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Replace Ipod Nano Battery (1st Gen)

Replace Ipod Nano Battery (1st Gen)
This instructable goes over how to change the battery in your 1st Gen Ipod Nano. This ipod was found in the junk pile at instructables with a bloated battery. Next time your friend throws out their old ipod, try to fix it up!


 
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Step 1Supplies

Supplies
You need a bit of supplies to complete this:
A Broken iPod
New Battery
Soldering Iron

a note on batteries, you can get them off of ebay, but i got mine from iFixit.com.
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7 comments
Aug 6, 2010. 6:59 AMStoned says:
What third party OS is that? It doesn't look like Podzilla or RockBox.
Sep 14, 2010. 4:09 AMthepaul1993 says:
Its the apple os.
Aug 4, 2010. 6:11 AMtoolband79 says:
642GB's... lol
Aug 3, 2010. 7:53 PMyour dog says:
it a magical fairy ipod from heaven!!! hahaha try putting a million or so songs on it!
Aug 3, 2010. 3:16 PMmacmaniac says:
Maybe it really does have that much space? That'd be one hell of an iPod... :P
Aug 3, 2010. 6:08 PMkcls says:
My COMPUTER doesn't even have that much HD space :D
Aug 3, 2010. 5:50 PMPSPerson says:
Restore it with itunes. It should fix it. Put it into disk mode. Same as recovery, except press select and play instead of select and rwd. Plug into the computer, open up itunes and click restore.

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