Zen Micro battery problem e

Hello!
i have zen micro wich is about a year old or so.. i was listening to it normally couple of weeks ago, when it suddenly crashed.. i had to take the battery off to shut it down, and after that it crashed allways in the creative logo screen for a while.. i plugged it to my computer and it began working normally.. i thought it was nothing and transferred some music to it and started listening to it.. it worked normally for a while but soon began crashing again and didn't power up at all after a while... i formatted it and reloaded it's firmware and now it works fine until the battery's powerbar's wich can be seen in the player's display go from 3 to 2 in usually 30 mins :| then it crashes and wont shut down again after a while when i have taken out the battery i can restart it for a while but it say's the battery is empty. so, is the battery broken and has to be replaced or is there something wrong in it's HD or something?
-Bane02

To both: It seems to me that your battery is dying, or has died already. If you are saying that it goes from 3 to 2 bars in just minutes, you might want to get a replacement. Did you maybe overheat the battery and left the player in a place with high temperatures? It can greatly affect your battery and the player-but the battery more. If you tried everything in recovery mode and still didn't work, call costumer support or get your player replaced, but I think it's only a one year warranty, that's always a bummer, unless you have a protection plan....
Good luck to both. Hope that helped a little =S

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