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These are a few my recent iPod repair experiences.
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Tim Smith is serving in the Anbar province in Iraq.
His 5th Generation iPod had a problem and he wasn't able to discern what it was but sent it to me with hope I could work it out.
He had an 80GB hard drive packed with about 11,000 songs.
I was able to analyze it and figure out the logic board was the problem.
Tim used PayPal to send in the funds and I was able to send it back with all of his songs still intact.
The logic board was $90 and labor with return shipping was $40
Fixed - Total cost $130.
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Mary Barbour emailed me from San Francisco, California
about her iPod Nano 3rd Generation model. She said,
"i have a sick nano. i got it wet in the rain and tried to
replace the battery myself, as it still works when its plugged
into a power source, but didn't realize it was so complicated.
i was hoping you could help install the new battery i bought
online!"
I called her on the phone to talk it through, make sure which Nano it was learn about the battery she got. I'm going to be kind of frank about this.
*Apple did not design the Nano model with it ever being repaired as a consideration. The fact that there are people like me out here who can take them apart, remove the epoxied in battery and solder in a new battery with those tine leads is a miracle Apple never wanted because they see it as a device with a 2 year life.*
Mary mailed in her iPod and I got 2 days later. I emailed her back the result of the battery surgery the next day.
"Okay, got the iPod, here are the steps I took and the result it yielded.
I opened the device up and was appalled by the lead oxide deposits inside. This is the result of the rain, and it not being attended to.
At that time the LCD would not light up. I cleaned the lead oxide, if that didn't make a difference, there was no use going farther.
You LCD did not light up once the corrosion was removed, so I tried one of mine a new one and it did light up. Thinking my replacing the lcd had cleaned the contacts I tried yours again and it worked this time.
I was using an Apple branded wall adapter to provide power around the battery during these phases.
The scroll wheel worked now.
So soldering n the new battery was the last step.
I have a very fine point and rather expensive soldering pencil and was able to get the battery connections soldered down in the proper place with a good hot joint.
Then I plugged the iPod into the Apple wall adapter and was able to get it boot and work so I waited for it to go into the "charge state" and then gave it 90 minutes of charge time and un-plugged it from the adapter. If the battery charge circuits on the logic board hadn't been damaged by water exposure previously *and* the battery was good enough to hold a charge, when un-plugged the device would stay on and continue working.
It didn't.
I repeated the recharge steps.
It still didn't work.
My feelings about this:
Too much time was spent trying to solve the 'battery problem' by you and it took valuable time away from mitigating the logic board corrosion that was building up.
The device is still useful, here is what you can do with it:
You can use it as the basis of a car stereo sound source, as long as you have a car adapter that will power it separately.
You can use it as the sound source for a 'docking' stereo at your home or office since these use wall current to run."
This was a case where I succeeded at the client mission (installing the battery) and the patient didn't come fully back because of a bad initial field diagnosis by the iPod owner
Fixed - Total cost $73.
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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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