{"id":118,"date":"2008-08-27T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-08-27T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T03:09:51","slug":"ipod-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/ipod-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 2 years ago I joined the iPod cult by winning a raffle at work where the prize was a new 30G iPod Video.\u00a0 Just the other day the iPod stopped working.\u00a0 Over its lifetime there were a few times when a hard reboot was required, but now the device doesn’t power up at all.\u00a0 Rebooting it doesn’t do anything – I just have a dark screen and that’s it.<\/p>\n

As I’ve past the default 1 year warranty, I’m on my own to fix (or replace) it.\u00a0 Looking at the Apple site<\/a>, repair will cost me $149 + tax + shipping.\u00a0 It seems via various 3rd party resellers, I can pick up a refurbished 30G Video for around the same price.\u00a0 The Apple store<\/a> has refurbished 80G Classics for $189, and the 8G Touch for $209.\u00a0 I may look around to see if there is repair option locally that is a bit cheaper.<\/p>\n

Of course – I love to open stuff up, and Karl had a set of the tools to lend me so I had no excuse.\u00a0 Using instructions from ifixit.com<\/a> I was able to get a good feeling for what I was in for.\u00a0 Opening the case was actually easier than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n

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I then detached the battery using a toothpick in place of the “spudger” tool the instructions reference.\u00a0 Originally I was thinking that maybe I should try to see if there is something funky with the battery not holding a charge, but looking at the ribbon cable I’m not sure how I’d get a multi-meter in there to test it.<\/p>\n

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So I detatched the headphone jack ribbon cable, and hard drive to get a good look at things.\u00a0 Usually if something electronic has failed badly, you can smell the burning components.\u00a0 In this case, the logic board looked (and smelled) just fine.<\/p>\n

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I tried plugging the iPod into my PC in various states of “taken apart”.\u00a0 I wanted to see if my PC would supply power \/ recognize the device.\u00a0 Now, I know basically nothing about diagnosing iPods – so it is entirely possible that once you disconnect the battery nothing will work at all.\u00a0 Either way, nothing seemed happy when I applied power to it – no harm done, but no magic solution here either.<\/p>\n

I suppose that I could start probing the logic board to determine if I’m getting power over the USB cable, but I’ve tried the cable on both a USB wall wart, and more than one PC.\u00a0 It is possible that the cable is busted – so I can try that tomorrow at work with someone elses cable.<\/p>\n

At this point I’ve eliminated any obvious problems, and satisfied myself that opening (and reassembling) the iPod isn’t all that hard.\u00a0 If it is the logic board,<\/a> then I’m looking at $90 or so.\u00a0 The Apple store $149 option is starting to look pretty reasonable.<\/p>\n

If the 32G touch wasn’t $419 refurbished – then I might be thinking that was the ideal upgrade.\u00a0 Any other option means I can’t simply carry all of my music with me and I may as well just get a $55 shuffle – or dump the whole iPod thing and get something that is Linux friendly.<\/p>\n

Well, more on this later – shout out if you happen to know more about DIY ipod diagnosing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost 2 years ago I joined the iPod cult by winning a raffle at work where the prize was a new 30G iPod Video.\u00a0 Just the other day the iPod stopped working.\u00a0 Over its lifetime there were a few times when a hard reboot was required, but now the device doesn’t power up at all.\u00a0 … Continue reading “iPod woes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}