Zen Vision: M Please He

My Zen Vision: M has been pretty ok so far up until recently. I've had it freeze on me in the past, but I'd simply stick a paper clip into the reset hole and it would refresh just fine. Now It wont even respond to that, and just stays frozen at the screen with the words ZEN Vision: M with a black background. I've tried running down the batteries and refueling them and everything but to no avail. I can still see the battery when its charging and everything, but i cant seem to advance beyond the frozen screen. Also my PC wont recognize when i have it linked through usb cable either. Someone please help me if you have had an experience such as this or can help point me in the right direction, thank you.

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I can´t reload the firmware in my zen vision M..Please HELP ME

Hi..my zen vision M 30gb started in recovery mode and the screen show me the following message "need to reload the firmware". Im connect it into my computer? and nothing happened.. The player is not reconized or detected for my computer. Im connect it im my laptop and the same problem, nothing happened.. The screen show the battery indicator, charge the battery (amazing)?and turn on when im plugged...Please if somebody can help me to resolved this big problem, im regards for ever..
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HI.. THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWER.. I DID ALL THAT YOU SAID ME BUT NOTHING HAPPENED.. CLEAN UP OR REBOOT THE PLAYER AND NOTHING.. ONLY SHOW ME THE SCREEN RELOAD THE FIRMWARE. WHEN I TRY TO INSTAL THE NEW FIRMWARE THE SYSTEM SHOW ME THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: PLEASE CONNECT THE PLAYER OR NOT PLAYER DETECTED. SOMETHING LIKE THIS...NOT REMEMBER NOW... THE PLAYER DOESN?T RECONIZED FOR MY OR OTHERS COMPUTERS BUT WHEN I PLUG THE PLAYER THIS START UP AND SHOW ME THE BATTERY CHARGER INDICATOR FLASHING.. I THINKS SO THAT THE BATTERY COULD BE CHARGED.. PLEASE IF YOU CAN HELP ME IM REGARDS YOU.. ANTONIO

NEED HELP WITH ZEN VISION M PLEASE HE

i'v recently brought the new creative zen vision M in pink and i think its broken! i charged it on my computer and loaded songs with no problems and used it on holiday for a while untill the battery ran out. i tried to charge it on my speakers (which say that they charge mp3 players) but this wouldnt work, iv also tried charging it on my computer now im home but it wont even connect let alone charge! all that happens when i plug it into my usb on my computer is the on switch flashes blue, the screen is blank though and the low battery sign doesnt even show!
i'v tried resetting it but it still wont work. i really dont know what to do as iv tried everything i can to sort it out
if anyone could offer any help id really apprieciate it as i paid alot of money for it n really want it to work!
thanks
jessica brewer

Looks like you might have to return it if it isn't responding to charging and the reset option. Is it under the 30 days return policy?
OR you could have an RMA so that Creative fixes it and then returns it to you. Here is most of the info:
http://us.creative.com/support/warranty/
Hoped that helped a little, and good luck.

Buying a creative ZEn Vision M Please help !

Hi there
I am debating on buying a creative zen Vision M after two years of i pod problems. My issue is can u convert the music from the i tunes libary to the player? or will u lose all that music
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--- If you have purchased the music from the iTunes Music Store, you will not be able to use the music on the player - iTMS music is iPod only.
There is a workaround (but it might not be legal, if you like to stay that way) - burn the music to a CD, then re-rip it in MP3 format using your favourite ripper. (iTunes will rip to MP3 - the option is under the 'Importing' tab on 'Advanced'.)
--- If your music is in AAC format, you can use a converter to change them into MP3. Be advised that this causes a major loss in quality - and if you own the CDs, you'll be better to re-rip them from scratch to ensure that they sound good.
You can do this conversion in iTunes - simply make sure that the format in the Advanced/Importing settings is set to MP3 (92kbps is fine for conversion). You can open the Settings window by clicking 'Preferences' in the Edit menu.
--- If your music is in MP3 format, you don't have to do anything! The ZV:M will play it nati'vely.Message Edited by Lokiz0r on 07--2006 09:8 AM

Zen vision m album artw

Hi can anybody tell me how i get album cover pictures on my zen vision m please,
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hibee23,
Maybe this Knowledgebase article SID879 can provide you with some information.
Jason

There's video problems with my Zen Vision:M already (M video cable related) Please help

