ZEN MICRO won't hold it's charge!!!!!!!!!!

I have owned a 5GB Zen Micro for about 3 years. Up until about 4 months ago I had no problem with the unit holding it's charge for several hours. Now I can't get it to last for more than 0-5 minutes when using the FM radio. By that time the battery indicator shows hardly any charge left and then it does dead. Any [email protected]

krw99 wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I had considered the possibility that the battery may indeed be at the end of it's life. As it turned out I also googled the model and battery name, and came up with a Canadian site that had?them on ?sale and decided that with postage it would be just as cheap as getting it'sdirectly from?the US with higher postage costs and the exchange rate. I love this model so much I hope to keep using it for years to come provided I have no further more costly problems. Despite it's greater thickness compared to similiar models it is a very attracti've looking unit.
The reason I chose?the Zen Micro?in the first place, as opposed to an iPod?was because I could replace the battery if need be, and also for it's FM radio capability. I?did have to have the chip that contains the earphone jack connections replaced last year, as many other owners have also had to do. But it was worth the $60 it cost me.
Cheers,
KRW99
I had originally planned to buy an iPod back in '04, because everyone else had one, but after I saw? this video I decided to do some more research. I ended up with a 5 Gb Zen Micro in February '05 and wondered why anyone buys an iPod, when a far superior product was available from Creative.
The original battery started? to go about a year and a half ago, so I popped a new one in and kept on enjoying it. I thought that I would finally have to say goodbye to my little friend when I accidentally dropped it onto a tile floor. The dreaded click/whirr...click/whirr...click/whirr... of a dead hard dri've.
I read a few posts on the Say Goodbye to My Little Friend (Zen Micro)? thread and replaced the dead hard dri've with a SanDisk 8Gb? Ultra II Compact Flash card, using the instructions on? this page.
I was so happy to see it boot up aain and once the firmware was loaded, I started filling it up with some of my favourite music. It's nice to have an extra 3 Gb of storage space too!?
Notes about the iPod's Dirty Secret video can be found here.

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Hi Everyone, hope you can help me out here.
I have been using my ZEN micro for about week now and it was at first working fine.
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FernIe, I have the exact same problem, although now my Zen Micro won't turn on at all via the switch.
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2 month new Zen Micro, won't fully charge via

I have the zen micro 5gb and here's what been happening
Up until the last month the micro would charge up just fine. Now, it won't charge past one bar and it does show the charging icon in the upper right hand corner.
My USB connections are USB 2.0 at work and home and it won't fully charge. I ran the battery completely out of juice to try a fresh charge approach. I know the micro is getting power because it will run while plugged into my usb cable.
Oh yeah, recently, after the water drop on the screen, it usually loads the zen micro logo, then rolls right to the now playing screen. Recently, it sticks for about 0 seconds, and the touch pad is inacti've.
Before I deal with taking it back to BestBuy, I figured I'd see if there's anything I can try before.
Vesrion ..0
Thanks
MattMessage Edited by flananuts on 0-04-2005 07:58 PM

flananuts wrote:
Wow, I didn't know i had to have it in locked position for it to charge, b/c the charge indicator was always showing like it was charging, but no pulsing.
You don't have to, but if your USB power is marginal it ensures that ALL the power is dedicated to charge the player.
I just switched it to lock and it is pulsing. When I'm at work I have to use my usb connection to charge and I can't load the driver onto my work machine. If it is not pulsing, is it only just using the usb for power?
It's only using the USB power for the data connection.
What's the deal with the pusling?
It shows the player is charging.
Also, what's the benefit of upgrading the firmware to v2?
See the link "the difference between the Zen Micro v and v2 firmware" in the FAQ post.

Creative Zen Micro won't turn

Creative Zen Micro -
When I plug the usb into a computer, it has the charge icon in the top right corner of the screen. If I attemp to turn it on, while plugged in, the creative sceen come on, and then dissapears. When it is not plugged into the computer, I get no repsponse what so ever. I haven't attmpted to reset it. Any ideas? Thanks for your time.

