Using the same wire cutters from earlier snip a bit off the side the the iFlash connector, this is because the button gets in the way of it otherwise (See Image #2). Now's a good time to plug the battery in and check that the bluetooth board is getting power. Once the wires are soldered on, they should look a little like the second picture, try and solder as close to the base as possible as putting the plastic battery connector back on top can break the solder if too much pressure is applied. Once they're soldered to the BT board place the board in the iPod and solder the connectors to the iPod battery terminals (Tin the terminals first, seriously). So back to the pauper method for me.įirstly I measured the length of the wires and soldered them to the BT board, it can get very fiddly and tricky to solder stuff in the confined spaces in the iPod. Be gentle with them because they are a pain to put back on if they come out (But if they do you always have a spare, right?).Ī smarter man might solder directly to + and - on the battery terminals, I tried this and it blew up. You'll want to remove the board to get the best access, get a decent amount of flux and carefully tin the outside pins for VCC and GND. ![]() Not something I expected, but it is back to normal otherwise.Ok now for the tough part, using my super helpful wiring diagram you can see that of the 5 pins in the battery connector they are VCC VCC TEMP GND GND (Pull the plastic connector off to see all 5). An unknown error occurred (1437).” After closing that and ejecting the iPod it displayed a frowning iPod with the support URL before shutting itself off.Īfter installing the iFlash from my original post in two different generation iPods (5th and 6th), one of which has been running an iFlash previously, I’m convinced there is something wrong with it.Īs an aside, I had to restore the 5th Gen after reinstalling its original iFlash. After a few minutes iTunes opened a window with “The iPod “iPod” could not be restored. While going through the restore process the iPod displayed a small cirlce-slash with “Do Not Disconnect” underneath. The 5th Gen iPod connected with iTunes, then iTunes attempted to restore it. Tonight I installed the iFlash into a 5th Gen that I already installed an iFlash unit in, a 2015 manufacture model. I replaced the HDD cable on my 6th Gen to see if that made a difference with the same results functions with the original HDD perfectly, same ,problem as below with the iFlash. Very late update to my previous post below (29 March), no idea why I didn’t think of this before. (All photographs courtesy of Rob Hardwick©, used with permission) I’d like to thank Rob Hardwick and Greg Upton for putting their Classic’s forward for testing!!! ![]() Various testing has demonstrated so far that if the CF card works with the iFlash in a iPod Video (5g) then it will probably work in the iPod Classic (6g). Thankfully the pricing is getting very attractive with the 32Gb A-Data approaching $100 (£50), and the other makes following suite. If you exclude the vaporware announced by Pretec and Microdia – 32Gb is still the maximum you can buy in the shops. The iPod works so much better with solid state storage, the cover flow album art feature is smoother with no waiting for the hard drive to spin up – plus the benefit of having another 30-40% of battery life added to the already excellent run times is just great.īad news obviously is that CF cards have not climbed in capacity as hoped for. Not worth mentioning the 160Gb model here as that has plenty of room any way…. Physically the fit is perfect – the iFlash mk2 with its slimmer design is just the right thickness to go in to the slimmer design of the Classic (80gb model). If you are reading this looking at your recently deceased iPod Classic which you dropped and broke the hard drive on, well I have some good news the iFlash works and works very well. For the last few months I and a few iFlash users have been playing around with Apple’s new incarnation of the iPod – the 6g Classic, with its fancy new operating system and slimmer profile – we wanted to see if the iFlash would work and if Apple still left the back door open for the Compact Flash conversion of their headline media player.
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