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- forevererratic, on 11/11/2007, -0/+38The fix works like this: Open up your ipod by 1. stripping the glue that holds the 2 sides together (w/ a toothpick, pin, etc). Don't worry, the ipod still snaps together fine without it. 2. open your ipod by prying apart the sides - this takes a little work and is scary the first time, but what the hell? its a broken ipod. one note - the two sides are internally connected, so don't pull so hard that your break stuff. 3. The hard drive in there is pretty obvious - its the biggest solid part. Just fold a business card in 2 and place it in the middle of the hard drive, then close everything back up. voila! if a dislodged hard drive was your problem, it should be fixed (note: I've done this on 3 ipods and its worked 3/3 times, although on my brother's (who is NOT gentle with electronics), I had to keep recentering the card. All the ipods I've tried it on started with the folder+exclamation mark error sign)
- ckbreece, on 11/11/2007, -4/+39I read the article, but It doesn't say HOW to use paper as a shim to put pressure on the hard drive... My broken iPod is screaming for help right now.
- ipodgr, on 11/11/2007, -1/+20Reminds me the days, when we would put a folded piece of paper at nokia phones for the battery to work ...
- GuyHersh, on 11/12/2007, -1/+18I fixed the link for ya bryant..
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/05/crunchgear-ho ... - HiddenLYNX, on 11/11/2007, -1/+14Dear NY Times;
YOU SUCK! Why make reference to something online and not link to it? Some of us would have liked to have not had to go explore the recesses of the internet armed only with the ambiguous words you used. Im glad that there are other people in the world who knew where the reference was, because you didn't help. So how about next time you talk about something, MAKE A ***** LINK TO IT!
Sincerely
Occasional Reader -HiddenLYNX - Iwantawii, on 11/11/2007, -1/+13Were those also the days of the sweet nokia faceplates?
- AnthonyJr, on 11/11/2007, -0/+9direct link: http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/05/crunchgear-ho ...
- TriZz, on 11/10/2007, -0/+7...does somebody need a hug?
- foofightrs777, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7I just brought my brothers ipod back from the dead. THANKS OP!!
- lol24, on 11/11/2007, -3/+10Does the small folded paper say "I love you."
- spyd3rweb, on 11/11/2007, -0/+7Ipod repair person for BBY here: 90% of the problems are disconnected hard drives, if your hard drive spins up then stops repeatedly then its a connection problem. We have little special plastic chisels to remove the cover, but a credit card works fine. Crack it open, and use some electrical tape to hold the connector to the drive.
- qualish, on 11/11/2007, -1/+8Nokias and beetles will be the only things left after nuclear fallout.
- TVarmy, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6He's a libertarian. Fixing an iPod will just make it lazy. Simply give the iPod nothing until it decides to be a productive member of society and play your music.
- qualish, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6Jeebus, man. It is the NY Times. What do you expect? A pictorial with "talk" bubbles?
- xenuxenuts, on 11/12/2007, -0/+6I'd say apple sucks for making them that way to begin with.
- GuyHersh, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Having the same thing here.. I was freakin out thinking I was in the future or something...
- 11familyguy11, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Why is this back at the top? It was submitted over a day ago and was recently on the top....glitch for me or the site?
- ki85squared, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Breaking a solder joint? What's keeping you from re-soldering it?
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -1/+6yep, if i remember it was the classic 3310/3330 series that needed the folded paper trick :)
great phones, i still have mine, it refuses to die - freezerburn819, on 11/11/2007, -2/+7with a sledgehammer
- monsterofNone, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5sure.
- BagginsBoy, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4I fixed my 20gb classic iPod by slamming it on the bottom (with the port on it), which supposedly connected something inside because it worked like a charm.
- rouslan, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4>Nokias and beetles will be the only things left after nuclear fallout.
No, the EMP will destroy transistorized electronics (such as sensitive MOSFET RF amplifiers inside the cellphone). The only thing left will be vacuum tube shortwave and longwave transmitters/receivers. - EXreaction, on 11/10/2007, -0/+4I microwave can fix those! Just pop it in on the highest power settings for 10 minutes, or until it starts smoking.
- Zanneth, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4This is similar to how to fix a broken iBook. If your iBook stops booting up, you can put something heavy on the bottom left part of the computer and it acts as a shim for a certain chip in there that usually fails. Then your iBook magically boots up.
A more permanent solution is to open the iBook and stick something in between the chip and the metal sheet. - zeromancer, on 11/11/2007, -1/+5ATTENTION:
he's very right about being careful when you open the ipod. the audio jack is connected to the mainboard by a solder job that is much weaker than the connection that joins the wires. I've broken 2 ipods: once by opening too fast and breaking the solder connection and another by pulling too hard to get the connector off.
