Anyone ever repair an iPod before?

[evil jose]

My niece was just handed down a 5G 30GB iPod Video from my nephew and the headphone jack is screwed up and only plays sound out on one side. Battery also doesn't last very long. I promised her that I would fix it so I'm planning on replacing the audio jack as well as putting in a new battery. Might also replace the case as well depending on how bad it is and maybe just to customize it for her a bit.

Just curious if anyone has ever taken apart and repaired an iPod before. Looks pretty easy from the articles I've read and hopefully will be about an hour long job.

[Andrew]

Guy I used to work with replaced the battery in his, didn't think it was that hard.

[Beej]

they sell kits to replace the battery on ebay. Don't know about the headphone jack though.

[GT Dan]

I've never done it but here's a how-to-video.

http://www.ipodhowtovideo.com/video/videoheadphonereplacement.html

Doesn't look that hard...

[Slowhand]

It's really, really easy. The kits to replace the battery will include everything you need to crack it open, or just use a razor blade and run it along the seam.

[DarkWolf]

I replaced the battery in mine and Autumn's a few weeks back. The battery kit came with the tool for ~$30 total. I did mine first, and took about 15 minutes figuring out the best way to crack that fucker open. Once mine was done and I confirmed it still worked, I did Autumn's in less than 5 minutes.

We got our batteries from iPod Juice, super fast shipping too. I think we ordered on a Monday and they were in our mailbox that Wednesday.