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Refurbs and battery life
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I'm looking at the refurbished ipods, specifically the silver mini that is $130 or so. I'm wondering though, are the batteries new? My 5GB ipod battery failed after 4.5 years, and there is little point to replacing it now.
--Scott
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AT&T iPhone 5S and 6; 13" MBP; MDD G4.
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Originally Posted by Scotttheking
I'm looking at the refurbished ipods, specifically the silver mini that is $130 or so. I'm wondering though, are the batteries new? My 5GB ipod battery failed after 4.5 years, and there is little point to replacing it now.
--Scott
I just got a 6GB Mini refurb last week[1], and without running the hard drive it has a 16 hour battery life before it turns off.
I know this, since that's about all I can do with it. The hard drive appears DOA, since iTunes says it's corrupted and attempts to restore it, but the restore process hangs partway through with an error and all sorts of I/O errors show up in system.log. I'm not sure the refurbishing process was very rigorous here.
[1] didn't get a nano, since it's replacing an original[2] iPod mini, which we've already got covers and armband clips for, and since it's Firewire (my TiBook is only USB 1.1)
[2] Original got smoked by a cheap 3rd party car charger
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