Battery Meter on My 40GB Zen X

My battery will last a long time but the meter will not go down at all. The player will read full then just die when it is depleted. I have upgraded the firmware to the lastest aswell as the software and drivers. Im not sure what is wrong with the unit. I left it on for about 6hrs with EAX and im playing mostly very high quality music so I think the life seems to be ok. Any help would be appreciated.

Did you try a disk cleanup?
Also try a complete discharge, then a full recharge (leave it for 4 hours connected to the mains adapter). If this doesn't help, try this process say 3 times.

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