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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Lyle Smith sent in his son Shawn's iPod from Dickinson, North Dakota.
Like many people I hear it had a water mishap and needed to repaired and brought back to life.
He sent it in with $40 for me to do my patent pending water correction process.
Once I had the device basically working it was obvious the battery wouldn't hold a charge. This isn't un-common with a water immersion case, because there is a small voltage regulating board on each battery that frequently goes bad with a water experience.
Having this replaced moved the total fee to get it fixed up to $70 but it's fine
Fixed - Total cost..$70.
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This was an interesting case, a kind of experimental surgery miracle case.
Jennifer Deavers sent her iPod in from Manassas, Virginia. Her iPod is a 60GB 5th Generation video iPod. What she wanted me to do was perform a data extraction on the drive because she had used a Griffen iTalk to record lectures using the Voice Memo feature of the iPod.
I was not able to get the drive to work faithfully enough to pull a copy of things off of it.... at all. It was a case of pure mechanical failure destroying the drive platter.
The I asked what she wanted to do about replacing the drive and she asked if I could upgrade it to an 80GB capacity since that drive would still fit in the 60GB case.
I agreed I could do that, but then asked something else... and asked "would you be interested in an 80 GB drive in the new smaller form factor used in the Classic Video iPod?". In
essence put an 80GB drive in and then change out her thick 60GB backplate for a slimmer chrome 30GB backplate that would give the iPod the appearance of being a "30GB" 5th Gen but in fact it would be an 80GB drive in it.
She liked the idea and to the best of my knowledge she may be the first person to receive an 80GB slim form factor drive into a 5th gen video iPod.
An 80GB drive formats to be 74.3GB because the controller retain a couple of GB's as 'spares' to use when parts of the drive fail in use and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes and that 24 rounding diminishes the full size.
It's 100% cool and the total cost was $140
Fixed - Total cost..$140.
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I got a call from Dominika Sekulska of Palos Hills, Illinois on Monday April 1st.
She explained her 8 GB Nano 3rd Generation iPod had been put through the washing machine and wanted the specifics on how to send it in.
I sent her an email message that covered how it's done, (padded mailer or plastic bubble envelope with 2 stamps on the front). It got here two days later.
I always give water cases the priority and went to work on it immediately.
I was able to get her iPod working perfectly with no additional parts being required by about 2 1/2 hours later.
I was able to keep all of her music on it intact. In fact she and I both like House/Trace music so it was a great to see what she was listening to. (I have VIP tickets to the Tiesto ETD.pop show on May 24th in San Francisco this year. Also there will be Don Gaude, Markus Shultz, Ferry Corsten, DJ Dan and a pile of others.)
Total cost for Dominika was $40 to get her $200 iPod back and working again.
Fixed - Total cost..$40.
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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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