{"id":56,"date":"2007-02-18T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.11h.net\/erich\/56"},"modified":"2007-02-18T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T19:57:31","slug":"dead-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/dead-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"

It really sucks when all of a sudden your digital music player just goes belly up.<\/p>\n

My iPod mini did just that Friday evening. It had a good life from 8th June 2005 until 16th February 2007. Of course, I’m pretty sure that I was the direct cause of its demise.<\/p>\n

I had the mini in my back pocket and I sat down. The hold switch was activated so that the key press wouldn’t stop the music. When I removed the mini from my pocket, the forward and play\/pause buttons where stuck in the ‘pressed’ position. It seemed that the buttons were caught on the aluminum case. I gently taped the mini on my desk to un-stick the buttons. Worked great; the buttons returned to their normal position.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, the mini began to skip through all the songs. No problem I thought, I’ll just reboot it. As soon as I pressed the select and menu button, the mini reset and displayed a ‘sad iPod<\/a>‘ icon. And I could hear what sounded like hard drive heads clicking. All this time I have always though that my iPod mini was a flash based player. Apparently, it’s has a Microdrive in it.<\/p>\n

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After disassembling<\/a> my iPod mini, I removed the Microdrive(R) and replaced it with a 1 GB CF memory card that I was planning on using for another project. The CF card was going to be used for ZeroShell<\/a>. Oh well.<\/p>\n

Once the Microdrive(R) was replaced with the CF memory card I had to put the mini into disk mode<\/a> to reformat the ‘drive’ using an iPod Updater<\/a> (it was not the latest and greatest but it worked perfectly). Once the update was complete, I reset the iPod again and started iTunes. When iTunes finally loaded, it asked what I wanted to name the iPod and informed me that my entire music library wasn’t going to fit on the device (which was down to 1GB from 4GB).<\/p>\n

Changing the mini from a Microdrive(R) to flash really increased the update speed. After a few minutes, iTunes had loaded as much audio onto the mini as it could fit.<\/p>\n

When I was disassembling the mini, I managed to scratch the select button on the touch pad and mauled the aluminum case. Since it still works, I’m not that upset about it.
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UPDATE:<\/p>\n

30 June 2007 – I’ve updated my iPod with a pqi 8GB CF<\/a>. iTunes 7 will restore the firmware\/format on the new disk which makes the iPod updater obsolete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It really sucks when all of a sudden your digital music player just goes belly up.<\/p>\n

My iPod mini did just that Friday evening. It had a good life from 8th June 2005 until 16th February 2007. Of course, I’m pretty sure that I was the direct cause of its demise.<\/p>\n

I had the mini in my back pocket and I sat down. The hold switch was activated so that the key press wouldn’t stop the music. When I removed the mini from my pocket, the forward and play\/pause buttons where stuck in the ‘pressed’ position. It seemed that the buttons were caught on the aluminum case. I gently taped …<\/p>\n

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