Zunes are indestructable

[dabeastofdamusic]

SUPERZUNE!! that would be awsome, one time i dropped my zune from about 6 feet onto hard pavement, screen first and all it did was scratch the shell and leave a small thin tiny scratch on the screen. as a matter a fact the pavement was the thing that got damaged, not the zune. zune 30 is like military vehicle, it might look like a brick but you could nuke it and it would say, received traumatic error, erasing all content and firmware. LOL.

[AnthraxDream]

Originally Posted by Phlag

I bought a Zune a while ago, and then I won a free one. So, in order to return my original Zune (so I could use the money for other things), I decided to go ahead and break my Zune to cash in on the warranty I got (which I got because I've had such terrible problems with MP3 players in the past). It's immoral, I know. That's not the point. This isn't a thread about the morals and ethics of warranty fraud.

My friend and I have tried our DAMNDEST to break this thing - not a crack in the screen, the warranty doesn't cover that. At first we tried pouring water into the headphone and USB jack while leaving the Zune on. No luck. The thing works fine.
Then we filled up the sync, started playing a movie, and left it there for 20 minutes. That seemed like it worked - the video froze after a while. We let the battery drain. The next day, we plugged it into the USB charger to make sure it wasn't working. It was.
Then we started playing music and beating the hell out of it. We pounded it on our floor as hard as possible, switching songs so that it was reading from the hard drive. We passed it back and forth until our hands were sore. The thing is, it kept detecting the trauma. It would stop playing music whenever we hit it especially hard.
Next, we got a power cord, cut off the female end, stripped the wires, and plugged the male end into the wall. Then we put the bare wires into the USB connector. It got zapped good and hard, setting off a fuse. A little bit of the power cord's wiring melted to the inside (which we chipped off). The Zune still worked just fine.
We did it again. It still worked fine. We did it a third time - it's as good as new. It boggles my mind.
My next plan was to reformat it. While it was doing so, we pounded it on the floor with all our strength, hoping to mess up SOMETHING. It froze. We let the battery drain and then charged it up again. This time it came up with an error message: "To recover from an error, Zune must clear all content." I push "Okay," it reboots, and presents the same message. I'm guessing that we could theoretically force a reformat (reboot, then hold return, center, and pause while booting), and things would be back to normal. But I'm willing to bet that Geeksquad doesn't know about that, so they'll probably accept the return. But in reality, the thing still isn't really broken.

With the iPods I've had, the harddrives would fail if I exhaled in their direction. Zunes are GODDAMNED TANKS. They have numerous failsafes to protect the integrity of the hardware. If you bought a Zune - which I highly recommend - rest assured that it will last you a long time. You won't be able to break it if you try.

Not true. Search up Zune Error 5. Happened to my Friend's Zune.

[ekutoru]

really????!
well here's my story
well.. my friends.. Xd
he bought a zune too
but without the warrant..
soo.. like 3 days after he's with his girlfriend
aand u know
they start kissing
and when she sits on his lap..
they heard a crack..
he checked the zune
and the screen was broken!
he amost got the crap out of his pants lol XD
so he went to the store, bought a warrant for 6 months
left the poor zune just there in a corner an forgot about it
so now 6 months have passed and he still haves the zune.. lolz..
he wants to die

[Rammstein751]

Yeah, they're freaking tanks.

A friend and I went to where my parents own river property, and he had parked it after it got stuck on a rock. His brakes gave after we were out of the car and the car went off of a 30 foot cliff with my friend hanging on the door. Though he was pinned under the flipped car, he escaped with only a few scratches. My Zune had been on the dashboard of his car the whole time, and was smashed under the windshield but it wasn't even scratched even though it had been crushed, and submerged in water. My friend's ipod was found in the floorboard with heavy scratches and the click-wheel thing barely works now.

So yeah, Zunes are awesome.

[CarbonOS]

That is nucking futs.

[hxcolin]

The closest I've gotten to damaging my Zune would be in my nightmare. I had a dream I scratched the sh*t out of the top of it. I woke up pissed off, but I remembered it was just a dream. I also dropped it on a rug ONCE. I'm OCD about this thing, lol. Glad to hear it's almost indestructible. The material it's made out of seems like it would be.

[ZuneLover2.0]

reading this post made me cringe, i'd hate to have my zune damaged.

[iruka]

I'm really clumsy and that's how I have this whole mp3 graveyard on my desk now XDD

I've dropped my Zune like...a billion times on concrete (like while walking across the street or in parking lots) and nothing really happened to it. Maybe it's because it always tends to land on the back O.o oh god that's even scarier. It's like it has a mind of its own O.o

xDD

Either way, it is pretty sturdy. Better than most mp3 players I've had (trust me I've broken enough to know XDDD)

[gpdude]

dude that is brutal. and please film you putting it in the microwave and put it on you tube!thanx

[brnat]

Originally Posted by asuro

you might want to try opening it and like pulling a wire or two and then closing it again
or try something with strong magnets

Hah, I dragged these big magnets over my zune 4, nada. Been dropped from my desk countless times, still nothing. It even fell off my roof, and it is barely scratched!

[mjm1189]

You can tell just by holding it that it's a sturdy prouct. My little sister owned mine before I traded my ipod for it and if it survived her (not only survived, but survived without a scratch) then it is pretty close to being indestructible.

[ZuneApps]

What did the guy do with his old zune anyway? He should sell it on e-bay for an auction starting at 75% of the price he bought it for, and maybe have a link to this thread.

[Ignoranus]

Originally Posted by Espin01

I wish the zunes were that tough. My zune 80 was in my pocket and that alone cracked the glass over the screen. M$ does not cover or replace damage to the glass which pissed the hell out of me.

The same thing happened to me. I was trying to post the picture here, but it won't let me until I have 5 posts. I started a thread somewhere else on the Boards about it, though, with a picture. At least my LCD screen still works!

Sigh. I never take it anywhere without the leather case, now. EVER. It essentially only comes out to charge/sync. Lol.

[blinkingangels]

its good u dont have to worry about it breaking in your pocket when u sit down...

[xlXPunkRockerXIx]

ive dropped mine numerous time but it works fine with little to no cosmetic damage

[blackwood550]

Zunes are GODDAMNED TANKS

Mine fell off my belt and slid all the way across the street, screen down, with headphones attached (Zune Premium)...i picked it up, and it was still playing. It didn't stop or freeze or crash...she kept on going...

Yeah, these damn things are tough

[ZunePerson96]

thats funny my zune 4gb is so weak in like 2 days i dropped it and it stopped working even though i trued every thing to fiz it

[piratenetradio]

Originally Posted by ZunePerson96

thats funny my zune 4gb is so weak in like 2 days i dropped it and it stopped working even though i trued every thing to fiz it

I was never a fan of anything below the 30. Never understood the appeal of them.

[krnboy510]

I love my zune 80, and that is some crazy things you did to that zune.

[Eric884]

my zune already broke....i've treated it like a baby... the motherboard died. =(