Chris Cline

Glue. It's easy to glue things together. Hard to unglue them.

Thanks! I have no idea what I put in there, glad you do ;)

Thanks! I have no idea what I put in there, glad you do ;)

Thanks! I have no idea what I put in there, glad you do ;)

Thanks! I have no idea what I put in there, glad you do ;)

Citaat van Watt:

I'm sorry for being a noob, but I don't understand this sentence. If there is 2GB of memory inside how is there a total of 256MB?

GB is gigabyte, Gb (lower case b) is gigabit. 8 bits = 1 byte.

Citaat van robbinstony:

Chris,

Isn't your reply contradictory to goal of iFix?

To make less e-waste by fixing what we have and not trashing it.

I see that at some point iFix will have to decide to either give detailed 'teardowns' or forget doing them.

I too tried to follow these steps to try and dry out a Nano that I found in the rain. I tore the connectors. Now I am wondering whether there are replacement parts for this or if I just made a bunch of 'e-waste'.

Creating a guide for anyone to use to take fix a device is difficult and time consuming. It will take us weeks to figure out the best way to take apart a device so that we don't destroy it in the process. However, people are often interested in what is inside a device. We use the "Teardown" section for this. We do not have a safe way of taking apart the device yet but we want to show people what is inside. We warn people not to follow these steps because we were interested in what was inside and did not know how to do it safely. We will create guides for the iPod Nano 4th Generation in the future but are busy with other things. We try very hard to tell people the difference between a "Guide" and a "Teardown." We have many detailed guides for fixing things but the teardowns are meant to "provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions."

Citaat van Madhatta87:

I found another website that explains the process of taking the Nano 4th gen apart much better than here. Perhaps ifixit can refer to it and make it more clearer to other people how to take them apart much easier than described above.

http://www.rapidrepair.com/guides/nano4g...

Sorry ifixit, but your description wasn't as clear here and i ended up breaking the click wheel cable. don't want others like me to do the same thing here cos your website does have great guides, just this one wasn't as great.

The teardown is not meant as a take apart guide. In the introduction there is a warning "Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions" and on step 8 "We'll be working on finding a better way to get into this iPod, but for now we'd recommend keeping your new Nano in one piece."