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Gyuritzy:
Dear Community,
I need your help.
I have tried some time ago to install Rockbox on my mp3 Player (Creative ZEN X-Fi). at some point I have restarted the mp3 player, perhaps in the middle of the firmware update or something... I can't tell exactly any more. :-(
Right now I at this point:
the player does not start, Windows recognizes the player only as HID device.
I have found on the Internet a tool sbloader which "pamaury" has compiled (many thanks to him) and I am sending with this tool the file ZENXFI_PCFW_l22_1_04_08e_rk_fresc.nk to the Player. This is the only way to wake it up.
Then I wait for it to start (it only enters in recovery mode). Then I do a update Firmware on the mp3 player - which should erase the Firmware (it gives an error message at the end: "Media problem").
after that I try to send the OF (ZENXFI_PCFW_l22_1_04_08e_rk.nk)  to the Player with sendfirm (I also tried it under Linux - sendfirm32).
with the following results:
1. mostly I get an error message - not possible
2. under Linux I get a black Screen at the beginning and then some error Messages - the player does not react in any way...
The creative tool detects the firmware version tries to update but it gives an error message "Firmware update failed".
Thanks!

chrisjj:
Can anyone clarify the status of this port?

Stable, says https://www.rockbox.org/
Unstable, says https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENXFiPort

Bilgus:
the wiki has an edit data of 11 Nov 2013

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/MajorChanges
2016-09-21: Promote ZEN X-Fi to stable

So I'd say someone forgot to update the wiki

chrisjj:
If anyone knows what improvements were made to the port to justify the 2016 change to Stable, it would be great if they could update the feature status table https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENXFiPort accordingly.

schpeltiger:

--- Quote from: pamaury on September 23, 2016, 05:10:11 PM ---Hi again,
here is the linked to the prebuilt bootloader. It is version V1_RC:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjqfmgsg6w6014k/firmware_zenxfi_v1rc.nk?dl=0
To install it, follow the instruction from the wiki:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENPort#Manual_method
in a nutshell: enter recovery mode, reload firmware, plug device, use sendfirm to send the new firmware

As a side note, I tortured my ZEN X-Fi by rebooting many many times and I was indeed able to have a black screen on boot after 20 attempts or so. So the problem might still be there.

--- End quote ---

I apologize for resurrecting a dead thread, but after years of having what I thought was a bricked X-Fi, I managed to get this specific bootloader to work! I had to utilize the Linux sendfirm tools since sendfirm.exe didn't want to work with Windows 10, but I'm currently uploading music to the device to test it. I just want to give others hope that this does work.

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