Do you still use an old school iPod? I still use mine all the time, it allows you so listen to music while being disconnect from your phone, something a lot of people could use... Its also helpful if your constantly using different devices that don't always have your music library on them.

Overkill battery and massive SD storage? **Dankpods has entered the chat.**

When I was younger this is how I used to make money. Kids from my college would have broken iPods and I would buy them very cheep. I would look on eBay for full housings and replace every thing. Made a killing !

The scratch remover also known as cutting compound is meant to be used with a cloth wheel on a bench grinder. It polishes things beautifully when used that way

Some things I learned from DankPods 1. Brasso actually works wonders on the front plastic. It really cleans up and polishes effectively, even though it is a metal polisher. 2. If you want to remove the scratches from the back metal cover... you need to replace it. Most other things just make it look worse 3. When opening the iPod, don't push up with your tool to avoid any damage. You need to slide the tool in, push a little down and inwards. The plastic clips should open up. 4. If you don't want the CF adapter to be that loosely inside, put a small piece of foam on it. 5. If you do the flash mod (SD card) and it doesn't work with the cheapo CF adapter, make sure the SD card really is in there. If it still doesn't want to work, get an iFlash CF adapter.

Hugh Jeffreys in 2050 "Hey Guys let's revive this Old Iphone X"

This video was a huge help to me, as I literally rebuilt my 5th generation, A1136, 60GB (with video) by using this exact tutorial. I also used the compact flash adapter. Reason for my post today (in addition to thanking Hugh Jeffreys) is to further recommend 2 things. I don't like the PCB rattling around in there. It's smaller than the original hard drive, and the rubber pieces don't really help. So, I'd recommend using dual-sided 3M sticky tape to make it adhere to the inside of the opened iPod cover. This does make it harder to connect the flex cable at the bottom though, but patience there paid off for me. Also, I ended up dropping my iPod a few times, accidentally & it stopped working. Once re-opened, I was surprised to see the flash adapter had pulled off the pins, so I ended up using surface tape + a couple of drops of hot glue to the top of the flash card adapter/PCB so now it can't slide off from the pins, if dropped again. Thus, now it won't rattle around inside, and if dropped, I won't lose connection either. Other than that, *great* video!! Thank you, Hugh!

You should repair a phone that JerryRigEverything used for a durability test

your repair videos always calm me down, you're helping these poor old devices.

Yesssss, I’ve been waiting for this restoration for months! Excellent to see old devices given some love and restored to their heyday years, brilliant Hugh, this made my week ❤️

man I really liked this video, thank you for sharing. Always great to revive/ restore the classics!

I have a 60Gb Gen 5 iPod, which was bought for me as a present June 2006. Thanks a lot for this video, I know I can upgrade it if I wish and keep it going for many years.

I love the look of the sad iPod logo because it reminds me of when the classic Macintoshes crashed.

This is just too good to watch. Awesome video again!

Thank you Hugh, following your video enabled me to give my old Gen 5 iPod a new lease of life and am currently listening to it playing nicely through my old Bose speaker which had been stored as I had no other 30pin devices. So two bits of old kit having a second life. (Who needs Bluetooth) 😂👍

Great video! You won over a new subscriber. I have the same 30GB white iPhone classic 5th gen and I also plan to repair my iPod with a new battery and storage capacity and this video helps a lot.

I would so much love to have one of those. Your channel is addictive!

For some reason I never thought of trying brasso - it cleans it up so nicely

Cape Cod polishing compound is incredible for stainless steel devices!

loved how you showe`d what did not work as planned, cheers bro

I've repaired A1059 one from 2004 the same way you did ;) The only difference that I've used that hard piece of compound to polish the back of it. Btw these compounds have a different abrasiveness level for different surfaces and you should mix it with a couple drops of sewing machine oil before use.

🅱️Ruh you haven’t even repaired the one you found in the fire it’s been a year or 2

That polishing compoud block is for a machine, one of them high speed buffing ones

Watching your videos is making me want to buy loads of old apple tech and fix it! 😂 Keep making great content!

I would love to see companies make replacement parts for these ipods for another 14 years! I just think by then the parts could be absurdly expensive as the ipod would pretty much have antique status

Its cool how you got all the moving camera shots

Thanks for making this video, I am attempting to upgrade the battery of my ipod video to 3000mah, since you also used my storage solution which is ZIF>CF>SD. Now I know that I need to change the backplate to about 13mm since it will be thicker than a normal 30gb (10mm thick) ipod.

Great restoration!

