IHome Bluetooth Clock Radio Speaker Repair

Lets see if this thing can even come apart.

[HitenderThejaswi]

Thank you so much for this video... I was struggling to open my iHOME IPL10... and when I saw this video, I came to know that there are screws hidden under the small mat kinda thing at the bottom of the device. So, thank you for this video. :)

[donfrommpls]

Someone just gave me exact that exact same radio and the antenna wire was also broke. Not well made. Anyway, with the help of your video it was an easy fix. TY

[waltschannel]

Who needs a Rubik's cube when they make electronics that challenging? 😆 Actually the color change effect of the LED lights is pretty cool! Nice sound.

[kristiandawe]

Neat clock radio, too bad these cheaper electronic are so difficult to get apart, but great simple repair.

[Wildman]

Nice, at least they are still making these little eyeball getters.Hahaha👍📻📺

[charlesmurphy]

Now I know what those notches are for on my scissors. Thanks.

[BoBjjjjs]

Oh how I hate clip together stuff. Ends up broken before you even get into the dam thing! I used to hate the tiny Japanese screws that you could never get a screwdriver to fit, but give me them any day. I couldn't sleep with that running, but I suppose it has a switch to turn the light show off.

[rollinhand]

I got one of WiFi&Bluetooth HiFi Stereo Receiver Board With I2S Up2stream Pro V2 That you review a month ago, got an update from the manufacture short time ago.
The software has some issues, first you are listening to a music file and the volume control is unresponsive you have to push the slider on the android phone multiple times in order to respond.
To get the favorite stations on internet radio you have to go to the main menu in order to change a station, like 5 steps just to change 1 station?
And I have an issue maybe you can help me I cannot see the shared file where all the songs are on my desktop computer, using windows 7, no Mather where I put the file, the little unit don't see the folder.Only I see when other computers are attach to the wifi on the android sofware.
And the fidelity of the flacs files on the usb memory is not as good as playing this files thru VLC, foobar u others players.
Thank you

[markanderson]

Ok Houdini, you got into that one quick. You could have tried to do a sweep alignment or changed the caps on this Chinese thing. LOL  Great job.

[austinnealon]

Man, I just had my hand at trying to desolder an RF shield in one of my A/V players, and the solder on it wouldn't respond to my iron or braid. All I wanna do is resolder some connections in there!

[robertgaines-tulsa]

I used to use a merging program to merge MTS (MPEG2 stream) files to merge them into one file, but there would be audio dropout where the files were linked. A YouTuber game a useful hint in one of his videos (databits, I think) to just use the concatenation command in a text terminal program to link all the files that way. The result was a seamless file. The command is cat in Linux. I forget what it is for Windows since I don't use it. I don't use the command that often now since I format SD cards used for video using the NTFS file system. It's a bit of laziness to skip an extra step if your camera or device supports it. I'm not sure if the command works on H264 files, but using the NTFS file system should avoid that altogether. You may need to change a setting so your device knows you don't want to break the video up.

[SKHorology]

Even when I saw this in the store, I knew it wouldn't be any good.

[TheTrueVoiceOfReason]

It says "No user serviceable parts inside". :) That's almost the case nowadays.

[ThejasonJaw]

IHome IBT297 having an issue turning off the dual Alam, alarm1 alarm2 keep going off

[THEtechknight]

Yea, that thing is the epitome of a throw-away society.

[gartmorn]

Not really made with repair in mind but you don't often get beaten Dave? Simple repair once you sussed out the dismantling procedure!

[zxztv]

Well it is an unusual looking clock/radio, the colour changing is nice and smooth, not my cup of tea
but i'm an old fart :-D
I must be old fashoned as i like the telescopic antennas better than a droopy bit of crap wire :-)
It's a dam shame about your original screwdriver damage, i do understand why you are a bit pissed off.
I'm thinking a 3 inch wooden broom handle section with a hole down the center.
Make it a close fit so you have to use a vise to push the screwdriver through the rod.
Has one of your frends got a mini pillar drill to make the close fitting hole?

[michaelramazio]

So pissed I was late to work because the speaker in this thing decided to stop working randomly, now I'm stuck with an alarm clock with no alarm.

[Synthematix]

Totally useless item mate, blue light in the bedroom can keep you awake, id change them to yellow