Good video, thanks! The power button/volume button ribbon to the motherboard was glued down very very tightly on mine and I ripped it even though I was very very slow and careful. Best thing would be to heat up the area with a heat gun/blow dryer to loosen that adhesive before trying to lift the cable around the volume button.
Yea, you're right. It's not very clear in the video. You are not suppesed to pry under the battery, but the copper shield instead. Also the dining knife I used isn't sharp at all, so it was fine for me. I'll see if I can add a note to the video. Thanks for pointing out.
You're more likely to rip off power button ribon cable if you don't use sharp blade. That adhesive is too strong to just pull the cable. I've done quiet a few replacements with no accidents. If you are not confident doing that on yuor own, just have a professional tech doing it for you.
It might work. If not, you'd have to get a new ribbon cable ($5 on eBay) and re-solder it - not the easiest job... Try to put everything back together without closing the screen, just connect all parts and turn on iPod. Hopefully it'll work.
It depends if you had repair experience before. This is probably the hardest one I've done so far. Without prior experience it's 8 out of 10, but you can do it. Just take your time and be extremely careful.
Try to sell it on Ebay. Just describe exactly what happened, include every single part you have and post a few pictures - and some repair guy might buy it for parts. Non working iPod Touch 4th goes for ~ $40.
It will be not cheap for sure. Call and ask them how much it will cost. Then try local repair store as well. It might worth to sell it as is for parts on Ebay and get a new or used iPod. Just shop around.
That's bad, man. The cable itself is $2-5. But you'll have to solder it the motherboard. You may need special soldering iron for that (~ $20) Look for the video tutorial on how to do that on TH-cam.
Good video EXCEPT, I now need to replace the battery, because the battery has dents and one slight puncture all along the edge, from being pried up by a knife like in your video, which makes no mention about how soft the battery is. Also the copper shield is scored badly too. And I reheated the cover again just before detaching the battery. It might be better to use a flexible tool instead, which can flex around the battery's edge to pry away the battery/copper shield from the back cover.
Thanks for posting this vid, it helped alot. The only thing I would add to the instructions is I found it not necessary to remove the center camera and wifi antenna. The only problem I had was I got a small tear in the flex cable near the lower volume button. That's the only thing that doesn't function now on my ipod. You really need to be Careful. Now I know what a surgeon must feel like. Thanks again. By the way this took me about 5 hours to complete successfully.
You could just buy another ribbon for $5 on eBay and de-solder and solder on the new one like I did. I had a cheap soldering iron so it was rather difficult to melt the solder precisely. I ended up messing up the connection somehow so that the up button is always in a pressed-in state (not physical button but the soldering I think). I just set Activator to ignore all volume button presses.
Hi. well I got as far as the last bit of ribbon, the part where you said to "go slowly and take your time", and I did - but I noticed a small tear. I wonder if I should just stop here or put it all back together to see if it works. I was in the process of replacing front & back + rear camera. think it will it work still?
i know i was doing it during your video and the cable ripped because my screen was cracked and my back housing was dented. so i was like ill do it i got everything right until that last part!
when i took my screen off i broke the back hosing around the bottom by the home button...will this interfere with my replacement screen or can i just get rid of the back hosing?
Thanks. I have been replacing other people's iPods and stuff so... Btw it's cool that you have another video to put it back together but... I was watching this on my iPod.. Which is now in pieces... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I have an ipod 4 with a small dent in the housing case above the speaker which is preventing the lcd digitizer to settle in, do I need to replace the housing case in order to fix this?
if your having trouble closing the iPod after the repair, i think its best to not move the white plastic piece into the new rear housing. I think it elevates the screen which is why it may not pop into place for you. I don't think it has any impact on the functionality of the iPod.
I peeled the power/volume ribbon directly (not from the metal plate below it -- didn't even know that existed) and ripped it. Good video, but I think something more than "take your time" would save some people's devices.
Nope, that's all I did. I did it very very slowly and carefully. It took me forever, but it worked. (I trimmed the whole process from 20 min to 1 min in the video). The only extra thing you could do is to heat it up with hair blower to loosen the adhesive.
I was able to get it working in the end, but with a new board I found that with removing the ribbon cable, there is a very thin metal strip under neath it, and you can remove the cable much faster and very easily if you push from under that.
I broke my BFF's iPod, so I had to buy her a new one or fix hers. I had nothing to loose by trying to fix hers... It worked out pretty well. It took me forever, and I wasted couple of screens, but finally did it right.
I have a I pod touch 4g, that I replaced the back housing and lcd screen. when I tried a test run the everything worked except the camera and the screen had a light white flashing to it. what do you recommend?
