The Unrepairable iPod Touch

[@HughJeffreys]

Starting the new decade off with a new intro! My old intro has had a very long run from March 2nd 2016 - Dec 29th 2019

[@Tech_481]

I miss the old one lmao

[@_financial_regret_]

I think I prefer the old one

[@johncanon9514]

I don't want to be that guy, but this new intro is, well... it reminds me of early tech videos. Your video quallity/standard is amazing, this new intro ruins it a bit for me. You should change it. Mayby you should do a contest for new intro, so it's community made.

[@jaegersimzy]

Hugh You Repair Anything And Everything

[@ORIOLESFan02]

I liked the old one better though :(

[@Dcwest0616-the-best-on-youtube]

teacher: the test isn’t that hard you won’t fail the test: *repairing an iPod touch*

[@c0r5e]

Dcwest 0616 still easier than a maths test

[@rayyankhan8726]

Hugh: *GETS AN A+++++++++++++++++*

[@jesusyuca1483]

Lol he got a C- on my books. I have fixed countless of these. The teacher was correct its not that hard...

[@lyd11114]

Dcwest 0616 true🤣

[@Dcwest0616-the-best-on-youtube]

811 is my most liked comment and i don’t care at all lol all i care is the reply’s their funny

[@benk3431]

If Hugh Jeffreys says its unrepairable, it’s unrepairable.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Ben KT777 ikr

[@JustRobertCZE]

AND THATS A FACT

[@ilhantele]

Pass it on to Jerryrigeverything

[@xximzombiexx]

I smell facts 😂😂

[@riverdaletales8457]

@@ilhantele yup he's our only hope

[@succduc]

Hugh Jeffrey:"Unfortunately Apple Glues the device shut" Also Hugh: *Glues screen down permanently*

[@Alexander_l322]

Since it's the only thing holding the display on.

[@dvrkplayer]

@@TR2000LT There are 2 screws in iPhones, ipods dont have these

[@hima-iv5mc]

The Random the ipods always used glue

[@jesusyuca1483]

The Random, Con is correct. To avoid water getting into the backlight you use adhesive around the glass. Why? If water is slipping by the glass it has a perfect route to go into the backlight layers due to water tension. Anyways the real reason they used adhesive is because of various advantages, not just because apple is greedy.

[@succduc]

Honestly just stay away from Apple...hence why they're a multibillion dollar company

[@jesusyuca1483]

I repaired so many of these. When you lifted the metal plate that has all the screws you need to push the board down near the flex cable is soldered or you tear it like you did the first time you opened it. Also removing the board and battery with the copper back part helps not mess up the battery. My specialty was replacing the charging port because nobody on this island could do it.

[@FroyourFilms]

Island? U from Puerto Rico?

[@jesusyuca1483]

FroyourFilms 🌴😎🌴yup!

[@FroyourFilms]

@@jesusyuca1483 The yuca Made me think so. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@chips6042]

@@jesusyuca1483 Me too 🇵🇷

[@chips6042]

@@FroyourFilms Yo pensé lo mismo 🤣

[@mirono3099]

I bet Apple is proud and cheering in california that even hugh jeffreys says its unrepairable

[@OrangeGroupTech]

And then soon the Apple Genius Bar receives a similar iPod touch to repair but even they can't

[@appleintosh]

It’s a little late for that. This is a super old device.

[@OrangeGroupTech]

@@appleintosh True

[@mirono3099]

@@appleintosh gosh, you gotta be fun at parties..

[@lorelo.]

@@mirono3099 So fun I'll cough out my liver!

[@aiodensghost8645]

The solution: dont reinstall the screw near the power button cable when reinstalling the logic board. You will have plenty of screws holding the board in place, but if that screw is pinching the cable then that screw can stay out

[@bensoncheung2801]

69 👍

[@cadenchurchill4296]

This device really brings me back! iPod Touch 4 was such a big deal when I was in middle school, and was my first smart device! Wish I still had mine.

[@bharadwaj25]

It was my first smart device too, i sold it many years back. Recently i brought a used one and i still enjoy playing around with it 🙂

[@cadenchurchill4296]

@@bharadwaj25 That’s awesome! I wish I still had mine!

[@starlingr]

I cringed when I saw him bend the battery like that

[@castorite9777]

There isn't really any other way to take the batterys out on iPod Touches, there aren't any pull tabs and the adhesive is a bit overkill for such a small battery, he should have used a plastic tool though, you can sometimes slice through the layers of a battery if you use a metal tool and that can be pretty dangerous.

