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my zen microphoto froze and would not turn off i pulled out the batter and now it will not come on useing the recover is not working plz help

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Zen microphoto-computer does not detect it, help ple

I got my zen microphoto for christmas, so i have had it less than a month. a few days ago the screen froze on me while i was looking for music to listen to. i had been listening to it for about an hour or so, the album once done and i went to get somehting else to listen to and it froze. I tried plugging it into the computer and that didn't make a diffrence. i couldn't shut it down, turn the lock on nothing. but it did make noise when touching the arrows and stuff. just didn't do anything. i let the battery go dead. then i plugged it into the computer and charged the battery. when i turned it on i got the page where you can reboot. so i rebooted and that was it. the last option of the four. it rebooted and i could listen to music, battery charges.
I notice when i plug it into the computer the little charge icon is over the battery and flashing and the battery charges but i don' tget the picture of the usb connection to the comptuer that would show up before when i plugged it in. also the computer doesn't make the little noise that it used to either when i plugged it in. zen creative says i need to plug in my device, windows media player doesn't see it either.
i tried reinstalling the creative stuff, turn off the player and take out the battery and all that, and i cleaned it (first option) and then rebooted (last option). i didn't do the two in the middle, reformating and the firmware thing.
if anyone can help me that would be great and much appreciated.
thanks-alex

snoweagle-you are the best. thank you so much. still wasn't really sure what you are talking about with the SP (service pack) stuff. but i went to downloads for zen micro and there were three options. took the first application download. downloaded it, installed it, restarted my computer...and it works. i have the docked word with the usb icon on my screen and i can open up and edit my music. (haven't tried to import something yet but i'm sure i'll be able to) i didn't know that i had to keep up with the new downloads and such. thank you so much. i was on the verge of tears...thank you and i hope you are around for awhile in case i have other questions. thank you thank you thank you-alex

Zen MicroPhoto; can you access the rescue menu if the battery is de

the battery on my zen microphoto is dead;
so i plugged it in the computer.
the light will not turn on, nor will it act like it is plugged into a computer.
so i cannot access the rescue menu because the battery is dead.
any suggestions?

Here's a locked menu in action.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3563737/Lycos/Fixed.html
It's an Ad-Hoc solution, because I had the take the shaded bar at the top into account. Will fixed that later.
The bar at the top of this page and the other pages is a solution to have the bar stretch the width of the page when you resize the browser window.
It cannot be done in iWeb itself. You need a JavaScript.
So you get two solutions for the price of one.
Here's the JavaScript :
Apparently Discussions does not accept all the JavaScript code.
So have a look at the source here :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3563737/Lycos//Fixedfiles/widget1markup.html
Note that you can publish iWeb at DropBox.
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Zen microphoto + itunes plug in +

hello all,
I'm desperately trying get my ZEN MICROPHOTO back into the useful category.. As of now it is collecting dust... with a dead battery as a result of me buying a mac.
I'm using an emac G4 .25GHz, mac os 0.3.9.
I've tried XNJB, no luck.. tried all different combinations of the order in how I try to connect, made sure I had absolutely nothing else running or connected to usb/fw... nothing.
I was reading the other day that there is a PLUG IN FOR ITUNES that will allow use with zen microphoto. However, I have tried extensi've googling but have not been able to locate a source for dl that is still operational.. Can someone please help?
I am so frustrated with this mp3 player, even when I had a PC (XP), the player was very temperamental...
please help! does any one have the itunes plug in?
thank you

I have had good luck running XNJB. It seems to integrate well, with some limited capability (can't upgrade firmware, upload computer time). But transferring music is easy. I'm using Mac OS 0.4.9 on a MacBook Pro. I could have sworn I just saw a reference to Zen Micro Photo for that iTunes plug in, but now I can't find it. Maybe I was seeing what I wanted to see. But I'm tempted to try the one for the other Nomad/Zen products, to see if it will work. One problem I have not solved with XNJB is that I can't seem to add the date tag to the files. So, when I look at my list of downloaded talk radio MP3s, I can't sort by the specific date of the download, and instead have to reference back to the title between iTunes, which sorts them that way and back to XNJB.
Anyway, if anyone has answers please provide. If I were you I'd try to relaod XNJB and read their website. It may be a matter of how you are using it. Are you connecting to the player, or attempting, or just assuming it connects on it's own? USB? Etc....
Good luck!

