superpantoufle
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Hi there,
An iPod 1G doesn't really qualify as a 68k device, right? Anyway, I don't know where to seek help apart from here… My iPod 1G died several years ago. I bought it second hand around 2002 and used it for a couple of years, and then gave it to a friend who took it on a three years backpack trip around the globe. He gave it back to me for my collection around 2010, with a dead hard drive and several "war wounds" from the trip.
I left it mostly untouched all these years, and finally attempted a restauration. I bought a new drive and a new battery. It's now back to life running iPodOS 1.5 (freshly restored from a 2018 MacBook Air running macOS Catalina, yay!). Everything seem to work fine, apart from the scroll wheel that doesn't scroll… The iPod was taken apart, and I cleaned every visible part.
I also have another dead iPod 1G with a desoldered FireWire connector. Resoldering it is way beyond my skills, but I used it to swap parts. As far as I can tell, the scroll wheel assembly can't be removed from the logic board, so I can't just swap them.
Does anybody have any experience with iPod 1G repair and can point me in the right direction?
An iPod 1G doesn't really qualify as a 68k device, right? Anyway, I don't know where to seek help apart from here… My iPod 1G died several years ago. I bought it second hand around 2002 and used it for a couple of years, and then gave it to a friend who took it on a three years backpack trip around the globe. He gave it back to me for my collection around 2010, with a dead hard drive and several "war wounds" from the trip.
I left it mostly untouched all these years, and finally attempted a restauration. I bought a new drive and a new battery. It's now back to life running iPodOS 1.5 (freshly restored from a 2018 MacBook Air running macOS Catalina, yay!). Everything seem to work fine, apart from the scroll wheel that doesn't scroll… The iPod was taken apart, and I cleaned every visible part.
I also have another dead iPod 1G with a desoldered FireWire connector. Resoldering it is way beyond my skills, but I used it to swap parts. As far as I can tell, the scroll wheel assembly can't be removed from the logic board, so I can't just swap them.
Does anybody have any experience with iPod 1G repair and can point me in the right direction?
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