r/Modded_iPods

Just got done upgrading my iPod video with a new dual micro SD card adapter with two 256gb cards and a 2000mah battery.

Also installed rockbox.

outsourcing a good cf sd adaptor would cost me hella more than the iPod itself and really dont care its 8 gb I just need a bit more space and im not really techie kind of person 😭😭

Howdie anyone in here that has modded the ipod mini gen 2 what batteries do yall use

Any of the 3 on eoe

Cameron shino batteries I dont know where the best place to find them should I get the white label or black label

This one

New EC003 EC007 Battery For iPod Mini M9804 M9801 M9802 M9806 W065 M9807 A1051 M9805 4GB MP3/4 1st 2nd Gen + Free Tools

https://a.aliexpress.com/\_mrjaOMX

Some context:

• Menu + Center causes it to go black and then eventually back to white.
• If I do the play/center reset thing the screen goes black, then returns to a dim white/grey screen.
• No Apple logo ever appears.
• The Click Wheel's electronic feedback initially worked, but now doesn't.
• My Mac's System Information sees the iPod as an Apple USB device.
• The finder on my mac does not mount/show the iPod.
• It's been charging for 6 hrs.

This is my old ipod that's been sitting in a desk at my parents so I wanted to see if I could use it but obviously it's not working and I'm not sure if it's the hard drive, the screen, the logic board, battery etc etc. Anyone have any ideas?

I bought an iPod a couple months ago and even though it said it was in good quality it wasn’t. I tried charging it the Home Screen turned on for a second then it had a screen with the apple logo (the screen was half black half white) and was making some weird clicking/tapping noses.
I tried charging it again to see what happens but it has only the apple screen with the weird tapping noises.

It doesn’t matter to me that much since I was thinking of modding it anyway. I was thinking of replacing the battery and getting a new sd card with a lot more storage. The only thing is apparently someone told me I’ll have to replace the backplate with a bigger backplate in order for the new modded tools to fit in the ipod.

I am a high schooler who has no experience in fixing any sort of technology at all. I am able to afford the new battery, sd card and backplate I just want to know if any of you guys think I should do it myself at home??? I have heard of batteries from iPods exploding or how fragile iPods are so I am a bit nervous that I might brake something. I’ve heard from some people that it is very easy to mod iPods but I am not completely sure.

I've been making a list of things I have learned while modding iPods over the last year. These are mainly things I feel are important to consider when starting out, and a lot of tips I haven't seen mentioned in many guides. My list so far has 18 things on it, and I made a video of the first 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fh8S_3ILhs

Are any nuggets of info you wish you had known when you started out with modding?

This is the black housing from Elite Obsolete Electronics with 256GB, but I didn’t like how it looked with a white click wheel so I made a black one. It’s for sale on eBay UK.

Let me know what you think. https://github.com/ehajek/Syncopation-Community-Edition

Synco.uno is where I'll have news and updates but I use this myself. Tested with MacOS 13, 26, 27 and has intel/App Silicon Support. I use this also for MP3 Music on SD Cards... Enjoy

Came out better than i planned. used the iflash duo in this one.

Love these 2 guys

Yeah, that's it. It's really hard to find cases for the 4th Gen 20GB Photo model around here—I've barely even been able to find a replacement front faceplate... So, to protect it, I looked to see if there were any 3D-printed options, and voilà. The files didn't look that big, but when I actually put the iPod in there... lol, it looked like a 60GB model, if not even bigger.

But honestly? I really like it. For now, I just used school glue because I picked up another bumper-style case that I'm going to test out later.

Link the the hard case: https://www.printables.com/model/1422578-ipod-4th-generation-20gb-case

Link for the simple case: https://www.printables.com/model/1509992-simple-case-for-ipod-classic-4-th-gen-aka-ipod-pho

found an old innotech bluetooth transmitter that i used as a receiver before my car had android auto. thought there should be enough space in the lower part of the back of my battery modded iPod. combined the ideas and et voila!

Now i can actually almost listen to the entire 8GB of songs before the battery runs out. Not so much with bluetooth on, but runtime is still amazin even with bluetooth due to the 1800mAh.
I stole the button from the original bluetooth adapter case. I just wish it was black 🥲

if anybody is interested, i will publish the backplate files, thick and original size, soon. haven verified that the original one fits as well, yet.

Just another cautionary tale so you won't be a Muppet like me...

On a taptic engine from an iPhone X, there is a metal cover plate over the ribbon cable. Do NOT remove it, or at the very least try to be very carefully removing it. I wound up ripping the entire ribbon cable out of the TE when removing that side cover plate.

Since I already ruined a TE, I dissected it for amusement. I'm glad I ordered more than one TE.

FWIW, you can connect a AA battery to the soldered wires for testing to see if the TE is functional and vibrates. An Ohm meter measured (for me) about 9Ω between the wire ends.

First attempt, half an Hour, supposed to Look a Bit like the OP-1