The Empty Battery

I've seen a lot of people with Zune 30s that have this problem, but what about Zune 80s?  I've got a new Zune 80 and have simiar problems.  If I do not charge my device every night, it will be dead within 24 hours.  I use my device for the drive to/from work.  I'm listening to it for at most 1 hour per day and the battery indincator is red before I get home.

I'll echo the hopes that this is a firmware problem and that a fix will be coming soon.

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Aitrus -------------- Zune 80

this is pretty annoying, i noticed the shortened batetery life too.

I recently bought my zune 80gb a few days ago. I have not expierenced this problem and I am still running on the same charge since I bought it. I do use my zune a lot so it's not like tis just sitting there. I read on the zune support page that you should not charge your battery unless it is atleast half way deplieted. Don't know if that is why your having these issues, but just trying to help.

Anyone know if the hard reset deletes things that came pre-installed on the hard drive?

I have the Halo 3 Zune that came with 140+ pieces of artwork on the hard drive. I don't want to lose those pics...

 DR3AMR wrote:

Anyone know if the hard reset deletes things that came pre-installed on the hard drive?

I have the Halo 3 Zune that came with 140+ pieces of artwork on the hard drive. I don't want to lose those pics...

If there is no way of getting the pictures onto your computer, I'm afraid your out of luck.

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The Ramblin' Man

 Aitrus97 wrote:

I've seen a lot of people with Zune 30s that have this problem, but what about Zune 80s?  I've got a new Zune 80 and have simiar problems.  If I do not charge my device every night, it will be dead within 24 hours.  I use my device for the drive to/from work.  I'm listening to it for at most 1 hour per day and the battery indincator is red before I get home.

I'll echo the hopes that this is a firmware problem and that a fix will be coming soon.

 

Yes, I can confirm the same defect on the Zune 80.  I LOVE the Zune, but this is nuts.

 Aitrus97 wrote:

I've seen a lot of people with Zune 30s that have this problem, but what about Zune 80s?  I've got a new Zune 80 and have simiar problems.  If I do not charge my device every night, it will be dead within 24 hours.  I use my device for the drive to/from work.  I'm listening to it for at most 1 hour per day and the battery indincator is red before I get home.

Yep, there are a bunch of Z80 owners in this thread that have the same problem, including me.  The workaround is to do a hard shutdown when I am not using it.  Hit the 'back' and 'down' buttons and hold them down until the unit shuts off.  Not my ideal way of fixing this, but this ensures that the battery won't be drained for that commute home.

I suspect as more Z80 owners get their Z80, then we might see more of them notice this.

Um... Daklu isn't part of the Zune team... otherwise he would have the appropriate forum rankings.

this happens to me as well but when i plug it in to charge the battery shows the exact same amount i had when i stopped using it. now its to the point that i cant use my zune at all. every single time i try t use it the battery indictor comes on. i am about ready to go buy another ipod, last ipod i had nevr had as many problems as ive been having with my zune. everything started right after i updated the firmware. microsoft is really dropping the ball on this product in my opinion.

same here me and my dad zunes are dead in one day after the update came out we need to be heard though we all need to contact mircosoft bout it.

 KupKrazy wrote:

 Aitrus97 wrote:

I've seen a lot of people with Zune 30s that have this problem, but what about Zune 80s?  I've got a new Zune 80 and have simiar problems.  If I do not charge my device every night, it will be dead within 24 hours.  I use my device for the drive to/from work.  I'm listening to it for at most 1 hour per day and the battery indincator is red before I get home.

Yep, there are a bunch of Z80 owners in this thread that have the same problem, including me.  The workaround is to do a hard shutdown when I am not using it.  Hit the 'back' and 'down' buttons and hold them down until the unit shuts off.  Not my ideal way of fixing this, but this ensures that the battery won't be drained for that commute home.

I suspect as more Z80 owners get their Z80, then we might see more of them notice this.

Oddly enough, after posting my earlier complaint, I went back and tried the drain, fully charge and reboot trick one more time and lo and behold, my device seems to be working better.  Both yesterday and today, I have been able to remove my device from the sync cable at about 7am, listen to it on the way to work and have very little battery use indicated by the end of the day.  So far today, I have been 'unplugged' for 5 hours and still show a full battery with the device sitting in the hibernate state (hold down play/pause till screen goes blank).

So, only advice I have is to keep trying the complete drain, fully charge (overnight) and then reboot.

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Aitrus -------------- Zune 80

 BinaryIdiot wrote:

Um... Daklu isn't part of the Zune team... otherwise he would have the appropriate forum rankings.

Actually I am, but as I just signed up on the internal list of forum users my tags haven't been added yet.  *shrug*

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