Zen MicroPhoto frozen, inopera

Hi folks,
I am a proud owner of a Zen Vision M which I got last Christmas. I have always been pleased with it, though I wish I had gotten a screen protector, since its pretty banged up at this point.
However, my post is in regards to my wife's MP3 player, the aforementioned Zen MicroPhoto. Today, as she was walking to the train, her Zen froze up really randomly while playing an mp3 that I have on my Zen player (Pharoahe Monch's Desire). Upon looking at the Mp3 player and the website here at creative.com, we decided to run the rescue mode/reboot screen and scan the hard dri've for corrupted files by removing the battery, putting it back in and reseting the player to get to the rescue screen, where we'd hit the scan button to scan all the songs.
We pressed the button to scan the player for bad files. 2 hours later, it still was showing the same screen, saying that it was scanning. Panicking at this point, we took out the battery again, and this time tried straight rebooting. The mp3 player got to the creative screen and stopped there. It had frozen showing the creative logo.
Finally, my wife decides to reformat it while I frantically searched the forums, and the 'formatting' message is frozen on the rescue mode screen.
We do have receipts and proofs of purchase, but we'd like to see if there is any way to fix this problem at this point. I have a feeling its a hard dri've problem, since when the player is in the BIOS state (rescue screen), it has trouble whenever it accesses the player's hard dri've itself.
Is this a hardware problem? Software? Corrupted files? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks alot in advance.

So far Ive ben waiting for the battery to completely charge. Now that its charged im doing the "Disk Cleanup" and its been sitting on "Scan Disk"? for about 30 minutes. I forsee doom in the path of my zen.
If the cleanup doesent work I will do the "Formatt"witch destroy's my thousands of songs... good thing they are all backed up on my comp...
If the formatt doesent work... I guess its just... dead... seeing as Ive droped it, I cant get a new one on the warrenty. Now I guess its my little 200$ paper weight. ?:robotmad:
IF SOMEWAN FINDS SOME STRANGE WAY TO RESURECT MY ZEN PLEASE E-MAIL ME!!!:
[url=mailto:[email protected]">[email protected][/url]

Just bought my Zen MicroPhoto... Turned it on and

I just purchased my Zen MicroPhoto... I was getting it set up and after toying with it for about 30 minutes I noticed that running horizontal about /4 from the top is a dark line. Not really noticeable with dark backgrounds, but VERY NOTICABLE when viewing light photos.
I cannot tell if it is a DEAD LINE of pixels or just a half-dead line.
The problem is that the store I bought it from (BEST BUY) is COMPLETELY OUT in the whole district.
I really want to use it, but I don't want to keep it if it is a row of pixels on the verge of crapping out.
What do you suggest?

wow the same here i just really noticed it i've had it sence christmas 2006 and i have a line about the top but not quite and one in the about middle and one right below it about the same distance from the one on the top and two?very close to the bottom i only noticed it on the gray folder screen by were u see the pics o and the lines on the bottom are about the same distance as the little scroll of wat the pic is the folder name. lol idk idc i gess im in the us and there dicontinuted and i can only tell the one on top on light screens like little?blue and white and the others just the gray screen of the folders in the pics section. not much i can do right?

How do I convert Itunes purchases to my ZEN MicroPhoto??

Okay, I had an Ipod mini and I went through three of them in the warranty time. I was sorely dissappointed with it, but I got a Creative Labs ZEN microphoto for Christmas and I love it. The only problem is that I have all this music that I downloaded from Itunes and I would love to be able to listen to it on my ZEN. I would still like to keep downloading from Itunes because it's the easiest and most legal downloading site that I have found. I know there are converters online, but I can't ever tell if it's legal or it will work. Does Apple have anything (hopefully free) that converts Itunes for my new ZEN???

Are you saying that iTunes downloads are only compatible with iPod's? That in order to play an iTunes download on anything but an iPod involves either illegal conversion or first burning it to a CD? I, too, just received a Zen Vision M and nowhere in the download, signup or anything else process did I see any mention of the fact that iTunes is not compatible with other software/hardward. Yes, the CD conversion trick works but for the aggrevation and lost time it's cheaper to drive to the store and buy the real thing.

