How to crash and restore your Creative Vision M

Posted in Computers & Technology, Humour by Elliott Back on February 11th, 2006.

The Creative Vision M, early 2006’s best mp3 player, can be crashed while playing a video and rapidly changing the playback speed:

Vision M Crash

It will just hang on a particular video frame and speed on the display, and not do anything. Inserting the Creative dock doesn’t help. However, a quick pinprick to the reset button located on the bottom panel of the device will restore it to perfect working order. It seems that you shouldn’t make it possible to scroll through playback speed settings at high speed…

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G. Emmens 2 years ago 1 point
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Hello,

Thx for the tip of the reset thingy. It worked like a charm.
My Zen crashed when I tried to make it stretch a video to full screen.
I'm wondering however why I could not find this solution in the booklet nor on the Creative website.
It IS a great little toy, but my enthousiasm has weakened somehwat by this crash. Thx again.
G. Emmens, the Netherlands

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Lauren 2 years ago 1 point
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Hi

Thanks for the help. Mine crashed when shifting through songs on random repeatedly and resetting seemed to do the trick.

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Ariel 2 years ago 1 point
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I did that so many times... but now i have the screen of death! It froze on me and then i reseted,,, What do i do next??? It says i have a harddisk error, i tried loooking for help but i can't seem to find a one answer solution.

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Cynthia 2 years ago 1 point
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Hey... I used the reset button but now it freezes when rebuilding.... I have tried it over an dover but freezes in the same place. Any advice? Thanks most appreciated

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Sara Cate 2 years ago 1 point
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By the way, G. Emmens, this Reset information IS outlined in the Creative Vision M booklet.

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Mike 2 years ago 1 point
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Mine won't start, it crashes on bot, gets to the ZEN screen and hangs, Ive tried resetting, tried rebooting, run a scan disk, but nothing it keeps hanging in the same place, so I cant even turn it off!

Has anyone had this problem?, any ideas?

I found the recovery menu by accident (Hold the power button to the right and you hit the reset button, and you get a recovery mode menu)

I'm thinking the next step is to replace the firmware, but im a litte worried it may kill it completely, then there is always the last resort option of formating it and starting again!

Im finding the unit to be quite unsatisfactory as it hangs often, especially when synching with my laptop!

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TJ 2 years ago 1 point
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My Zen Crashed while I was rapidly changing songs in the gym, when I reset it, the library rebuilt, and it came back on, but all my playlists and half of my songs had disapeared... very very disapointing as this is my 2nd Creative Zen Vision M, worse now, It won't sync up to my computer, or Napster, so I can't get my playlists back!!!
Any one know how to do a hard reset? Hopefully that will help...
Thanks TJ~
ps, if it didn't break down, I would LOVE this thing...

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Joergen 2 years ago 1 point
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My Vision:M crashed while i was changing song at home. I have tried everything, "Reebot", "Clean Up", "Replace Firmware", even "Format All" won't work,everytime I try this message, "Harddisk Error" pops up. It also makes weird sounds. It's ******** irritating.

If somebody knows what to do please post it here!

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Kaylie R. 2 years ago 1 point
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Thank you so much for the tip!!! I was absolutely distraught when it froze...

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Pasqualo 2 years ago 1 point
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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?

(JOERGEN: does this sound like the same problem you have?)

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Moori Hydrose 2 years ago 1 point
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Mine also crashed while I was rapidly changing songs in the shuffle mode. It seems like this thing likes slow handling of its controls. It gets overwhelmed if too much commands are given to it in a short time.
I feel let down by creative after paying over 200 USD for this thing.
Mine sprung back to life after I hit the reset button using a staple, It went into rebuiding mode and then everything is normal.

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joel 2 years ago 1 point
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that helped big time!!!!!!!!!!!
thanxs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bonnie 2 years ago 1 point
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After downloading a video from my computer and watching it. I turned my zen m off. I went to turn it on a few minutes later and it won't turn on. When I plug it into the computer it won't recognize that anything is there and it only shows a blue light when I plug it in the wall. Any suggestions?

