[The_X]

What kind of battery life is everyone getting with their Zunes? While I haven't timed my Zune from full to empty, it seems like it is absolutely sucking down power. I can use it for 30 minutes in the morning and the battery will run down one "step". I have a larger 60gb hard drive but it is the standard 4200rpm speed, I don't know if that affects it or not. It's advertised as 14 hours but I seriously doubt it could even reach 10. I have wi-fi off and the backlight at 5 seconds, low brightness. Mine is refurbished, but I'm assuming they would replace the battery.

Someone needs to come out with a decent extended battery for the Zune! The only one I found only offers a 6% boost in capacity.

 

[Ricardo Dawkins]

are you in panic mode or something ?
what are your songs bitrates ?
I bet that is your first charge...calm down...

do the steps for calibrating the battery indicator. do a full discharge/rundown. Charge it fully. then test your battery life.

 

[The_X]

I'll try the discharge tonight. Although I thought lithium-ion batteries didn't need that? I've never heard of a new MP3 player battery needing that.

And no, it's not my first charge.. I've had it for nearly a week. My songs are mostly WMA 192 or MP3 256VBR

 

[no1likesme]

My zune's battery only lasts like 12 hours but I am never away from my computer for that long so it isn't a problem.

 

[Jon118]

I always get at least 12, which I believe is what was originally quoted, usually I can get even better than that though. Mine has always had pretty good batter life.

 

[Ricardo Dawkins]

11-12 hours here with a 850mah battery. the original battery is 800mah.

 

[imhungry]

I don't time mine but I'm sure I get at least 8 hours from a near full charge and volume at ~7-8 [which is pretty loud with IEMs]

 

[The_X]

Any idea if the larger hard drive might be the culprit?

 

[zip22]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon118 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I always get at least 12, which I believe is what was originally quoted, usually I can get even better than that though. Mine has always had pretty good batter life.

14 hours is the number from microsoft.

try a full rundown. you are correct that li-ion do not require this, but it re-calibrates the battery meter and also tells you exactly how long the player really lasts.

 

[luckypictures]

I get roughly 10 with a lot of playing around.

 

[nsx_23]

I'm getting a zune 30, so this is an interesting thread. I'm only ever going to use it for video and file storage, so what kind of video life have people been getting?

 

[luckypictures]

File storage, really? Hmm.

Well, for video, I watched 2 Pink Panther movies (A little less than 2 hrs each) encoded at 512kpbs, audio at 128kbps CBR. Why CBR? I don't trust the program I'm using to do VBR. Although I should probably start.

Anyway, I still had one bar left of battery, listened to music for about an hour, then went to bed, with battery life. I don't think I could watch more than 3hrs worth of movies on it.

 

[nsx_23]

There's a patch on zunescene that allows the zune to become a mass removable storage device

 

[ingwe]

My Zune's battery life isn't anything to write home about: perhaps 8-10 hours. Maybe because I use it with volume at 10 (hp out to hornet) and mostly listen to mp3 320bps? I find it worthwhile to always keep it charging when not in use.

 

[luckypictures]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsx_23 /img/forum/go_quote.gif There's a patch on zunescene that allows the zune to become a mass removable storage device

See my post on the zSuite for more info and more hacks.