Strange problem with Zen Style 300

I got a Zen Style 300 for my birthday and it is given me some problems. I tried looking at this forum and on google, but so far haven't found anything like it. What happens is that during the sync process, some folders on my portable harddisk (which is where the music is located) get renamed into names with strange symbols and become unreadable. The strange thing is that it doesn't happen with all files and just as strange is that it does happen with files not related to the sync that are located in a completely different folder. You can imagine I got quite scared the first time, afraid of having lost my music collection, but on restart everything was fine again. Until I plugged in the ZEN again that is.
My second problem is probably related to it. Part of the files transfered to the player don't show up when I try to listen to them with the player. When I check they have been copied to the player correctly, yet somehow they don't show up.
I have Windows XP and tried syncing with the standard Creative software, MediaMonkey and iTunes but they all face the same problem. Although with the second problem it might happen that files copied one way don't show up, while the same files transfered with a different program do. All 3 cause the problem with my harddisk. I tried formatting the player and updating it. So anyone has any idea what might cause this?

I have a similar problem. It recognized and paired with a Sony Ericsson MW600 Hi-Fi Bluetooth Stereo Headset once. I lost connection, could no longer connect, and tried to re-pair it. Now it recognizes the the headset's name (MW600), but when you try to pair with it stays on a "Please wait..." message. It will stay that way forever until I press the back (left) arrow. Then the message says "Remote Device not responding" and pairing fails. This MW600 headset pairs with other devices (cell phone, PC) just fine, though, so it's not malfunctioning.
I suspect this might be a Bluetooth version compatibility issue? I say that because when I connect to a Jawbone Era (pretty new device, probably latest Bluetooth spec), everything goes fine.
Also, if I clear all devices, then try to pair to just the Sony Ericsson MW600, I can get the M300 in a state where it hangs and will not respond to anything. I then have to press the reset button using a paperclip to start over.

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When I trying to found bluetooth audio devices with ZEN Style M300,? the player get to freeze after a little bit time that is searching devices, and so I have to push the reset button for using again the player. :mansurprised:Anyone have the same problem?

I have a similar problem. It recognized and paired with a Sony Ericsson MW600 Hi-Fi Bluetooth Stereo Headset once. I lost connection, could no longer connect, and tried to re-pair it. Now it recognizes the the headset's name (MW600), but when you try to pair with it stays on a "Please wait..." message. It will stay that way forever until I press the back (left) arrow. Then the message says "Remote Device not responding" and pairing fails. This MW600 headset pairs with other devices (cell phone, PC) just fine, though, so it's not malfunctioning.
I suspect this might be a Bluetooth version compatibility issue? I say that because when I connect to a Jawbone Era (pretty new device, probably latest Bluetooth spec), everything goes fine.
Also, if I clear all devices, then try to pair to just the Sony Ericsson MW600, I can get the M300 in a state where it hangs and will not respond to anything. I then have to press the reset button using a paperclip to start over.

Strange problem with zen micro (I'm going mad!!

merry xmas!! I've bought a zen micro in seprember, flashed with .xx firmware; I always used it with windows 2000 with no problem, but... problems began when I've installed a pci card usb 2.0 on my pc; the card worked finely with everything but not with zen micro, that's to say that everytime I tried to import songs by media explorer, the program often wasn't able to import songs; so I've installed windows xp and flashed zen micro with 2.xx firmware (I've installed also service pack 2 and wmp0), but things have gone wrong!!! now everytime I connect zen micro to pc, xp asks the drivers, and it doesn't want neither the driver I've found on creative's cd, nor drivers downloaded from creative's site!! And it's not finished: now zen micro is without firmware and everytime I'm trying to flsh it, a dialogue box says that the player is not connect!!!
can anybody help me? otherwise I'll have to write to creative support for a substitution...
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Strange. Unfortunately MTP connection problems are very tricky to solve. It's hard to know whether the firmware upgrade was partially successful, and whether you are on v or v2 firmware. It sounds like v2 firmware, due to the connection problems with MTP.
The drivers for the v2 firmware are provided by Windows Media Player 0, and are located in the C:\WINDOWS\INF directory. You could try pointing there.
As the player has no firmware though you have to go into recovery mode, choose "reload firmware", then connect to the PC (see if it's detected) and run the firmware update again.
If this doesn't work try and find another PC, say a friend's, that meets the requirements of Win XP + SP/2 + WMP0, and see if you can update.
In terms of resolving the connection problem if it continues, have a look at this thread, particularly the reply by DM, which goes through some of the troubleshooting to solve MTP connection problems. Also look for the link "problems with connecting using MTP firmware" in the FAQ post.

