If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Sure, Android and iOS phones can play music with their fancy streaming services and gigabytes of storage, but nothing beats the elegant style, refined design, and tactile click wheel of a classic iPod. Fortunately, we can fix that with a little DIY hacking to turn your humble old iPod back into the supercharged portable music player it once was. An old iPod a fifth-generation iPod Video works best, and it has the added bonus of offering a Wolfson DAC, which is considered to be the best ever shipped on an iPod.
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Cybersecurity Mobile Policy Privacy Scooters. Phones Laptops Headphones Cameras. Bought a bluetooth adapter for it to use with my weireless headphones but couldn't get it to work. I'm aware of all the alternatives to Apple products but I am Mac based and I'm used to iTunes for transferring music iTunes is a bloatware mess but that's another story.
After searching couldn't find a way to upgrade the storage on the iPod Touch. Location: Yorkshire, UK. I don't thinks it's possible with the Touch. Touch has solid state storage, Classic uses a spinning hard drive. Therein lies the problem I believe. Try searching forum, the question has arisen before. Liquid Len , Aug 24, Yes,the change made on my iPod classic was from spinning drive to large capacity solid state. I was hoping some one had figured out a way to go from small capacity solid state to large capacity solid state on an iPod Touch.
Location: Texas. Which generation Touch? Regardless, no way to upgrade storage. The process requires you to pry open your iPod touch, remove its battery and other internals, swap the hard drive, reattach all the wires, install a new battery while you are at it and then reassemble the device.
This is also a fun experiment to do if you have a non-functional iPod lying around. Since the iPod came with an actual hard disk inside, it was bound to fail over time. So, if you have an old iPod lying around, you can follow the steps mentioned in the video in a bid to revive it.
And if you do, drop a comment and let us know how the whole process went for you. Designed by Blog Consulting.
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