[cmarti]

   
BTW, has anyone tried this 1300mAh battery for the Mini?

I used it on one of my Minis and it's a little big ticker than the stock one but works fine, not more capacity that a 650mAh one though.

 

[cmarti]

 
Can you post some pictures of it? The backplate need to be from a 7g also right?

Will post pictures later when I get home. The 30gb back panel can be used too but I used a cheap 160gb slim back cover off eBay.

 

[DMinor]

Brought my 480GB diymod to work today. While I have been listening to the music, I just feel blessed with the opportunities to listen to so much music at my fingertips. Honestly, I thought 256GB was the ceiling when I got the Wellcore CF card last year. Look how far we have gone since the RB patch for msata provided by Beyondwind. 

 

[squallkiercosa]

  Brought my 480GB diymod to work today. While I have been listening to the music, I just feel blessed with the opportunities to listen to so much music at my fingertips. Honestly, I thought 256GB was the ceiling when I got the Wellcore CF card last year. Look how far we have gone since the RB patch for msata provided by Beyondwind. 

Hey Dminor, are you using a m500 480gb? What's the actual capacity of the ssd drive? 

 

[DMinor]

  Hey Dminor, are you using a m500 480gb? What's the actual capacity of the ssd drive? 

 
yes sir, the usable space is 446GB.

 

[SirMarcolino]

  Did you find some to order you the 256 gig sdxc in the end then?  Shame that it's not released in Europe

Hey guys
I am sooooo sorry for not yet contacting you!!! Blame on me!! I was very very bussy in business as well as in private life.
It's amazing, in total 4 guys from this forum were willing to help me out. Thanks sooo much!!!!!!!!! Finally I have choosen someone Yeah, its really a pitty but this card is not at all sold in Europe. I contacted few sellers who sell the PNY 128gb card to ask if they could order it. But no chance, PNY doesn't want to sell them in Europe. Strange....! But yeah, now I will get an "US"-PNY 256 card in the next few weeks
 
Guys, Thanks again so much!! This forum is just amazing, seriously!!!
 
Apple USB-Firewire-Cable-Wall-Charger:
My wallplug-charger seems to have some "problems". So I have a good working usb-firewire-cable in the hand but no charger anymore. I read somewhere few sites back, that someone just cutted the firewire-"plug" and just soldered an usb-"plug" to it. So the cable also could be used with an iphone-usb-wall-charger.
Did someone seriously do this? If no, does someone know any good replacement firewire-wall-charger on ebay?

 

[cmarti]

 
Can you post some pictures of it? The backplate need to be from a 7g also right?

I believe that the trick is to use a cheap click-wheel off eBay and not the original that came with the iPod.
 

 

 

 

[Blasman]

  I believe that the trick is to use a cheap click-wheel off eBay and not the original that came with the iPod.

 
Thanks for posting photos.  It still looks like the clickwheel is slightly raised above the frontplate from those photos.  Are you using the LCD from the 5th gen or 6/7th gen?
 
I was going to mod my 6th gen with Tarkan's adapter, but I just picked up a 5.5 gen for cheap and now I want to use that logic board in a 6th gen case and would like to be sure of what will work before I order more parts and take the 5.5 gen apart.  It's getting incredibly difficult to decide what two custom iPods that I want to make from all the parts that I have now...

 

[cmarti]

   
Thanks for posting photos.  It still looks like the clickwheel is slightly raised above the frontplate from those photos.  Are you using the LCD from the 5th gen or 6/7th gen?
 
I was going to mod my 6th gen with Tarkan's adapter, but I just picked up a 5.5 gen for cheap and now I want to use that logic board in a 6th gen case and would like to be sure of what will work before I order more parts and take the 5.5 gen apart.  It's getting incredibly difficult to decide what two custom iPods that I want to make from all the parts that I have now...

I am using the screen from a 5.5th gen iPod. 

