New Firmware 1.20.02

[humolezer]

Filename: ZEN_PCFW_L22_1_20_02.exe
This download contains an improved version of the firmware found on your Creative ZEN™ player. It enables you to transfer and view photos from your memory card. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Added Features or Enhancements:

• Enables you to transfer and view photos from your memory card.
  • To transfer files, select Memory Card --> Import All.
  • To view transferred photos (.jpg), select Photos --> Imported Files --> [memory card name] --> [folder name].
  • To open or view other transferred files, use your computer. Connect your player to your computer and click your player's icon in My Computer. Click Storage Media --> Imported Files --> [memory card name] --> [folder name]

For more information on this new feature, download the updated User's Guide (Product Documentation) at www.creative.com/support.

• Improves your player's playback time for AAC (.m4a) and WMA (.wma) files.
• Improves player stability for continuous playback over a long period of time.

Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™, Windows® XP (Service Pack 2)
• Windows Media® Player 10 or later
• USB port
• Creative ZEN player

Notes:

• To install this firmware
  1. Download the ZEN_PCFW_L22_1_20_02.exe file into your local hard disk.
  2. Close all application windows that are currently running on your computer.
  3. Connect your player to your computer.
  4. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen.

• If your player fails to restart after the firmware upgrade:
  1. Turn off your player.
  2. Disconnect your player from your computer.
  3. Press and hold the Play/Pause button. Continue to hold the button while you perform steps 4 and 5. If you accidentally release the button, start the procedure again.
  4. Gently push a straightened paper clip into the Reset hole.
  5. Slide the On/Off switch towards the USB port and hold until the display lights up. The Recovery Mode screen appears with four options: Clean Up, Format All, Reload Firmware, and Reboot.
  6. Select Reload Firmware, followed by Yes.
  7. Connect your player to your computer.
  8. Double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen.

Download link----> here

[Warhawk]

I'm guessing SD card integration with photos?

[qwerty_uk]

It's not quite the integration we're looking for, is it?

Oh well, a step in the right direction I suppose.

[Warhawk]

You can actually transfer music and video files also.
You just have to access them on the correct folder on the computer.

I'd say 1 more fw update and it should be 100% SD card integration.

[Valdr]

Not exactly as I imagined, this transfers ALL files from SD, w/o option to choose single folders or files. It has nothing to do with integration it's just another way to copy files to internal memory. Good for people that have problems with MTP players.

[starZz]

It's a nice step taken by creative I can see their effort to improve the zen further. hope there will be more coming up from creative

[Adeptus_Minor]

Looks like the firmware update will be the first step when my Zen gets here.

[Valdr]

It's especially nice that Creative has started to expand funcionality not just stability of the player.

[Graydog]

amen ,,,,,,,,,,,now I can use it with my d camera as a dump

[xjjjay]

Originally Posted by Graydog

amen ,,,,,,,,,,,now I can use it with my d camera as a dump

likewise, but with my phone :P

[InternetMusicWorld]

I have a problem. Two days ago I upgraded to this new firmware. Ever since then some of my song files make a scratchy sound before starting up, it also is aparent when going from one track to another. It is very annoying. I had the same problem last month and was able to rollback to previous firmware on a thread I found. But now I cannot find that thread and what used to be an excellent player now has these small issues that are truly becoming a pain.

Can anybody help me to roll back to the previous firmware? or tell me how I can get rid of these annoying "Tsch" sounds between tracks and when beggining a new track?

[bonkov]

I just got my ZEN 2GB version. Can I update the firmware or this is just for 4/8/16/32 GB versions?

[Woembah]

It should work for the 2GB version too.

[Southwest]

...Well, it's a start.

I've still got my fingers crossed for a proper fix, and if they managed to include at the same time new logic for sorting albums and artists starting with "The" or "A", I'd be golden.

[qwerty_uk]

Originally Posted by Southwest

if they managed to include at the same time new logic for sorting albums and artists starting with "The" or "A", I'd be golden.

Agreed! And Album Artist (separate from Track Artists) section too.

But I don't want to turn this into a firmware request thread... there are other threads for that!

[Buzzkill]

Originally Posted by bonkov

I just got my ZEN 2GB version. Can I update the firmware or this is just for 4/8/16/32 GB versions?

Same player, different memory. Yes, it will work.

[MarcelsWayOfLife]

sorry , but is this thread up to date?
if i look on my zen i see firmware 1.21.01e

[Valdr]

There's a thread for newer firmware, I don't know why this is still sticked.

[pkirbyr]

I just called Creative support and they walked me through a reset of my new ZEN 4GB... what a waist of time.. I told him the ZEN Media Explorer was crashing and not the device itself.

Anyway, has anyone else experienced this problem when just hooking up the device to their computer?

I tried loading the most recent firmware and it crashes after it says the upgrade has successfully completed.

After it crashes it also causes some weirdness where every application screen i move arround shows multiples of the same application screen trailing behind it. the drwatson program also crashes and then i have to delete the process in task manager.

i've tried turning off all other applications to no success.

Thanks for any ideas.

kirby.

[millrat1030]

I'm running Vista and I have had no success at getting Creative's media converter to work. The rest of the program works fine though. If you are seeing tracers of windows when moving them, that usually means a program is hung up and hogging up your processor. Have you tried uninstalling Zen Media explorer and reinstalling latest version? I see you say you did a firmware upgrade to the Zen, but did you install the latest version of zen media explorer? Just something to try.