http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/30gb-zunes-kill.html The internet is awash with reports that the 30GB Zune is committing suicide across the planet. Not just one of them, either. It seems that some weird bug is simultaneously killing the music players, like lemmings leaping from a cliff. Speculation is of course centered around the timing. It is New Year's Eve, after all, and the conspiracy nuts are calling this Z2K (with or without a +9 at the end). Our own NYC Bureau Chief John C Abell prefers the idea that it is "Brilliant Microsoft DRM Technology", which would be the most hilarious explanation. The reports say that the units are simply freezing and won't respond to anything. Grunfloz at the Zune.net forums: From what I can tell it looks like every Zune 30 on the planet has suddenly crashed. Is this a virus? A glitch? A time bomb? A disgruntled Microsoft employee? Planned obsolescence to make us buy a new one? Or just a terrorist plot to drive the free world crazy? We're digging into this, but it's likely we'll have to wait for an official response from Microsoft. At least it's not the iPod. If it was, we'd likely wait a couple months before Apple got around to fixing it. I know a bunch of people here have zunes. Anything? This is interesting if true.
Yep... Mine is dead, or stuck in the loading screen if I plug it in. It would be nice if MS can fix this without having to send it off but I have my doubts seeing how none of the soft resets have any effect.
Removing the battery is a temp fix as it resets the clock. http://www.rapidrepair.com/guides/zune/zuneassemblyguide.htm Do not hook it backup to your pc. The time will be updated then it will freeze up again
Pretty funny. I'm cracking up from the posts on zune.net http://forums.zune.net/0/140/404327/ShowPost.aspx#404327
This problem will be resolved at midnight. Everyone needs to just calm down. You aren't going to start any class action lawsuits for being without an MP3 player for one frickin' day. At midnight the "leap second" that this year (2008) has in it iwl lhave passed and once your Zune reboots, it will no longer be confused. Please, oh please if you aren't a techie or software programmer or even in the IT world just shutup about what you're going to do about this because you don't know anything. It was a big mistake that will keep all of us 30GB Zune users out of our Zunes for one day. You won't die. Your kids won't die. You will probably get cancer, but that won't be caused by your one day wihtout your Zune 30GB. Mark my words: At midnight this situation will be resolved and your Zune will work perfectly and still have all your data on it. And for the love of Dog don't remove your battery. You don't know what you're doing. Even if you DO know what you're doing, you shouldn't be removing your battery. It won't do anything except void your warranty. Nothing Microsoft can do will fix this. YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. There are no other options. There are no updates. There will be no updates. There will be no cracking open of all of our Zunes. There will be no refunds. If you are so bent out of shape about this that you must go out and buy an iPod, you need help and should go look at pictures of Darfur children for your reality check of what true suffering is. CALM THE EFF DOWN PEOPLE AND GO ABOUT YOUR LIVES.
EXACTLY! Why are people so upset that something they paid a lot of money for has problems that aren't affecting any other similar products? Who in their right mind expects products to actually work all the time?
hahahah, I haven't used my zune in forever but i decided to turn it on and test it out and it's frozen in the loading screen. won't shut off either. I don't need to use it but I have a lot of songs on there that I want to get onto my computer eventually so whatever is going on better not delete my music.
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