Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Downgrade Creative MuVo N200 firmware
Happily using my MuVo N200, until it starts to auto off so frequently. Google leads me to the creative forums.
People says the problem is due to firmware, and a list of useful firmware list was given here, so I just picked the latest 1.20.04, since I am always going for the latest.
Firmware upgrade always looks quite straightforward, Recovery Mode, run the downloaded executable, Bingo! All problems are gone.
Wait a minute, in fact, it's old problems gone, new problem appears, the volume now goes 0-20 instead of 0-40. At night or other quiet environment, volume 1 is too loud already!
On the forum, someone said that the downgraded from 1.20.04 to 1.12.01 by luck, try and error, no exact steps to follow. So I started to try my luck.
Luckily, I did it also, and there are some steps to follow if you have not found your luck.
1. Connect the MuVo in Recovery Mode, use 1.20.04 firmware, after you see more than 3 blue block, unplug MuVo quickly.
2. Connect it back in normal mode, try to access the file system, it will tell you not formated, say yes to format it. Now you MuVo is just a USB thumb drive, don't worry.
3. Connect in Recovery Mode again, now use 1.12.01 firmware, and let it finish. It takes some time to find, if it can't finish, try again from step 1, or else, you are really unlucky.
People says the problem is due to firmware, and a list of useful firmware list was given here, so I just picked the latest 1.20.04, since I am always going for the latest.
Firmware upgrade always looks quite straightforward, Recovery Mode, run the downloaded executable, Bingo! All problems are gone.
Wait a minute, in fact, it's old problems gone, new problem appears, the volume now goes 0-20 instead of 0-40. At night or other quiet environment, volume 1 is too loud already!
On the forum, someone said that the downgraded from 1.20.04 to 1.12.01 by luck, try and error, no exact steps to follow. So I started to try my luck.
Luckily, I did it also, and there are some steps to follow if you have not found your luck.
1. Connect the MuVo in Recovery Mode, use 1.20.04 firmware, after you see more than 3 blue block, unplug MuVo quickly.
2. Connect it back in normal mode, try to access the file system, it will tell you not formated, say yes to format it. Now you MuVo is just a USB thumb drive, don't worry.
3. Connect in Recovery Mode again, now use 1.12.01 firmware, and let it finish. It takes some time to find, if it can't finish, try again from step 1, or else, you are really unlucky.
// posted by GlaDoo @ 1:14 AM 
