iPOD Nano Gen2 Repair

[stocky]

A friend had an iPOD which had stopped working due to her friends abusing it (I think it had something to do with wet grass but I couldn't follow it!)

Anyway, I first tried to dry/ bake it but that didn't fix it so I thought I'd see if I could dismantle it

Basically there are quite a few tiny, tiny screws beneath the white plastic top and bottom cover. I removed these (and headphone jack connector) and then just pushed the internal assembly up and out of the top - quite a funky design, I must say.

Anyway here is a pic I took and thought I'd share the moment.

To cut a late night short, it had sand/ salt in there which I had to clean out. I also had to remove the control dial and dismantle that as it was suffering from clicking loads whenever you touched the dial. But it is now fixed and working :B

 

[K404]

Nice one! So what was the problem? Shorting?

 

[stocky]

As they say, water isn't actually electrically conductive it's the impurities in it (lots of salt in this one). Dunno why I need to mention that as in most cases water will conduct, doh!

Anyway, basically just cleaned it all out and it worked fine

oh yeh, that pic's actually with the touch wheel removed - the shorting in there was causing the clicking problems.