Thats what I was hoping for, and I hope the store near my will do that. I attempted to call just to see if they do it butI'll try to make an appointment this weekend. I am about to do more tests on the iPod using the recommendations above. Previously I had been to the apple store, a little over a year ago and asked a floor employee about battery replacement and she simply said they don't do that there, so thats why I'm a little skeptical of them doing the out of warranty repair. Thanks for all the help!
Hey Tribefan,
I was reading your messages on here about your issue with your classic.
Honestly, with the stats you posted of the smart data of the drive,
it's basically started it's plunge to eminent failure. You could possibly
try to put it in "disk mode" and do a complete format to the drive in
fat32 partition and restore through itunes after formatted.
You basically have 1088 reallocated sectors, written to a different part of the drive.
Here is the definition of reallocated sectors count:
"Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks that sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and reallocated sectors are called "remaps". The raw value normally represents a count of the bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate. This allows a drive with bad sectors to continue operation; however, a drive which has had any reallocations at all is significantly more likely to fail in the near future.[3] While primarily used as a metric of the life expectancy of the drive, this number also affects performance. As the count of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to become worse because the drive head is forced to seek to the reserved area whenever a remap is accessed. If sequential access speed is critical, the remapped sectors can be manually marked as bad blocks in the file system in order to prevent their use."
I also read your last message you posted about going to apple.
I was reading some of the threads on here when I read yours and noticed your problem
you stated with your classic. Then I saw your macrumors ID on here.
If you're in Cleveland, then your my neighbor somewhere around here.
Basically speaking, I fix ipods. I fix and mod classic ipods such as the 7th gen you have.
If you're in and/or around Cleveland area, and depending on what apple tells you about
your ipod, that if you'd like to contact me about it feel free to send me a private message
and I'd give you my phone number there. Simply put, I can do whatever you needed done
to your ipod if in need of repair and/or drive replacement, battery replacement, etc.
I also mod them to solid state drives. I can mod them to the point where even with
the battery that I use in the thick model classics I mod, I put a 1900mah battery in it,
which under normal working conditions the ipod would more than likely be good to go
for at least the next 10 years without any issues at all!
But I figured I'd post a message on here for you to give you an honest option for
whatever type of repair your ipod might need. PM me and we can go from there
if you'd like. I posted some pics of some of the latest modded ipods I've built.
These are the "gold series" models I've done. Both of them have been modded
to a 256gb samsung 1.8" ssd (solid state drive) and a 1900mah battery.
I ran a play test on this battery with a full charge to see how long the battery
would play on one charge on around 2/3's volume. It played for over 110 hours
before battery finally died. Every part is brand new except for the motherboard
and screen. I'll reuse the screen if it's still in good working order. Let me know
what you think of em....
Now when i plug it in, it turns on, and the screen comes on for like 5 seconds, then it shuts off, but the drive keeps spinning.
