zune offline firmware update

OK,  I have a 30GB Zune. I am having a hard time trying to install the 3.3 firmware for my device. I followed the instructions. The Zune program passes the first 2 steps without any problems. However, when doing the third step, the Zune will try to boot, get to a please wait screen, and then shut off, and turn back on to boot, please wait, shut off, and turn back on in a never ending pattern. Is there a way to fix this, or do I need to get a new Zune. Thank you for any help.

First of all, thanks to Francisco! Well done sir! Sorry to be coming late to this party.

I have used this discussion, the video, and all I can find on the web and I feel that I'm very close to getting my Zune 30 to work but something is still off.

The file referred to, no longer seems to be available. I have found other files elsewhere and that is what I'm using, though they may be the issue.

I connect the Zune and get "Required Update". I click "Accept" and the update starts to run.

It says update is running, gets to step two, Copying to Device and gets to 25%. It stops there for a while and then gives me an error, C00D11CD (80070079) and says the device wasn't updated.

So it appears I'm successfully connecting to the Zune and the update is starting but not completing. I can only conclude I don't have the correct files? It feels like I'm very close and it only needs a minor tweak but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it is.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

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JUST FOLLOW THIS VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQ6brAeF9A&t=1s

it is a miracle...

glad it worked dude. always its better to begin from scratch . zune hd firms are buggy . and im glad you shared extra info ;D . i excuse if i werent able to answer before . i got lots of work building mascots here in puebla , mexico . greetings

First off, big thanks to Francisco Coca for all of the effort with this board.

I read through all of the posts, and tried to follow the steps, and couldn't get through.

The problem was the Abyss web server - I was getting the problem where I was getting a listening error with port 80.

I did a variety of searches on port 80: finding out what was assigned to port 80; assigning port 80 to Abyss; etc. Lot of confusion info.

Here's what worked for me -- from this page:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-windows\_programs/how-do-i-determine-what-is-using-port-80/5ded7d0b-093c-43d9-9349-bf253265f99e?auth=1

"Its safe to kill, most of the time is a service called World Wide Web Publishing Service.

You can go to, Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services - World Wide Web Publishing Service, then choose stop and in properties change the startup type to manual."

I just stopped World Wide Web Publishing Service, exited out of Abyss and relaunched it, and I got the "default host on port 80 is up and running" message that I'd been failing to get.

After that, I did the trick to get the Zune into restore mode, plugged it in, and the Restore process ran flawlessly.

BTW, the reason I wanted to run the Restore mode was that my Zune HD (60 GB) was increasingly giving me errors where songs where being incorrectly assigned - I'd want to play one song, and it would either error, or play the wrong song. This was especially frustrating with audio books. I had to stop three audio books because the sound would suddenly start playing a podcast - it would still list as playing the audiobook, but instead of hearing Game of Thrones I'd be hearing Marc Maron.

Whether restore will fix that or not, time will tell. Figured it was worth a try, versus wiping the Zune and starting from scratch.

Hope this information helps. Thanks again to Francisco.