Zune MP3 Player: Zune Tricks: "Reboot Your Zune" and "Put it to Sleep"

UPDATE, DECEMBER 31st, 2008: For all Zuners having problems with their 30GB Zune this morning, you're not alone! Microsoft has already acknowledged the problem. All details we have can be found here. Register to our RSS feed to get updates on the problem.

Every good interface has its hidden features users have to find by themselves. A few of those appeared on the internet lately.

First Zune trick is about rebooting your Zune if it freezes for an unknown reason:

“To reboot your Zune, all you have to do is press and hold the Back button (the left-most button, the one with the arrow pointing left) while pressing upward on the control pad. It doesn't have to be a simultaneous press: you can first press the Back button then while holding that button, press and hold the control pad upward. You'll see the Zune raise the volume (or whatever pressing up will do in the mode that the Zune is in) then after a few seconds, it will reboot itself. The reboot process takes around 15 to 20 seconds.” [Zunethoughts].

Battery longevity is a major issue with those media players, especially now with video and pictures. Every trick you can have to save your battery power is important. The normally used method to turn of the Zune is to press the play/pause button. This is in fact more a “standby” mode with a turned off screen. It is very useful since your Zune can be turned on instantly and it knows what it was when turned off. If you really want to save as much battery power that you can and you don't care waiting a few more seconds at start-up, here as trick posted by Zunerama:

“Press and hold the down button on the D-pad, and at the same time press and hold the back button. In three seconds, the player will fully power down.

If you're not going to use the player for a few hours, or if it's just not important to you that it start at your most recent function, this method will keep your battery juiced for a much longer time.
When you do power the Zune back on, it'll display the Zune logo momentarily (about 4 seconds) and then take you to the main screen.”

Keep in mind that with this method, the Zune won't remember where it was and what was the last song played before the shut-down.

If you find other interesting tricks like those, let us know!