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Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Rest the iPod face-up on the towel.
Apple: iPod Site. Don't use anything metal to separate the two halves of the iPod. This could damage the circuitry inside. Performing this task could void the warranty on your device. Related Articles. Carefully but firmly push down on it, rolling the entire lip side back into its proper spot. It may be necessary to do this multiple times in order to achieve optimal straightness on the sides.
It is better to have the edges of the case pushed in slightly too far rather than not far enough, because the reseating of the front panel will bend the rear panel into its correct alignment. Now that the rear panel is back to a beautiful condition, you can move on to repairing the iPod!
The battery is attached to the rear panel with adhesive. Be careful not to tear the orange headphone jack or hold button ribbon cables when removing the battery. Use a spudger to lift the battery and the attached orange cable out of the iPod. If you have a GB iPod, the battery will be thicker than the one pictured. If you have trouble removing the battery, you can use a hair dryer or a heat gun on the back of the iPod to soften the glue holding the battery in place.
Be careful not to overheat the battery. Cancel: I did not complete this guide. Badges: Bought an extra pair of the blue opening tools Guess this one was a bit more stubborn. The plastic tool included in this set is enough to keep seams open where they show in steps 2 and 3 just wide enough for you to put something else in there.
But to start them, I used an exacto like blade. When I did this job, I had 3 regular spudgers, the 2 tools provided here, 4 different style green spudgers from somewhere else, 5 large 'guitar picks' sold here to cut the glue holding new iMac screens to the case, the metal spudger, and an exacto type blade.
It was still an incredibly laborious job and although the iPod is back together and works perfectly, one of the seams is bent out a little. Firstly, as a few have mentioned here, the 6th-generation classics are more tightly-sealed than their immediate forebears, so the otherwise-useful plastic tools included in the battery-replacement kit won't cut it all by themselves; artful and careful!
Thankfully, years of freelance IT work on recalcitrant Macs of all stripes helped prepare me for this bit of improvisation, even though this was the first time I've taken a crack at an iPod my own GB classic - thin version.
Happily, other than twisting that one metal clip near the headphone jack - apparently impossible to avoid - and some very minor cosmetic damage, the balance of work went without a hitch. I speculate why Apple makes us go though this, but that's for another thread. Thanks for the kit and tools!
Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Difficulty Very difficult. Steps Time Required 30 minutes - 2 hours. Limit fast-forwarding and compress the audio. Fast-forwarding through songs means the iPod must refill the cache of songs at a much more rapid pace than normal, which means the iPod is constantly accessing the hard drive and therefore running down the battery.
Compressing the audio means that more songs can fit in the cache of songs and therefore access the hard drive less often.
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