Comments on: iPod battery replacement

By: Replace your iPod’s Battery

Replace your iPod’s Battery — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[...] Or, you can replace it yourself. D’Arcy Norman recently replaced his iPod’s battery and took some pictures along the way. Well, that was easier than I thought it would be. Iâ€™ve got a whole lot more respect for the Apple hardware designers. The metal back of the case isnâ€™t epoxied or glued in place, even though it feels completely solid. [...]

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I did mine a while ago too. Its true that getting the knack of splitting the cover and the back is the hard part, I too was joking with my workmates about ordering a new iPod as I got increasingly more irritated with it.
Once open it was a doodle though, well apart from not plugging the battery in properly so I had to take it apart again
21 hours I heard with the new battery, Im not sure about that, but its certainly handled a few days without being charged (not on permanently of course).

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah - my iPod is very highly used (and still in mint condition), so I was really upset to be getting an hour of life on a charge (on a good day). Now, it’s performing much better than it did when it was new! It’s been running all day (4 hours so far) and the battery has only gone down one bar so far! Before the upgrade, I’d have to plug it in to resurrect it after the morning commute…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great pics on changing out the battery. I too replaced my batter about 2 months ago and I get better performance than when I first got it. Getting the case off and working around that cable is the toughest thing to do but the overall process took less than 15 minutes (now I could do it in a matter of a few minutes). I was getting about a little over 4 hours on my old battery but now I can go 8 hours at work along with my long drive to work and still have battery power left over.

By: It’s like a brand new iPod, but older. at D’Arcy

It’s like a brand new iPod, but older. at D’Arcy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[...] I got a new TruePower battery for my 2.5 year old 3G iPod last week. It took a grand total of 20 minutes to install, and after charging the battery, my iPod is performing better than it did the day I bought it. [...]

By: kiky

kiky — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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