Fuck Apple...I fixed my iPod myself!

[K.C.]

<p>Damn, I'm so fucking happy. </p><p>I bought one of tho U2 iPods when the first came out (a couple years ago, i guess) and it worked fine. Then all of a sudden the thing fucked up one day like the hard drive went bad and made these horrible clicking and scraping sounds, and nothing would work, and I'd get about every error icon the iPod had in it's software at some point or another. </p><p>So, I didn't have the cash to pay those bastards to repair it (they charge something like $300) so I just packed the thing away.</p><p>Well, I'm going through some stuff tonight and I come across it. I turn it on and naturally it's still broken, so I start looking around at potential costs online. Then I decide to just crack the thing open with a screwdriver, and I pulled out the hard drive (which was a lot easier then I thought it would be) and just readjust the connection on it. </p><p>I pop it back in, and bam, it works. And to think what they would have charged me to do the same.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now, the bad news is I probably have to&nbsp;still replace the battery...but that's much better than what&nbsp;they'd of charged for the hard&nbsp;drive. Even&nbsp;going to a non-Apple repair&nbsp;guy probably would have cost a nice&nbsp;chunk of change. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reillyluck]

thats sticking it to the Man!!! good job budday!

[johnniewalker]

I got a battery for 20 or 30 bucks.&nbsp; Its just as easy to replace the battery.&nbsp;&nbsp; Problem with mine was the harddrive bit it two weeks later.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finding a cheap harddrive replacement is another story.&nbsp;

[K.C.]

<strong>johnniewalker</strong> wrote:<br />I got a battery for 20 or 30 bucks.&nbsp; Its just as easy to replace the battery.&nbsp;&nbsp; Problem with mine was the harddrive bit it two weeks later.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finding a cheap harddrive replacement is another story.&nbsp; <p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, before I got it to work, I was thinking about just buying a new hard drive and trying that. The cheapest I saw from a store was like $63 online for the mk2004gal (the one the iPod uses).</p><p>I did see some lady on eBay straight up selling one, as opposed to auctioning it, for $15, though. I'm sure there was some catch to that, or some $60 shipping charge she attached...I didn't read the whole thing, though. </p>

[Don Stugots]

i have an ipod sitting on a shelf that cant be fixed.&nbsp; i should pop it open and take a shot at it.

[K.C.]

<strong>STUGOTS1</strong> wrote:<br />i have an ipod sitting on a shelf that cant be fixed.&nbsp; i should pop it open and take a shot at it. <p>If you do, this guy has a pretty good tutorial about busting it open. I think he was doing a hard drive replacement:</p><p><a href="http://www.notpopular.com/blog/comments.php?blogID=63">http://www.notpopular.com/blog/comments.php?blogID=63</a></p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>Good job.</p><p>That is EXACTLY what I'm going to do after the end of the year if and when my U2 iPod breaks as well.&nbsp; That's when my 2nd and final year of my warranty runs out.</p><p>Fuck Apple, I'll do it myself.</p>

[Don Stugots]

i am in love with their products, i just dont see myself spending money to fix something that they made to be disposable or spending more money every year to buy a new one.&nbsp; i will be cracking that bitch open soon.&nbsp;&nbsp; thank you.