It’s not hard to pry open…. pop off the top section at the corners. Then pop off the lower two sections at the corners. It’s just held in by clips. It comes off pretty easily (although I did crack one side of the unit by pulling too hard… so be careful of that… but that was before I popped it off easier at the corners. I opened mine to add more thermal paste to the CPU. It was generating too much heat and the fan got really loud… now, it’s relatively quiet. But yes, I couldn’t find the RAM to replace because it is soldered on. I do plan on swapping out the mSATA board in the future though… there’s a slot in mine for the LTE unit… so I need to research that one to see if I can find one to put in here.
As an FYI… one guy on a message board got four 1TB micro SD cards and put it in an iPod Classic…. the unit could only read 2TB in Windows.. the cluster size of the iPod disk is apparently 4kB so the limit should be 16TB…. anyone with a Mac want to try to go over 2TB with HFS+ formatted iPod? If you have, please post here… a lot of us are wondering. If I had a Mac Mini, I’d try it myself.
Best solution, IMO, is the iFlash Quad at iflash.xyz I don’t know if this unit can take 512GB micro SD cards yet since they’re a bit expensive at the moment, but 400GB micro SD cards work just fine in it and use very little power. My unit with 3000mAh battery gets charged only once per month and is never low on power when I charge it. Performance is excellent on it too. To fill up my 1.6TB iPod, it does take about 16 hours, but subsequent syncs take maybe 2 minutes to download the database file from the iPod (which is in itself 1.5GB in size). After that, it goes fast.
For step 3, you should be able to also remove the rubber rectangle at the base of the back plate exposing that connector area… stick the spudger in there and lift off the back plate. I assume there may be a reason why you didn’t use this method.. but I just did and it opened the back part enough where I could separate the rest by hand.
Still, excellent tear down… it made my speaker repair that much easier!
You probably have a hard drive and it might be clicking, I bet. Go to www.iflash.xyz and get the SD Quad unit. It lets you use Micro-SD cards in it (up to 4) as iPod storage. It works surprisingly well and is very battery efficient. Plus, you can drop it without damaging your iPod. I would think the worst you could do by dropping it is to break the display screen. :)
No. Sounds like you have a bad battery. I just went through this and bought a 3000 mAh one on eBay and it works.... :) But you can get a regular battery for pretty cheap if you can open it and get it installed. It's not incredibly hard. It's just a single ZIF connector for it.
From the playlist menu, select the one you want to shuffle and hit Play. If you have Shuffle set to Songs in the settings menu, it will shuffle everything in the playlist.
Your drive is not restored with proper iTunes firmware. Instead of buying a new hard drive, go to www.iflash.xyz and get an SD quad unit there where you can use micro SD cards for drives. Seriously. It's excellent. But do that only if you want a new drive and the other one is bad, I guess.
I have a similar problem with my iPod except mine is the center button that's not working. I chalked it down to the click wheel. Seriously. I had a bad click wheel and none of the buttons responded. I thought it was a bad mainboard so I hooked up another one running 2.0.1 instead of the other's 2.0.5 -- nope..... both wouldn't work.
So I got a new click wheel and installed it. It boots up now except the center button is the only one not working. :( Figured it was the 2.0.5 mainboard I just got so I installed it in the 2.0.1 one.... nope, same thing. I got another bad click wheel.
I wouldn't think this component could affect these buttons since the buttons are not actually on the click wheel but it's the one component that differs in both situations and the same problem is on each mainboard. :)
I know this is an old thread but I'm having this same problem. I have a feeling it's the click wheel. If it were the battery, you probably wouldn't get past the "Charging.... please wait" screen. When I replaced the clickwheel, it started booting up on its own when i put the battery in.
For step 3, you should be able to also remove the rubber rectangle at the base of the back plate exposing that connector area… stick the spudger in there and lift off the back plate. I assume there may be a reason why you didn’t use this method.. but I just did and it opened the back part enough where I could separate the rest by hand.
Still, excellent tear down… it made my speaker repair that much easier!
You probably have a hard drive and it might be clicking, I bet. Go to www.iflash.xyz and get the SD Quad unit. It lets you use Micro-SD cards in it (up to 4) as iPod storage. It works surprisingly well and is very battery efficient. Plus, you can drop it without damaging your iPod. I would think the worst you could do by dropping it is to break the display screen. :)
No. Sounds like you have a bad battery. I just went through this and bought a 3000 mAh one on eBay and it works.... :) But you can get a regular battery for pretty cheap if you can open it and get it installed. It's not incredibly hard. It's just a single ZIF connector for it.
From the playlist menu, select the one you want to shuffle and hit Play. If you have Shuffle set to Songs in the settings menu, it will shuffle everything in the playlist.
Your drive is not restored with proper iTunes firmware. Instead of buying a new hard drive, go to www.iflash.xyz and get an SD quad unit there where you can use micro SD cards for drives. Seriously. It's excellent. But do that only if you want a new drive and the other one is bad, I guess.
I have a similar problem with my iPod except mine is the center button that's not working. I chalked it down to the click wheel. Seriously. I had a bad click wheel and none of the buttons responded. I thought it was a bad mainboard so I hooked up another one running 2.0.1 instead of the other's 2.0.5 -- nope..... both wouldn't work.
So I got a new click wheel and installed it. It boots up now except the center button is the only one not working. :( Figured it was the 2.0.5 mainboard I just got so I installed it in the 2.0.1 one.... nope, same thing. I got another bad click wheel.
I wouldn't think this component could affect these buttons since the buttons are not actually on the click wheel but it's the one component that differs in both situations and the same problem is on each mainboard. :)
I know this is an old thread but I'm having this same problem. I have a feeling it's the click wheel. If it were the battery, you probably wouldn't get past the "Charging.... please wait" screen. When I replaced the clickwheel, it started booting up on its own when i put the battery in.