iPod Mini, any ideas?

[spickerish]

I have an old Mini 2G 4GB lying around which I never use because the battery is not working right and 4Gb is just not enough. Do you have any tips on things I can do with it do bring it back to life? Looking for my own MiniMod

 

[synaesthetic]

You can open it up and replace the battery with a higher-capacity one, and then pull the microdrive and replace it with a high-capacity CF card, then rockbox it.

 

[nickyboyo]

As synaesthetic says, buy yourself an 800mAh battery from ebay, about $15 all up, then a cf data card of whatever size you want, 16 gb on newegg is about $60, add rockbox et voila- nice sounding player, good flash memory, good battery life, cheap price.....happy listening

 

[synaesthetic]

Curious: with rockbox and the aforementioned 800mAh Li-Ion battery, how much battery life can I expect using 192kbps and higher bitrates? Without the hard drive the difference in bit rate shouldn't make a difference since it doesn't need to spin the drive up to copy to the buffer.

 

[nickyboyo]

I use V0 and mainly 320 rips, with both mods done to my daughters old 2g mini i guess i get a good 15 hours play time from a charge, very rough estimate mind, i can do a test if you need a more precise timing.

 

[cyberspyder]

Hard-anodize it black.

 

[FallenAngel]

diyMod it, upgrade battery and stick in a 16 or 32 GB CF card.

Mine with cost:

diyMod : pennies for wire
850mAh battery : $6 shipped off eBay
16GB CF : $60 from NewEgg

I left a 192kbps CD on repeat, I stopped it after 26 hours, wanted to listen instead of testing battery

 

[synaesthetic]

I have an old first-gen Mini laying around that I could do this with. I know the first-generation Minis have much worse battery life than the 2nd gen.

Not that it's really important, I have my Nano, but I kind of miss that old pink thing.

 

[spickerish]

Are you guys talking about this one: Newegg.com - A-DATA 16GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card Model TurboSD SDHC 16G - Flash Memory ?

And can I replace the battery by myself since I don't have any tools for electronics, exept for screwdrivers and stuff.

 

[utilisateur]

You need a CompactFlash card, they are organized in the same way and have the same pinout !
If you dont have atleast some practice with a soldering iron you cant dIyMod it but i think the battery replacement will work. You should find plenty of tutorials on the internet and i think on head-fi aswell

 

[QQQ]

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then a cf data card of whatever size you want, 16 gb on newegg is about $60

Can it can be performed with Nanos? Can you post a link to some tutorila?

 

[synaesthetic]

CF replacement doesn't work with Nano, there is not enough room.