Strange Problems with Zen V P

Hello, so far I have been very satisfied with my Zen V Plus. However, about a year after purchase some strange problems began to arise. I will be as specific as I can about them. This is the order in which the problems occured:
1) Songs will 'cut out' and restart from the beginning in mid-song, whilst the time elapsed number and meter will still be where it was when it stopped. This is very random, and affects almost every song no matter how old or new it is.
2) The screen started to become burned-in somewhat. My old, not very bright background picture as well as numbers and text from various things can be seen somewhat underneath the current background image and text.
3) This is the biggest problem. On playing certain songs, the player's controls will become unresponsi've. For example, if I press the back button, it will attempt to go back to the playlist but will get 'stuck' halfway, leaving me just with a screen that has my background picture. The player will continue to play the song as normal, but neither the buttons nor the power switch will do a single thing aside from bring back the screen when it goes black from being idle. I am forced to press the reset switch in this case. Also, if problem # occurs during this, then instead of the song restarting there will just be silence.
I have done a cleanup, updated firmware, and everything. However, even though I get rid of songs that eventually end up causing #3, it seems to spread to other songs at random, forcing me to take them off the player as well. It's spreading between them like a disease or something. It's very strange.
Any information and/or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you ahead of time.

Having the same issues. Recei'ved a Zen + for Christmas. Have spent the last two nights trying to get it to work. I currently have it recognised in DM as an "other device", but no matter what I do, can't find a driver. It looks such a frustrating easy fix.....arrrrh !!!! Came to the Forum looking for help, but sounds like there are a lot of issues out there. Have e-mailed Creative support, but if no progress by Saturday, it's going back to Amazon, regrdless of how cute it is.

Problem making playlists with new Zen Style 300

/Problem making playlists with new Zen Style 300hI follow this procedure from the support page:
http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=804
I also have tried many other options and procedures, but each time the playlist that ends up on the player has only a few of the songs that I put on the play list. all the songs do exist on the player, but seems to randomly select only a small subset of the songs - example: 6 original, 2 get on the list, 30 on teh original, 6 get on the player's play list.
The odd part is if I go back to the player at some later time and connect via creative central, the correct playlist displays on the PC. However, is still wrong (truncated) on the player. So it seems to remember the correct play list, but just does not display correctly on the player.
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zen style 300 sw version: .0.07
Anyone get this to work on the zen style 300?
Norm

?After many attempts? (like 6) with creative support to convince them this was a software bug, the end state response was to send the player back. Using better judgement, I waited for a new software release and indeed the problem was fixed in a subsequent release of the software.
My main frustration here was they seem to not want to escalate problems quickly to the right level of technical support that actually understands the software/debugging? vs hardware? and can look through a set of debugging steps and tests I sent in the first notes and realize it is not something hardware related. Even after citing my degrees in computer science/electrical engineering and having designed/debugged systems much more complex than this, all I got was simple procedural steps to repeat or send it back, it is a hardware problem. Ug!

Strange charging problem with ZEN Mi

I bought a 6gb Zen Micro for my girlfriend but have encountered a strange problem with charging it.
If i connect it to my computer (have tried on several) the player displays the charging icon but will not actually charge (no flashing and the battery is not filled). But if i install Windows Mediaplayer 0 it will start charging on the very same USB-port. This is verified on several computers with USB 2.0. I also have an AC-charger with USB connection and can't charge with this (same problem as on PC, displays charging but is not charged).
The player is using the latest firmware and Creative support recommended me to send it in. I have however not done this yet as this does not seem as a hardware problem to me but as a problem in the firmware. If the player was faulty, why would it charge when Windows Mediaplayer is installed?
Has anyone else encountered this problem or is the player faulty?

I can't charge mine either. I got it for Christmas and have loved it, although now it's been on charge for about 20 hours and it's only showing bar.
It flashes for a few minutes and then sto
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Creative Zen Style 300 - charging

Hi,?i have a big problem. I bought mp4 about 2 weeks ago. I listened to it from time to time. Yesterday, my mp4 warned me that the battery is very low. So i connected USB to my mp4 and to the charger and put it in to the socket. My mp4 is charging for about 0 seconds and it turned on autobmatically. And it won't charge! I thought that maybe it only charges when it has to be on. So i put it like that for a night. In the morning it was in the same condition like the last night! I downloaded ?Creative ZEN Style 300/00 Firmware .03.04 and?Creative ZEN Style Starter Pack .8.03?but it didn't help. Please, what do i have to do?

