iPod touch Porting the memory

[iamabanana]

Is it possible to get a donor 4th gen ipod touch with say 32 or 64gb of memory and switch it into one with only 8gb? I don't work with apple devices all that often but I am definitely no rookie when it comes to the internals on mobile devices. My experience is just more with webos phones. But anyway, has anyone ever done this?

 

[Intell]

Sure, but you'd have to switch the whole logicboard.

 

[iamabanana]

Sure, but you'd have to switch the whole logicboard.

Really? The restore wouldn't just adapt it? What all is stored on the logicboard?

 

[Intell]

The memory chips are soldered to the logicboard.

 

[iamabanana]

The memory chips are soldered to the logicboard.[QUOTE/]
After the swap would i be able to restore it with the current backup?

 

[Intell]

Sure. But it's just a better idea to get a whole 32 or 64GB iPod rather than swap the logicboards.

 

[iamabanana]

A 32gb with a broken display is only around $30 so it would be cheaper this way. Plus i get to expand my knowledge

 

[Night Spring]

A 32gb with a broken display is only around $30 so it would be cheaper this way. Plus i get to expand my knowledge

Wouldn't it be easier to take a display off an 8GB iPod and stick it onto a 32GB with the broken display? I mean, the logic board *is* the entire machine, the rest are just peripherals, so...

 

[iamabanana]

Wouldn't it be easier to take a display off an 8GB iPod and stick it onto a 32GB with the broken display? I mean, the logic board *is* the entire machine, the rest are just peripherals, so...

I'll figure something out

 

[Jessica Lares]

Just saying now, I tried opening an iPod Touch, never again. Ugh. It is so different to opening a regular device, you basically have to try NOT to ruin the device pulling the display out. Harder to put back together too.