Worked perfectly with contact cleaner...thumbs up for this

Out standing !!!!. I own a 3rd Generation that I need to look in on. First I gotta find it..

I have been using the iFlash Solo adapter for storage upgrades on my 5th Gen’s and they have been working great (:

@4:56 it sounded like you said “making sure everything is seated incorrectly”

Love your iPods videos! ♥️

that scratch remover was awesome 😂

I have an iPod 5th Generation that I needs a new battery. I am so happy to hear and see that it is easy to fix and upgrade. I called a few repair shops for electronics and was told that it couldn't be fixed. I love my iPod 5th gen and was dreading the thought of having to get an iPod Touch as I am not a fan of them. I saved this video and as soon as my new battery comes in, I will be reviewing this to fix my iPod myself. Thank you for making this video!

I love the original iPods. Like iPhones are cool but there’s no other feeling like a iPod.

Very nice video and I must say u are the king of tech restoration. But I also suggest invite someone to your studio and restore his/her technology.

This is so cool. I love your videos. 👍

6:52 I like that you're using iTunes 11.4 for this. That's also the version that my larger secondary iTunes library is pinned on!

If you would like to carry on with the aesthetic restoration, I'd probably recommend a rubbing compound and dremel with a rotary buffing tool attachment. That will yields faster and hands down better results in seconds-- Really buffs the stainless steel up nicely. If it can't then the next best bet would probably be some form of sand blasting to strip a tiny layer off to then start from scratch.

For polishing the back case I would suggest using a Cape Cod metal polishing cloth. For the plastic front I would use a tube of Polywatch. It’s used for polishing acrylic watch crystals

Nice video as always 👍🏻❤️

Awesome Hugh!

Looking forward to more restoration vids on ipod classic 5th!

Love your videos bro keep it up

As a car guy that’s used cutting compound: that’s the first stage of many. You use a cutting compound to remove deep scratches, then a (or a few) buffing compounds to create the shine.

ok this was amazing! Did subscribe.

Great video thank you so much 😊

Hi Hugh! You can use car polish and sealant to polish the metal, it will remove the scratches but it will take some time

I wish I'd be lucky enough to get my hands on this. I never really had an iPod growing up but wanted to have one back then. Great restoration tho. You find fix for things others would've considered as trash.

great video love those ipod

Hi Hugh, does the PCB rattle inside the housing? Does it require double sided tape?

This was the perfect designed model with the perspex front and stainless back, and was the last plastic fronted model for the full sized ipod they did.

Good video. At 8:12 you say that the device will only recognize in 10GB increments. The reason it only recognizes 59.4 GB is that that is the formatted capacity of the SD card.

I actually did what you did recently, but to a 3rd Gen iPod (with the 4 touch buttons above the wheel) and also added a bluetooth module to make it completely wireless.

I did the same one, had it since it came out in 06. Did the flash 200 GB sd. Still use it.

Love your work

Awesome video

FINALLY I BEEN WAITING THIS VIDEO THANK YOU

Nice video, Hugh. I replaced the battery for my 5th gen 80 gig iPod a few months ago. The old battery was not holding a charge. Although the hard drive is starting to slow down on me. I'm thinking of replacing the hard drive or do you think a flash adapter & SD card would be better?

I still use my original 80 gig as the recording medium for my Alesis 16bit ProTrack stereo audio recorder. I want that msata 1tb mod you mentioned for my iPod to try in this recorder! It would make the battery life epic and record time infinite.

duuuuuuudde nice vid I love old ipod 5's I actually had one when I was little but I took it apart after my dad broke it and I opened the hard drive up idk how I did that considering I was probably like 7 but yea I want to get a new one for old times sake

Bro! I’m not very tech savvy, but I’m very motivated to try what you just did! I just bought 2 broken iPods and I want to do everything you just did! Can you please provide a list of tools and parts you had in this video? Thank you so much!

Mine just died. Same SAD FACE and hard drive knocking noises. I was bummed and looked for a replacement. Figured I would up grade to a new I POD Touch 128GB. Too bad I didn't find this video sooner. I still want to do the same repair that you accomplished. Can you list the exact parts that you purchased? How is that flash adapter working?? Believe it or not, my original battery is still working fine. Excellent video. You did a fantastic job on the repair and resto. Bill

You need more subs. Btw I’m a new subscriber.