[@francisbalfour1243]

Same, especially with his hands. Wonder if its damaged it though

[@irmajulietaaguirrelara2046]

I recommend using isopropyl alcohol to soften the glue, it’s a lot easier to remove batteries that way

[@kirkkong5829]

That guy fixed hundreds of phones dont teach him

[@luiis6674]

@@irmajulietaaguirrelara2046 oi

[@Saxophone_King]

This video gave me Vietnam flashbacks to my phone repair days. I had an order of 10 of these in for repair once. I did all of them in about 6 hours and using the last shred of my sanity. I managed to save 8 of them fully while the other two were too far gone to be worth fixing. I don't envy you on this repair.

[@SeptienPatterson]

"Mission Failed. Don't worry we'll get em next time."

[@andrive]

Him?

[@Kan_DSU]

*Throws away cigar*

[@mytester6208]

In year 2042 just before the rev9 robot sent back by legion, hugh tries to repair this ipod touch again, and survival of the human race depends on the repairability of it, and hence why we are all doomed and have to go back to fix it before it destroys us all

[@InterventioN746]

>Unrepairable iPod Apple: Write that down, Write that down!

[@abhibhoir027]

Nope, Apple to its workers would be like : " Good job people, we are proud of you. Everyone will be getting a raise".

[@chryslerypsilonse]

you know its unrepairable if even Hugh can’t repair it.

[@cody3026]

Yep

[@lukec8898]

Yeah

[@chryslerypsilonse]

Cody’s Tech Adventure’s hEy I knOw yOu

[@cody3026]

Adam Steven OmG hEy

[@jesusyuca1483]

Adam Steven Not true... I have repaired countless of these. I don’t know how else to say it but this guy is a noob. He broke the flex twice. The first time lifting the metal plate and the second time connecting the digitizer. He messed up the battery when he could have lifted it with the copper back. He fucked up the speaker by not being careful or using a little heat. Even his solder joints didn’t look that good.

[@MercuryF12]

Omg the part when he bends the battery so much i thought it would explode

[@GeekmanCA]

Seriously, don't do this. Modern batteries are very tightly-packed chemical matrices designed to store lots of energy. Deforming them this roughly is dangerous. Hopefully Hugh was at least wearing eye protection.

[@Jack-pc9sp]

@@GeekmanCA dumb. the batteries can withstand that kind of bending just fine, stop fear mongering.

[@thevalorousdong7675]

@@Jack-pc9sp actually not always. It can cause a potential short between the layers. I've done it myself. It also leads to the battery puffing up over time if it doesn't react violently. So, stop spreading misinformation like you think you're smart

[@Jack-pc9sp]

@@thevalorousdong7675 yeah of course the nose knows

[@castorite9777]

sometimes you just have to do that to get certain batteries out of certain devices if you do bend it like he did I wouldn't recommend reusing them, it's very rare for a battery to really do anything crazy just by prying it out unless you puncture it.

[@themaxster_]

I'm getting flashbacks to when I tried this on my sister's ipod years ago...

[@theirishvolunteer6643]

Did you do it?

[@andrive]

Did it work?

[@snakelover5314]

Was it successful?

[@Toreonify]

Me too. I've tried to repair three of these iPods. One had a gap under the screen, second one sealed correctly but the buttons flex was damaged and wired manually causing power+volume up when pressing power. Last one was almost done and the speaker connector broke off the board. Now it is cheaper to buy used working iPod touch than repairing one >_

[@mikehall3976]

My girlfriend's iPod has a dead battery. It's in a pile of things to do someday in the future. I made an attempt a year ago and I stopped caring when I realized holy fuck this is going to take hours.

[@SarpErsoy]

Years ago I was terrified at how hard it was to repair it. 4 years later, I fixed 2 of these in a row, with both success. Time flies

[@cassiat4532]

Hi Hugh, Since watching them I’ve been inspired to fix some phones, and it worked! Thanks for the amazing content and great videos, keep it up!

[@spacekitt.n]

the amount of work you put into these videos is insane. this is a great 'do not proceed' warning to most people thinking of trying to repair one of these things, but a complete guide on how to if you dare. invaluable information

[@duckduck7459]

Hugh: the unrepairable ipod tpuch Jerryrigeverything: hold my mohs scale of hardness

[@PackardKotch]

duck duck *jerry damage test everything

[@goldenrodlol9427]

Wii RVL-001 jerryrig scratches everything

[@olivergreen2662]

Love the intro Hugh! Great video! 👍

[@kocfuc1982]

I broke one of those iPods when I was little. My dad repaired it himself after seeing how hard this repair is I'm wondering how he didn't break it

[@celeste2991]

He probably told you he repaired it and just bought a new one

[@faustorigoni]

Increíble tu paciencia, Hugh.

