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Dug out our old iPod nano for my son and the battery life lasts about 30s! Has anyone had any experience in replacing the battery? I appreciate we can pick up a cheap mp3 player for peanuts these days but the menus are crap and would be nice to restore this iPod.
Thanks in advance
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Replaced batteries in Gen2 iPod and Gen4 iPods. These are fairly easy as there’s a lot of space in the units and they’re easy to pop apart.
I imagine the nano is not as hard as the iPod touch gen1. When I saw an ifixit breakdown of that I decided against it.
Replacement batteries can be hit or miss.
Good luck!
Looking at iFixit you'll need some soldering skills and the ability to apply minimal force to replace the battery. Their batteries and tools are worth having as they're not made of cheese.
Thanks all. Looks fiddly for my clumsy fingers so may give it a miss!
Yeah, I tried one of the postage stamp sized ones (6g), got all confident after doing some iPods and an iPhone.
Carefully followed a YouTube vid and pulled the backing of the screen off. Killed it.
Get a Nano 6th or 7th gen off eBay. Shop wisely and can pick them up for decent money.
Will it sync? iTunes refused to sync anything that I’d synced to cloud back down to our nano as they don’t support drm.
I mostly use Copytrans Manager with my Nano. No problem syncing the old iPod Classics (although never used the ‘sync’ option, always managed manually, not sure if that makes a difference.)
https://www.copytrans.net/copytransmanager/
I bought a kit and tried to change the battery in the wife's Nano.
It didn't go well, I followed the instructions but the select wheel fell apart and was damaged rather than popping out or whatever it was supposed to do, so it was basically ruined.
Alternatively go for a mk 5 ipod with disk and install a new battery and a new board holding 1TB of SDmini card storage. Mk 5 because the DAC is supposed to be one of the better ones. It's a reasonably easy machine to work on and the solid state storage is good in the car as a music source for the USB port as it wont skip if bounced around.