[quote name='AshesofWake']so i just bought a 120gb Zune a few weeks ago, and WTF, the battery life seems to be so horrendous, i dont get it. the bar on the bottom shows 80% full and dies completely within an hour or two of usage later. is this normal? i remember on my ipod classic i used to only charge it once a week, it lasted me a good while. what could be affecting my battery life so much?[/QUOTE]
How are you shutting off the zune when you get done with it?
I ask, because my 8GB zune was getting absolute SHIT battery life. Like 4 hours and it was dead. I thought something was wrong with it, but it had to do with how I was shutting it down.
If you hold down and back until the unit shuts off, it goes completely off, verses just hitting back until it shuts off (putting it in standby). Once I started doing the down/back method, my battery life went to about 35+ hours on a single charge, if not more. I was charging it every 2 days. Now I charge maybe once every 5 weeks, with 30 minutes of use per day on average.