The iPod Video — the first to play video on a 2.5-inch screen. Twenty years on, the original battery holds very little charge and the hard drive is usually the weak point, both of which are straightforward to put right.
The fee is waived when you go ahead with the repair, and you get a fixed quote before any work starts.
Restores full playback on a 2005 device — from £59.
Swap the failing drive for silent flash memory — from £69.
Our Newcastle workshop; never sent on.
We repair iPod 5th Generation (iPod Video)s by post for customers right across the UK. Book online, send it in, and we diagnose it and confirm a fixed price before any work starts — with a £45 diagnostic that is waived when you go ahead with the repair. It comes back to you tracked and insured.
The original battery in a iPod Video is around 21 years old. A fresh cell restores full playback time, and we re-seal the case afterwards so it closes properly without clips or adhesive showing. Battery upgrades start from £59.
The iPod Video stores music on a spinning 1.8-inch hard drive, and after 21 years that drive is the single most common failure. A clicking or whirring noise, a folder-with-exclamation-mark icon, or music that stops when the iPod is jogged all point at the drive rather than the logic board. We can replace it like for like, or convert it to flash storage — no moving parts, lighter, silent, and it markedly improves battery life. Hard drive and SSD upgrades start from £69.
Screens on the iPod Video scratch and crack at the edges long before they stop working. We replace the display, and where the LCD underneath is still good we can fit new glass on its own instead of a whole assembly.
A click wheel that has gone unresponsive, or a centre button that needs a hard press, is usually grit and worn contacts rather than a dead board. We clean or replace the wheel assembly on the iPod Video so it clicks properly again.
If your iPod Video will not charge or is not seen by a computer, the 30-pin dock connector is the usual cause — the contacts corrode and the pins wear. We test the full charging path and the headphone output together, since a bad joint often affects both.
Post it to us from anywhere in the UK, or walk in to 119 New Bridge Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2SW with free private parking in front of the shop. Either way you get a £45 diagnostic that is waived when you go ahead with the repair, a fixed quote before any work starts, and a 30-day warranty on the repair.
iRepair Labs is an independent repair workshop and is not an Apple Authorised Service Provider. iPod is a trademark of Apple Inc.
