Recent Fixes - iPod Sickbay - All iPods repaired! Repairs for Craig Barranti lives in San Mateo California, James Baraja from Seymour, Connecticut and Tammy Howell lives in Mansfield, Ohio

In yet another water immersion case, Craig dropped his video iPod in... well... the toilet. He tells me it was a 'clean bowl'.

He brought it to me to see if I could get it back working. Four hours later I had it running again. I was able to get the hard drive working, the LCD and all the other parts except the battery which needed to be replaced.

The battery was $23 and labor was $40, a cheap price to get his iPod back and working perfectly.

Fixed - Total cost $63.

James Baraja from Seymour, Connecticut

sent in 3 iPods. Two were fourth Generation Mini's that he thought I had a good chance of repairing and the third was a Nano 2nd generation

Each of the Mini's I was able to analyze and get working perfectly. The remaining Nano 2nd Gen he brought to a place on 7th Ave in New York City called "Computer Overhauls" to get the battery replaced. The 2nd Generation iPod Nano has a battery that is actually soldered to the logic board. This is a tricky repair and there is really just one effective way to do it, which is to clip the leads on the old battery leaving those 'soldered to the logic board leads' in place and then soldering the wire leads from the new battery to them.

Computer Overhauls chose the wrong way by attempting to safely desolder the leads from the logic board with a Sold-a-Vac and soldering pencil. By the time the new battery was in place the logic board had been damaged. With power turned on the ARM processor on the logic board became super hot indicating it's failure.

James was told by the Computer Overhauls "The mainboard might be shot since the iPod got very hot after they replaced the battery and left it to charge." so James knew getting the Nano to me for effective repair was a 'Hail Mary" pass. That one I wasn't able to make work again.

James sent five $20 bills in payment. $40 each for the Mini's and $20 to autopsy and do a post mortem on the Nano. The other photo here is the processor that failed on the board of his nano.

Fixed - Total cost $100.

Tammy Howell lives in Mansfield , Ohio

and needed her LCD replaced. About two weeks earlier one of her son's accidentally sent it flying out of his hand on the school bus and it hit the floor really hard. Her hard drive was still in good shape so all I needed to do was replace the LCD to make it work perfectly again.

The LCD was $33 and labor (which included return shipping) was $40 so she got it back working with all of her music and videos on it for $73.

Fixed - Total cost $73.

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I'm in Sonoma County... Northern California wine country.

If you live nearby, are traveling through or live in the San Francisco Bay Area bring your iPod to me and I can do the work while you wait or go wine tasting for a while. Send me an email just to make sure I have on hand whatever parts your repair will require.

Call or email me with questions or to set up a repair. You can also call, I am here most days from 8am to 8pm
Toll Free 1-877-iPod-Pro (1 - 877 - 476-3776)

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