Replacing An iPod Battery
Now that I have Debian unstable running beautifully on my g3 laptop I figured it was time to resuscitate the ipod. A couple months back the battery just stopped holding any kind of sloppy charge, rendering the device rather useless. I bought azarashi (the name of my ipod, and will be referred to as such henceforth unless otherwise specified) used about a year and a half ago - it is of the older generation of ipods that exist sans cradle, but not of the first generation (it has a touchpad instead of a rotating dial).
Sending azarashi back to apple for repairs and spending more than I care to was not an option (is it ever?), so I ordered a battery replacement from ipod battery. It arrived this afternoon and I happily bounced home, ready to have azarashi part of my life again.
Certain steps were *not* as easy as various websites claim them to be. This might be because azarashi was a different model than the ones used in the instructions. Or maybe because I’m a weakling. The biggest problem I had was wedging the fucking case open. Not an easy task, and I inflicted a small amount of scratches on the case trying to unhook the case clips.
The second hinderance I encounted was separating the back casing of the ipod from the “meat”. The headphone jack presents a slight difficulty in sliding the thing out, but nothing compared to opening the case.
Other than that, the process went smoothly, and I’m anxiously charging azarashi to see if the new battery will hold a proper charge.