Only I Am Stupid Enough To Try And Fix This iPod Nano 

I love the fact that he cleans fingerprints off the glass, but the glass looks like someone used a sander on it. 11:15

"spicy pillow" is now my new favorite term for bloated batteries

As some one who has worked on a lot of cell phones and handheld consoles I have to say you make most of this stuff look ridiculously easy.

After seeing DankPods' videos in the past about the Nano, I kinda knew what to expect from this video as well. Glad to hear you got your iPod Nano back up and running. I don't like the idea of the Nano because it is so thin, that if the battery expands, it will damage other components (or could be completely unsafe) - and if the battery loses its ability to hold a charge, you won't be replacing it easily. Batteries are consumables, and therefore should be made easy to access.

Don’t ever quit fixing stuff I don’t know what I would do with out ur videos

It’s sad that these iPods are so hard to replace but were yet loved by millions back then. Sucks that they won’t last that long as time goes on.

Watching this guy is like watching The Lock Picking Lawyer -- it's fun seeing someone use mad skills to do something that other people have put a lot of effort into making it impossible to do.

"If you’re not Fluxing, you’re not Soldering." - Justin, the Art of Repair.

Hugh i've noticed you use absolutely no flux in your soldering work. I recommend you get a syringe of gel flux or a tiny squirt bottle of liquid flux and your soldering will be both much easier and prettier and even potentially lasting longer since flux also acts as an airtight solution preventing air and fumes get trapped in the solder joints which can cause cold solder joints. Love your work!

"Someone's been in here"

Have you tried using Flux before, when you were trying to desolder the battery contacts, you didn't have any flux, which means the solder didn't stick to the solder braid, it is also the reason the solder doesn't neatly flow onto the solder pads, for example, as 7:41, the reason the solder joint was so tall and not shiny was because of the lack of flux, the same goes for the solder wick

Wow, that's crazy. I gave this a try a few weeks ago. The battery needed replacing, I didn't know what I would have to go through. Hold switch broke, got a replacement, then I accidentally killed the screen backlight. I gave up on it.

I loved this iPod, was using it all the way up until the end of last year. Went to retrieve it one day earlier this year only to find it busted. I thought I had crushed it, sat on it, or done some other careless action to result in it’s breakage. Now thanks to this video the mystery is solved, the battery popped it open just like yours.

8:49, when sliding the parts back into that old housing, he severely scratched the left side of that brand new screen >.< the screen was perfect the scene prior, and when he wipes it off at the end before re-installing the glass, the scratch is still there. These iPods really are a nightmare.

I absolutely love how tenacious you are. I have this iPod Nano myself and am going buy a couple more replacements to keep in storage in case my current one fails, because clearly these are nearly impossible to service

I managed to replace the LCD of an iPod nano 7th Gen the other day and it was the most excruciatingly painstaking repair I've done so far. I managed to not lift up the frame properly which made me accidentally snap the cables of the perfectly good digitiser and completely obliterate the old display. Micro shards of glass everywhere, that's exactly how I wanted to start my Thursday morning. However, I knew I was a dumbass so I bought another digitiser just in case I mess up. Anyway, the frame was all bent up and the screen ended up not sitting completely flush, but y'know what? I don't care. This is MY manky nugget, I'm not selling it. I managed to fix it and that makes me extremely happy. I'll try to get my hands on another 7th gen soon and attempt to fix it. Why? Cause I'm a masochist I guess.

I wish there were financial penalties for companies that go out of their way to make products so unrepairable, that they become disposable.

Thanks for the discount code, I've been wanting to replace the battery in my s10+ for a while now and this is a great opportunity.

I worked on one of these once, and watching you break everything getting it apart makes me feel better about my experience. Never again!

*Dankpods has entered the chat.*

I would recommend getting a flux of the type Amtech 559, as I do some regular and micro soldering I can't express the importance of a good flux. I am 100% confident that if you applied enough flux and a quality one you would not have had a hard time with the wick, trust me and try it next time. Much love and looking forward for more content!

Hugh you have an inhuman amount of patience, and I mean that as an enormous compliment

Installing the old outer glass was the best moment of this clip. It's so scratched, hiding the fact how much time went into the resurrection of this 'throw away' gadget. Luv it

Seeing small devices like this never ceases to amaze me, see how far we've come from Alan Turing's room-sized computer.

