Just got a new battery for my 4th G 20GB iPOD. Anyone know of a good tool to separate the iPOD. The tool that was sent with my new battery got disfigured after about the second try of trying to separate the iPOD. Any suggestions??

2/28/2007 3:27:05 PM

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1835131,00.asp

They say a "stiff plastic wedge".... so maybe you have a Lego or something laying around. Sounds like you just need to get creative. If you're not afraid of scratching the case, tweezers or a screwdriver, or anything wedge shaped I guess.

2/28/2007 3:38:47 PM

Yea I looked in my tools, but the only flathead I found was still too big

2/28/2007 3:39:44 PM

i used a mini flat head to get mine open a little and then stuck the plastic one in. I bent the metal case a little, but whatever, i don't spend too much time looking at my ipod...

2/28/2007 3:50:14 PM

i've used a putty knife.
or a sharp knife point just to get in there, then a flathead

2/28/2007 4:01:41 PM

well after finally getting it open I've come to see that I need one of those insanely small screwdrivers to switch the battery out with my new one.

2/28/2007 4:44:40 PM

I use an exacto knife to open up the side of my 3G, then just shove in a small flathead to pry the two halves aparts. But then my iPod already looks like shit so I don't care if I mess it up by using the knife or the screwdriver, since both of them can damage the plastic on the top half of the iPod.

2/28/2007 7:03:29 PM

I just use a small knife to wedge it open a bit on one corner, then slowly work around the unit. I've got no damage at all to mine, just from being slow and careful.

3/3/2007 2:52:38 PM

My 2nd G iPod still has the original battery over 4 years later, and it still holds a charge for hours.

3/3/2007 4:58:22 PM

Another Question: In Itunes, I will put songs in a playlist and they will go in the playlist fine, but when I eject the ipod, the songs always appear at the bottom of the playlist in the Ipod when they are in order on my playlists in Itunes???

4/15/2007 11:26:11 PM

in an ipod, songs always go in a certain order, and i believe it is alphabetical order by song name if i am not mistaken. so the order is static/fixed.

in itunes, order is not fixed. you can always click on the header of any column and arrange alphabetically/numerically by that column.

i wish there was a way to change order of songs on ipods.

ok, i just checked on my ipod, and it is NOT in alphabetical order by sing name. it is by length of songs, in descending order.

WTF kind of an order is that? if anything, they should be ordered alphabetically either by song name, or even better, by artist name.

OH SHIT.

i checked a couple of other playlists, and they are arranged differently. so i opened my itunes to check the ordering in the same playlists there, and here is the key:

the ordering of tracks in a given playlist on the ipod, is the same as the ordering in the same playlist in itunes during the synching.

so if you want a certain ordering (by song, bu artist, by rating, by length, etc), put the playlists in the ordering you desire by clicking on the appropriate column headers, and then sync your ipod.

wow, pretty cool. didn't know that!


[Edited on April 15, 2007 at 11:50 PM. Reason : ^ THNX for asking, otherwise i never would have figured it out and would've been frustrated forever!]

4/15/2007 11:40:45 PM

n00bs

4/16/2007 12:42:34 AM

wow, I didn't know that people hadn't figured that out

4/16/2007 6:43:32 AM

well another question: In Itunes, how can I make my library at the top my default library for the iPOD of my choice (have 2). With my old iPOD, I could just add songs to the Itunes library and then sync later. The reason is that I'd like to add songs to this library and have it update the next time I plug in my iPOD instead of having to update said iPOD by plugging it in and then syncing???????

4/16/2007 6:27:17 PM

A chisel could work.

4/16/2007 6:33:19 PM

Yea so well I open up Itunes and I see that in my 2nd gen nano, it's divided into "Audio," "pictures," and "other" as far as hard drive space, and the "other" portion when up to 480Mb when yesterday it was like 100MB, anyone ever had this happen? Also, when I plug my shuffle in, it syncs after every time I move one song in the order of a playlist and is taking about five times as long to sync as it did yesterday?????

4/17/2007 7:27:26 PM

Anyone ever had this problem where your Ipod's hard drive literally fills up while you are doing things in Itunes (not adding or deleting songs, just some formatting). I'm having to open up my ipod in windows and just manually delete the files (folders of artists under the "Music" folder in Windows) each time I'm done with Itunes.

4/20/2007 11:51:37 AM

obligatory "i have [anything but an ipod], and so i don't have this problem"

4/20/2007 12:40:24 PM

^^ Don't delete files (unless you really want to) I have mine set to sync only ones that are checked, so I just uncheck the ones I don't want on my iPod but I still have them on my computer.

4/20/2007 5:26:22 PM

I reccomend anapod

4/20/2007 6:21:37 PM

gtkpod

4/20/2007 7:57:18 PM

^^^ It's not adding new files, it's creating folders of artists already on my iPOD with songs by said artists in these folders in Windows, not in Itunes. That's why I was like WTF when I saw the hardrive shwoing that it was filling up in Itunes, but nothing was being added in Itunes, but files were being created/added in when I opened the iPOD up as an external hard drive in Windows.

4/20/2007 9:29:12 PM

Anyone ever had songs not play in Itunes after they once played, itunes is now showing that little ! point beside the songs and a few of my songs no longer will play????

4/29/2007 11:49:29 AM

^ that happens after the file has been moved or deleted. it can't play them because it can't find them.

right click on such songs in itunes and then go to "show in windows explorer". it probably won't show it. then your best bet is to search for the file name using windows.

if it is found on your computer, re-add to itunes by going to file and then "add file to library".

4/29/2007 11:54:53 AM

New question (rather than create a thread)...

I've got a borrowed iPod - I noticed that all the song listings are also under the video listings. Is that normal. I guess I would have assumed that the video listings would do nothing but list the videos - instead I get everything.

5/9/2007 11:06:54 AM