"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/24/2020 at 10:05 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
03/24/2020 at 10:05 • Filed to: None | 2
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I’m on an hour call so I decided to do a quick project that I have had laying around FOREVER.
My 80gb 5th gen iPod classic has a nearly beat battery and a failing hard drive. It still works, but when I tried to use iPod rip to get all of the music off of it, it failed. After that I went ahead and bought a new battery, a 128 gb sd card, and an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
I’m really good at working with small things, but I took my time opening the iPod as it has NEVER been out of it’s case and is still mint. 7 minutes later...
Old battery pops out, new one goes in (I used the same adhesive, just heated it a little first). Plug the battery into the board and the iFlash (not pictured) into the HD cable, SD card in slot. Done. iTunes is loading up now. Impressed/bummed at how easy this was. The iFlash solo is very well designed.
Happy Tuesday!
Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:11 |
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Interesting. I still have one of these bumming around in the Volvo somewhere but never feel super inclined to use it...
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:12 |
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Holy shit those used actual hard disks for that long? I thought it was just the original iPod that did that.
facw
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:14 |
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My 20GB iPod used to have frequent HD issues, but opening it up, removing the hard drive, giving it a little shake, and reconnecting tended to fix it for a few months, so I was in there a good number of times. Been over a dozen years since I retired that though.
E90M3
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
03/24/2020 at 10:17 |
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All the original ones used actual hard drive disks, that is up to the ones they quit making in 2015.
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Tripper
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
03/24/2020 at 10:17 |
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Same and betting I still don’t lol. Maybe I’ll just put the music I can’t live without on it and put it in a Faraday cage. So I can break it out, B ook of E li style if I have to.
CalzoneGolem
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:30 |
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You can also buy an ssd that’s a direct replacement for the hdd. Either way your ipod is going to be way faster.
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> E90M3
03/24/2020 at 10:32 |
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That... c an’t be right. Fl ash memory was so cheap by 2015.
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E90M3
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
03/24/2020 at 10:35 |
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It was a legacy design; the iPod touch was the only iPod to get flash.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:57 |
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Wheres the part where you use a hammer?
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Tripper
03/24/2020 at 10:57 |
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I miss my old 30gb iPod. A funny thing happened. In 2010, it, my Garmin and cheapie digi camera were all stolen out of my car. And there was exactly one obvious solution.
But I still miss it because actually the library browsing was better than the iPhone has ever been and iPhone still can’t do absolutely perfect gapless playback.
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Tripper
> Future next gen S2000 owner
03/24/2020 at 11:24 |
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It actually wasn’t that bad to take apart.