Recent content by ThinWalls

Am annoyed that there seem to be custom ipod housings that are only available in the US (or at excessive postal charges here). Like 'light green' fronts or 'rose gold' or (especially) 'red' back-plates. Unlike all the others they don't seem to be available direct from China (where the post...

Given that it works depending on the position of the headphone plug, that's good news, insofar as it means it's the headphone socket that's faulty (and not a circuit on the logic board or the headphone cable connector on the logic board - both of which would be more expensive problems to solve)...

Has anyone had any luck with repairing/replacing the ribbon cable on one of the custom batteries? Had lots of them now where the contact bit at the end (that goes into the battery connector on the logic board) fractured and snapped off the cable. Frustrating that that tiny bit of cable coming...

Having had two "2000mah" batteries in modded ipods fail recently and need to be replaced, what I'd most like to see is some means of fitting a more commonly-available, more 'standard' battery type. At some point the custom ipod batteries will cease to be manufactured, I'm sure. And as...

The data-transfer speed is the biggest limitation on the ipod design, that really gives away its age as 'legacy tech'. It now takes up to 36 hours for me to do a complete initial sync of my entire library!

Has this been mentioned on here before? Don't remember noticing it. (I've no connection to whoever these people are, not shilling this, or particularly recommending it, honest! Just noticed someone selling an ipod with it on Ebay, and was intrigued by the custom back-plate as much as anything...

Continue to be exasperated at the idiocyncracies of the iflash. It absolutely seems to be the case that only certain combos of brands/capacities/series of cards will work together in the same device. Which means it requires repeated time-consuming experimentation to find which cards will play...

I wonder if I'm "barking up the wrong tree" with this. Has anyone else experimented with it? But, as I say, the couple of times I tried going even just a few GB over 2TiB (i.e. over 2199GB), iTunes wouldn't restore the thing properly - so I'm assuming that you can't exceed that limit even by a...

Well, storage manufacturers, like hard-drive and (I now realise, though I didn't really think about it before) memory card makers, use the SI meaning of "k/kilo" and "M/Mega" and "G/Giga" and "T/Tera", etc. That is they go in multiples of 1,000 like units of mass or distance etc. So when they...

To further update my last post... Experimented with trying to push the FAT32 limit, and it _seems_ that if you go even slightly past the 2TiB (not 2TB) limit, things go haywire. (This is assuming it's not some other problem and I'm mistaking the cause of the issue.) But if I try an iFlash...

There's a reason I ended up with the above peculiar assortment of different capacity cards (all of different makes). I thought I'd get a 1Tb sd card while Amazon had a cheap offer available, and upgrade a couple of modded ipods. And, Good Lord, it turned out to be _such_ a lot of effort. The...

Answering my own question from earlier in the thread (in case anyone else finds themselves with the same question), it seems you _can_ go beyond 2Tb with a modded ipod, but only (I think) because of the confusion between Tb, Gb, etc, and Tib Gib units. Got an ipod to work with 1Tb, 512Gb...

Am seriously baffled by the behaviour of those generic green (non-Tarkan) zif adaptors. Have never managed to work out why they work in some ipods but not others. Anyone know what's up with them? Been going through my big box of ipod spare parts trying to find combos that will work, and...

Damn, dropped two modded ipods in a row. Was away from home, had two with me, managed to drop both of them in exactly the same way (ipod lying on the table, headphones on my head, I stand up, cable pulls ipod off table so it falls on floor with a crash - then I do it _again_ with the other...

I mean these (I think they came in 6gb and 20gb versions, hard-drive based, so in theory upgradable): https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/digital-music-players-nw-nwz-a-series/nw-a3000/specifications The internal hard-drive can be swapped, much as with ipod classics, but I read that it...