Modifying old iPods?!

Here’s a fun fact! I used to mod and repair iPods while in high school! Here are some of the parts you could easily swap on these vintage devices.

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[LeesReviews]

In high school in 2004-05 I was ripping friends iPods, extracting the encoded song files, and got the artist/title/track all put back with some app. By college I had 7k songs in my pocket

[tokyojon]

Still use my iPod Mini almost daily, upgrade to an SSD 256GB, new battery, and RockBox it. Huge Mini fan.

[R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D.]

Back in the day when I was still in school I suggested that for an after school club there would be a tech repair club where anyone could come in get their devices fixed or modded and be happy. All for completely free! I would mostly fix students laptops and ipads. I genuinely felt proud of myself for that. It wasn't until 2012 when people found out about different back cases for ipods and they would beg me to customise their ipod. I didn't want to mod their ipods at first but eventually they would start paying me to mod them for me. And I remember one instance where it was their father's birthday and they wanted an engraved ipod with "happy birthday dad" on the back. It was those days that made everyday feel better that the previous days.

[bflanagan]

I just replaced the battery in a 4g and now ordering a new screen 3k battery and a cf adapter for a broken 5g I have. I foind a perfect 5g yesterday for 40 and am doing the same. Youtube is awesome for learning what needs to be done. Thanks for your enthusiasm!

[adetoye]

I love the colour red, maybe I can try it one day.
It is beautiful

[cassiestrzz]

I just got a iPod classic 5th gen some few days ago and I love it

[RickySmall]

I would fix people’s broken glass on iPhone 3G. Parts cost me $7 and id charge $50-75. Apple was charging people $150-200 and sending their phone away so I made enough money to support myself for almost a year. It was a great experience!

[nickdriessen]

I used to mod controllers. Change buttons and shells. Loved pimping up old gameboys. Still got my original gameboy color. Replaced the old screen for an led screen.
Loved it so much

[PaKePo]

Man, I forgot about my iPod and iPod modding for almost 20 years, what a hit of nostalgia.

[markg]

I would gladly pay for you to customize my iPod Classic. No, seriously, I would.

[kmyymk]

I used to mod psp's but in 2024 I'm considering modding my ipod classic flash storage usb tybe c a new screen and Bluetooth connection

[neriozulberti]

Ipod classic hard modded, big battery 1 TB SSD Haptic feedback and bluetooth, after many experiments now i have, for me, perfect ipod, youtube great video for customization

[Squiggy]

Why dont we just make fully functional razpi based mp3/4s with non apple aluminum housing? Like, eventually og apple chassis’ will be impossible to even get our hands on, so why not just start making fully off brand kits?? 😅 it would be much cheaper long term too

[MetalSamantha]

I just bought a a modded and refurbished iPod

[rockcaholic]

I think its really cool you did this for your wife! Im thinking about buying a couple of iPods for my 2 nieces, for when they go to high school. Im sure they'll be glued to a cellphone when they get older. So the iPods might help!

[boop]

I have an ipod video with 512gb and bluetooth :D

[neloxcix]

I've never own one but would always love to have one. I'm a sucker for digital audio players. LOL

[David-liuc]

Upgraded Ipod mini, their hdd was using ide interface the same as Compact flash cards, had a 128gb ipod mini, i tore it down, sanded everything did a black paintjob then scratched it to make it look " rough" . It was my pride. i beleive it got stolen as i left my car window open once on campus.

[VenomReaperVideos]

I got an iPod my dad modded, put Rockbox on it and gave it a new battery.

[Alex]

I'd love my original iPod classic battery repaired it's either gen 5 0r 10 I can't remember but being visually impaired i cant really drive anywhere. But I have a huge library on it