From the origin to the line, life's just a circle: Disassembly of the iPod

To be honest, I ve used this iPod almost 4 years, it seems the destiny for this happened such a day. First, bought an iPod mini for 80 quid which should be given a 70 quid cash back claim, but finally failed, and if kept it for ...? Second, colour screen with high resolution, and video playback, pictures, more games. Third, battery life enormously went down since i get - which now it only takes about 1hr to run the music, it is annoying me to drop my old one. Scratches and dents, is it somehow showing I am not a careful user? NO, I AM not, I kept this well using about 4 years, ppl don’t use any electronics over 3years. OK, back to the business, first time I was wondering to open the iPod, it was almost 2years ago, two reasons brought it, battery and storage, latter one was not a big deal, since the 20GB was and always very enough for something you can just stores music, and by changing this (as a mobile hard drive, it is another case.) you’ll have to change the motherboard, which charges about $49+p&p, it wont worth though. The battery is the same case, because you wont find a better solution, which means, that will gone again, this is a issue from the apple. (not sure now.) Then I read the instructions, it was simple and easy, and you could purchase the same similar tools from eBay UK (similar, because I still find these tools are not very firm, when I used, it not as good as a Swiss knife tool.- but it did crack my rear panel.) Disassembly isn’t quite difficult after you have that rundown, squeeze the iPod like a sponger – very hard. The steel will be opened from the front plastic panel, used that kind of knife is kind of stupid, but easy and did work somehow, and though, it not looks that bad.

This is when I open it, on the front panel.