Some background...
System:Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
Player: Brand new Creative Zen Vision: M with no firmware updates.
My Zen Vision:M has a problem (besides the scratch and fingerprint attracting top surface): It won't play videos on a TV screen when the M Video Cable (also from Creative) is linked to it anymore. It's only been a few hours...
I had the cable already, and got the player today. I let the player charge to /4th of a battery while I was setting up all the software. I ran the software programs just to take a peek, only changing the name of my player (to my name). I used Winamp 5.3 to put a music track on the player to test it. After that, I hooked it up to the VCR in my room through the white and yellow A/V plugs in front. It worked just fine. It to the tv a little large, but I was okay with it.
Later on today, the new AC charger I ordered came in the mail (Player came through UPS, charger through USPS). I looked at my old charger (Creative Zen Touch) and realized it would work with the plug-in part of the sync unit at the bottom. I tested it for a minute and it did. I still took it out and tried the new one. This is where, I think, something happened. I had to press the sides to get the thing in, and it was hard to come out. Everything still fit just right, and nothing seemed to be wrong. I used my old charger as I added more of my music library. Now it was on to videos. I had to convert the first two test vids (they were .wmv), but they played on my player fine. I put a bigger .wmv file onto the player to see if it had to convert it, and it did. It still played on the player. When I go to hook it to the TV with the A/V cord again, there was nothing but a black screen with the occasional diagonal scan line. The sound is still there.
Besides quirks with the navigational system, the player is still great for music and video. Still, I needed no video capability, and one of the things that made the ZVM a buy for me was watching my vids on the big screen. I'd return this for a second try, but I want to know if this is a recurring issue with you guys and if there's something I can do to fix it before a return. Did I mess with a setting? Should I get new firmware? Did I do wrong using my old charger? If any of you have an answer, or need more info on my situation, please let me know.
And BTW, does anyone know of some better software for organizing files on the ZVM? I used Winamp for my Zen Touch and the music on my ZVM, but videos are another ballpark. I can't transfer a video from one folder to another folder (assuming both folders are on the ZVM). Not to mention the music I transferred using Winamp isn't even showing up in Windows Media Player. I think I need a different program altogether.

I have got a new Creative Zen Vision W and getting the same problem....when i attach to the tv then i am able to hear the audio content and the video does not show.Are we missing something ? or is it a problem with the player. Also the software provided with the Zen converts small .vob files to .wmv when ever the size is large it gives an error 'conversion?unsucessful'.Any body facing similar problems please help.

Zen Vision:M Problem (Firmware + Recovery Mode) (please un-sti

(apologies on the sticky, i misclicked!)
I've had my Zen Vision:M 30GB for over a year now, and I absolutely love it! Unfortunately, while on my New Years vacation this past week I accidentally dropped it after it tangled in my headphones. Immediately afterwards, I started getting the "recovery mode" problem that seems to crop up. Unable to get past this(it booted only once every million-or-so tries), I decided to use the "MP3 recovery tool" from Creative's site
Unfortunately, it froze up halfway through, and now is giving me a "Hard Disk error". I tried to reformat, and it seemed to wipe it clean...but now it wont even recognize it when I plug it into my USB port to put in new firmware! (The PC recognizes it, but not the Firmware installation)
I don't know what else I can do....any ideas/help, please?
(I looked at Creative's support pages, but they only deal with Warranty repairs, which I don't have as it was a gift.) Can they repair/replace a broken non-warranty player, and if so, for how much?
Or is there another solution I haven't tried yet?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks in advance!Message Edited by leova on 0-02-200805:06 PM
Message Edited by leova on 0-02-200805:08 PM

Customer Support can also arrange out of warranty repairs, and can advise on the price.
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PLEASE HELP!! SOMEONE - ANYONE RE: ZEN VISION M 30GB PR

Has NO one had their Zen Vision M 30 GB or 60GB get stuck in the ON position at the CREATIVE screen and not reset with a paperclip?If ANYONE else has had this happen...PLEASE HELP
!!! HOW DO YOU RESET IT? It won't turn off and the Recovery program won't come up. It just STAYS RIGHT THERE ON THE WORD? "CREATIVE".
IS THERE SOME OTHER WAY TO REBOOT THE SYSTEM BESIDE THE PAPERCLIP TRICK??PLEASE....ANYONE?

