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The brown connector break one of the arms. I still have it, what should i to do fix battery cable? Update Dear Mr.Oldturkey03. I have to say a lot of thanks for your advice, and knowledge. “arigatougozaimasu” in Japanese.. I try to daiagnostic my iPod, then I look up a funny incident. My iPod has only 30GB, But diag says 289GB! I will tray to change HDD, and restore. I am very exicite that your kindly answers. I like MAC and iPod. Please help me !
Tsutomu Niimi, if the connector broke of the logic board, there are only two solutions. One is to get another connector from an old logic board and have somebody knowledgeable with SMD components solder it on. The only other way is to replace the logic board. UPDATE If the brown part is off the white part, you can try and replace the clip with an old one from a spare board. If the white one is off the board with the pins sticking out, you can try and slide the white plastic back over it and use some glue to glue the plastic onto the board. If the pins are bend or dislodged you will have to get a new one soldered onto the board.
Ok, here my contribution. After getting the message “Please Wait -Very Low Battery.” I wanted to replace the battery of my iPod Video 5th 30GB, I broke the battery “brown connector” (it was already damaged, hence the message). It was completely ripped off of the PCB, the motherboard, including the solder paths! I could see some very small cupper dots. From these points I started with a multimeter with the Beeping (continuity test) function to trace the paths of the connections, since I couldn’t find any diagram schematics on the internet. There are 5 pins, I labeled them for myself by numbers (1,2,3,4 and 5). By measuring I found that there are actually only 3 “main” pins, 1-2, 3 and 4-5. I soldered these points to the battery connector and hot glued it back to the PCB. And now it’s working!
@Wolfson. Great detective work my Man :) I ripped one pin of the battery connector from the board and so I appreciate you tracing out where the pins go to as I may be able to superglue that one pin to the board and run a fine magnet wire to where you kindly showed me it goes. I will give it a try over the Christmas holidays and report back with my progress good or bad. We appreciate the time that you took to do this and then thoroughly document it so well complete with many photos. You are a good Ifixit member
Thanks again @Wolfson I managed to run a jumper after removing the battery connector and resoldering it to the PCB. Worked like a charm as the two that were ripped off the board were both ground connections Image of repair here and I owe you a beer :) GND jumper wire connecting two pins and then to GND of IC on other side of board
GND pin on IC on other side of board
I found new battery sockets here and I am pretty sure that it’s the same as this 5th Gen Ipod. (if this link goes dead just search for iPod 5th gen battery connector on FleaBay) https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/iPod-Video-C… Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKKxK_P…
If the brown hold down is broke, I cut a small piece of notebook paper that would fit into the connector and slide the ribbon on top of it, make sure the ribbon is all the way in.
Hey I don’t know if you still need an answer but i’ve managed to fix my Ipod Video with the same problem. I did it the cheap way and with Super Glue! Basically I broke the retention clip off the LCD connector which is on the logic board. I found that I needed the LCD display to be on in order for Itunes to successfully detect my IPOD, and use it (obviously). Because the retention clip is missing, it means you can push the ribbon cable all the way “through” the connector and it won’t get contact with the pins on the logic board, this is why with mine when you push the ribbon half way into the connector it’ll light up, but then when you push it all the way through it goes black again. What I did was, and it’s incredibly easy, is push the ribbon cable into the connector with the missing retention clip, hold it in place so the screen lights up, and applied superglue to the connector and edges of the cable, and it worked fine. I did this while my ipod was on and connected to a computer. I didn’t really care if I stuffed my ipod completely though. Can post photos showing it going/ with the cover off and missing retention clip if needed.