Ideally, you wanna test everything before putting it all together. Make sure you snapped in camera ribbon cable properly. If still doesn't work, you can get replacement part for few bucks online. If still doesn't work - it might mean you have broken connector on motherboard.
I usually try to keep the old cracked screen until I'm finished with repair. If new screen doesn't work, I connect the old one and it usually works fine. Than it means you've got defective replacement part and you need to return it. It happens a lot, especially if I buy the cheapest ones out there.
If there are some scratches on the copper cover of the battery from taking it out of the back housing, would that be a problem? I just dissembled the whole thing just now lol
Good video, thanks! The power button/volume button ribbon to the motherboard was glued down very very tightly on mine and I ripped it even though I was very very slow and careful. Best thing would be to heat up the area with a heat gun/blow dryer to loosen that adhesive before trying to lift the cable around the volume button.
Part 2 is out now.
Feel free to share how you replaced yours.
thank u... =)
Thanks for watching!
umm...last time i replaced the screen it took me 2 1/2 hours..AN I BROKE IT lol
... Fuck it, I'll just cover the back with a case.
damn, that seems tedious.
Yep sir...
Sure, You should open a business!
umm, this looks so difficult.
Yea, you're right. It's not very clear in the video. You are not suppesed to pry under the battery, but the copper shield instead. Also the dining knife I used isn't sharp at all, so it was fine for me.
I'll see if I can add a note to the video.
Thanks for pointing out.
You're more likely to rip off power button ribon cable if you don't use sharp blade. That adhesive is too strong to just pull the cable. I've done quiet a few replacements with no accidents. If you are not confident doing that on yuor own, just have a professional tech doing it for you.
It might work. If not, you'd have to get a new ribbon cable ($5 on eBay) and re-solder it - not the easiest job...
Try to put everything back together without closing the screen, just connect all parts and turn on iPod. Hopefully it'll work.
It depends if you had repair experience before. This is probably the hardest one I've done so far. Without prior experience it's 8 out of 10, but you can do it. Just take your time and be extremely careful.
Try to sell it on Ebay. Just describe exactly what happened, include every single part you have and post a few pictures - and some repair guy might buy it for parts. Non working iPod Touch 4th goes for ~ $40.
It will be not cheap for sure. Call and ask them how much it will cost. Then try local repair store as well. It might worth to sell it as is for parts on Ebay and get a new or used iPod. Just shop around.
That's bad, man. The cable itself is $2-5. But you'll have to solder it the motherboard. You may need special soldering iron for that (~ $20) Look for the video tutorial on how to do that on TH-cam.
Most likely yes. Even a small dent may not allow LCD screen to seat in place properly. If you try too hard to fit it in place, it'll crack.
US. It will be cheaper if you find some local repair store. With parts and shipping it'll be around $80.
How in the world did you manage to break it? The metal is pretty strong... It usualy bends, not breaks.
If you got your screen trashed and back housing is bent - you have no choice but replace both.
You are welcome! Feel free to waste 10 more minutes on Part 2 - Putting it all back together...
You can put everything back together and see if it works, before you throw it away.
How much was your soldering iron? How much is a decent one?
How did your fix go?
Feel free to share your experience.
You should work for Apple, dude. It took me one hour...
Oh and you should add NOT to try to pull the ribbon cable coming from the motherboard in ANY WAY, just a light pull and it broke for me.
it takes more than 20 seconds to change the screen, more like 30 minutes. Trust me, I've replaced a couple of iphone screens
Good video EXCEPT, I now need to replace the battery, because the battery has dents and one slight puncture all along the edge, from being pried up by a knife like in your video, which makes no mention about how soft the battery is. Also the copper shield is scored badly too. And I reheated the cover again just before detaching the battery. It might be better to use a flexible tool instead, which can flex around the battery's edge to pry away the battery/copper shield from the back cover.
Thanks for posting this vid, it helped alot. The only thing I would add to the instructions is I found it not necessary to remove the center camera and wifi antenna. The only problem I had was I got a small tear in the flex cable near the lower volume button. That's the only thing that doesn't function now on my ipod. You really need to be Careful. Now I know what a surgeon must feel like. Thanks again.
By the way this took me about 5 hours to complete successfully.
You could just buy another ribbon for $5 on eBay and de-solder and solder on the new one like I did. I had a cheap soldering iron so it was rather difficult to melt the solder precisely. I ended up messing up the connection somehow so that the up button is always in a pressed-in state (not physical button but the soldering I think). I just set Activator to ignore all volume button presses.
