cadillake
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hum, try clean itunes, like install itunes from start (clean instal of itunes)
Hi Danthuyer,
I used the guide from the "Collected diyMods" site to guide me through the mod. For the high-pass filter, I chose a 100k ohm and a 100 ohm, to give me a high-pass right at about 20Hz. If you have any desire to send frequencies below 20Hz to your source, you can change the resistor values to your liking. Just remember f = 1 / (2*pi*R*C).
I got it to work! I ordered the previously mentioned 60GB HDD from Amazon and had to follow the following steps:
- Put the new HDD into the iPod
- Reset the iPod by holding menu + Play, then once it resets, hold Prev + Next + Select to get into Diagnostic mode.
- I got into USB Disk mode (while in diagnostic mode) and on my MacBook Pro, I formatted the iPod to FAT32 (while plugged into USB).
- I then plugged the iPod into a Windows laptop with a USB cable and reset the iPod with menu + play.
- It recognized it in iTunes, restored the iPod, then said I needed to plug into an external charger to complete the restore process. I only have an iPad mini charger, and that didn't do the trick, so I plugged into my FW800 to 30-pin cable on my MacBook Pro. It still didn't reset, but I could see it was charging (icon in top right).
- I then reset the iPod manually (don't need to do this if you have a FW400 wall charger) and it showed the "loading" progress bar. It finalized the restore, and I was set to load songs over USB, whether on Mac or Windows (although it's formatted for Windows).
- I can't sync over FW any more, but I'm fine with that, as I'll just build a custom FW800 + USB to 30-pin cable, or find a cheap one on ebay.
And that's all there is to it! I'm going to try this with a new 128GB CF card I buy to see if it will work with these steps. If that does, I'll buy the KingSpec 128GB IDE SSD again, and see if I can get that to work, as I like its form factor.
I hope this helps someone else out trying to revive an old iPod 3G. If you want to just buy one, I'm diyModding them and putting brand new cases on them at RetroSonicFidelity. Enjoy!