Zen V Plus Charging Iss

I just bought a new mains charger for my zen v plus today because i was fed up of charging from my pc. But when i plug it in the little "charging" animation does not come up on my player and the battery does not increase, what shall i do?I have the latest firmware and everything

The mod is quite simple really. The USB charger only uses 2 of the 4 wires as +5v and 0v, the other 2 are the data lines D+ and D-. The Creative charger uses these data lines to make the player think it's connected to a PC hub - a standard charger doesn't. USB protocols (www.usb.org) state that a USB hub should have two resistors (between 5k and 22k) connected between each of the data lines and ground to provide a bias voltage that the host can read to determine data transfer speed. As long as the charger cable has all four wires available inside the cable then the mod is easy. Take the charger apart and solder a resistor between each of the data lines and a ground 0v point. The standard wiring colours for USB are black-0v, red-5v, green and white-D+ and D-. The resistors need to be soldered inbetween the?green wire and ground and between the white wire and ground, making sure that the wires aren't connected to anything else inside the charger. The player takes about 4 or 5 seconds to register that a charger is connected. Hope this helps,?Karl. PS if the cable doesn't have all four wires inside the cable then you'll have to swap the cable as well.

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