Try starting the player into Recovery Mode, see if that works:
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2) Format All (Formats the players harddisk - Note: all contents will be lost)
3) Reload OS (Reloads the Operating System on the Jukebox. Note: Reloading your OS, will not effect the contents of the files stored on your Zen Micro) Caution: Do not select this option until a firmware update has been downloaded onto the PC
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Ensure that the Zen Micro is turned off.
Remove the battery.
Move and hold the Power button to the Power On position and re-insert the battery to the Zen Micro. Hold the Power button until the rescue mode appears. 
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4) Reboot (Reboots the device).
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My Zen Micro won't even turn

Hey guys. I need help. I have?a Zen Micro....4GB I believe...and I can't even get it to turn on. I read that you can put it in recovery mode by pushing play while powering up but it won't even do that. I've tried plugging it in to both my wall charger and computer with no luck. Does anyone know what I can do or have I wasted my money by investing in a Zen Micro? The warranty is up as I have had it for about 3 months. Please Help!? Thanks!

First you probably need a new battery for the player. Second if you have not erased your firmware LEAVE IT ALONE. The firmware will not fix needing a battery.Post after gettig new battery.

My Zen Micro won't start!

Hi,
my zen micro turns on when it is connected to the computer. but it only says, "creative, copyright...." how do i get it to start again? i tried it on different computers to see if it was a pc problem but that didn't help either. then, i tried charging the battery but that didn't work. THEN, i tried removing the battery and putting it in again. yet, NO LUCK!! does this mean i have to buy a new battery for my mp3 player? HEEELLPPP ME. =)

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I have had my Zen Micro since early January (bought from Amazon.co.uk) and it has been fine until a couple of weeks ago. One day I plugged it into the computer to put some more music on there and it came up with the dreaded message "Player is not connected". Since then, every time I try to transfer files across, it will come up with this same message. Once I managed to get one song across, then got the message, but now it won't let me transfer at all.
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Why won't they issue me with an RMA? Surely we've run out of options by now? I am getting extremely fed up with the whole thing, and right now I don't even feel like replying again because I know I won't get any help
P.S. All this has been tried on both WinME and XP.

Claire does this mean you have tried it on different machines?
Qoute "P.S. All this has been tried on both WinME and XP"
If so than it may be a hardware problem.
Get some ad-aware programs as something maybe restricting you use of the USB ports. AdawareSE is very good.
Right click on my computer on the desk top, goto properties and click the Hardware tab
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Click on Device Manager,
Scroll down and click on Uni'veral Serial Bus Controllers, of course with your Micro plugged in look for it. Right click the on the device and goto properties, and see does it denote the devcie is wotrking properly and are there any drivers assigned to it. If so what them drivers are.

Zen Micro won't connect to

Im having this weird problem with my Zen Micro 5gb, I used to connect it to my laptop previously but now my laptop is broken and i've been trying to connect it to my computer and everytime i do it just freezes with the lighting charge sign and the song playing, and on my task tray it shows unknown usb device plugged in, and it wont recognize it because my zen freezes. I had no problems with my laptop and am curious if anyone has had this same problem and is willing to help, it's getting me angry cause i really like my creative and i had no previous problems and my laptops been broken for about a month now and i havent been able to use my player. I also bought a charger a little while back, but for some reason i cant ever fully charge my mp3 player, the most it will go to even after leaving it for like a full day of charging is the first bar. If anyone is willing to help me with my problems thanks alot! Looking forward to hopefully using my Zen Micro for a long time!

I have had this problem creep up on me lately, but it doesn't happen every time though. I've been able to get around it by trying two or three times to reconnect it, but a couple of times it got right stubborn. In that situation, it seemed restarting my PC did the trick.
Not sure if that helps, but...

Zen Micro won't conn

i have a problemo... Well let me tell you a little story about a zen micro that was different then the others wanted to be its own master!:angry:

i did a system resytore on my computer and rebooted the whole machine due to a virus and i installed all my program and plugged in my zen micro and guess what it says it won't connect, so what did i do then? well i remembered that i had the 2. w.e playforsure firmware so i downloaded the version of creative media for that firmware and it still won;t work not only thta but when i connect the zen micro via usb a "found new hardware" wizard pops up and says it has found an MTP device? okay sure so i go for it and click install new device.. nope sporry that didnt solve my problem because it had to be complicated and say error then it said that it wouldnt work properly.. and i also tried using window smedia player since i had that firmware installed but no,....

that wsa the story of my zen entering the retards realm

and now i deleted all my songs everythin even firmware because i was playing with the rescue mode so now I'm confusion

send help thx:smileyvery-happy:

hrt_fosho wrote:
i tried that and it didnt work...
How about download this.
http://www.fnprg.com/dl/Jet40Sp3_Comp.exe

