Gently push it away from the logic board on all sides then the drive can be lifted away from the board. This is attached to the logic board with a small flat connector. The hard drive is a Compact Flash-shaped Microdrive. Gently remove this and put the old battery aside. It may be stuck to the logic board with a tiny sticky pad. Ease this out of the socket with the spudger. The battery is connected by a small white plastic connector. You can now carefully slide the logic board up out of the aluminium case of the iPod.
Now remove the two tiny crosspoint screws at either end of the top. If it’s hard to get out, leave this step till after the logic board comes out it’ll be easier and safer. Next press down with your thumbs on the click wheel and slide it out. Then gently tease out the connector for the clickwheel using the spudger. It is fitted by four sprung clips at each corner. Remove the sprung metal plate from the underside. You have to pry the top and bottom covers off with the spudger (or even two) and these covers are very tight-fitting and glued down with rubber cement. You have to provide considerable force to do this, but do so slowly and carefully so as not to break the covers. Opening the iPod Mini is easier than sothing like the Classic, but is still a bit of a fight. Ok, Crack It Openįirst switch the iPod to HOLD and wait till the screen blanks. If you can’t find a CF card cheap enough, and you already have a high capacity SD card, you can instead opt for an adapter to convert the SD to a CF. 64Gb cards can cost around $50, but get the biggest your budget will allow. You will also need a CF card to replace the existing Microdrive – any capacity will do, after all anything above the original capacity of 4Gb is a bonus. The batteries in the Mini commonly lost charge over time, and in any case were only 600mAh, so you should buy a replacement like this one. You can find both these tools in the “mobile phone repair kits” which you can pick up for a few bucks at hardware stores. You will need two tools: a spudger (a specialized plastic tool for opening Apple products without scratching the hell out of the lovely finish) and a small crosspoint or Philips screwdriver. In this article, we’ll discuss how to get into the iPod Mini, replace damaged or tired batteries with better ones and replace the old hard drive with solid state memory with the bonus of increased capacity.
It had a tiny hard drive in it, and these were prone to head crashes and drive errors.
The Mini was a good little iPod, but it was not their favorite son. Although the iPod Mini was revolutionary in many ways, within a year the Mini was replaced by the solid state iPod Nano.
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