![]() ![]() The iPod won’t boot in that state, but Disk Mode provides power to the PQI air card so it can share the SD card to my phone. When I want to use it as a WiFi card reader, I reboot into Disk Mode and put a card into the SD female ribbon. A 64GB SD sits in slot 1, and the PQI Air Card + ribbon cable sits in slot 2. Now I’m no longer using the iFlash-CF, but instead I have the iFlash-Dual. I upgraded mine to add a WiFi card reader too. I have an iPod on a belt clip right now, like every day! Posted in how-to, ipod hacks Tagged battery, iFlash, itunes, Rockbox, sd card, upgrade Post navigation There are more drastic upgrades out there - some dating back to the heyday of iPods - but this one keeps the form factor from growing out of control. They also replaced the original software with Rockbox, breaking free from iTunes - although that step is optional. Combined with replacing the power-hungry HDD, the battery life has been overwhelmingly increased over the original’s 650mAh capacity!īefore re-sealing the iPod, they tested to see if the device was functional, and then ran the recover and restore functions. From there, they turned to swapping out the original hard drive for an iFlash dual SD card board - one of the cards turned out to be a dud, but 128GB is still a step up from 80GB - and a new 3000mAh battery. Once separated, gingerly disconnecting the few ribbon cables allowed the iPod to be opened fully. It’s no easy task to crack open one of these things, so they found themselves taking their time and carefully wedging the pry tool between the front and back covers, working their way around the exterior. Afflicted by an all-but-dead battery and a fritzing-out hard drive, Redditor sensed the imminent doom creeping up on their 6th generation iPod, and responded by reviving and upgrading the decrepit device instead! It can be disheartening when a favoured device begins to break-down.
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