Zen Sleek charge time-fire haza

Just got my Zen Sleek and its charging now with just the ac adapter. Can I leave it plugged in overnight? Or do I have to take it out after a certain amount of time to prevent damage to the sleek?
Thanks

net994: All it does is "burn" a little electricity, so if you're a good environmentally aware type person you'll unplug when it's not in use. I wouldn't worry about waking up in the middle of the night to do it though

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I`ve bought my Zen Sleek 2005-07-29, but i have som problems with it.
The battery time is nearly on 8 hours instead of 8 that it stand it should be.
And the the seeking time when you shall listen to a song before it starts is sometime 5-6 sek.
Is this normal?
Can i return it or get a new one or something?
I don`t now what to do.
I want`t the player to act normal, beacuse this is the best mp3 player i`ve ever had.
I just want a solution on my problem. Message Edited by UUnreal on 08-23-2005 03:24 PM

before you get too nervous about battery life, make sure you leave it plugged in and charging for several hours. The battery does not totally charge even when the indicator says "full". There is a 0% or so "trickle" charge that continues for some time after the fast charge cycle. I would guess this will add some playing time to your player. Also, the more you fool around with the thing while using it, the shorter battery life you get. Changing tracks, using shuffle (random), hitting buttons causing the backlight to go on all drain the battery faster. So do high bit-rate songs, especially high bit-rate WMA (which seems to draw fractionally more power than MP3). One of the biggest things I've noticed on my player (Touch) is that "random" causes the hard dri've to run WAY more often. Apparently it can't load as much into its internal memory at a time, so it has to seek and load songs far more often.

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Hmmm.... I have been having odd problems with my Zen Sleek. When it runs out of juice, I plug the charger in. The lightning bolt symbol appears for 5 seconds and goes away for good. What the heck is going on? Is my player charging?

No, the button and screen do not pulsate when it is plugged into the charger. I am able to power it on while the charger is plugged in. When I do this a plug sign appears in the corner. I guess it is charging because before I went to bed there were 0 cells in the battery and now when I woke up there are 3.

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Has all but the line-in recording. It does have a microphone though......
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I just purchased a Zen Sleek and I am currently charging it. The manual says it will take approx. 2 hrs. to charge, but it is running on 4 hrs.
It zipped past bars one, two and three. It is currently still showing as charging on the third bar, and has been like this again for 4 hrs.
How long does it take to complete, I'm hoping I don't have another bad Creative product on my hands.

It looks like I got my second defecti've Creative product in 5 months. FIrst, my Micro goes back for a refund because of the headphone jack, now the Sleek has an issue with the battery not fully charging. I read their knowledgebase, but I have found posts regarding others who have had to return their Sleek because of this defect.
Well, I will get a refund, and will NEVER touch Creative again, I have a Rio (which works great 00% of the time). Since they're gone, I will find a manufacturer who doesn't ship defecti've products at least in my case 00% of the time.
Go ahead, flame away, I'm not visiting this board anymore, so have fun. I'm not buying an iPod, but Apple doesn't ship crap at the rate this company does.Message Edited by Allen5 on 2-25-2005 2:34 AM

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OK i put my new Zen Sleek Photo on charge two hours ago. when will i know if its completed charging?, the charge symbol is currently blinking

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There's one for the Sleek. How does the Sleek Photo differ?

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Does anyone know how long it takes to fully charge the Zen Sleek Photo by a USB connection? I know the manual says it only takes 2 hours, but that's if you use the power adapter. I brought my Sleek Photo and the USB cord to work today to charge it up, but not the power adapter becuase I thought the USB cord would be sufficient. I've had it hooked up for over 2 hours now and the battery indicator hasn't even changed. Is this normal for charging through USB?

Thank you for your response. 4 to 6 hours and more for a full charge? Wow, I'm not going to forget to bring my power adapter then if I need to charge it in the future. That's basically a full work day. I have Zen Micro and it always charged from the USB fairly quickly. I was wrong to assume the Zen Sleek Photo would be similar.Message Edited by py258 on 08-03-2006 07:3 AM

Zen Sleek Photo Freezes/Locks Up after about 5 minutes usage (need to drain battery to recov

Hi,
My 20G Zen Sleek Photo has just recently transformed itself into a useless brick.
No matter what I try and do, it always ends up freezing after about 5 minutes usage. When you force a reset it does unlock but when it comes back on it sticks on the Creative "copyright" start up screen.
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() let the battery fully drain and then recharge it or
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Has anyone within the Creative community successfully solved this problem Has anyone received a decent answer from Creative
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For the record the firmware I'm using is v .0.0.
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Victor

Is there really no one with an answer to this problem or have I overlooked a previous post that explained the fault.
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Victor

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Mp3 major must in my life and now its just gone plain weird. :smileysurprised:
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nylenny wrote:
But questions arise from time to time so I thought I'd register on this Creative forum. Usually the forums give much better advise than the manufacturer.
That's true. These forums are more help from what I have seen. As to the battery being replaced, most of the time, under normal use, the battery lasts 2-3 years. The player hasnt been out that long, so it would be rare to find someone who has replaced it.
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microphoto uses oled screen not lcd. well for some reason oleds are cheap there better than lcd in someways but suck in others. uhh it could be that you got a fualty display id get it replaced or try the sleek photo. same price.

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