Unofficial Fix for Zune 30’s that didn't repair on Jan 1st
The Official fix worked for my Zune 30 but,
My wife’s Zune did not repair on January 1st so I thought I was going to have to buy her a new Zune but I found a solution.
If your Zune has a full charge disconnect it and let it die. Once your battery is depleted. NO NEED TO OPEN THE CASE. Hold the reformat command (Back Left Center). Connect the charger, keep holding the command until the device shows "Please Wait" or some variant. This is the initial cleaning phase. Follow the commands on the screen.
Let me say that it took me about 5 tries to get this to work and i needed my wife to plug in the Zune to my wall charger while i held the buttons.
You need to be a 3 legged Monkey to get this solution to work but it does work.
Once you get things working again and get the Zune reformatted you may need to have the Zune software “forget the device”.
Then add the device back again and resync your device.
Special thanks to the guys on this Forum post
http://www.zunescene.mobi/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=6a46ab10528ec7b8a92e7aef3c124e0a&topic=43550.1134
Hope this helps others that are still stuck
Chris Stauffer <><