The Empty Battery

Yeah I have a Halo 3 Zune 30 I got in July and since day 1 mine has always died within a few hours if left alone and not charging. The new updates have made no difference either. I'm not impressed with the battery life anyway.....

My Zune shows 2.3 (1145).

I have made sure the Zune is no longer playing anything and then switched the hold switch to lock.

...and still, dead in the morning. 

It's going back to Best Buy :(

Yeah, the 2.3 update absolutely fixed my battery issue. I'm totally back to shutting down by holding the pause button and the charge is holding fine even for days at a time. I would check your device to make sure the firmware upgrade is actually taking. Also, once you shut down, make sure you lock it so it doesn't turn on if a button is accidentily bumped. 

Nope, I have updated the firmware on my Zune 30 and I am still having the problem too. Though I think I may know of a stiuation that causes it:

My Zune is still having these issues after the 2.3 firmware upgrade.

Fully charged one day, completley dead the next

This thread went silent on 12-18...did the firmware fix everyone elses problem???

JD

 losdougie wrote:

The article that talks about this potentially being fixed says that it only affects a small number of zunes.  How do they know that?  So I just wanted to say that I too am affected by the dead battery bug, and patiently waiting for a fix.

Make sure you are on update 2.3.  Released today.  You need to do a firmware update if you are not.  That will hopefully remedy the problem for you.

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The article that talks about this potentially being fixed says that it only affects a small number of zunes.  How do they know that?  So I just wanted to say that I too am affected by the dead battery bug, and patiently waiting for a fix.

fyi - that microsoft employee is the same guy who runs these forums

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Dak - thanks for the reply.  pretty funny, and good to hear that the hardware team is working on it. 

According to the Zune Insider blog, a Microsoft employee acknowledges the issue and says there will be a "December update (similar to last year)". So hopefully they will push that update out before Christmas when everyone opens their Zunes, so they can get that update when they hook it up to their computer.

Here is the blog post: http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/12/14/battery-life-of-zune-after-upgrading.aspx

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I know I'm an offender in looking for answers from the Zune Team, but that post was hilarious and informing. Thanks. (So where can we find the marketing team?)

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[Note - The following message was composed by a bleary-eyed Zune engineer who is feeling a bit loopy.  Please plant your tongue firmly in your cheek and take the responses with an extremely large grain of salt.]

 SunyM wrote:

Seriously,  can we get some kind of update or response from the Microsoft Zune team (thats reads/participates in this forum).

I guess so, but you probably won't like it.

We understand you are working on it, but any other information you can provide would be very much appreciated I'm sure.

I had tacos for dinner last night.  mmmm.... tacos.... 

Any estimated date on a firmware update?

Announcements for firmware updates come through the marketing department.  Since I'm not marketing I cannot comment on when, or if, any alleged update might be released.  Nor can I ask them to make an announcement.  Were I to associate with marketing in any way my IQ would drop by half and the cost of my wardrobe would double.

Is this the #1 bug that you all are working on?

Hmm... define "working."  Eh, never mind.  No, we are not all working on it.  For instance, I'm currently responding to a post asking about the status of a battery bug.

Are you experiencing this issue on your own Zunes?

Nope, because I pressed the super secret button combination that makes everything work perfectly.  Too bad it's only available to Zune staffers.

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Slightly more serious responses...

Is it the #1 bug being worked on?  Depends on who you talk to.  There certainly have been a number of hardware people working on this issue over the past several weeks.  However, I expect the people responsible for coding the Zune Marketplace haven't placed it very high on their priority list.

Do I have this issue on my Zune?  No, I do not personally have this issue on my Zune 30 or Zune 4 even though I am running the same build you are.  I blame dark matter.

Estimated date on an update?  I was being serious for that part.

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