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Zonks — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:53 -0000

Mine was working fine, now it randomly hangs. If press the reset button, it stays on the ZEN start screen until the battery dies and none of the buttons respond, i can't even turn it off... :S

the last time this happened i let the battery power drain and then reconnected it to another pc and it worked...this time, i can't get my pc to even recognize the device...I plug it in and it keeps telling me that the device is offline...i have tried with the recovery menu, but i can only scroll through the options for about 2 seconds, then it freezes and doesn't let me select any options...

i used to love this little player, now i hate it!
please help!

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Ryan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:01:25 -0000

what do my Creative Vision M is being picked up on the computer but is not being picked up on windows media player beucase i can't put not songs on at all :/
Help.

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keith — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:05:35 -0000

ok i send my vision m to be repared thay replaced the HDD
got it back a few days ago everytime i go to but music on it it freezes
ive tried everything what can i do?

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Emre — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:05:17 -0000

hey. my creative vision get the ‘Harddisk error’ on the screen when I try to reload a firmware. what should I do?

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keith — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:34:10 -0000

my creative vision m froze while i was putting new music on it
i reset it tock about 45 mins and it was fine then i tried to put music on it again and it froze i reset it again and now all my music and vidos are gone
its years of work i had about 2300 songs and about 30 vidos
when i dock it nothing happens
what do i do

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Alf — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:04 -0000

Thanks, I almost had a heart attack when it happened. In a way you saved my life.

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Emily — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:21:37 -0000

i was flicking through photos on my vision m creative zen and it froze so i poked teh rest button and now it rebuilds alittle bit then says FIRMWARE PROBLEM

HELPP !!!!

i dont knwo what taht means or what i have to do ..

any suggestions will be much appreciated

xx

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erica prendergast — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:51:39 -0000

i just bought my creative zen and since day one it will not work. i have tried to reset it and all i get is a blank screen. the power won't even turn off on it. i moved house recently and lost all my softwear for it so could someone please help me as i am lost without it and don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lauren — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:36:32 -0000

Okay so I went to bed with my Creative Zen turned off and mostly charged. I woke up the next morning went to work came home and a few hours later I went to turn on my creative zen. Except it wouldn't turn on and when it did only a black screen came up. Now it won't turn on at all. I've tried reseting it and 'clean up' but it didn't do anything. So I thought the battery died. I plugged it into my computer and the computer won't recognize it and says there is an error and can't read it. The Zen turns on when plugged in but the screen remains black. I can't get a recovery menu up or a format it. What should I do?

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Christa — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:01:44 -0000

My vision M wont turn on. i haven't used it for about a month and when i went to turn it on nothing happened. when i plug it in to my computer the LED blinks. my father fixed it once before. he forgot what he did and wont take the time to figure it out again. i need my music! please help!

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hardik — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:24:07 -0000

hello,

i want to hide some content in ZEN VISION M , but it is asking me about password, i cant go throug because i dont have default password can u help me plz.. reply

i am in(ZEN)--> system-->player setting --> protected content hide

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Tiger — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:24:17 -0000

i think i actually love you for making this XD

mine froze when i was just trying to put a song on, but i think i pressed two buttons at the same time or something, and maybe it just confused my zen a little bit ^o^

but the reset button worked perfectly, everything is still there (i think!) and it still docks perfectly :]

was a bit worried because a lot of people seem to have had trouble after resetting, but mine seems to be okay.

Thankyou very much! i thought i'd lost my music forever, but i havent :)))))))

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Jordan — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:51:33 -0000

I had the same problem some of you guys had with the stuck in recovery mode screen with my Zen Sleek after trying to reload the firmware. My computer couldn't read it and it couldn't do anything do I contacted Creative customer support, they're in Stillwater OK, which I just happened to be visiting so I dropped it off with them, went to lunch with my family, came back about 1.5 to 2 hours later and they had a new one for me. They're really nice, helpful, and quick too.

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sarah — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:31:31 -0000

recently my vision M came into contact with water. thats all dry now, but when i start it up it opens a recovery menu, and im not sure what to select to get my vision zen up and running again please help!

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Ashley — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:03:07 -0000

Nevermind.. All the songs that I have recently uploaded onto my Zen, are gone, all my playlists, photos, and videos are gone.. And now my computer isnt reconizing my Zen. HELP.

