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Official Ipod Video / Classic 5g+5.5g+6g+6.5g+7g SSD Mod thread
May 13, 2015 at 1:40 PM Post #5,866 of 10,664
You are wrong! :) It does close. The lighting is bad, the highest point is the white part. When placed in the iPod, the SD card area is actually angled downwards into the area where the screen sits making the profile even thinner. I've attached some clearer photos to demonstrate this, bear in mind that the battery will supply additional pressure making it sits even flusher;

 

 

 
May 13, 2015 at 3:22 PM Post #5,868 of 10,664
squ1gs said:
  Just wanted to show you all how I personally manage to fit the 2000mah battery with Tarkans SD to CF Adapter. On the left is an unmodified adapter and on the right is the adapter that has been modified to fit in a thick back with the 2000mah battery. I have cut the board, removed the housing off the CF to SD adapter, removed the foam parts and applied electrical tape to hold it all securely in place.

 

 

 
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I am intrigued!  Looks promising.
 
So you are using the usual 2000mah battery that everyone uses?
 
Am a bit confused because strangeone's posts are interleaved with yours, and they seem to be using a differently-shaped 2000mah battery to the usual one - their one seems like a thinner version of the 2600mah battery used with zif ssds - I would imagine that one would work better with your modified adaptor, as it wouldn't hit the thickest part of the adaptor.
 
Also - didn't someone else on this thread attempt modifying the Tarkan adaptor like this?  Was that you or another poster?  I thought they said they couldn't make it work in the end?
 
May 13, 2015 at 3:44 PM Post #5,869 of 10,664
Yep, just the standard 2000mah battery: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191209866425?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
 
It wasn't me, I actually contacted Tarkan about cutting the board and this was his reply;
 
"Is it definately the 2000mAh you've got, I think the guy also sells a 1900mAh which is thicker.
 
You only need to find 0.7mm to make it fit, which removing the SD-CF housing will give you.
 
Tarkan"
 
He actually says himself it would fit and it does. Don't know why it didn't for the other guy...
 

 

 
May 13, 2015 at 4:04 PM Post #5,871 of 10,664
squ1gs said:
  Yep, just the standard 2000mah battery: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191209866425?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
 
It wasn't me, I actually contacted Tarkan about cutting the board and this was his reply;
 
"Is it definately the 2000mAh you've got, I think the guy also sells a 1900mAh which is thicker.
 
You only need to find 0.7mm to make it fit, which removing the SD-CF housing will give you.
 
Tarkan"
 
He actually says himself it would fit and it does. Don't know why it didn't for the other guy...
 

 
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Well, great work proving it can be done.  I might give it a go myself.
How easy/tricky was it to dismantle the cf/sd adaptor?
 
May 13, 2015 at 4:19 PM Post #5,872 of 10,664
I did something similar to this as well. Some have said to sand down the adapter but I simply removed the board from its housing, then wrapped the whole thing with kapton tape. I didn't cut the board though and fit pretty snug in my 7gen Classic.

I noticed that the Classics are more forgiving in getting them to shut close as opposed to the videos, in other words u have better success with the Classics.


 
May 13, 2015 at 8:09 PM Post #5,874 of 10,664
Tested a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB on my 5.5g 80GB and 5g 60GB yesterday and did no behave well.  
 
Turned on the iPod it gave me the restore in iTunes message, plugged it in and restored it on iTunes, no problem.  Took around 4-5 minutes to restore.  I then sync'ed a playlist which had around 60 songs.  I navigated through the tracks and it was freezing up when I would go to the next track and was very unstable.  Tried restoring it a few times and same thing, it would freeze and be like in slow motion when navigating through the UI.  Ended up going back to the store and returning it for a 500GB 850 EVO. 
 

 

 

 

 

 
May 14, 2015 at 4:12 PM Post #5,877 of 10,664
strangeone said:
 
The battery supposedly can get up to 150hrs of life with a 7g board, but I haven't had it long enough to put that to the test.
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150 hrs will be awesome but I doubt you can get that much. I'll be happy with 100 hrs. :)
 
While the sound quality of 7g doesn't match against my capless 5g/5.5g, I like the slim 7g with a CF or SSD mod for non-critical listening due to its perfect form factor and light weight. Also with 7g I use Apple's OF and there is no need for turning on or off the ipod. 
 
May 15, 2015 at 6:28 AM Post #5,878 of 10,664
dminor said:
   
150 hrs will be awesome but I doubt you can get that much. I'll be happy with 100 hrs. :)
 
While the sound quality of 7g doesn't match against my capless 5g/5.5g, I like the slim 7g with a CF or SSD mod for non-critical listening due to its perfect form factor and light weight. Also with 7g I use Apple's OF and there is no need for turning on or off the ipod. 
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Could you tell me how many tracks you have on your 1TB iPod? Was using a 7.5G classic. Now onto the 5.5G (80GB). A bit better, but Rockbox has frozen after copying 30,000 tracks. I can dualboot, but Rockbox stays stuck on the splash screen.
 
May 15, 2015 at 7:12 AM Post #5,879 of 10,664
estebank0 said:
   
Could you tell me how many tracks you have on your 1TB iPod? Was using a 7.5G classic. Now onto the 5.5G (80GB). A bit better, but Rockbox has frozen after copying 30,000 tracks. I can dualboot, but Rockbox stays stuck on the splash screen.
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I can't see that number-of-tracks would be the problem. (My rockboxed ipods are perfectly happy with approx 60,000 tracks - I'm not a FLAC user!).  Sounds more like some disk corruption occured during syncing, maybe?
 
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