So, I just got off work. While picking up some mulch for my rose bush (more on that in the future, maybe?) I was listening to my Zune, as normal, to give people an obvious sign that I was off (or at least, wishing to get fired if I was not ^^; ). Welp, my mom was up their, so I stopped to talk to her. Naturally, I took the earbuds out, and went thru the normal ritual of sliding the hold switch to hold.. and nothing happened.. it stayed active.
I was like “WTF? it broke? I have to buy a new Zune now, finally? Bullshit.” My 80 gig has been with me since December of 2007. It is named after a very close friend of mine, who died early that year. It is beat up to all hell (survived falls onto every kind of hard surface imaginable) and still works perfectly! well, untill this event.
I got home, and checked online.. saw a basic toutorial on taking the switch off.. ok, cool, but I do not have any needlenose plyers. I do have a paint can opener, so I used that to pop the switch off.
I noticed it had one little plastic bit missing. I took a chance, turned the whole thing around, and put it back into the unit, over the switch part on the inside. Gave it a flick, and boom. Working perfectly!
Seems like those things refuse to die… unlike its namesake. >_>