I use my 4th Generation iPod for only one purpose — bringing music easily into my car to listen to while I’m commuting to work. I have an Alpine head unit and an iPod adapter which lets me hook the iPod up and control it via the controls located on the head unit itself. Sound gets fed into the head unit through the same adapter connection.Several days ago I was getting out of my car with my iPod in hand and I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to it safety. It jumped out, slammed on the ground with all it’s got jumped up several more times performing triple flips and such until it finally came to rest. If my iPod would be a gymnast on a competition it would’ve scored the maximum grades right there. Continue Reading
September 17, 2007 @ 07:08
you the the fucking man=D thanks alot for that guide thing i tried it myself with a knife worked wonders.
haha diy love it
cheers neil
September 17, 2007 @ 11:32
Heh, glad it was helpful.
August 1, 2008 @ 12:29
Yea man this was really good, I used a knife to get it open and luckly the hold switch icon came of..I guess I dropped it too many times
November 17, 2008 @ 13:31
wonderful piece of information dude!
Yu da king!
thanks!
Managed to break the plug clasp while pinchin the ribbon back with a pair of tweezers, but its better to have the hold switch off and deal with it rather than have an unusable ipod!
And it did work when i held the ribbon in place! Thanks
February 19, 2009 @ 20:50
This same thing happened to my Ipod, thank you so much for posting this information, You saved me seventy dollars.
May 25, 2009 @ 12:19
OMG !! dude it worked !! Thanks so much! Greeting from Costa Rica!
July 11, 2009 @ 21:30
Dude, you just saved my musical life! Thanks!
November 5, 2009 @ 11:53
What am amazing two-minute fix! My 5 year old and 2 year old can listen to their favorite song “Rock Lobster” again after a few days of listening to whatever the Ipod gods wanted them to listen to.
February 6, 2010 @ 16:55
Brilliant thanks! ipod is up and running when I had all but given up on it. certainly more help than apple!
March 10, 2010 @ 22:53
AWESOME INFO. I had all but given up!! I really appreciate this info!!
June 20, 2010 @ 14:06
SUPERB! Nice one man. I thought my ipod was going to continue life as a paperweight but this info got it rockin’ again. Took a good deal of prising to get it apart, it certainly looks 2nd hand now. 5 Stars!
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