Michael P. O'Connor

The new internal battery I bought for my iPod came today. The company that i got it from (sonnos) also includes a CD with a video on how to replace the battery and the tools you need. The iPod is very hard to take apart, I ended up needing both tools (they say to use one) and I pulled my Swiss army knife into the mix to get the thing apart, but I did get it apart. Took the hard drive out and the old battery put the new one in. Right now the new battery is getting it first charge. I plugged it into the iHome so I can still use it tonight, but by tomorrow I can unplug it for the first time since the new battery was installed.

It been a bit over 2 years since I got my iPod. It is a 40Gb 3g iPod, and I got it for Christmas of 2003 from my parents. It is one of the devices I use every day, and I am glad I have it every day, it is one of the best presents I have gotten in the last decades from my parents (but that is not really fair to them since since it is so great, very few things the can get me now will top it) But I just saw today that I have filled it up to 3/4 of the space on it. For almost a year and a half it was only half full, but then I started to get Podcasts downloaded to it, and now I have used up 10Gb of the space in the last 6 months, I might start having to limit the amount of the podcasts that are being uploaded to the iPod if I start to run out of room.

After 2 years of faithful service, my iPods battery finally is at the end of it’s life. It lasts only about an hour now. So I have bought a new iPod battery, it should be here on the 5th. I also got a belkin backup battery pack. The battery pack uses 4 AA batteries for the backup power.
It does not seem to be able to charge the internal battery, when I turn it on, but turn off the iPod the iPod does not give an indication that it is being charged, but when I turn it on with the iPod on, the battery indicator seems to show the power level of the backup battery. When I first connected it today, the iPod was down to almost no power, but when I connected it and turn on the power, the power indicator on the iPod jump back up to being full. I will have to test it to see what happens when the iPod has full power, but the battery pack has 1/2 power to be sure what it does.
This should last me till the new internal battery gets here, then this might end up in storage until I find myself going on a long trip where I might not have access to power for the iPod. Here I am thinking field day this comming year. The nice thing is that it does not need to be charged up like the iPod. I might look into getting rechargeable batteries for it, but in a pinch I could always pick up a pack of AA’s and be good to go.