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10-05-2007, 03:15 AM
As much as this isn't a help request, I'd like to share a project I am working on and is nearing completion.
A badly beaten up iPod video (30 GB) came into my posession. (It can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/anticitizen/1488499268/)
Among the various problems, it has a badly damaged front cover (What you see is the iPod after some very intimate time with a can of brasso), and the battery was kicking the bucket. Searching the serial number said it had been purchased January 2006.
So I got about $50 together and set to work restoring this iPod to it's former glory. The battery arrived last week (It's a NewerTech), and it's been installed. This thing now gets longer runtime than my iPod Photo (Who could go for 16 hours!)
And now, I ordered a front cover for it (White, since white doesn't seem to scratch as easily as black does), which I am waiting on. When this is all said and done, I'll have an iPod with a white body and a black click wheel.
For $50, I got a product that will last me for at least another two years, a fraction of the cost of replacing it with an iPod Classic/Touch/Nano.
A badly beaten up iPod video (30 GB) came into my posession. (It can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/anticitizen/1488499268/)
Among the various problems, it has a badly damaged front cover (What you see is the iPod after some very intimate time with a can of brasso), and the battery was kicking the bucket. Searching the serial number said it had been purchased January 2006.
So I got about $50 together and set to work restoring this iPod to it's former glory. The battery arrived last week (It's a NewerTech), and it's been installed. This thing now gets longer runtime than my iPod Photo (Who could go for 16 hours!)
And now, I ordered a front cover for it (White, since white doesn't seem to scratch as easily as black does), which I am waiting on. When this is all said and done, I'll have an iPod with a white body and a black click wheel.
For $50, I got a product that will last me for at least another two years, a fraction of the cost of replacing it with an iPod Classic/Touch/Nano.