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LeeM 2 years ago 1 point
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my Zen crashed and from that moment, i wasnt able to connect it to my pc anymore, i can connect it to load up the batterys, but the program doesnt recognize it.... guess the only thing left to do is format my pc.... (again :/)

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George 2 years ago 1 point
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Hey, Thanks so much for making this! Saved my life! Haha - my Zen was frozen on a video I hadn't converted properly and I Googled "reset zen vision m" and this page came up! Woo-hoo!

Thanks again,
George

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http://www.artofvision.co.nr

Jane Insane 2 years ago 1 point
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Thank you! Mine crashed when I was watching a video and tried to go back to the menu..but your tip made it work again! Weee! :D

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zadovoljni korisnik tudjeg zen 1 year ago 1 point
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Thanks man!
F*ck it, how didn't I get the idea of searching for reset hole :)
thanks once more!

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Woo 1 year ago 1 point
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Mine crashed so often i had to send it off to get repaired. Then they sent me another one, and the same thing happened. Then they sent me yet another one, and the same thing happened. I got my money back eventually and spent it on an ipod!

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Jess 1 year ago 1 point
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Hey thanks for the info, I swear I looked over the player for the reset button but in my haste couldn't see the thing. Worked like a gem though, went straight to a song after loading, be patient with it though, just let it do it's job as it will hold on the formatting at 100% completed for a few minutes.

With the software for the player, I just couldn't stand how long it took to format everything and then wouldn't put the music on the player. It was rivalling the iTunes for "run by The Man" award... I downloaded Media Monkey and have never looked back. With Media Monkey you can set it to only load your selected playlist, it reads other lists on your computer that you can load up and you can set it to automatically sync your different devices to different lists and settings judging by which you plug in.

I went through an iPod, a toshiba Gigabeat and a Zen before deciding on the Zen (harder to navigate but 10 times better battery life). The iTunes updated software doesn't read 80% of the music on my computer, whereas the older version of iTunes did (don't be fooled by this), even if you buy the music from them, it won't work if they think it's too old. The Zen software loaded a few more songs but duplicated everything to the point where I had 600 songs but only because it duplicated everything by 3 (and I have way more than 200 songs). The Gigabeat was perfect with everything but the battery would die in 4 hours, wouldn't hold battery on switchoff-same as the iPod- and the fidelity was poor to the point where I could hear the faintest crackle (if you love your music to sound perfect, I don't recommend this device).

I almost gave up on MP3 devices after this escapade but thanks to an unknown persons advice on the Media Monkey I can sleep at night. Good luck!

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Giovanni 1 year ago 1 point
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I thought the m vision crashed only occasionally.
It does even after converting the files with the creative software.
trying to solve the prob IÂ´ve downloaded the last firmware but it doesnÂ´t work. It really drives me up the wall!
ItÂ´s hard to believe but Creative, house of the sound blaster, had put on the market a device which costs me 230 Euros without testing it properly.
ItÂ´s a shame. Will sell this crap soon.

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Vinicio 1 year ago 1 point
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Hello after being connected to the USB port, I unplugged it, and now, it only shows the blue power on light, but nothing else, it charges, but nothing else, is not being recognized by the computer, it makes no spinning sound.,..nothing...only the blue light of the power on...I tried powerbutton+reset..but nothing...someone has a tip? I already dissabled it and reseated everything...but same issue...

Thanks!!

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sean 1 year ago 1 point
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mang wont turn on can some 1 help me

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shiori2525 1 year ago 1 point
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My Zen Vision M crashed for the first time after changing songs in shuffle mode and I didn't know how to do because it still had a lot of battery left. After I pushed the reset button, it came back in normal condition. Happy. heehee

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Laura 1 year ago 1 point
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Elliott C. Back: Technology FTW!

How to crash and restore your Creative Vision M

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