Turn On, I See Red

MOG. I have a 4th generation iPod photo that just got a new battery. It went from around 20 minutes of "un-tethered" play time to...Let me check...14 hours, 9 minutes. Yeah, I'm calling that a win. 

Ain’t Gonna Help You None

My previously mentioned 4th Gen iPod Photo (henceforth referred to as grossPod) has a dying HDD.  I went ahead and ordered some parts to FlashMod it, and get it running for decades more to come.

This required a series of adapters to replace the HDD with a MicroSD card:

 

 

 

 

 

We needed a cable to go from the IDE interface to something the board could handle, the board itself then a CF to SD card adapter.  I also added a SD to MicroSD adapter, because I had a 128GB MicroSD card for this project.

(Original Drive)

IPod once the modifications are complete:

 

(Everything complete)

(Still a little gross around the edges)

 

I now have (yet another) 128gb iPod for the collection.  Hooray!
 

All Your Pretty Paint And Powder

I picked up a 60gb 4th Gen iPod Photo from eBay for practically nothing.  The picture was kind of gross, to the point where people on Reddit were aware and somewhat afraid of the iPod.

 

(grossPod)

Well, it arrived a couple of days ago and true to the picture it was kind of gross.  It turns out the issues were cosmetic, so hooray for that.  It cleaned up fairly well:

 

(Considerably less grossPod)

With that, I finally got around to plugging it into the PC and looked it over with iTunes.  It turns out that the last time it played through a complete track was 3/24/2008.  I find it entertaining that the last track played was from Led Zeppelin II.  Naturally the first thing I played was the next few tracks on the album.

The time gap was entertaining to me to say the least:
 

Yes, it was a fourteen year transition between tracks.  Yes. That amuses me greatly.

With regard to the player itself.  The hard drive is failing.  It isn’t there yet, but if I transfer large amounts of data to it at a time it will just die.  Also, considering the fact that the player is 18 years old, the battery is shot.

Battery will be replaced and the HDD will be replaced with a flash card.  I just haven’t decided which one yet.  Meantime, I will continue using it.