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If you just leave your Zune inactive (not playing music, video, or a photo slideshow) for more than 30 seconds, it goes into a low-power state, and shortly after that, it goes into a suspended sleepmode. From either of these modes, pressing any key brings it back to full power instantly.
After approximately a day in the sleep mode, the device goes into a deep sleep to conserve battery life even more. There's little difference between the sleep and deep sleep modes, except that the device starts up a bit more slowly from a deep sleep and has forgotten what you were doing when you last used it. (When your Zune's in either the low-power state or sleep mode, it starts up right at the song, video, or picture you were on when it powered down.)
When it's turned on after being in deep sleep mode, it goes to the startup screen with the Zune logo.
 | If you want, you can put your Zune to sleep immediately by pressing and holding the Play/Pause button for about three seconds. Here are some other handy tips about stopping and starting your Zune: |
- In normal usage, tap any key on the Zune to wake it up and light up the display. If it's been left idle for a long time, tap the Play/Pause key to wake it up.
- Leave the Zune alone for more than a few seconds, and the screen dims down to save battery power. (You can tweak how long it'll take before this dimming down takes place.
- The Zune won't dim if it's playing video, which is nice because that would be really annoying.
- Keep in mind that, after being inactive and paused for more than a minute, the Zune will go to sleep (which is still not powered down completely, but it's very close), and that after about a day, the Zune goes into a deep sleep (or sooner if it's very low on battery power).
- Left asleep, a fully charged Zune should retain battery power for a week (possibly two).
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