Comment on Creative Zen Vision W ssd upgrade 30-256(128?)gb
SolarQueen@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Awesome work, and thank you for sharing the process! I like collecting these off-brand MP3 players from years ago, and there’s just not that much information on how to do these upgrades/fixes these days.
I’ve got a NOMAD Zen Xtra but haven’t done much with it yet. The battery’s borked and I haven’t worked out an easy work flow for getting stuff on it just yet. One day…
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t know about the Nomad but some of the later ZEN player had newer firmwares that borked the battery replacements. The Vision W doesn’t seem to care I think partially because the BMS board is built into the battery itself. I bought some extra storage adapter boards to test so may grab a ZEN touch or vision M to play with but I need to get my library cleaned up first.
On the transfer side, some of the later models or later firwares basically turn them into mass storage drives. My player shows up in Linux with no drivers fwiw.