Hi,
It looks like something is wrong with the player. Did you purchase this from your local electronics store or direct from Creative? Please contact the place of purchase for repair/replacement.

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I have lately been experiencing a strange problem with standard forms in the system. We have WebAS640 / ECC5.0 System. Soon after the initial run of patches, most forms in the system are showing the character '#' in place of formatted texts.
I have searched the internet and most forums, but have not found a solution. Since this is the standard forms that i am talking about (unmodified and untouched) so i assumed this had something to do with our patch levels. However that is only an assumption.
In particular i am having problem with the billing invoice type RD00, form name: LB_BIL_INVOICE. I have traced the problem to this much. The form shows the expected text, where no character format is applied to it. And where ever there is some character format, it just shows a string of hashes ('#'). The style being used by this form is LO_STYLE.
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SAP_HR             500             0005
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Hi Ashan!
Interesting problem. You are seeing replacement characters, because assigned font(size) is not installed (somewhere, SAP or printer).
But since this is completely standard, open an OSS-request - maybe it's not as fast as SDN, but I'm sure you will get a qualified answer (and solution).
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Zen Style 300 16GB limited to only 4000 songs????

I got the Zen Style 300 6GB for my birthday. My mp3 collection is 3 GB and this will hold the whole thing.
But no all the songs show up. ?Why is there a 4000 file limit's ?Can Creative change the firmware to allow 5000 files?
Also, why is there very little mention of this mp3 player on the boardsIs it an older model?
I noticed the some player listed 4K mp3 files and 8K WMA files. ?So I changed some mp3 into wma to see if I could get pass the 4K mark, but it did not work.

EHi Ivanka,
I'm pretty sure The Zen Style organises the music files by their tag information instead of the folder structure. I don't own the Style so hopefully someone else can confirm this, I searched google for it but I couldn't find anything.
If it uses tags then you can browse your music by artist, album, or genre.
You can configure the menu so that you can make album view the first option of the whole player. At default?I believe? album view is the third option in the music menu, which is the third option of the home menu. So that would be down, down, right, down, down, right.
This album view lists all the albums and you can go up and down in this list and press play (most right button), it will bring you to the now-playing screen and it starts playing all the tracks that belong to that album.
The back button (most left button) will always take you back to the screen you were before. So if you press back, down, play, it will start playing all the tracks that belong to the next album on the list.
This navigation by tags will of course only work when all the tracks are properly tagged, if you downloaded the tracks then they probably already are.
There is also an option to play all the files on the player in alphabetical order while ignoring the tags. This might be more useful, because you can then skip tracks back and forth, but there is no way to skip whole albums this way.
Oh and I almost forgot: The second button from the left is programmable and acts as a shortcut. You can configure it to perform any action, for example view albums, or play all files.
I hope this was helpful in some way and you will find your way with the player.
- Bertwin

Random Problems with Zen Micro? Try a diff. USB cable

I know people have mentioned this in other posts, but I thought I would reiterate it here. Many people seem to be complaining that their player is not recognized, or only sometimes recognized, or recognized by Windows (as a USB device) but not by their Creative software, or songs won't transfer, etc. Well, I had some similar problems which ALL went away when I started using a different USB cable - the one that shipped with the Micro just doesn't seem to work consistently.
So, if you are having problems with your player that you can't seem to solve any other way, you may want to try a different USB cable. It worked for me.
Hope this helps - I am (now) loving my new Micro!

I tried a different USB cable also, I thought that it would help, but I still got the same problems. I can almost guarantee that although you think you may have solved your issues, they WILL come back.
I've also been experiencing the "Player Not Connected" problem with my Zen Micro.
I've also had the problem where the Zen Micro just freezes in the "Docked" screen even after it has been disconnected from the PC
I've noticed that these are common problems with Zen Micros with the new firmware (.0.03)
My old Zen Micro with the old, original firmware did NOT have this connectivity problem
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I have met a problem with Epson LX 300+. After I set up printing on PLD, the result printing is bad. Font and setting are not the same as preview in SBO. How to solve this matter..? I used SBO 2005A PL 43.
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agung
Edited by: Agung Adrianto on Aug 28, 2008 8:17 AM

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xxxxx
Consultant Business solutions.
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I have a strange problem with Adobe Acrobat. It happens totally randomly, it leaves no signs in system logs.
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