So, I got a Zen Vision 30gb on Eba

And sure enough, there was no installation CD when I received the unit. Other than that, the player works just fine. Is there any way I can avoid buying a new installation CD?

You can download it from this site - go to the support tab at the top of the page, choose your model of mp3 player and then it will give you the software to download. You can sync the ZVM with either WMP 0 or mind you - without installing?the software.

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    Re: Zen Vision 30GB Firmware Problem - No solution works\ I recently had this problem with a player i got off Ebay. What I did was format>cleanup>reboot the device thru the recovery screen on the the player. Problem solved . Be advised this will erase all the files (music ect.) http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ap&thread.id=3
    Dragonboy wrote:
    I seem to have a very similar problem as you. I have a zen vision m (30g) and i also use vista. I am getting the message "firmware problem" after is tries to "rebuild". I need some major help. I ended up giving up a while ago and bought a microsoft zune. It is not as good and i miss my zen. If anyone can give me some info it would be much appreciated.

  • Got my Zen Vision M: to work but

    Hey everyone,
    I got the Zen Vision:M 30gb last Friday and after some trial-and-error I finally got the mp3 player to work. I have some questions and I'm hoping you guys can answer them.
    When I first plugged in my mp3 player to my PC it wouldn't turn on (I didn't realize I had to wait a while to let it charge for a bit). Out of confusion, I hit the "reset" button a few times (which by the way didn't do anything, haha). Will this affect the performance of my Zen over time at all?
    I also plugged and unplugged my Zen player several times because I was wondering why my computer wouldn't detect it. At one point, the device's screen finally turned on, but I still couldn't get my PC to detect it... so I once again unplugged and (re)plugged the cable. My main concern here is whether doing this will have any short or long-term detrimental effect on my battery? I hear this shouldn't be a problem on lithium(?) batteries, but I thought I'd just make sure here! Also, any tips you guys recommend on how to make best use out of my battery?
    Finally, here's a noob question: can I copy/paste my songs to my mp3 player directly via Windows Explorer rather than using any kind of software?
    Thanks for taking the time to read this! And I deeply apologize for my computer illiteracy!
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  • 2nd Zen Vision 30GB player for daughter from New

    The first unit kept freezing, then had to up date firm ware, this worked for about hour then froze again. Finally the unit completely froze, looked like the Matrix. The second unit just received froze when she was viewing the jpg pre installed photo's. I deleted all the free ware and transferred three CD's. I checked everything out and it all seemed to work, but then this morning she just started to listen to a song and it froze and would not turn off or change tasks??Has anyone had this kind of problems with this Vision unit. This is not the M. Thanks.....

    Re: Zen Vision 30GB Firmware Problem - No solution works\ I recently had this problem with a player i got off Ebay. What I did was format>cleanup>reboot the device thru the recovery screen on the the player. Problem solved . Be advised this will erase all the files (music ect.) http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ap&thread.id=3
    Dragonboy wrote:
    I seem to have a very similar problem as you. I have a zen vision m (30g) and i also use vista. I am getting the message "firmware problem" after is tries to "rebuild". I need some major help. I ended up giving up a while ago and bought a microsoft zune. It is not as good and i miss my zen. If anyone can give me some info it would be much appreciated.

  • Creative Zen Vision 30GB - How to set IR Remote ON with Navigation keys not working in the play

    I have Creative Zen Vision 30GB player. Within a month of buying, its navigation keys stopped working. I took it to the customer service of store where I bought it and they fixed it (their solution was to make firmware update, even though I do not understand how come that can fix this issue). Anyways after another 5 months of not so often use, the same problem returned (key pad stopped working and without it this player is useless). I sent it to Creative and they returned it saying that as it has few scratches on the edges, they believe it has been hit. I never dropped the player and these are normal scratches at the end if you do not use any skin (which I could never find for this player). Btw from my other friend's experiences, Creative always does like this, never considered warranty (so beware!). Anyways now the problem is that I have IR remote for Zen vision but it can not work till IR Remote setting in System->Player Settings is switched ON. And this can not be done as the navigation keys are not working. So please please suggest me some other way if anybody of you know to enable this setting through software. Otherwise this costly player is just a 30GB harddisk for me

    Just wanted to mention - I bought the IR Remote thinking to make the player useful without navigation keys. Now I feel like I wasted more money instead of shifting to some other player by some other company with better customer service.

