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where they live. The LCD on her video iPod was cracked.

This is a standard repair, it was $33 for the LCD and $40 labor/return shipping.

The iPod arrived on February 12th and was repaired and sent back later that afternoon. The entire time out Nicole's hand and back again was 4 days.

Fixed - Total cost..$73.

Danny Sorrentino lives here in Santa Rosa and had his son drop off an iPod.

I fixed Danny's iPod about 10 months ago. We both had common friends from my youth when I had a garage band and was playing in the $27 Snap on Face and then later with Stark Raving Mad. We talked about experiences with Gary Pihl and Eric Martin.

His daughter had a friend look at her iPod and they destroyed the logic board by removing the two voltage coils.

I replaced the logic board, and the battery. The total cost was $153 which is in the realm of buying another used iPod of this vintage, but Danny knows my work and would rather have me in essence hand him back a perfectly working device without the hassle of trying to find another used one.

For his daughter, I extracted all of her songs and parked them back on the drive so she could add them a new copy of iTunes when she got it home. That is why in the photo it appears have just 17GB available with no songs on it. There is a file called add_to_library which is 12GB large containing her library.

Fixed - Total cost $153.

Dallas Oldre lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota and decided to have a go at fixing his wife Debbie's iPod.

She has a 3rd Gen with a 20GB drive. He had come to the conclusion that it was a battery problem and bought a battery and performed the repair.

Afterward the iPod would only present the "folder exclamation" error which would tend to give most the impression the suffered data corruption or worse.

I started with concept. The first thing I did was backup the songs on the drive. You can typically perform a good "read" from even a failing drive, the problem is getting it be written to.

Then I reformatted the drive... again these are the typical steps when faced with this.

But it wasn't a drive problem. I put the drive in another "known good" 3rd Gen and it worked fine so I then started switching out each component to arrive at the problem piece, which proved to be the logic board.

During his battery repair, he damaged the hard drive data input bus. Not hard to do since you have to perform a physical removal of the drive and its carrier.

I replaced the logic board, putting his new battery in place and parked a copy of the music so he could add it back to his iTunes Library again.

The logic Board was $10 and the labor/return shipping was $40. This is her finished iPod.

Fixed - Total cost..$50.

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)

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