I am literally about to attempt to change the battery on this iPad and im so thankful this walk-through came out! It was meant to be, thank you for this upload 😌

Well done Hugh! Truly satisfying to see you repair this device in particular. Love all your videos keep it up!

Awesome Hugh, ever since I found your incredible videos on RU-vid I’ve now started repairing devices too. Devices like phones, tablets (etc.) shouldn’t be put in landfill as they have potential. So far I have repaired many iPhones iPads Samsung phones and more thanks to your videos! You inspire so many people and I am always a fan of you ❤

I have my purple Nano of this generation. It demonstrates strong LCD yellowness/tinting. The battery has not become symptomatic yet, despite me powering and charging it a few times in the last few years. After learning in this last year about the potential for the battery to swell, I've decided not to power it any longer. I need to do something with these old devices. They're like so many devices in life, stuck in storage somewhere serving no gain. This Nano model is particularly impressing and great, in terms of thinness. I am happy you remarked on the thinness, because it is impressing and noteworthy, and has stood the test of time.

You are the man who got me into phone repair. I respect you so much, and hope your videos continue to inspire other people to fix phones, and other devices.

A custom transparent case would've been great! btw great fix brought back old memories of this device ;)

Big support for the channel and keep on making awesome content and guides and giveaways in the future as well. Worked for me

I had a red one back in 2013, accidentally spilled water on it so my brother who owns a repair shop tried to tear it down … 5 minutes later and the display’s already broken, I felt so bad to lose such a piece of art it was really precious to me. After watching your video now I realize how crazy hard it was. Thank you very much for sharing this exact experience with us.

I literally found my Nano yesterday after YEARS of looking!! Such a big part of my childhood, love this thing!

Just a tip for better solder wicking: use some flux (just put in on top of the wick) and also you can try flowing some solder by yourself into the wick. That way solder that's on the solder pad will have easier time wicking up the copper.

I have worked on these iPods in the past and you are correct these are the hardest and most infuriating to repair of all the models. Appreciate your video!

I'm impressed. Always wondered how these came apart. I have the gen right before this one, without the camera. And it amazingly still works, as long as its got a power source, battery doesnt last long

The best man alive when it comes to fixing electronics

Only Hugh Jeffreys is brave enough to try and fix this iPod Nano.

WOW! Your work is simply amazing! ❤

I'm thoroughly impressed my friend. You have the skills of a master.

"The Black Spot XL Edition"

The shout out to dank pods such a great channel!!!

Ty for everything, hugh. ❤️ Love your videos, keep up the good work!

Kudos that you did not give up! I had a pink one of these but without camera. I tried to fix it, broke something and just lost it and threw it in the trash.

I love iPods

0:18 THERES A DANKPODS REFRENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man u r a great guy and making great videos and helping others with your video

I had one of these in this exact color and I liked it. Never knew they had battery issues until now

Haha... Remember when Apple were charging all it's sheeple a PREMIUM for iPod nanos that didn't even have screens on them?!? It was just a thumb drive with buttons, except you couldn't even use it as a thumb drive... 😆

Na-no

Thanks a lot Hugh! I've been using this video as a guide to replace the battery on my product red ipod!

Great video!! Was nice to see one of these saved

0:07 that legit gives me goosebumps

I had this nano and I honestly loved it

Loved that Speach ,"Don't Worry , I'm Professional." 😂💜

I've still got my gen 4 and amazingly it still works perfectly. Man that thing was awesome.

Great job! I love watching your videos!

Hi Hugh l love your great videos l think that you are a genius because you can fix anything and bring it back to life 😃😃

Seeing fixing such small devices is so impressive!

Repair pile, why does that make me smile, probably because as an artist, I have a completely different type of pile I need to work on.

My mom still uses our 4th gen nano, (the one without a camera), that we got when released. She has a bunch of music and I still remember playing Vortex on it in the car, such a nice little device

You are so brave for trying to fix one of these!