Opening an iPod is not for everyone. unless you have a fair amount of experience working with electronic components like that, I wouldn't attempt it. It's way too easy to break if you aren't super careful. - timlopez, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4I did this on my friends iPod using his business card, and it fixed it. This was back in February and it still works today. This is a must read for anyone who has the sad ipod on their screen.
- rksprst, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4I did this and it worked perfectly. Simply take the cover off... take a folded piece of paper and put it over the harddrive and close the cover. The extra pressure should make the harddrive work. I took a business card that I folded in half to make it work.
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3I find it funny that the majority of people here can fix the old (up to 5th gen) ipods but the newer ones are a bitch and nobody covers them.
Apple sucks for not offering service parts for these things. - mburk, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3I hope you mean fragged in the FPS sense, and not fragmented. If it's fragmented you can defrag just like any other hard drive. Sorry if I'm being Capt Obvious.
- EXreaction, on 11/10/2007, -1/+4...more like someone needs to take their meds.
- ripper365, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3I work for Rapidrepair.com, and fix iPods every day. The reason the paper shim on the iPod Video works is because the ZIF cable connector on the mainboard sucks, basically, and wears funny on the ZIF cable itself. Replacing the ZIF cable does the trick, but so does applying pressure to the connector (putting a shim on top of the hard drive). While the paper CAN be a long time fix, we see plenty of them come in with paper jammed inside that still need that cable replaced. That cable is certainly the Video's tragic flaw. Word.
- surfing, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3Are you with the Geek Squad? I'll wait for advise from someone from the Nerd Heard.
- monsterofNone, on 11/13/2007, -14/+17where can i find a site that tells me how to get the suck out of my zune?
- alanic, on 11/11/2007, -1/+4I wrote it on the comments in crunchgear, I'll write it here again.
THERE IS A VERY EASY WAY TO FIT YOUR IPOD WITHOUT OPENING IT
It's not booting because it won't wait to get charged enough before booting. The fix is very simple, stop it from booting by stalling it. Details are here:
http://alankus.com/main/node/180 - psylent, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3My 40GB 4th gen iPod has been failing randomly for a few months and recently I've been getting nothing but the folder exclamation error when booting up. This tip seems to have fixed it. Happy days. It's back baby!
Now what to do with the new 8GB Nano my sister got me for my birthday. - monsterofNone, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3citation or he never said it.
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3I'd say you're right. But for me the new aluminum casings are nice for plating. It's just a bitch and a half to open them up and strip them fully. The ipod touch can't be stripped fully which sucks and the iphone can be stripped but requires a lot of time in thinner while avoiding the plastic buttons to get everything down to bare metal.
Apple knows what they're doing but they're really screwing everyone who buys ones of these things since parts are not available. Why you wouldn't offer them has me baffled, they could make a killing on parts alone. Much more than getting another full sale. - mentor972, on 11/11/2007, -2/+5Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?Wasn't this just on the front page yesterday?
- themastersb, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3Wow. The dupes are just flooding in today
- mburk, on 11/10/2007, -0/+2Also an interesting fix, but this has to do with a more physical problem than just a dead battery.
- nshady, on 11/11/2007, -2/+4Try www.hideapod.com
- PabloMac, on 11/11/2007, -1/+3“I’ve been on CDs for months. You saved my life...”
Speaking of life, the guy in the story needs to get one. Don't get me wrong, I love the iPod, but not quite to the point of life dependency. - valzilla, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2My iPod (4G) died (sad face error) quite recently.
I fixed it by:
- Opening it up
- Unplugging the hard drive
- Waiting half a minute or so
- Plugging it back in.
Worked like a charm! :) - neodorian, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2Engineered obsolescence
- GeckoSlayer, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Preferably send it to me, but in the case you need it... You can put music on it?
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2HAHA. I laughed out loud.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKIDdIaFyE The Zune Phone Ad. Hilarious. - zdiggler, on 11/11/2007, -0/+1I've been fixing thing like that for a long time. I fix a motherboard once by using running a flat head screw driver across circuit board contacts, it still working. it was last resort, won't boot no matter what I do, shorting out contacts must reset a stuck transistor or something.
One of my customer gave me a laptop that video card that don't contact to the mb no more so I use piece of foam to hold it down and it been serving me for a long time.
xbox 360 with 3 ring of death I fix that by using a rubber gromats from plumbing store and that's still working.
Another laptop got I use a USB port for power by rerouter power contacts to it because power plug broke and damn lap tops don't use a standard DC jack. :( - TheFoundry, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.apple.com/itunes
- Haecceity, on 11/10/2007, -0/+1I replaced the hard drive in my 4th Gen iPod, which cost about $40 for the drive and took five minutes. A paper shim would have been even better, although I'd guessing my drive really was dead.
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