working fine right up until now.
I have XP MCE SP2 installed...
But I am thinking perhaps the problem it won't sync is because I upgraded from Windows Media Player 0 to just today?
What happens is it plugs in, and charges. A couple of times the MTP device box pops up asking me what I want to do and I double click on sync with Media Player. However then it goes away and nothing happens, and Media Player cannot detect it -- but nor can Microphoto Media Explorer, so perhaps it is not a problem with Media Player?
I have searched around the forum and the only solution available is to delete the USB devices in Device Manager, reboot and let them reinstall, but I really don't want to do that, I don't know if anything will stuff up or not -- I have resetted the player and performed a scan disc, and it seems fine.
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Also, I have downloaded those three updates I've seen Mods list here a couple times for people with the same problemMessage Edited by psycho_orange0 on 05-8-2006 07:33 AM

Refer to this thread -
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=pmc&message.id=23985&jump=true#M2 3985
anyone who has any problem detecting, recognising or syncing ur zen microphoto with WMP beta 2, go http://www.oldap
ps.
com/windows_media_player.htm , download WMP beta , use winrar (explained in the above thread), INSTALL umdf.exe, and VOILA ur zen microphoto or any other MTP players will be detected straight after u restart WMP just like mine..
I HAD A REALLY REALLY HARD TIME TRYING TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THIS PROBLEM..
THANKS to whmehlig !!!!!

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Hi,
I'm from the UK but purchase a Zen MicroPhoto from the USA brand new. I've had it around 3 weeks and its been great but the other day when i went to turn it on the screen froze and it wouldn't boot up the the menu like usual. It is the Creative logo screen in white on the black background, the one with the copyright information.
Anyway i've had it in revocery mode and nothing but the reboot option works but of course it just boots to the same situation except that its just Creative white on black logo with no copyright info. Then freezes at that point. Of course it won't install the new firmware i have as it won't recognize it on the computer because it hasn't booted properly..
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Will i have to send it back to get it sorted and will Creti've UK take it's
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