Just got an 8 gig Zen MicroPhoto and love it! Just some suggestions tho

Hi everyone, my friend was considering a Zen Vision M and an Ipod video. I kinda suggested the Zen so he got it and absolutely loves it.
After seeing how nice the Zen Vision M is, I jumped on this MicroPhoto when I saw a sale and it is awesome!
The Zen MicroPhoto is a really good device, but just simple firmware stuff could make it a great one.
.) Ability to view pictures + listen to music
2.) Ability to view movies and video (the Muvo has smaller capacity and a screen with less colors and it can? Yet we are buying a nicer mp3 player than the Muvo but can't do video? The Sansa is small as hell and it can. It has the screen, hardware wise it should be able to do it, and if this is added through a firmware update, it won't be on the packaging and thus will not hurt sales of your other products.
I hate it when an awesome product is created and is capable of something and the manufacturer slashes that ability from it intentionally.
Another good example is the Gen III Ford Taurus SHO, its 3.4 liter Yamaha V8 was capable of revving well over 7500RPM and producing more than 30hp. Ford however, even though they had this jewel of an engine, intentionally cut its ability down to 235hp or else they feared it would be faster than their Mustang GT. What a shame, I hate to see that Creative is doing the same with the MicroPhoto.
3.) Ability to record FM with the latest firmware (If this is a RIAA issue, then please provide two firmwares and two download links, one that says "United States Users" and one that says "Non-US users"
4.) Ability to control different aspects of the glowing blue LEDs. They are obviously firmware controlled and can have brightness adjusted since they glow in and out when you have it plugged into the USB cable.
5.) Make it show up on your computer as a removable disk. On all my other MP3 players, it showed up just like a flash dri've and you could drag and drop whatever you wanted onto it, and it would just play whatever files on there it could play. Here, it won't let me drag and drop anything that is copy protected or is a different file type.
I know you can set aside 4 gigs of that for this purpose, but with the size of the files and videos I transfer, it would be nice if I could use all 8 gigs. Perhaps an option to just let the whole thing show up as a removable flash dri've?
*ok... I just tried it and that seems to be working on this computer that is Windows XP SP2 with WMP, but on the school computer that was XP SP2 with WMP0, it would not allow me to do this.

I think you will find that the reason the MicroPhoto is on sale is that it is now a legacy player (it was released before anybody could play video). I doubt very much that any further improvements will be coming....
EQ does have an effect... Maybe you earphones are not working well?

Zen MicroPhoto Problems! PLease,I Really Need Help!!

hello everybody, i bought a zen microphoto 4GB in June and it worked perfectly until two days ago. I turned it on like i do everyday to listen to music on my way to school. i downloaded the newest version of firmware onto it'sthree days before. when i turned it on, it went into recovery mode. so i went to reboot, and it goes back into recovery mode. i tried about 3 times, then it disabled all the functions. i couldn't control anything. so i took out the battery, and left it until i came home. i come home, put in the battery, turn it on. i plug it in the computer, and the computer does not reconize that its docked and the screen goes white and then it shuts off by itself. then it just freezes, it refuses to turn on. i tell my friend?yesterday at school and he said the hard dri've crashed and now i have a brick the size of a zen microphoto. is this true, or?is something else wrong with it. please someone help if you can. Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GBfirmware dowloaded 3 days before--ZENMicroPhoto_PCFW_6__30_04.exepurchased- June 0, 2006 with product replacement plan from best buy?Message Edited by barylakamil on -0-20062:23 PM

If you cannot even reach recovery mode any more you will need to contact customer support. If you are in the USA you get a 3month parts and labour warranty and a year parts warrantyMessage Edited by ts on -0-20060:36 PM

Zen microphoto help!! please i really need your h

hello everybody, i bought a zen microphoto 4GB in June and it worked perfectly until two days ago. I turned it on like i do everyday to listen to music on my way to school. i downloaded the newest version of firmware onto it'sthree days before. when i turned it on, it went into recovery mode. so i went to reboot, and it goes back into recovery mode. i tried about 3 times, then it disabled all the functions. i couldn't control anything. so i took out the battery, and left it until i came home. i come home, put in the battery, turn it on. i plug it in the computer, and the computer does not reconize that its docked and the screen goes white and then it shuts off by itself. then it just freezes, it refuses to turn on. i tell my friend today at school and he said the hard dri've crashed and now i have a brick the size of a zen microphoto. is this true, or?is something else wrong with it. please someone help if you can. Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GBfirmware dowloaded 3 days before--ZENMicroPhoto_PCFW_6__30_04.exepurchased- June 0, 2006 with product replacement plan from best buyproblems started occuring November 7, 2006Message Edited by barylakamil on -09-200603:22 PM

one method i saw and tried worked well but you need to try it at your own risk!!! turn off your microphoto, grab your microphoto with the screen facing you, and either slap your hand against the SIDE of your microphoto, or slap the SIDE of your microphoto against your hand. This method works for me but try it at your own risk. it could damage your hard disk. (its probably already damaged anyways.)and if you really need to turn off your Zen but it wont turn off, i suggest removing the battery.
Message Edited by gmail on -09-200605:34 PM

