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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Laura Fitzpatrick sent me a message from Van Buren, Arkansas.
Here is our exchange:
">>My son jumped into the mediterranean sea while on vacation with, you guessed it, his brand new 8g ipod nano in his pocket. So far, it hasn't worked.
>>>>Think it is repairable?"
Salt water is near impossible to make a difference in.
When did it occur?
Here's the thing, we'll never know if I can fix until it's here. If I
can't then you get the device back with a $20 refund.
Subject: iPod -->> result
Laura,
I have not been able to make this work. The LCD didn't work initially,
and after replacing it to check things further, I can get the device to
"start up" and present a menu but anytime I try to use the scroll wheel
it shuts down the device instantly and then it goes through the boot up
all over again.
I thought it might be the scroll wheel but I changed that and it hasn't
made a difference. The salt water is very corrosive. There is a $20
refund in your future.
This is not one that I can get work again.""
It was sent back with a $20 refund.
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Michelle Boland called me from Casper, Wyoming
She saw my website and because I was clearly knowledgeable about Macintoshes and laptop repair felt I was the candidate to help her with her project. She had three Mac laptops that she wanted repaired. Well... actually as the plan developed we decided one of the three would become a cadaver donor of parts for the other two. And she had two iPods that needed to be repaired.
This is how things looked when they arrived here:
The laptops first:
She had one MacBook the Silver one in the middle that had a failed DVD/CD writer (optical drive) in it
She had two matching iBooks and one had a cracked screen. The idea was to migrate the good screen from one daughters iBook to the other daughter's laptop.
In the case of the iBooks this was very lucky that the laptops were identical. In the year and model of those laptops Apple used two different Samsung LCD screens between the early and late production run. They were not interchangeable. Since these were a mated pair I was able to migrate the LCD to the other system. While I had the cadaver opened I removed the CD writer which I would use in the MacBook.
The MacBook had a failed CD writer because something jammed and broke the mechanism that handles the ejection of the disc but the one from the more recent iBook was the same drive the MacBook shipped with.
Once the laptops and iPod were finished they looked like this:
Each daughter now her own working systems.
This is Kaitlyn's :
This is Courtney's :
The laptop was each $125 to repair. Kaitlyn's iPod needed a new logic board and battery while Courtlands iPod needed a battery only.
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Jen Toby works at the middle school I went to as a youngster.
Back then we called it "Rincon Valley Junior High School" and it was 7, 8th and 9th grade. Now it's just 7th and 8th. Other things seem to have changed too. It seems kids don't have PE anymore. President Kennedy would just freak if he found how the child activity programs have suffered and naturally all the kids these days are about 30 pounds overweight without the physical training.
Jen's 5th Generation iPod suffered a more and more common problem these days. The layers of the logic
board separated and thereby keeps the analog signal created after the digital to analog conversion from
finding its way to the audio amplifying section. This left the iPod with no sound coming from both the earbud
jack and the docking port on the bottom of the iPod.
She elected to buy a new 6th Generation iPod and had me perform a data extraction of the music on her old
iPod since she didn't have them in her current iTunes Library.
You see the 'parked' data files as "OTHER" on the 6th Gen "settings" screen. All she had to do was perform
these instructions to add them permanently to her Library.
http://www.isickbay.com/add_to_library.shtml
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I'm in Sonoma County... Northern California wine country.
If you live nearby, are traveling through or live in the San Francisco Bay Area bring your iPod to me and I can do the work while you wait or go wine tasting for a while. Send me an
email just to make sure I have on hand whatever parts your repair will require.
Call or email me
with questions or to set up a repair. You can also call, I am here most days from 8am to 8pm
Toll Free 1-877-IPOD-PRO (1 - 877 - 476-3776)
Send the device to:
Frank Walburg
2145 Service Court
Santa Rosa, Ca 95403-3139
Methods of payment
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