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Ashley — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:52:08 -0000

Hi. My Zen Vision: M frove, when I had pressed to many buttons at once. I was reading this forum, and read my posts saying to Reset my Zen. So I just finished reseting it, and it was rebuilding for about a minutes, and now it works fine. From what I can tell, I no songs, or videos, or nothing, was deleted. Ill see when I look further. But from what I can tell, Reseting works perfectly. Thanks, everyone. -Ashley-

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Mechapanda — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:16:38 -0000

OMG thanks soooo much. i broke my MUMS zen while tryin 2 put a video on it for her. wouldnt hav found the reset button in a million years! life saver!!!!!

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Ashley — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:13:38 -0000

Hi,

I've got a problem with my creative zen M and wondered if anyone can help

Basically. Whenever I leave it off for a long period (ie. Overnight) i switch it on but it always rebuilds the library every time and its pissing me off. It's making the battery low and it takes at least 15 minutes to rebuild fully. I have about 3000 tracks on it.

Also, I have to charge the battery through my laptop as the adaptor got lost, which is fine charging, but it won't let me sync any music on windowns player. it's always asking for me to connect a device, even though its connected.

Anyone help please?

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Skrapy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:28:42 -0000

So I have the same problem as everyone else. I love my zen vision m. but its getting progressivley worse. i am now stuck in recovery mode. firmware error it says. but when i try to load the firmware my cpu doesnt recognize the device so i get no where. i have been trying to do everything to make this machine run smoothly but am ending up something that is worthless. dont think that i will buy another one. but would like to get this one running at least for a few more months before i burry it!! anyone with some knowledge pease help me out.
thanks.

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that nigga — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:08:50 -0000

i have fireware problem any help? what do i do?

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swich401 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:03:50 -0000

For all those getting a disk error:

This may be due to the needle (read head) of the hard drive getting stuck in place on the hard drive table (Platter for those who know what I'm talking about)...

Solution?

You must be VERY careful with this solution as you have the potential to break the LCD screen: Face up, a.k.a LCD screen facing you, slam the player against a SOFT surface. If done right, and hopefully without causing more damage, this can dislodge the read head and get your player back up and running. This should be a last choice tho and I recommend it only to those that nothing else has worked for. Sufficient force must be used to actually give the player a very large jolt so make sure that your hand or any other object is not touching that precious LCD display. This method has helped me fix 3 different mp3 players now.

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Stella — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:43:30 -0000

My Vision M crashed when I dropped it… STupid, I know, but still. So, when I turn it on, it has some sort of disk error. I get the options like ‘reboot’, format all’ etc, but the device won’t respond to any of these. I too get the ‘Harddisk error’ on the screen, so think something inside has shot loose, not sure what. Anyone has a clue?

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Michelle — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:47:32 -0000

Ive had mine for about a month now, i just swiched it on after having not used it for a couple of days, and the recovery mode keeps comeing up after ive rebooted it, restarted it. I tryed clean up, it says its scanning disk but its takeing so long! Does anyone no how long is this ment to take?
Ive already formatted it before i did this, so i dont think theres any mp3 files on it.

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steve-O — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:09:29 -0000

Make sure you tap a short length side, not the loang side. That means on the Vision M you're tapping either the bottom or top, not the sides. and on the Vision or Vision W you're tapping the left or right sides. I actually held mine like a pack of cigarettes with the right side up and lightly banged the Left End of the player to my left hand 2 or 3 times.

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steve-O — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:03:59 -0000

Note: One of the issues may be the connector to the HDD. I kept getting the recovery screen so I tapped the player (Zen Vision -not M -not W) on the right side like a pack of cigarettes. Not hard, mind you, just a lcouple light taps. I got the Zen screen back and it showed the last thing I tried to play. Then I tried to switch to a video I have played dozens of times. It froze again and then went back to recovery mode. I tried to cleanup a few time but it never showed any progress. Couple more light taps and running smooth like water again!

How I figured it out was, In my work vehicle I use a radio transmitter to here the audio on my truck speakers. but the drawback is i can "hear" the hard drive spinning in the form of feedback and whining in the radio speakers. I noticed that I didn't hear the whining when it would boot to recovery mode. So try tapping your player on one end or the other till you can hear the HD spinning....