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  • Answer to: Microphone won't pick up any sound Nov 9 @ 4:53 PM

    Hi, that depends on how skilled you are. You can open the mic to take a look inside, maybe something easy as a loose cable or a capacitor is dried out/popped open. If you can repair it on your own, do it. Otherwise let somebody else do it for you.

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  • Answer to: Multimeter question Nov 9 @ 4:20 PM

    Hi, there are three tests modes on the multimeter you should be carefull with. The first one is the resistor, second the diode and third the circuit test. The multimeter will send out a constant voltage of 9V, if it works with a 9V block battery, and shows in these test modes the value of the resistor, that the diode works or that you have a closed circuit or not. As there are many parts as ICs and transistors on the logic board using a lower operating voltage than 9V, you can easily fry one of these parts in worst case. So if you are using a multimeter in one of these test modes, be sure to disconnect the part to be measured them from the logic board. In worst case you only fried this part and not the whole logic board. How to setup/use the multimeter to test the parts you mentioned is a little longer story. First you will need appropriate cables and clips/tips. Then you will need test setups for the part to be tested. A.e. you will need a cut off headphone plug with blank cable ends to hook a test clip to. For the other end of the headphone jack a very fine tip (like a needle), or a connector wit cables to hook another clip to.....a.s.o. To make a long story short, if you don't want to repair iPhones and iPod professionally i would stay with changing the part and try if it works. Because its easier and faster.

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  • iPod 5G - Hard drive connector cable Oct 21 @ 1:41 PM

    Hi,

    i´ve just bought another 5G iPod. The iPod showed the known "sad ipod icon", but for the second time the problem was not the hard drive, it was the connector cable.

    Anyone esle out there with the same experience? I´m just wondering how many working hard drives went into the bin.

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  • Re: Ipod Classic 80gb restore problems 6 days ago

    Hi,

    if iTunes needs hours to recognize a connected iPod, there's something pretty damaged.

    I would check two possible reasons for the behavior of the iPod. First is that the hard drive is damaged, and the second is that the logic board is damaged. Because the logic board and the hard drive are the most expensive parts in a iPod, replace a part and wait what happens, is not an (cheap) option.

    At first i would open the iPod and connect the hard drive via an adapter ( ZIF to IDE ) directly to my Computer. Then run diagnostics to see if the drive is damaged or not and depending on that see that the logic board is damaged or not.

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  • Re: 5th gen audio issue - apply pressure to case and it works? Oct 26 @ 8:19 AM

    Hi,

    before buying a new logic board i would check that the cable is properly in place.

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  • Re: 5th gen 30gb Ipod video Oct 26 @ 8:17 AM

    Hi,

    there is no way to fix the drive because you dropped it and that means it is physical damaged like a head crash.

    The only way is to buy a new/used/refurbished hard drive. How to do so is described in the repair section of this page.

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  • Re: Upgrade iPod Classic output jack Oct 24 @ 6:08 PM

    Hi,

    afaik the dock connector jack is capable to playback video.

    With this cable for component:

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB128L...

    or this for av :

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB129L...

    And Apple is not the only one producing these cables.

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  • Re: 5th gen audio issue - apply pressure to case and it works? Oct 24 @ 5:48 PM

    Hi,

    on the logic board, the connector of the audio jack is placed exactly where you applied the pressure. So i would think that the cable isn't fixed properly in its connector or the connector itself has a contact problem.

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  • Re: 5th gen 30gb video ipod has a clicking sound (HD?) and the sad ipod face Oct 24 @ 5:37 PM

    Hi,

    the clicking sound coming from the hard disk plus the sad ipod icon most likely means, that the hard drive is damaged. BUT the battry not holding the charge makes me nervous, because its not typical for a damaged hard disk.

    So i would buy a new battery, be sure to get a battery 5mm thick for a 30GB ipod, because the batterys for the 60 and 80GB modells are thicker (9mm) and the thicker battery doesn't fit into the 30GB case. A battery costs around 10 bucks, if your ipod works again after that, good for you. If you find out that you also need a new hard disk, it doesn't matters as i would change the battery as well when changing the hard disk.

    Changing the battery and/or changing the hard drive is described in the repair section of this page.

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  • Re: 5th gen 30gb Ipod video Oct 24 @ 11:04 AM

    Hi,

    you wrote in another thread that you dropped your iPod. That plus the clicking sound most likely means that your hard drive is damaged.

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  • Re: HALP! 60g 5th gen iPod newly installed battery, & still won't hold a charge... Oct 17 @ 2:32 PM

    Hi,

    if you dropped your iPod and the hard drive makes a clicking noise, its quiet clear that your hard drive is damaged plus it seems that your display is also damaged.

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  • Re: 5th gen 30gb Ipod video Oct 17 @ 2:27 PM

    Hi,

    when the hard drive makes a clicking noise plus the screen says "very low battery" it most likely means your hard drive is damaged. In one case it was not the hard drive itself, the hard drive cable was broken.

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  • Re: iPod Classic 80gb reboots continuously in a loop Oct 16 @ 3:53 PM

    Hi,

    what happens if you connect it to iTunes, is the iPod recognized? If not, i would try to disconnect the HDD and turn it on again. If it keeps rebooting without a HDD connected, i would suggest that the logic board might be the problem.

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