Hello.
I am the owner of an iPod. I once considered myself a smart man. Alas, this is no longer the case. You see, I killed my iPod. My much-beloved, never-away-from-my-side, iPod.
This morning, I was trying to find ways to fix the low battery life my iPod was experiencing. I turned to the user forums, as I like to try there first for advice in most cases, and found a method for removing the battery from the ipod to "hard reset" it, and then restoring the ipod. Figuring I had nothing to lose (as my ipod is well out of warranty), I proceeded.
Anyone see where this is going yet?
I had quite a time getting the case off. I tried flathead screwdrivers, knives, whatever implement I could wedge into the seam between the plastic and metal to seperate them for a short time. Finally, I succeeded.
But alas, it was at a cost. One of my earlier attempts to get under the case struck the one area most sensitive to a sharp object poking about near the seams: the ribbon connecting the hard drive to the motherboard. It has a 5 mm cut in it. And with that, my iPod breathed no more. Now, as I try to get it to restore from the iPod 1.2.6 utility, it will not recognize the iPod. The iPod does not recognize itself. Sigh...
So, anyone with a dead iPod out there want to give/sell me the ribbon connecting the motherboard to drive? I'm not really sure where else to look for something like this...
I hope to hear from someone. Thanks a lot.
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