Apple iPod Video

2008-12-14T05:40:32Z

Before you begin

Read the legal guidelines on this website. Place your Apple iPod video on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools

Step 1

The narrow part of the backplate between dock connector and the front plate is the best place to insert the safe open tool.

Step 2

Slide the tool toward the edge, thereby creating a gap between backplate and frontplate on the right side of your iPod. You can try to slide the tool all the way around the edge. If that fails, reinsert the tool of the right side.

Step 3

Slide the tool all along the side to the top of the iPod.

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Repeat the last steps and twist the safe open tool. You will need to apply some force here and be patient until the backplate will come loose.

When it comes loose twist it at a 90 degree angle as shown in the image.

Step 7

Pull up the battery connector latch to release the ipod video battery.

Step 8

Place the backlate next to the iPod video.

Step 9

Lift up the ipod video hard drive and flip it toward the bottom of the ipod.

Step 10

Focus on the headphone jack ribbon cable in the bottom middle of the iPod front.

Step 11

Open the latch of the ipod video audio jack using the opening tool. Be careful, since the latches are very breakable.

Step 12

This is what it looks like when the latch is open. Click on the image for more detail.
You can now pull out the audio jack flex cable.

Step 13

Slide the opening tool under the battery and and twist it firmly. The glue is strong.

Step 14

Pay attention to the small ribbon cable inside the red frame. Upon removal of the battery it will stick to the battery and is almost guaranteed to tear if you don't use extreme care when peeling it off the battery.

Step 15

If you want to replace the headphone jack, remove the 4 screws holding it in place. There are two on the actual jack and two on the hold switch, the being latter partially covered under glue.

Step 16

When peeling the thin flex cable off the backplate, be sure to work slowly, the paperthin material tears easily.

Step 18

This is how the audio jack module looks when it is detached from the backplate.

Step 19

To the remove the hard drive, open the hard drive cable connector with the safe open tool.

Step 20

This is what it looks like when the ipod video HDD is removed.

Step 21

To remove the frontplate, turn the front assembly by 90 degrees and and remove the three screws on each side.

Step 22

Open the screen connector.

Step 23

Lift the aluminum frame from the front plate and pull the ipod video screen away from the screen connector.

Step 24

Fully remove the front plate from the aluminum frame and attached logic board.

Step 25

This is what it looks like when the frontplate is removed from the frame with the system board.

Step 26

Firmly push down on the ipod video motherboard while holding the frame until the glue comes loose.

Step 27

The board came loose from the frame.

Step 28

Carefully peel off the grounding cable of the ipod video scroll wheel.

Step 29

Open the scroll wheel connector.

Step 30

Success! You have fully disassembled your iPod video. For re-assembly follow the steps in reverse order.