Sometimes the LCD just goes bad. It could be that the connection is loose. The output to the TV has nothing to do with the display on the player itself. This video shows how to open the player http://www.youtube.com/thegadgetdr

Zen Vision M Problem, help please A

Just got a Zen vision M, and its really pissing me off. I installed all the software, and plugged it into the computer. The blue light started flashing, and has been for the past 3-4 hours. I then tried plugging it into a wall adapter i have that has a USB port on it. thsi caused the screen to come on (shock horror!) and the charging symbol to come on in the top right corner. I left that for an hour, but to my display it did not charge at all. At one point it turned on and started playing music, but then turned off after about 5 minutes. Please help

You could try rebuilding - with the Zen turned on, press the reset button (at the bottom next to data connector) with something like a straightened out paper clip. This will make the Zen reread all the tracks and rebuild it's database. It'll take a few minutes. If that doesn't work, try a full reset - see http://forums.creative.com/creativel...p&message.id=3?Try "reboot" first, then "clean up". Good luck!?Jim

My zen vision:m will no work at all, please h

my zen vision :m has stopped working, its response when switched on or when anyhting is done to it is very slow. All my music has been deleted off it completely and it wont let me sve any music onto it, even if i record from the radio. When i go to put music on my zen player the zen vision:m desktop for transferring music and everything will not let me cross off it once i have it up,
please please help me, i am truely stuck and i have everything to go with it so need it fixing thankyou

From the recovery screen (instructions here? http://forums.creative.com/creativel....id=5530#M5530? ) do a Format>Cleanup>Reboot. That should get the hardri've ready to to reloaded with your files. (Stay Away From The Reload Firmware & the Recovery Tool) It's best to do this Manually.

Zen vision m comments please

ok hi im thinking of either getting a zvm or zmp but i want the zvm you guys please tell me about your players bad things and good tings this includes the zmp thanks!

hi, i bought the creative zen vision m this week!! i was really happy to have it.
its volume and the picture is reallly clear. i really like it. i dont if u'd like it but its
been very popular everywhere even though not alot of people have it. i hope
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Problems downloading firmware to Zen Vision:M... PLEASE HE

?I have had 3 different Creative products, and they all have left me unsatisfied. The first Creative player that I owned was a Christmas gift from my parents, it was a Zen Micro. I believe I got it in 2005. I loved this music player. It was easy to use, and the sound quality was excellent. In 2006, I purchased a Zen Vision:M. My only complaint was that the screen scratched very easily, but that problem was easily prevented with a screen cover. However, it began to delete my music, over 800 songs at a time. And, however hard I tried I could not get it to cooperate with my new Windows Vista computer. I am quite young, and have no knowledge of computers (although I am a master at PowerPoint), so all of the helpful tips provided here on the message boards are/were of no help to me. So now, my "baby" is sitting in its box waiting to be fixed.
After my new player (Zen Vision:M) crashed, I went back to using my Zen Micro about 2 weeks ago. Within the past week, it has started to freeze up when I turn it off and I have to resort to taking out the battery, and I am always afraid that I will lose songs when it re-builds the library. Just now I plugged it in to my Windows XP machine, because I cannot get it to work on my Windows Vista, and it wasn't recognized so I had to take out the battery and try it again. Luckily it worked... but I still do not know what to do. Creative is only going to fix my player, and this is of no help to me because I will not be able to download all of my songs I had on it before.
Being a teenager, music is my life, and my mp3 is the air I breathe. ( I am not that weird, I am just using this point to emphasize my problems.) I am so frustrated with these products that I am about to just give up on them all together. So... this "life history" ends with my true question. I know that there are zillions of posts on this message board dealing with the same issue, but how exactly do I get my Zen Vision:M recognized on my Windows Vista computer? I am willing to try to fix this problem on my own, one last time, but first I have to get my player recognized by my computer. I erased the firmware, which was what I was told to do by other owners of Creative products, ( I have no idea what?firmware is anyway ), and my Window's XP and Window's Vista machines would not recognize it so I could download the new firmware. Maybe there is an easy solution to this problem... but I need help. Once I accomplish this, I will no longer need to use my Zen Micro, so I will no longer have a problem with that device. Help me please. I need easy steps, because like I said, I am not computer savvy.

Arty wrote:
Hi! I just bought my Zen Vision: M and tried to install the new firmware. I keep receiving an error message: "Your player is not connected, please connect your player." I know my player is connected and Zen Vision: M Media Explorer recognizes it. Is there any way for me to install the new firmware? Please help...
can someone please advise me on an issue i have, i bought my M at christmas from Singapore and works well until i installed the new downloaded firmware , it continued for a week then the other day when i plugged it in it was not recognized and the player frooze and had to be reset to turn it off.
I have tried reinstalling the firmware ( original) but nothing , i even formated the player but of course now there is no content and the player is not recognized.
Any help will be appreiciated,
Regards Kennz.

