Super-drain with firmware 1.11

Ok, it has happened to me too finally.
The facts: I fully recharged my Micro on Wednesday. On Friday night, the battery still had 2 bars left when I switched it off, without pausing or anything, and leaving the earphones in. About 20 hours later, the player wouldn't even switch on, the battery completely dead.
On a sidenote, I put the player on recharge on Saturday night (and btw the recharge screen was showing no bars at all, thus confirming that the battery was completely depleted); this morning, about 0 hours later, the backlight was still on. The light was steady, not glowing, but it's weird anyway because usually it turns off when the player is completely recharged -- and it is anyway, it shows 3 bars now.
I've read in this forum that other people have had the same super-drain issue immediately after upgrading the firmware, and it may be due to a problem in the upgrade itself. I would say that this doesn't apply to my case, anyway, because the firmware had been working properly until last Friday and I had left the earphones plugged in most of the times during power down.
If it happens again I think I'll try deleting the firmware and upgrading it again, but given circumstances I don't think this will be a solution.

Just to make sure you didnt have the alarm set did you?
I agrie i would re-load the firmware and see if that hel
ps.
did you have big drain issuses with other firmwares.

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Currently charging both batteries again, but is there anything else I should be doing? Should I be carrying out a re-format with only . installed? (if so, I'll be grateful if you can advise on the best way of doing this.
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I'd definitely try reinstalling, and if that doesn't work, then try reformatting and installing the newest firmware. If you're still experiencing major battery drain issues, I'd contact Creative support (call in for this particular problem... I got no help from the e-mail support). Mine would totally lose power in about 6-8 hours when it wasn't on. I ended up having it RMA'd, and got a replacement. (It only took a few days, too!).
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