Creative Zen Microphoto 8GB hangs

Hello,
I have seen a lot of posts on the same subject here, but have not seen any resolution yet.
I am sure the story sounds familiar... hangs at "Creative" logo, I go into recovery mode, and run scan disk or format etc... They don't work. I have even left the player on "formatting" overnight until the battery drains and it never finishes, same goes for "Scanning".
I am on my 4th player now and am having the same issue again. This time the player is now out of warranty so I can't return it, and I am not paying money out of my own pocket to get this thing fixed. Please don't tell me this product is defecti've... I don't buy that excuse. And it isn't a corrupt file, because a reformat would fix that.
Once it hangs, my computer won't recognize it, so I can't even try to update the firmware or anything.
Any new updates or information on this issue? It is obviously a well documented problem...just google "Creative zen freezes" and see how any hits you get!
I am pretty disappointed with this player. I should have followed my gut instinct in the first place, and just bought an iPod. I spent a lot of money on this paper weight. Any help,advice,prayers,or donation$ (for a new iPod) would ge greatly appreciated!

LooKeng wrote:
Hello,I got a Creative Zen MicroPhoto 8GB - It's a Mp3 Player as u probably know and it got reseted or somthing i think and i've lost my driver CD incase that should solve the problemToday at the morning I tried to hear some music on my MP3 player and suddenly a weird menu that i've never seen before with some 4 options and a title like This:Recovery ModeCreative Zen MicroPhotoV0.0.65(Then the options) Clean Up2 Format All3 Reload Firmware4 Reboot?What Should I do now ?Thanke You In Advance..Message Edited by LooKeng on 0-2-20080:07 AM
Right you will need to download the latest firmware from this site.
Here is a hyperlink to where you can download the firmware:
http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor...lect=4&x=9&y=2
You might have to put some details in.
Once you have downloaded the latest firmware just start the program up.
Plug in your Zen into the PC and then press the "Reload Firmware" button on your Zen.
You should see your computer screen pick it up.
Then you click on your PC to install firmware.
That should be it.
I hope this hel
ps.
Got any questions you have just post on this space.
I do apologise if this does not make much sence my grammer is not that brilliant.

Creative zen microphoto booting probl

My creative zen microphoto wont load. It's just a black screen with the creative logo. I have tried to format it from the recovery mode but that freezes too. Can anyone tell me any possible solutions to this problem?

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Creative Zen MicroPhoto has cras

My Creative Zen MicroPhoto fell foot onto the floor.
When i restarted- it compiled library for a 0 seconds and then continues to open as normal.
All my music and recordings do not appear in the menu system anymore. When i do a system check my stuff still takes up 3gb of storage but no files appear.
I have tried rebooting and clean up etc but still no joy.
I have tried the Recovery tool - but my laptop does recognize the device when i connect using USB.
Some of the recording of lectures and conferences are important to me.
Is there anyway of retrieving these?
thanks,
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Message Edited by garymcginty on 02-2-200807:55 PM

How are you transferring the music? Can you describe exactly what you do? For instance what software you use, what steps you follow to transfer the music...
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Creative Zen Microphoto is messing

i have a creative zen microphoto firmware version .20.0_0.00.65 and it is giving me some problems. i can get it to turn on and play but it will only play the song i had it on yesterday when it was working fine. now it is like none of the buttons will work on it. i cant get it to go to other music or even pause the song it is on. i cant even turn it off without taking the battery off. please someone help me with my problem. thanks much, alex

yep I knew it.... I have the eq on accoustic,the bass is on the backlight timer is for like 20seconds. I navigate thru the menu alot... But still I should get at least some mored days than just one..One day I will need to get a new battery..

Zen Microphoto Media Explorer Playli

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