  • I got my Zen Vision:M to go o

    So I bought my zvm last night from best buy in queens, and for 250 bucks I must say woot!!! But I ran into a big problem:
    When I got home I threw in the cd, installed the drivers and stuff, and docked it. Starting moving files to it immediately. But I was in my friends house on his computer, and I thought... well at home i have an av to usb charger from my old dell mp3 player (RIPieces) so I threw the zvm on that thing over night. But when I woke up (expecting it to be fully charged) it was dead instead. I tried reseting it, holding the turn on button etc etc until I thought about returning it.
    But I called my friend and he said to come back to his house to test it on his computer and see if it will charge and turn on. So I do that and nothing is happening except for the blinking blue light on the top of the player. So JUST as I'm about to throw it in the box, the screen lights up and goes to the song I was listening to before I shut it off.
    So... I think that alot of problems about the machine not turning on or charging may have to do with faulty usb cords or trying to charge it with an av to usb cord...
    So leave it on you computer for a while to charge and make sure that your cord is fully inserted into a usb slot that works and that the cord is undamaged.

    MTP driver is in your WinXP SP2, do you have SP2?if you removed your zen vision from device manager, its ok, keep your zen vision connected to your PC and do a PC reboot while your zen is connected, your PC will recognise it

  • Zen Vision 30GB SYNC is absurdly S

    I upgraded from a 20GB Jukebox Zen Xtra to a Vision 30GB (NOT the M model) and have had a nightmare trying to transfer all my music files (about 20GB) from the Jukebox to my new Vision player. In Media Organizer, my Zen Xtra opens fine, lists the files quickly, and sync'd all the files to my desktop computer in less than an hour. (There were a few errors on some files but that's another story). But loading them from the computer to the Zen Vision in Media Organizer is ridiculous. It takes over 5 minutes just to load the Vision contents, and then it transfers at a rate of about a track or two a minute. At this rate it will take over 24 hours to load all the tracks on to my player. I was expecting the new player to be faster than the old one, not slower! This is unacceptable! Is there any kind of error anyone knows about that I could have introduced somehow to slow things down? This can't be the way it's supposed to work!

    i'm feeling ya brother, i upgrade mine xtra 40G to ZVM as well, and when i open my music list, it's usually 0 min wait, so what i do is go do some dishes then come back. Or you can try to use media monkey, it's faster than mediasource, but somehow it doesn't let you edit as much mp3 tags as the mediasource.

  • Creative Zen Vision 30Gb Stuck in Recovery Mode, Freezes when trying to deal with Firmware

    My Zen Vision is stuck in Recovery Mode. The PC recognizes it but it comes up as 50mb Storage Media. When you touch Reload Firmware or Format All, it freezes and you have to pull the battery out to shut it off. I don't know what to do. Charges fine, never said anything about HARDWARE issues, just can't get it to not freeze when trying to load firmware back onto it.

    I did the same thing, my unit was working perfectly.
    I just read that these players have a laptop 2.5 hard dri've installed in the unit. If this is true, the next chance I get, I will take my unit apart (40 gig nomad zen xtra) and see if I can reinstall the firmware directly. It's probably what they do at the repair sho
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    Check it out, It may be worth a try!!!

  • Got my Zen XTRA 30GB replacement today - a Rhomba 256

    Yihaa!
    That is just wonderful. After having waited two weeks for my SECOND replacement Zen XTRA I recieve the worst player Creative has ever shipped - a Rhomba 256MB... I am so happy!
    Is there no way of getting compensated for stuff like this? Cat?

    I have been on the phone with a guy on the Swedish support team - they are sending out a new 30GB XTRA for NEXT week. I will have to wait another week! Arrgh! This is not standable - how can a company do this?
    Is there anyway of being compensated, do you think? I mean ? months of the total ownership time, I have actually not had my player!

  • ZEN VISION 30GB - Music Capacity Quest

    Re. http://www.creative.com/products/pro...4&product=2985?I would want to store as much music?as possible. Can I use the entire 30 GB for MP3 files or is the player partitioned for music, video, and pictures thus limiting the space that can be used for each file type. Thanks. AZ

    It is not seperated or partitioned for certain files, you can use the space whichever way you want, if you want to put only music on it, you can do that.
    Cat

  • Zen Vision M 30Gb Install Probl

    So I just got my Zen Vision M 30Gb today and I plugged it into my computer. It started charging and then my computer finally recognized it and tried to do the normal driver install, but for some reason it doesn't seem to have completely installed the drivers. So I unplugged it and tried it again, but it did the same thing once again. Is this normal? Is there anything I need to do? Or do I just need to wait till the Zen is completely recharged then unplug it and replug it back in? Any help is appreciated guys. Thanks!Message Edited by NslMatt on 03-0-200709:35 PM

    are you using Windows XP?
    Ever tried to install the included software before plugging the mp3 player to your PC?

