Zen Micro: how many are working proper

I bought a Zen Micro for my daughter for Christmas and finally sent it back because it was having the docking problems. I have reguarly read the messages in this forum since then, waiting for an indication that the problem has been fixed. I have read many ideas of what is causing it, from USB ., USB 2.0, usb cables, full battery charge, etc., but no consistent solution. I have also read many posts in which people say most are not having any problem.
So, my request is, if you have a Zen Micro, and you have had no problems at all, please post a message with when you bought yours, and the firmware and software you are using. Thanks a lot for your help. I'm just trying to figure out if it is worth it to take a chance again. I don't want an Ipod with $00 non-user replaceable batteries.

Bought my dark blue Limited Edition in mid-December from Amazon.com. I first charged the unit before doing anything else and it hung up upon completion of that first charge. Removed and replaced the battery and have had no further hangs of any sort. I upgraded to .0.03 right away and am still there. I mostly load music by syncing with WMP 0 and even without the MTP support it works fine for me. I also use Notmad Explorer occassionally to manipulate playlists. It works fine too.
My only problem is I cannot reliably use the touch pad. I'm always selecting the wrong thing or skipping over what I want. Since I love everything else about the ZM, I'm living with the touch pad. I have tried both low and high sensitivity settings and it seems to work slightly better at the high setting.
I haven't actually timed my battery life, but I'm guessing I'm getting somewhere around 8-0 hours playing WMA at 96kbps with Smart Volume off and only occassional use of EQ. I usually disconnect the headphones when the unit is turned off, but I don't know if that changes anything. I try to run the battery quite low (no bars or low battery warning) before a full charge, but I do let it charge for a while sometimes while its connected to the USB port on the PC.
Unlike some, I have been very pleased with the FM radio. I get good reception even at work in my ground floor office of a mostly metal building. That's with the stock earphones.
I started out using USB ., but added USB 2.0 to my computer (Windows XP SP2) and had no trouble with either. I have not seen the problem some have reported about problems when the battery is fully charged.
One last thing... I have 697 songs on my ZM, with about 2.8 GB of free space.
Randy
Message Edited by RMoore on 0-28-2005 04:33 PM
Message Edited by RMoore on 0-28-2005 04:34 PM

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Ok i realise that there are a lot of people having problems with their Micro's so lets see how this all equates shall we ? I suggest we :
. How many Micros have you had so far?
2. Are you happy with your current Zen Micro?
3. Please list all problems you have had (either hardware/software) with any of your Micros.
4. If your Micro needed returning, what did you do?
5. If you have had a problem tell us the experience you have had from Creative Support (good or bad)
I will try to keep a tally of the amounts (i know this wont be a true figure .. but it might give us all an idea of the scale of the problems)
 I'll start .....
. 2
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3. Problems with back button and sensitivity on my first Micro
4. Sent back to Amazon within the 30 days period... they sent me a new one so i wasn?t without my micro at all.
5. Not used creative support as yet so can't comment.
Ok best of luck for those with problems.


. How many Micros have you had so far? One, six weeks so far
2. Are you happy with your current Zen Micro? yes very
3. Please list all problems you have had (either hardware/software) with any of your Micros. Some lockups due to DRM issues with specific songs. easily fixed. Windows wouldn't recognise it one day after an XP update, but fiddling with the system fixed this too.
4. If your Micro needed returning, what did you do?
5. If you have had a problem tell us the experience you have had from Creative Support (good or bad)
Message Edited by mlo on 03-5-2005 07:47 PM

Zen Micro: "play count" weird work

hello everybody!
I was wondering why some of the songs, rarely heard by me, havethe same number of "play count" that the often heard ones. I've checked it by loading an album and before playing it, I Iooked upthe "play count" of the second song in the list. Then I started to play the firstsong in the album. While the song was playing I checked both "playcounts". In the first song (currently played) Zen Micro correctly addeda next number to the counter, but surprisingly the second song(not played yet) had it the same - an increased counter!
I come to a conclusion that Zen Micro increases the "play count" in thenext song even though it's not currently playing. I noticed thatwhen preceding song is quite large, ZM doesn't increase a "play count"in a next song (while the preceding song is playing). I think it'sconnected with a size of the buffer and faulty working play countsystem.
I've hit upon an idea and I loaded one very short song (5sec). I set the"Repeat Track" mode and played this song. After a few timessong had played I stopped it and checked our "play count". I wasshocked, the counter had enormous number (something over 00)!
Have you got the same problem? Is there any solution to that?
I use 5Gb Zen Micro with ..0 firmware.
regards from Poland
Greg

Area5 wrote:
hi,
>Creative support don't guarantee a reply here. The forum is designed mostly
>for peer support. This is repeated in the FAQ post and the forum information.
yes ... I know that, it's obvious, but ... did I write "I want" or "I expect"?!
no, I wrote "I count on", I think it doesn't sound like a reply is due to me ...
I was just trying to help (no need to vote my post with a !). If you were expecting a reply here from support I was trying to save you time and approach the correct people.
>If you have some specific issue contact support directly, click the Support >
>Contact Customer Support link on this page.
thank you for the information but I used this Support and my senses of
its professionalism are not positi've :/
I've definitely seen mention of play count not being correct before. If this is a bug it needs to be logged with support directly as well. I can't stress enough how important it is for everyone with a bug to log it directly with support, as often the number of support cases prejudice how likely a bug is to get attention.

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