I bought a sixth-gen iPod Nano from Cash Converters a few years ago. I wore it as a watch and used it to log/track my exercise walks, and it was honestly one of the best things I've ever bought. Unfortunately, the sleep/wake button broke, which is a common problem with this generation. I now use a seventh-gen Nano for the same purpose, and it's never missed a beat.

I grew up with the iPod Nano, and had a great time experimenting with its filters :D

I got years out of one of these and loved it. If the battery thing started happening, it was after I mostly stopped using it. I think I still have one around without an expanded battery.

Lol I don't know why i love watching these videos so much! 😅

Between Hugh and This Does Not Compute, gotta love how Dankpods is the defacto iPod repair authority.

I've got the exact same device but orange color. Amazing device and i just love it listen to FM radio.

High Hugh, love your videos.

I've had that same kind of iPod Nano for more than a decade, only Apple product I've ever owned. I still use it almost daily!

Thank you for this video.

Bro u are truly sick !! Keep up

🤩🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 you made it look easy! I have that exact iPod nano, with the same issues. And I’m not brave enough to repair it yet lol 😅

Wohoo I got them!! Thanks so much

Believe it or not but this is actually my favourite iPod and I have never had this problem with any of mine but all my friends have had it but either way love you man

Great work 💪

Their is honesty and in a whole league of it is own, there is the title of this video.

So much patience in a person so young.

I loved that thing but maybe bc I got this little thing when I was a kid. But I used it like really a lot, ran around with it, etc. and it fell out of my pocket so many times. But now, 12 years later that little thing still works absolutely fine. It just has quit some few scratches.

4:30 "The forbidden pillow"

Ayyyyeeee now we need Hugh to fix the E oc

Thanks for this video. I just found my old iPod 5 today in the exact same condition (and was thankful, that it didn't already burned my house down). To be fair: I didn't check the device for over a year, so it was presumably on deep discharge.

The best I-Pod ever. Vodeos for memory that do not take up huge amounts of space. Unfortunately the screen was to reflective. A environmental friendly product, luckily still without Wi-Fi.

hi, if you want to polish that plastic display protector you will get great results with headlight restore kit, i did my psp's whole front case and it looks like new again 😊

This looks so beautiful

So apparent that we are looking at purposeful anti-repair manufacturing. Makes my skin crawl thinking about the undertaking it’s going to be to repair my partner’s spicypillow 4th gen nano instead of just tossing it out and buying another.

The “don’t worry I’m a professional” made me laugh 😂 (you are a pro tho) it’s just the way u said it

Bought one of these with its battery replaced. Great little thingy! The camera is terrible, but dang it if it isn't fun! I made a video with it and put it on my RU-vid. (He boke my neck.) Its got radio, does video, and of course, works just fine with music. If you've got a working one that's been refurbished, they really are great to use.

Good repair as usual, Hugh. Get some flux for the next soldering work!

the 4th gen nano was my favorite ipod, sure my 186Gb classic is a beast, but nothing beats how many times my nano went thru the wash and lived (i owned 2 and both got washed at least 3 times lmao)

Spicy Pillow...such a great catch phrase.

Amazing job!! I would have taken the oportunity to sand and paint the outer shell and polish the protective glass though.

Great job!

Just adding here that an expanded battery if empty of it's charge can usually be deflated safely for easy removal. Just ensure that battery is fully drained, and with a needle or tip of pointed tweezers, poke a hole in it. It should deflate and make it much easier to handle the disassembly. The method shown in this video is only viable if the lcd is already broken which is not the case for most people as they don't typically let the lcd expand so much that the screen explodes out the front.

Omg DankPods mention in your vids! Never thought I'd see that coming.

flux and leaded solder really help when using a wick. it's much harder with lead-free solder and little to no flux.

I started following you cuz you made me laugh with that spicy pillow reference

I never used a soldering wick although iFixit occasionally would gift me a one each time I buy a tool or new repair part from them. I got a genuine Japanese solder sucker which working pretty nice for me for around 5 years now.

"spicy pillow" This is now my favourite thing that you have ever said.

After watching your video I immediately went on eBay and get an iPod third generation for $40. I can still remember that nine years old me wanted that iPad so badly but my parents refused to buy me one saying it’s too expensive lol and it really was. such a nostalgia.