  • Does Zen Vision break do

    I am really intrested in buying either a iPod Video 30gb or a Zen Vision 30gb, and right now Zen seems to be the one I'll buy. One thing worries me though. I have a friend that bought this Mp3 player and it broke down for her like in one week. Then she got a completly new one, and the same thing with that one. Then she got sick and tired of it and bought an iPod Video wich has worked without a problem. Also I read on these forums that others have simmular problems with their machines. I just don't want to buy a Mp3 that breaks down one week after I buy it. What should I do? Are my suspections right or is this just something that happens to a few?Thanks =)MaVeN

    As far as blackop says, its true. Every MP3 player "breaks down", there is just the rate of problems. In this case, i would say buy a Zen because Ipod has MANY MANY problems, but also of course MANY MANY PEOPLE who never experienced them. On the other hand, Zen has problems too, My Zen froze once, makes a extremely scary sound once or another, and today I figured out that my Zen shuts itself off! So obviously my Zen has a few bugs to work out, so there is a chance that yours will be the same. NO MP3 doesnt break down. Amongest the ZEN problems is freezing. The ipod, however, has problems with screens, pads, controlls, settings, earphones, and even accesories. However, one can also argue that a lot more people has an Ipod, so its inevitable that Ipod has more problems. What I suggest you is buy a Zen, but be mentally prepared for potential break-downs.

  • Zen Vision M Problem, help please A

    Just got a Zen vision M, and its really pissing me off. I installed all the software, and plugged it into the computer. The blue light started flashing, and has been for the past 3-4 hours. I then tried plugging it into a wall adapter i have that has a USB port on it. thsi caused the screen to come on (shock horror!) and the charging symbol to come on in the top right corner. I left that for an hour, but to my display it did not charge at all. At one point it turned on and started playing music, but then turned off after about 5 minutes. Please help

    You could try rebuilding - with the Zen turned on, press the reset button (at the bottom next to data connector) with something like a straightened out paper clip. This will make the Zen reread all the tracks and rebuild it's database. It'll take a few minutes. If that doesn't work, try a full reset - see http://forums.creative.com/creativel...p&message.id=3?Try "reboot" first, then "clean up". Good luck!?Jim

  • Odd Zen vision m question: double track list

    i recently got a zen vision m and love it. i've had this odd issue crop up twice now and i'm not sure how to take care of it.
    all of the files in my music albums are being listed twice, but there is only one copy of the media on the player. i'm not sure if this is being caused by using the windows media player sync option or what.
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    Even when I go to the album and hit the play button it still doesn't play them in order. The strange thing is in the upper left corner while it plays it has numbers like /2, 2/2, etc. so it knows the order the songs came on the album it just doesn't want to play them that way for some reason. So is there a way to tell it to play them in order by those numbers?
    Also, does anyone else find the touch pad maddening to use? I think I just accidentally bought some music I didn't want because I was having trouble controlling the touch pad.

  • Zen Vision M quer

    Got my Zen Vision M recently, just wondering I'm havin some weird lag problems..
    e.g. If I start playing a music track, the play timer will lag for at least 0 seconds, before it counts properly.. i.e. jumping from 3, to 7 seconds etc.
    Although this is no major problem to the music listening function.. :P, I am just wondering if this is normal.
    Thanks for the help people.

    Hi,
    Thanks for the details. FYI you'll need to use Creative media source or Windows Media Player 0 or higher to transfer protected WMA file content (typically downloads from music services),
    Regarding the click from the disk well there will be some noise but it should not be audible. Certainly any Zen V M unit on my desk here in a fairly quiet office environment does not create a noise that I can pick up on. So if there is an audible noise coming from the unit in a similar scenario you may be looking at a problem with the disk or read heads. It would certainly explain the lag you?re getting.
    Anyway I?d suggest formatting the unit and then transferring on of your albums via Media Source (rather than drag and drop). Or Sync the player with your music library from Microsoft Media Player. This will eliminate the possibility of bad sectors on the disk itself or disk fragmentation, though as the unit is so new I can't see it being either of those but it'ss better to be thorough.
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