Problems Please help...zen vision

I have an Creative Zen vision and installed it and the computer detect it but I cant install it because the computer cant find the drivers? and I have sp2 and windows media player 0... HELP!!

I also am having this issue. Where I have installed the software for the M and after doing so I plug it in and get the Driver installation that fails to find drivers. If I try to open the creative explorer or the firmware upgrade released yesterday both say no device attached.

Zen vision M problem wont work/turn on please h

Hi, I bought my dad an early christmas gift of a Zen vision M 20gb black mp3 player. I was using my zen micro mp3 charger to charge it because it was compatable so it was charging up the unit. After about 2 hrs i decided to turn on the unit and look at the functions of it. It played music and picture fine, but then i went to the video function and clicked play on the unit. The screen went black, and the battery bar in the top right corner dissapeared. The clicking sound from the scroll wheel was still working but nothing else was working. We tried turning it off from the swith up top but that didnt work, then we tried using the reset button thingy at the bottom and still no luck. What is the problem if anyone knows thanks for your information and input. The software wasnt installed on the computer or registered yet if that means anything.

I just got the Zen Version:M 30 GB for Christmas and after charging the thing for 6 hours, I seem to be having the same issue that a lot of folks are having ?It doesn?t seem to work when unplugging the device from the A/C charger?. I noticed that the device wasn?t charging and on the unit it was displaying an ?A/C plug? icon (means that the unit is fully charged and running of AC power) and not the ?battery / lightning bolt? icon as it should when charging.
The Fix:
Upgrade the device?s firmware. I was running ver. .0.xx (shipped with this version). After downloading the updated firmware for my Zen M to the latest version (.6.0), my device started to charge. I now see a battery / lightning bolt icon indicating that the device is now charging.
Firmware can be downloaded at:
http://www.creative.com/language.asp?sDestUrl=/support/downloads
Message Edited by rwdavis0530 on 2-25-200605:2 PM

Please, please bring out a Zen Vision:M with integrated digital camera!

Is there some chance to contact the development division of creative and ask for a Zen Vision:M with integrated digital camera? there are mobiles out there with 0 Megapixel cameras and they don?t have a 30 GB disk space.
There would be nothing better then have this nice Vision:M mp3 player with an integrated camera..
one additional use for Vision:M besides using for listining to mp3 is to keep and carry around photos with it anyways.. so why don?t they bring it our with camera? wouldn?t need to take photos with another devise, transfer these photos to the pc/mac and then transfer them back on Vision:M.... just carrying aroung one devise would be so much better... but I guess that is also some marketing stuff... first sell this generation of Vision:M, and then wait some time and come out with the new generation of players, with finally integrated camera... or maybe just wait, until ipod brings them out first... anyways, I really don?t see a technical problem for this...
Olympus m:robe 500 put a mp3 camera on the market a couple of years ago, though it can't really compete with Vision:M on the mp3 player part.
any comments from anyone?

I actually disagree, reason being that when you take into account the cameras that are build into the phones they are at most adequate, 2MP is the current theme (at least in UK I think). The option/settings/tweeks with the phone cameras is poor when you look at it, stand alone digital cams offer better features compared with phone digicams, then you have the power too, to dri've a good camera if you have one then you know required decent batteries, storage (ok you have a hard dri've so that is sorted) but take into consideration that you will always get better results with a digicam than phone cameras and you can see that would be a waste of time for the time being.
There is an old saying "Jack of all trades, Master of none" and this seemes to hold true to the phone cameras. Don't get me wrong it would be nice to have it only and only if you have all the features of the stand alone one with big resolution and so on, heck I have a Nokia 6230 and like it very much but my old 3.2MP Cannon (by all means not the best and not the newest?in the world) gives me far better/superior results than the the one on the phone even can. What would be cool to have is a port where you can hook them both up and use the Mp3 players HDD to store (I know you can on some Creative players) your snaps without having to buy or have attachments, just plug a mini USB and you are off. Technology as always moves forward and an astonishing reate and new gadgets?come out?and quality improves, battery life lengthens and so on, so we might even see this happen. Ttill the time where they are on par with most consumer digicams?I will be?witholding in buying one.Message Edited by RobertM on 03-0-20062:57 PM

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