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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Tracy Droppings lives in Napa California (94559) with her husband Brad.
They have a Napa Valley Wine Tours business there. She got a hold of me about her iPhone 16Gb 3G that needed the Upper Glass replaced. The more we got involved with things, the more she realized I was capable of repairing a range of devices.
When she arrived she brought her three children, the iPhone, an iPod Nano and a Bose Docking station. The kids are self-fixing so that was off the list. The Nano had a problem that I believed would solved if she bought a new and somewhat better charging system she had been using.
That left the iPhone 3G and Bose device.
The iPhone was a straight ahead, normal bit of work which took and hour.
Anyone that reads most of site, will stumble onto a page I've authored about docking stations. The article isn't flattering, I believe you should use an FM radio transmitter and set the iPod on your present FM receiver instead of a separate $400 solution to "how to listen without earbuds problem".
On Tracy's case here 2 year had seen her older sisters put the iPod on the docking station and tried to replicate it by slamming the Nano they have on the the docking poty plug on the Bose. Slamming repeatedly so the docking plug was tragically misshapen and would allow it to dock with any iPod. My first impression of the problem was hopeless. The SMT solder style would allow the plug to be replaced. Tracy left it off and I took it apart to examine the problem more. I found it was a separate daughter card and then wen to the Bose site to try to buy a spare. They are clever those guys... they will abut anything external, battery, remote, power cord but make it an internal problem and it becomes a $200 send it repair....
I took a different approach, I went back and restructured the broken part so it could be modestly useful again and then tested it. The reconstructed plug worked but instead of using the way she had, I told tracy to get a docking extension cable so she would plug the cable onto the Bose then plug the iPod safely onto the cable. Doing it this way would take all of the wear off the docking station directly and transfer it to the cable.
The cable is here:
http://www.cablejive.com/products/Dock-Extender-Cable.html
The iPhone repair had a $15 part and $60 labor, the docking station was also $60 to tear, fix and put back together.
Fixed - Total cost $135.
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Bill Allen lives in University Place, Washington (98466) and has a car/motorcycle repair business there.
He took a trip to Arizona on his motorcycle. On his way back he stopped in Santa Rosa. His sister lives here and his brother in law has a Chiropratic Practice in town. Bill discovered the LCD on his 5th Gen video iPod was smashed. He thought it may have been a rock while on the bike and gave me a call.
I have the repair ready for him an hour later. The LCD was $23 and labor was $40
Fixed - Total cost $63.
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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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