| iPod battery replacements with these | | | | laptop, cell phone, portable music |
| easy instructions. Please be warned that | | | | player, etc. |
| although replacing the battery is easy, | | | | 4. The iPod's cover is not designed to |
| it will nullify your warranty with | | | | be opened, so, in that respect, it's not |
| Apple. I don't want to be deemed liable | | | | what would in general be referred to as |
| for the harm done to your iPod because | | | | "user-replaceable". Yet, with the proper |
| of this article, so do this at your own | | | | set of tools you can change the iPod |
| stake. | | | | battery yourself and avert all the |
| Things you should realize before | | | | trouble by going through Apple. |
| replacing your iPod battery: | | | | Procedures: |
| 1. Apple has an official out-of-warranty | | | | Step 1 - Procure an iPod battery online |
| battery replacement program for $59 + | | | | or in a retail shop nearest you. iPod |
| $6.95 shipping in the United States(see | | | | batteries can be bought for as low as |
| Europe and Canada pricing). The policy | | | | $11. You have to be sure that the |
| requires that you send in your iPod (any | | | | replacement battery you buy is for your |
| model), and Apple will change the | | | | iPod. |
| battery and ship it to you for $59 plus | | | | Step 2 - Turn off your iPod and set the |
| handling and shipping. Technically, | | | | hold button to the on position. Take a |
| Apple in reality exchanges your whole | | | | flathead screwdriver, as thin as |
| unit with an equivalent original model | | | | possible but oftentimes the retail store |
| or factory-refurbished model in a brand | | | | that sends you the battery will give you |
| new cover, with its own 90-day service | | | | a tool. In any case, you must open up |
| warranty; if it was previously engraved | | | | the unit by putting the tool or |
| by Apple, it will be engraved again. | | | | screwdriver between the plastic and the |
| 2. The iPod warranty is one year but you | | | | metal. Once you sense a clip, pry it |
| can expand it for two years with | | | | ever so gently. Continue around the |
| AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod. | | | | iPod, opening each latch. |
| Various merchants have inexpensive | | | | Step 3 - You are going to have to employ |
| extended warranty coverage available and | | | | that tool or screwdriver again to |
| often these programs purely change the | | | | extract the battery from the hard drive. |
| product with a corresponding new unit. | | | | Once taken out, unplug it from the |
| 3. Over the course of time, the battery | | | | board. |
| will not hold the same degree of charge | | | | Step 4 - Connect in the newly bought |
| as when it was newly bought. This is | | | | battery to the board of the iPod (where |
| natural, and occurs to all lithium ion | | | | you unconnected the old battery) and set |
| batteries. This gradual degradation will | | | | it on the glue that remained on the hard |
| not affect, or be noticed by, most users | | | | drive. Make sure that the battery and |
| during the life of their iPod. %Yet%, | | | | the wires are set properly so you can |
| based on usage, environmental factors, | | | | actually close the iPod. Snap the cover |
| and several other variables, some heavy | | | | back together, you'll hear it when it's |
| users may observe a great degradation | | | | finished! |
| than others. It is important to | | | | Step 5 - Switch on and charge the |
| understand that this is the exact same | | | | device. That's it and your iPod battery |
| degradation that would occur with any | | | | is successfully replaced. |
| lithium ion battery employed in any | | | | |