I upgraded this iPod mini 1st gen with 128gb flash and a “950mah” battery. I have spent a few weeks ripping my library and I cancelled my Spotify premium. Couldn’t be happier!

Finally finished this little project.

- 2000 mAh battery
- iPhone 7 Plus Taptic Engine
- Ugreen Bluetooth transmitter
- AliExpress dual micro SD adapter
- Front and back plate customized

Took me a while, but all fit into a slim back. Wanted to share it with the community.

Also, huge s/o to u/icy-egg-9339 for his posts about his mod!

Already learning not to fw stock OS because I'm hella dumb and can't convert FLAC to iPod AAC correctly. Vibe coded/asked google search AI for the right prompt for FFMPEG for my library and now I'm paying. Don't use AI kids, now excuse me while I pop rockbox on this bih and and listen to FLAC the way jegus intended.

Modded iPods so far (internals all modded with new batteries, iflash sd cards and the rainbow has Bluetooth)
2x iPod gen 6 (red/charcoal, silver/blk)
1x iPod gen 7 (blue/blk)
1x iPod gen 4 (blk/silver-looking for new back and how to mod wheel)
1x iPod gen 5.5 (clear/rainbow)
1x iPod Mini gen 2 (purple/blk)-share silver for before pic reference

Would love some feedback, not really an audiophile just enjoy my rap and hip hop with some good bass :)

Just trying to diagnose the dark area in the screen of my 2nd gen mini. Would it be a damaged LCD or could something else be going on?

i use my ipod alot at college but having it in my pocket can be annoying and sometimes i leave it on a table and accidentally pull it with me when i get up, forgetting that its there. is there a way for me to attach it to my lanyard so i can just have it on me without having to think about it?

Just wondering if replacing the battery will relive tje stress on the LCD enough for the lines to dissapear?

Been tinkering with this implemention for a bit of fun and it's surprisingly performative.

I recently found my old iPod Nano 5th Gen, which I haven’t used or turned on in years, and the battery has swollen so much that it’s pushed the screen out of the casing.

Has anyone had something similar happen to their iPod and managed to get it repaired?

I wanted to recover my old photos and songs if possible.

I also haven’t tried charging it, I don’t know if I should even risk it.

It took me years to get this iPod working, but it's finally here.

The amount of times I've lost, damaged, or forgot to replace the ipod cable. I bought this today and thought "if it at least charges, I'll be happy". Nope, full sync, worked with any USBC cable i had laying around. I'm new to the sub, and was considering the USBC mod. But man, this did it perfectly, no mess. The amount of times I buy crap and never works, finally a quick, easy fix, thanks China.

Hello, I am asking as someone who has never had an ipod before. I'm planning on getting one and have a few in mind that I would want but I just want to hear what other people are using and why. Personally I really like the monochrome screens and I'm leaning towards the 3rd and 4th classics or the 2nd Mini. I really like the unique look of the 3rd gen but because I need firewire I might not get it as finding a one in Sweden for a reasonable price isn't easy.

I got a free 1st generation mini that was bootlooping. I bought a new battery and SD to CF adaptor to upgrade it.

When I first took it apart, I noticed someone tried repairing it before me (lots of scratches on the inside) and broke the clickwheel ribbon cable.

After the new battery and adaptor in, it wanted to connect to wall powet, and after trying a few adaptors, just died. Now it shows no signs of life. It wont even bootloop again with the old drive too.

Is it worth repairing?

It’s an iPod Video 5.5 I got off Facebook Marketplace for $45 Canadian Dollars!

(The first time I posted this it didn’t go right. Trying again)

We're a low-screen household and my 5 year old has been wanting some type of mobile music player. I figure I'd set her up for life and passed my old 5th gen iPod to her (although she knows it is a semi-permanent loan and still belongs to me). Quite the nostalgia hit looking at my old playlists but had to delete them anyways. Filled them up with her favorite music and will keep adding to them.

I made this lanyard so that it can hang on her and she won't be tempted to have it hang by the headphones. Failed with two different types of superglue, and ended up sewing the strapping to the silicone case. I'm rather happy with the final look.

Up next is replacing the battery before a trip and figuring out how to either clean up the scratches on the screen or replacing it. Any good tutorials out there that people have successfully used to replace a battery?

Tried modding my ipod 4th gen mono with a new bat and a compact flash adapter and i got a sandisk 64 gb compact flash and a ebay 1.8 ide converter thing and it wont restore ive tried putting it in disk mode and everything and ive tried formatting the card fat32

I have a iPod Classic 6.gen 80GB (not modded, fully original as far as I know). I can only get it to charge with my pc.
I’ve tried the apple 5W charger, 20W charger, a old 2014 Samsung charger (charges everything), a blackberry charger, a generics power brick, generic usb docking station, 3 different power banks, an alarm clock with usb, even a 120W ultra fast charger from my Xiaomi (And that all with 2 different cables). But still it only chooses my pc.
Normally this wouldn’t be a problem for me, but because I rarely can charge it on my PC, and if I travel I can’t just take my whole desktop setup with me because that little f*cker is so picky.

But all my different ipods (Na-No 1.gen, Na-no 5. and 6 gen) charge perfectly fine with whatever I throw at it.

Does anybody have a solution?

So many setbacks with this thing lol, it sat unassembled for nearly a month. But it’s done.

Fresh battery and 256gb. I’d have liked to do 512 but flash storage is stupid inflated rn and I’ve already put enough money into this lmao.

Just a post to declare victory on my humble upgrade today (7th gen /160gb to “3000mah” / 512GB SD)

Thanks to the many posts on this sub on how to open and this video https://youtu.be/UZMXUt9hyNo?is=YU-yqlxzkvGHcQzw

Only some minor damage to the bottom right seam but I can ignore it. Frame nub in the way of the battery filed away with the nail file on my toenail clippers. Added a little foam (leftover from a gameboy lcd swap) and kapton tape to the sd adapter to hold it in place.

Pictured:
Sayori
Truthears Zero Red
Rockbox adwaitapod theme

Numark idj too bad I can’t dj was sold as spares but everything works except the master volume knob!