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Has the Power On-Off button stopped working on your Touch...?
If the Power button on your Touch no longer works, then the On-Off/Volume wire harness has to be replaced
Ian Thonney is originally from north London England. When we were first on the phone, I asked if by any chance he was from Basingstoke, and he replied "No" without realizing that I had detected his accent within 8 miles of where he was from in England. I've spent a lot time on the phone with people and am a dialectician by hobby.
Ian works as a nurse at Kaiser nearby and lives in Sebastopol now (95432). The problem he needed help with was an 16GB iPod Touch 2nd Gen. It's power On/Off button had stopped working which meant he could turn it on using the Home key but had to wait for it to time out to shut off.
I've worked on this problem a few times. The difficulty stems from the way Apple chose to solve the On/Off problem. They use a black molded plastic button that the finger touches. To the back of that plastic button they have a metal disc that is held on by light weight adhesive. That metal disc is what comes in contact with the single pole single throw pushbutton they use to make the on/off closure. When I encounter this problem there is almost never anything wrong with the switch (which uses concentric contacts that are shorted closed with a domed metal cap to close the switch).
In almost every case the problem is the metal disc has become loose and slipped lower than it should leaving the hollowness of the button to fail to press and close the switch. Apple's objective in using the disc was to make the back of the button and the metal dome for the switch "non-wearing" surfaces, but using poor adhesive invalidates the thinking and gives the iPod owner the impression the device is "worn out" and needs to be replaced..... or did they.... wait a minute here.... or was the objective to
Okay, so there is a cynical side to me...
Anyway when someone approaches me about this problem... I charge them only my $60 labor to fix it. If parts are actually needed because it's the rare case of a failed switch not a slipped disc, I gift the part into the repair. In the case of the iPod Touch 4th generation.... the power switch and the volume up/down are all one very frail wire harness that is frequently severed when a novice tries to replace a broken upper glass (screen). Replacing that broken wire harness is a BIG tedious process. I don't gift in the part on a 4th gen power switch repair.
Works perfectly now, total cost was $60. Here's the Ian wry smile.... you can tell he's British can't you?
More on methods of payment is here:
http://www.isickbay.com/payments.shtml
These are comments people have sent me after they received their iPod back fixed.
http://www.isickbay.com/comments/comments.shtml
How to send your iPod Touch in for repair
http://www.isickbay.com/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/touch/touch_send_it_in.shtml
How to bring your iPod Touch in for repair
http://www.isickbay.com/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/touch/touch_bring_it_in.shtml
Here is an interesting case that shows the degree of intensity I exhibit at my work on hard drive based iPods
http://www.isickbay.com/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/recent_fixes/recent_fixes_13.shtml
This is my most difficult iPod Touch case ever.
http://www.isickbay.com/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/touch/touch_complex_case.shtmls
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