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(More customer reviews)If you just want a product review, I'd have to say the battery works, but you don't end up using the plastic safe tool very much. The people upset with the product are really upset with Apple for making it nearly impossible to replace the battery. If you're not sure about how to do this, go one youtube or google instructions. You will see tools you need and how flippin' small everything is. I ended up using a tiny eyeglass screwdriver to pry into the back cover and then slid a guitar pick into the opening (took me 30-45 mins just to get this far). Once I got the back cover off, I used the screwdriver to remove 5 screws (was missing one). Then I used the safe pry tool to flip open the tiny ribbon cable holder. Once this was up, I used tweezers to pull back the ribbon cable. Next I pulled out a small metal clip around the headphone jack with tweezers. Now I had to flip open the LCD ribbon cable connector and pull out the ribbon cable. Finally I had the motherboard out by itself. I sandwiched it on its end between two tall, heavy novels. This allowed me to place my solder pencil on one side of the motherboard and pull the wire from the other side with tweezers. Once I got all 3 wires out, I used the pry tool to get the battery out (it is glued in). With the ipod still sandwiched, I placed the new battery in and then lined up each wire individually and pushed them against the circuit board hole with my thumbnail. Then I took the solder pencil and touched the other side of the board. Note, I don't know if I needed to, but stripped the white wire a little more. I didn't feel like there was enough bare wire - even though there probably was. Anyway, this worked well except the black wire gave me troubles. I ended up just throwing a bit more solder on that one and got some of the individual wires through but not all. Ok all done! I place the LCD ribbon cable back (difficult) and the clickwheel ribbon cabled (difficult) and placed one screw in. I connected it up to my computer and received 2 loud beeps. Nothing on the LCD, but the clickwheel sound was there and the ipod showed up on my computer. So I assumed correctly that the LCD ribbon cable was not in correctly. I took it apart again and reseated the LCD cable (used small needle-nose pliers). This worked! I was actually surprised this whole thing worked. We're talking 3-4 hours of work here. Not for the average ipod user. I had equipment and experience to make this work. Getting the back cover back on was no walk in the park either. So, recap on tools: eye glass screwdriver, guitar pick, razor blade (had to clean off some glue), tweezers, very small needle nose pliers, safe pry tool, solder pencil, solder and wire stripper. All of this with a steady hand and patience will get your ipod working again.
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