Big Problem with Zen Micro - won't be detec

Hello people,
I got a big problem now with my Zen Micro 5GB. Since Saturday I have having my new PC, Fujitsu Scaleo
Intel Pentium D 2,8 GHz dual Processor
024MB Ram
PCI-e mainboard
Ati x700se Video Card
Windows XP with SP2 and several updates were already installed
Windows Media Player 0
Now, the problem is, I can't really use it on my PC. A few weeks ago I had the very old firmware. But then I thought I update it (why? I don't know...)I Updated to the version ..0 from Jul 05. It worked anyway...
So I plugged in the MP3 player to my new pc but it was not really detected or it did not want to work. When it was plugged in, I couldnt open any program. Even if it was Media Source or Opera or winamp... They did not appear. But they were "open" as they appeared in the task manager. So I couldnt use Media Source. So I tried with Zen Media Explorer, all buttons there were clickable but when I clicked on one butteon (like organize music...) it didnt react...
so I thought: "ok with this firmware, it wont work" So I updated the firmware to 2.2.02 Plays for sure. Neither with the new Media Source on your site nor with Zen Media Explorer (I installed the Update)it does not work. The plays for sure plugin for Media Source wasnt as well helpful. I can drag and drop files on my mp3 player, OK this is one way, but still when it is plugged in, I cant use any other program, as I cant open them.
I dont want to use the drag and drop way as I then have to download a program for editing mp3 tags and I cant as well make playlists...With Media Source it was so easy... I want to use Media Source and I want my PC react even if my Zen Micro is plugged in...
So what to do? I thought about installing the very old firmware what I had before I updated to ..0 but where can I download it's
I hope you can help me
Regards
eXMessage Edited by expredator on 0--2006 08:58 PM

MediaSource with the PFS plugin should work, if the player is being detected properly.
Presumably it isn't, so you need to verify this by looking in Device Manager when the player is connected.

Zen Micro won't play

I just got a Zen Micro, and I have lots of files on my computer, both .mp3 and .wma. I was successfully able to transfer a preexisting .mp3 that worked fine. However, I transfered a preexisting .wma file, and my Zen told me that the file was not supported!
I tried a couple of things, like ripping a song with WMP 0 and transferring it, and still my player said it was not supported. I just tried ripping it with the Creative Media Source as .wma and with no DRM selected and it the Zen was able to play it! I then ripped a new one as regular .wma (not lossless) and transferred it drag and drop and that one works ok well. I believe I was previously ripping them as Window Media Audio Lossless, and those seem to be the ones that will not play.
What can I do to make the player play all my preexisting .wma (lossless) files?
Thanks for the help!

You can't play WMA Lossless directly; however, if you have 2.x firmware, WMP 0 can convert files on-the-fly while transferring them to the Micro. (It may also work with .x firmware, but I haven't tested it.) With your Micro plugged in, go to the Sync tab, then click the "Display properties and settings" button (the sheet with a red checkmark on it at the upper right). Then click the "Quality" tab and check "Convert files as required by this device (recommended)". You can let WMP 0 set the bitrate on its own, or select the bitrate (64, 28, 60, or 92 kbps) using a slider. (I understand this slows down file transfer, however.)
With Creative software, you'll have to use MediaSource Audio Converter to convert the files on your PC to 320 kbps or less (WMA or MP3) before transferring them. I understand Notmad Explorer has on-the-fly conversion, however.

Zen Micro won't rip all music from

Hey I just bought i creative ZEN micro about a month ago and started ripping a bunch of my CD's to it. Any ways, after awhile i started to notice that some of the songs that were supposed to be on there from that CD were not anywhere on the MP3 player or anything. So i figured i guess it just didn't copy that one song and messed up or something because it ripped all the other songs from the CD. So i go back to try to rip that one song again and it will not rip it no matter what i do.
It happens on CD's every once and a while and i can't find a reason why. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem before and if they got it fixed through a firmware update (I haven't gotten that yet) or if it was a player problem and had to send the whole thing back to creative and get a new one. From what I can tell it seems like it isn't the player, but i don't know. I'm really just clueless on what to do next because if I can't rip all my songs this seems like a waste to me. I just hope it turns out to be an easy fix lol.
If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Mike D.

yes that is what i am using. If it makes a difference the one song i'm trying right now that doens't work is the song ocean from the cold cd "a different kind of pain" It acts like its ripping it but when it gets to the end it seems like its done and i check the player but it hasn't been added.

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