Fixing it at a local Apple representative would cost as much as buying a new one, and the ifixit howto is pretty much discouraging, besides stating that video iPod use special hard drives and they don't sell them anymore. If it will no longer charge, it must be replaced with a new battery. Opening the 3rd generation iPod was not particularly challenging.
Prying open the 3rd generation iPod case. iFlash.xyz offers an inexpensive iFlash-CF card, but I also needed an adapter to interface with the pin connector used on the older model iPods. Ideally your iPod will recognize it has been connected to a power source and charge its battery. I selected 64GB SanDisk Extreme Compact Flash cards.
Plug your iPod into your computer or AC adapter and see if anything happens. I'm pretty convinced it has a bad hard drive, but it is not covered by warranty anymore. Troubleshooting Guide iFlash.xyz If your iPod wont turn on, especially if it has not been used recently, you may simply have a drained battery.
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Usually, restoring the iPod returns it to the state that I can copy songs again, but when I increase the usage to videos or large files the trouble starts again. Download Ebook Ipod Troubleshooting Guide longer charge, the battery must be replaced. The same happens when I tried copying videos into it, also through iTunes, to the extension that iTunes complains that it can't read or write to the iPod. Because these were fourth generation iPods, we also used a new ribbon cable to adapt the adapter's ribbon cable connector.
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The compact flash card is fine, it works and have done a speed test with it, it also works on mac and windows no problem. Please refer to website: iFlash.xyz for more info. Whenever I tried copying large files, or many files, into it, it would hang and reboot after a while. We used a FlashQuad adapter from iflash.xyz with four MicroSD card slots. The one i bought off amazon was a delock ide 1.8' to cf, using a komputerbay 32gb compact flash, it says its compatible on iflash.xyz website. iFlash SD Adapter for iPod Classic/Video + 256GB Memory card in the Other iPod & MP3 Accessories.
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I've never had problems copying songs into it, through iTunes, but from the beginning I never had much success using it as a portable hard drive. I've an iPod Classic 160 GB bought in 2007.
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