ipod it back together and it works

Well its after mid-day here so I suppose I'd better admit to the last post being related to it being 1st April. This post is an update on the dead iPod. I decided that as it didn't work at all, there was nothing to lose by opening it up. Not as easy as it sounds, because it is built without any obvious screw holes or similar. Enter the guitar plectrum. Ideal to slide down the side of the case and then to follow with a not so slender screwdriver to ping the plastic clips holding the metal back to the white plastic front.

• Separate the pieces rather gently because there's bound to be fragile connections between the two halves.
• Press all the obvious looking connectors to ensure good electrical links.
• Do the special iPod reset (top button and middle button held down for four seconds).
• Yes a menu and no disk clicking sounds.
• Whilst still in pieces, plug into computer and fire up iTunes.
• Yippee. Recognised!
• Now I might as well reload all the tunes so that its up to date. Phew.

I've made the photo enlargeable for this so if anyone else is stuck with a dead iPod they can see some of the detail of the clips and the fragile ribbon connectors between the front and the back.
Tag: iPod, repair iPod, open iPod