How to Get the Most Out of Your Zune Battery Life

Naturally, how you choose to operate your Zune player will affect the overall life of your Zune battery. With the wireless connection turned off and under normal circumstances when you’re just listening to mp3, the Zune’s battery will last you a good 14 hours. However, if you are playing videos on the player, the battery life is reduced to about 4 hours.

There are some smart things you can do to effectively maximize the overall life of your Zune battery.

The first thing to do is update the Zune firmware. This is basically a free update that improves the performance of your Zune, you have no reason not to update anyway.

When you listen to your songs, the less interaction you have between you and the player, the better. This will improve tons of battery life. For this reason, I suggest that you only use the Play All or Shuffle All options on your Zune. You can easily do this using the playlists.

Using your Zune’s backlight will dramatically reduce battery life. If you can, reduce the time you use the backlight. Also, make sure you don’t set the backlight to be always on. High brightness settings can also drain battery life. When you are in places where you have lots of natural sunlight, be sure to turn the brightness setting back to low so you can save battery power.

The wireless option on your Zune player is a great additional feature to have when you need it, but it will also drain your battery if you have it on. If you’re not sharing files, turn it off when you’re not using it.

As you can see, there are many effective ways to save on the battery life of your Zune. By far the tip to save battery is to just turn it off when you’re not using it. When you turn off the Zune, it puts it into low power standby mode. If the Zune has no activity for the next day, it will go back to sleep mode and it should take 8-10 seconds to turn back on.