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Ipod nano 4g 1st generation conversion to fat32

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[Saint]:
If the "HD" (so to speak, it's flash memory) is gone, then it's pretty much a paperweight

I have replaced the NAND in a Nano 2nd gen, once, and I wouldn't even recommend trying to be honest. Not unless you just happen to have a spare compatible flash chip sitting around for it, and are handy with a soldering iron.

It's not worth the cost of buying a new flash chip, and potentially butchering the soldering job on the microscopic pitch.

It certainly isn't classed as "user serviceable", the only reason I even tried was because I has three broken Nanos sitting around that I wanted to try kludg into one, I had nothing to lose if it didn't work.

The only replacement option available is buying the entire mainboard from somewhere like iFixit, but it's almost certainly going to be cheaper to buy a complete unit second-hand.


[St.]

Chronon:
Gah!  I was thinking it was an HD model when I wrote that.  Sorry, I'm a bit under the weather and apparently didn't pay attention.

robin0800:

--- Quote ---I pluged in the ipod, formated to FAT (using linux, ubuntu 10.10)
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Just to be quite sure, if you really did do this after it had been restored by I tunes you may have broken it again.
As far as know once restored by itunes you don't need to do anything else.

torne:
Yes; iTunes deals with everything including formatting the data partition, so if you format it again after that you may well have broken something. Restore it again.

Chronon:
I understood this bit

--- Quote from: npeters8 on January 21, 2011, 03:46:33 AM ---okay I had my friend restore my ipod using windows and itunes, still no success.
--- End quote ---
to mean that an attempt was made to install Rockbox at this point (before the reformatting business) but it's certainly not very clear what was done.

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