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Title: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 31, 2008, 10:31:20 AM: Got this info from GAF. All Zune 30s are bricking themselves.

They are all resetting then getting stuck with the loading bar at 100%.

I had my hooked up to my 360 and it did it as well.

No fix at the moment.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Reb on December 31, 2008, 10:33:28 AM: I just have the 120GB running for about a week, I will be severely bummed out if it follows the 30's.

Crazy stuff, imagine this happening to iPods, madness.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2008, 10:33:44 AM: This happened to me last night. It just froze at the Zune loading screen.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2008, 10:41:50 AM: ahahahahha. the night I talk shit about MS, the very same day my 30 gb zune is bricked.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 31, 2008, 10:43:59 AM: Same problem. :(

It's been freezing a lot of late, too. Damn you Drinky, this is all your fault.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 10:45:15 AM: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=14195478&postcount=59

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Found this interesting tidbit on Gizmodo...

After reading a lot of posts it looks like this is tied to midnight PST December 30th 2008. It may be a coincidence but that today is the 366th day of 2008 since it was a leap year. One part of the firmware probably calculated that it is 2009 already and another that it is still 2008.

I wonder if they all recover at midnight PST tonight?

If someone with a 30, can recover enough to change the Zune's clock to some other day.... does that fix the problem?

so maybe it will fix itself later? lol
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2008, 10:45:21 AM: Quote from: Night Man on December 31, 2008, 10:43:59 AM
Same problem. :(

It's been freezing a lot of late, too. Damn you Drinky, this is all your fault.

The latest update I dled it freezes like, almost every time i use it
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 10:47:19 AM: himu, zune 3.0 or 3.1?

edit: and always use the rear usb ports.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 31, 2008, 10:54:22 AM: My brother just called me..."Dude, I can't get my Zune to turn on".

:lol
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2008, 10:57:24 AM: Quote from: MCD on December 31, 2008, 10:47:19 AM
himu, zune 3.0 or 3.1?

edit: and always use the rear usb ports.

three point something
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 11:00:41 AM: well, if it's 3.0 then get 3.1, they improved syncing stability or some shit.

that if your zune will work again.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 31, 2008, 11:01:47 AM: How do you tell what software version you have?
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 31, 2008, 11:10:56 AM: lol, glad I got a 16
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 11:11:44 AM: How to check the firmware version on your Zune Device.

1. On the Home screen on the Zune device, select Settings, and then press the OK button in the center of the Control Pad.

2. Select About, and then press the OK button.

3. Select Zune, and then press the OK button.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: drohne on December 31, 2008, 12:38:23 PM: i guess there are lots of companies who make shitty hardware, but does anyone's hardware fail as hilariously as microsoft's? the 360's design signature turning into a symbol of incompetence and unreliability? all mp3 players of a certain make dying mysteriously on the same day? this is a talent of some kind
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 12:40:00 PM: it's software issue not hardware.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 31, 2008, 12:40:38 PM: i think it's simply because the blogfolk really delight in ms getting smacked. i went through 6 -- 6! -- dreamcasts thanks to drive failures, and yet that machine is still regarded as some sort of hardware paragon!
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: drohne on December 31, 2008, 12:48:08 PM: dreamcast drive failures are really easy to fix -- unfortunately i didn't figure this out until i'd gone through two of them
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: demi on December 31, 2008, 12:57:59 PM: LOL... this is epic. I have a Z30 but no way am I bothering to turn it on. Does this only affect with the latest update? I havent updated mine in a while. The last thing I updated to was when they included Hexic and Texas Hold Em.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Himu on December 31, 2008, 01:09:25 PM: Quote from: MCD on December 31, 2008, 12:40:00 PM
it's software issue not hardware.

ms is still ridiculously incompetent

i can't play the xbla games i bought yesterday because I'm not online.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: border on December 31, 2008, 01:18:35 PM: That's what you get for buying a Zune, I suppose.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Rman on December 31, 2008, 01:28:28 PM: Wow. This is unreal.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: demi on December 31, 2008, 01:43:24 PM: Quote from: Himuro on December 31, 2008, 01:09:25 PM

i can't play the xbla games i bought yesterday because I'm not online.

I'm pretty sure this is fake, but you keep spreading that FUD Himuro

Just disconnected my cable and my XBLA games work fine.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Rman on December 31, 2008, 01:54:48 PM: Quote from: Himuro on December 31, 2008, 01:09:25 PM
Quote from: MCD on December 31, 2008, 12:40:00 PM
it's software issue not hardware.

ms is still ridiculously incompetent

i can't play the xbla games i bought yesterday because I'm not online.

Did you get a new 360 or something? If that the case use the license transfer tool.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 31, 2008, 05:22:41 PM: They're saying its a bug related to the clock driver not being able to recognize the extra day in the leap year. It will automatically fix itself as the date changes over to 2009.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Flannel Boy on December 31, 2008, 05:29:05 PM: Who ever saw a leap year coming? It's not like they take place during fixed intervals. . . .

:lol Microsoft.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 31, 2008, 06:59:29 PM: Isn't the 30GB Zune a rebadged Toshiba product?
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: MCD on December 31, 2008, 09:57:07 PM: http://www.zune.net/en-us/support/zune30.htm

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My Zune 30 is frozen. What should I do?

Follow these steps:

1. Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources.
2. Because the player is frozen, its battery will drain—this is good. Wait until the battery is empty and the screen goes black. If the battery was fully charged, this might take a couple of hours.
3. Wait until after noon GMT on January 1, 2009 (that's 7 a.m. Eastern or 4 a.m. Pacific time).
4. Connect your Zune to either a USB port on the back or your computer or to AC power using the Zune AC Adapter and let it charge.

Once the battery has sufficient power, the player should start normally. No other action is required—you can go back to using your Zune!
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 01, 2009, 12:09:40 PM: My ipod seems to be working fine.

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Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 01, 2009, 12:32:17 PM: My Zune is working again.
Title: Re: Zune 30 Owners - check to see if yours be bricked
Post by: siamesedreamer on January 01, 2009, 05:17:53 PM: Mine is too..