 

[Blasman]

So I just tried to get a 5.5 generation board into a 6 gen faceplate.  The board does not sit flush with the frame of the 6 gen's plate.  I have screwed the plate together with both a 5.5 gen and a 6 gen clickwheel.  The little amount of give from the mainboard against the faceplate remains, rendering the clickwheel nearly unusable.  Perhaps the ebay clickwheel may work as it does for cmarti, but at least from my own experience, the stock clickwheels do not function well enough in my mentioned attempt.  It appears to be due to the way the 6th gen metal frame lines up against the chips on the mainboard.  The 5.5 gen board has chips in different places, and the 6th gen frame is slightly thicker and barely fits into a gap between two chips on the 5.5 mainboard, thus pushing it out a little.  I image this could be fixed by cutting or shaving part of the metal frame, but I'd rather not be attempting that.
 
I've also learned that the LCD's from the 5.5 gen and the 6 gen use a slightly different ribbon, therefor you cannot use one generation LCD with the mainboard of the other generation.

 

[cmarti]

  So I just tried to get a 5.5 generation board into a 6 gen faceplate.  The board does not sit flush with the frame of the 6 gen's plate.  I have screwed the plate together with both a 5.5 gen and a 6 gen clickwheel.  The little amount of give from the mainboard against the faceplate remains, rendering the clickwheel nearly unusable.  Perhaps the ebay clickwheel may work as it does for cmarti, but at least from my own experience, the stock clickwheels do not function well enough in my mentioned attempt.  It appears to be due to the way the 6th gen metal frame lines up against the chips on the mainboard.  The 5.5 gen board has chips in different places, and the 6th gen frame is slightly thicker and barely fits into a gap between two chips on the 5.5 mainboard, thus pushing it out a little.  I image this could be fixed by cutting or shaving part of the metal frame, but I'd rather not be attempting that.
 
I've also learned that the LCD's from the 5.5 gen and the 6 gen use a slightly different ribbon, therefor you cannot use one generation LCD with the mainboard of the other generation.

I am using a 5th gen click-wheel.

 

[btym]

Spent $25 on new housing and ended up damaging my logic board, had to drop another $40 to fix it
 
Maybe I shouldn't have gotten an ipod in the first place and just waited to get the fiio x5 :v

 

[cmarti]

  Spent $25 on new housing and ended up damaging my logic board, had to drop another $40 to fix it
 
Maybe I shouldn't have gotten an iPod in the first place and just waited to get the FiiO X5 :v

Where did you damage the board? 

 

[btym]

  Where did you damage the board? 

Unsure, I was pretty careful but definitely screwed something up It wouldn't play anything and it replaced all the album art with random noise, restored the firmware and disconnected/reconnected everything, couldn't get it to work. Thought it might have been the mSATA adapter but it's working fine with the new board.
 
I actually bought a used 5.5g 30GB because it was cheaper than I could find the logic board on its own, and for the hell of it I reassembled the 30GB one with the old board inside... it worked fine! Was pissed off because I thought I just wasted $40, but I put the old board back in my ipod and it stopped working again, so that royally confused me. Shame it was a 30GB so it didn't fit together, if it was 80GB I could have put together a second working ipod with the leftover parts and sold it to someone.

 

[cmarti]

  Unsure, I was pretty careful but definitely screwed something up It wouldn't play anything and it replaced all the album art with random noise, restored the firmware and disconnected/reconnected everything, couldn't get it to work. Thought it might have been the mSATA adapter but it's working fine with the new board.
 
I actually bought a used 5.5g 30GB because it was cheaper than I could find the logic board on its own, and for the hell of it I reassembled the 30GB one with the old board inside... it worked fine! Was pissed off because I thought I just wasted $40, but I put the old board back in my ipod and it stopped working again, so that royally confused me. Shame it was a 30GB so it didn't fit together, if it was 80GB I could have put together a second working ipod with the leftover parts and sold it to someone.

I am sure that something like that happened to everyone in this hobby!  It happened to me with a 7th gen iPod that I damaged the battery connector when opening it.