Hi. well I got as far as the last bit of ribbon, the part where you said to "go slowly and take your time", and I did - but I noticed a small tear. I wonder if I should just stop here or put it all back together to see if it works. I was in the process of replacing front & back + rear camera. think it will it work still?
i know i was doing it during your video and the cable ripped because my screen was cracked and my back housing was dented. so i was like ill do it i got everything right until that last part!
when i took my screen off i broke the back hosing around the bottom by the home button...will this interfere with my replacement screen or can i just get rid of the back hosing?
The ribbon cable you warned 10 times for to be careful with got damaged... Can I repair this? And how?
Thanks. I have been replacing other people's iPods and stuff so...
Btw it's cool that you have another video to put it back together but... I was watching this on my iPod.. Which is now in pieces... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I have an ipod 4 with a small dent in the housing case above the speaker which is preventing the lcd digitizer to settle in, do I need to replace the housing case in order to fix this?
Sorry, it was mic pad, not flash...
Lots of places will do it for pretty cheap if you buy the replacement parts yourself, it could save you like $20 if you know where to go.
Look under my video channel.
woah they were 20 dollars back in 2012 lol? I found some for only 8 dollars 10 minutes ago.
+ThumbsUp LikesWhore
Yea, stuff is getting more affordable over time!
on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard is this? and i am 15, do u think im ok to do this?
Thanks for catching my mistake. I'll see what i can do to edit annotation.
if i took it to a store to do it for me would they charge me a lot?
thanks very helpful video , but where is part 2? for the assembly?
Do you like do it if it was sent to you? What country you live in?
That's a good point. I'll make an annotation in the video. Thank you!
Sux pretty bad!
Why is that?
I'm still workig on part 2. Will post it in few days.
that hole next to the camera is a mic not a led flash
what if i ripped the connection to the power button?
i hope to god nobody takes any notice of this crap,
Thanks for the video. This looks really, really, hard.
if your having trouble closing the iPod after the repair, i think its best to not move the white plastic piece into the new rear housing. I think it elevates the screen which is why it may not pop into place for you. I don't think it has any impact on the functionality of the iPod.
It definitely doesn't affect functionality.
Did you use glue instead, cuz this white adhesive kinda holds screen in place?
yes thank you for wasting 9 minutes of my life....
Good job doing the surgery!!! Thanks for sharing!
Guess i wont be doing this :D
i cant sell the motherboard anymore can i?
What happen if that ribbon cable you said not to rip off , is a little damaged?
It needs to be replaced and soldered...
ok thank you very much, ill do my best
dont worry - it was very helpful :)
I peeled the power/volume ribbon directly (not from the metal plate below it -- didn't even know that existed) and ripped it. Good video, but I think something more than "take your time" would save some people's devices.
Nope, that's all I did. I did it very very slowly and carefully. It took me forever, but it worked. (I trimmed the whole process from 20 min to 1 min in the video). The only extra thing you could do is to heat it up with hair blower to loosen the adhesive.
The thing more than take your time is think and watch tutorials before doing it by yourself, i destroyed my first iPod Touch 4g with it :P
I was able to get it working in the end, but with a new board I found that with removing the ribbon cable, there is a very thin metal strip under neath it, and you can remove the cable much faster and very easily if you push from under that.
To put it back together do I need to use a special glue?
Doublesided 3M adhesive would work. They sell it on ebay.
i ripped the power cable i learned how to solder new one
Good job! Record and post a video...
how did you find out how to do it
I broke my BFF's iPod, so I had to buy her a new one or fix hers.
I had nothing to loose by trying to fix hers... It worked out pretty well.
It took me forever, and I wasted couple of screens, but finally did it right.
can you make one where you do not stop at all
It would take way too long, more than 30 min...
Temachok yes but an informational video that goes for 30mins is the best thing ever
Hello, great videos! Are you from CCCP?
Да, рождённый в СССР... 😁
@@DIYtime Россия или Украина? Also have you seen Redbull KamaZ?
Right in the middle - Belarus.
Checked out the Kamaz - pretty dope!
I have a I pod touch 4g, that I replaced the back housing and lcd screen. when I tried a test run the everything worked except the camera and the screen had a light white flashing to it. what do you recommend?
Ideally, you wanna test everything before putting it all together. Make sure you snapped in camera ribbon cable properly. If still doesn't work, you can get replacement part for few bucks online. If still doesn't work - it might mean you have broken connector on motherboard.
okay. do you fix I pods? how much would a rough estimate cost be?
I usually try to keep the old cracked screen until I'm finished with repair. If new screen doesn't work, I connect the old one and it usually works fine. Than it means you've got defective replacement part and you need to return it. It happens a lot, especially if I buy the cheapest ones out there.
If there are some scratches on the copper cover of the battery from taking it out of the back housing, would that be a problem? I just dissembled the whole thing just now lol
the reason I say this because maybe the battery was damaged when I took it apart, perhaps?