Great video 💙💙

Hugh Jeffreys + Dankpods = Perfect Aussies 😉

Woah! You play Guitar! (noticed the plectrum @ 1:00)

A while ago i just bought the exact same battery off the eBay but it doesn’t hold charge enough but I hope it works for you. You could even opt for a new housing or even custom ones like I did on my own 6th gen iPod and made it U2 custom model

Great stuff

Get a buffing wheel for a dremel if you have one. Use it with the rubbing compoud it should help het rid of the scratches. Great Video BTW.

Well done Great video 😋

thanks thanks thanks. I have a super old ipod. it keeps locking when i plug it into my super old G4 mac desktop to charge. didn't know about holding down the 2 buttons to reset but worked on 2nd try. thanks!

Hey jeff, I have a macbook pro with retina display with the staingate issue. What would you recommend to use to completely remove the coating from the display?

Great restoration Hugh! Which is the max upgrade that it may to do in the ipod 5th generation? 🤙🏻👌🏻

You can use a polishing paper for metal scratches as they(companies commonly) also use this to make it shine

Hi Hugh, I have tried this and broke the battery connector and the ziff connector. Any tips on replacing these? Thanks for the great content.

I once got a dying 80GB 6th Gen Classic and replaced the hard drive, battery and back housing from a donor 5th Gen that I bought for cheap with a dead motherboard. Compared to the 5th Gen, the 6th Gen was a nightmare to open and I of course damaged the back opening it. It's still a working 30GB 6th Gen Classic. :D

Nice! You got a 5.5 gen or the 5th gen (enhanced). This one has a really nice Wolfson DAC in it and is considered the best sounding iPod.

You need to use a buffing wheel to get rid of the scratches. You start with a course grit, then move to a finer grit and then polish with the Brasso.

My 120GB iPod Classic is still in perfect condition, having been in a brilliant case from day one, God knows how many years ago. Sadly, it's sitting in a Charging Dock, not charging, but not holding the charge and is not recognized by iTunes anymore, although it still plays the stuff via the headphones, that was already synced to it. Having abandoned my iPhone last year, I was hoping to carry on using the Classic in the car. But, the Car Stereo is not recognizing it either. It is, so far as I can see........defunct! 😉 Pity, because it was great to use in the car and at music gigs to play songs between sets.

Hey Hugh. Love your channel. Big question Where do you buy your tools? Looking for those screwdrivers with security heads. Thanks man!

OG piece of tech

That "brick" is for polishing / buffing machine. I have at my workplace green, white and brown. As for the 2 iPod, put them in an ultrasonic cleaner and check for corrosion

Would you need an older version of iTunes to sync? If so, what version should I look to downgrade to?

have i pod 5 and the dock but can't get any volume and cant get past the 4 digit passcode , forgot it, to get at volume control any tips thanks

Hugh makes Wade (DankPods) look like a barbarian repairing these iPods!

I used that compact flash adapter once on an iPod classic and it didn’t work that great. Just the slightest bump it would come loose and you would have to open it up and put it back. I ended up switching to the microSD card adapter.

Do you need to install the software to the new hard drive? Or is the "factory reset" in itunes adds the software?

You can use Rubbing compound and polishing compound respectively used for polishing cars. It removes majority of the scratches on stainless steel.

Can you do a flash storage conversion on the 3rd gen ipod? I still use my 20gb version from 2003 and I need some guidance on swapping the drive out.

Also, you should do an iPod classic 6th gen battery, harddrive and housing repair

Hugh. To remove scratches and restore use P3000 wet. Then use Tcut metallic (which is finer than t cut) and then PlastX by Mguiars (sic).

Hi Hugh. What web site do you recommend buying the spare parts from?

I just bought myself a completely sealed and new iPod 5.5 80GB for $300. Adjusted for inflation it's cheaper than it's original price. And I am so excited about it. I already disconnected from my iPhone and using a Motorola Razr V3 now. Just carrying the iPhone around for my music. If the iPod arrives I can sell my iPhone and live happily. I already converted all my Apple Music which took like 3 1/2 days because the software needs to listen to the song and record it. But it was so worth it 😊

Who else feels like Hugh could make like a website where he repairs people’s electronics? He could get videos and make money. To would also be cool if he got access to a ecoatm and got to repair the phones in it.

When Will you restore some of the other things you found along with the iPods

Great video, i'm still using my ipod video 5.5 everyday with my nokia 8800

I have an iPhone 8 plus that needs a house swap and screen but all the internals are good do you want it

Removing scratches basically requires just making finer scratches then buffing it out with a polishing compound. If you had a way to re-etch the info on the back it would look sweet, but if not that’s probably as good as it will get without messing up the logo