[@jedgefootball]

6:08 headphone jack... Man those were the days, back before you had to take a drill straight to you brand-new iphone 11

[@Emu19]

Easy, don't buy a flagship. It's also tons cheaper XD

[@KuroInside_]

Hey, a little idea for the new intro: Fade in the voice as fade out the intro's audio. It could look a little bit smooth and nice imo, but do as you want! Really great videos dude, keep it up!

[@RGCTech]

I'm so glad the intro changed. The previous one gave me the creeps.

[@carletonrutherford1799]

Thank you for this video, Hugh. I recently had to lift up the rear seats in a car I bout a couple years ago. I found an 8 gb iPod touch under there. It was all grimy and dirty, but after a wipe down it cleaned up ok. I plugged in a charger I had. At first it didn't do anything. I waited for it to charge up enough to power up, but nothing. Eventually I unplugged the charger, and pushed it in and out of the charger port, wiggling it as I did. Eventually it powered up, but as soon as I unplug it, it shuts down. I was looking to see how hard it would be to change the battery. This video has shown me that it's not worth it. If I want to use it, I will have it plugged in, in my car or something.

[@Abhidoesfirestuff]

2:50 le jerryrig- bent batteries become dangerous with layers folded and can explode Hugh- hold my battery

[@wowmeme7309]

Jeffery: It’s unrepairable Jai: Hold my tools

[@beamngcrashcompilationsd6690]

This happened to me as well! When I took the cable out it had a small mark on the cable inside the ribbon. I found out that it was long screw damage witch was very weird because I knew I had used the correct screw. I replaced the cable and didn'd screw in the screw above the cable, and it worked. I screw in the screw as much as I could before it got tight, and it worked fine. So I believe Apple used a screw that's to long for the spot.

[@danieleduca1241]

Which screw do you mean?

[@screenPhiles]

That doesn't make sense because if the screw were too long the iPod touch would have had that problem from the factory. Seeing that it they/it didn't, the length wasn't an issue.

[@Sinaylad]

I own(ed) one of those iPods, I bought it when it came out. The home button stopped working so I opened it just fine, then when I closed it, the screen stopped working. I realized I slightly tore the screen’s little cable at the top😅. I didn’t think it was worth the trouble of trying to fix it so I left it like that. I still managed to retrieve all the pictures I had on it at least, I ended up buying another one for around $20USD a few months ago and it’s in surprisingly great condition for being used given it’s age. Great video Hugh!!

[@OnlyKelp]

When I was 9 I replaced my iPod touch 4 screen. That’s how I started repairing phones

[@DaPunchyDudeYT]

When I was 6, I teared my iPod Touch 4 screen off

[@ibal7976]

When I was 9 I fell on my knees and cried

[@lukec8898]

When I was nine I got a bug bite on my butt at camp

[@outrun4047]

When I was 9 I got a good kick in the nuts :)

[@alz283]

Same, my glass cracked cause the WiFi was being really slow and I just stepped on the thing, I don’t really know why but it got me into repairing things so I guess it was good.

[@Kylefassbinderful]

This is the first video I've seen from your channel. So far so good.

[@jjdalrymple3128]

“This stuff is like super strength”

[@Ragna___]

maybe a screw short-circuits the power button. not grabbing a cable, when you screw it down. but removing one screw and checking each time if the power button works is a little bit tedious.

[@rayyankhan8726]

iPod Touch 4th Gen: *i'm about to end this man’s whole career haha*

[@Zillatrains4871]

Nice intro Hugh. Really good to have a change.

[@angelzx7961]

If Hugh can't repair Then no one can either

[@tomzajac1053]

2022 next attempt

[@castorite9777]

Louis Rossmann ;)

[@aarontallow4073]

Hey Hugh Jefferies I'm your biggest fan arching all the way from jamaica and I got a phone for u to fix and keep up the good work your a pro

[@ChrisEpp]

I miss your old intro 😭❤️

[@anthony-zn8kn]

Not really

[@APerson-kg2nw]

Chris Epp no we don’t.

[@lubkolednik6454]

Yes

[@jamilahussan3525]

Chris Epp get tf out Lol

[@EduardoVerastica]

New intro is dope. Previous one gave me chills idk why lol

[@nta2010nta]

2:08 That’s what you get when u take standard shipping from AliExpress

[@andrive]

True

[@tanaykewalramani7292]

Awesome intro Hugh!

[@marydoctor1773]

I've done this repair myself. It was not a fun time

[@c0r5e]

Amos The Sceptic you can mane your own yt channel

[@tacosaregood5038]

Desi Car Guy PK wtf

[@janprazakjr]

Also had some issues repairing iPod touch display. Cannot remember what symptoms showed but i remember that loosening the screws on the motherboard made it all fine and work again.

[@marielacervantes9651]

this vid makes me sad knowing that my ipod is cracked badly and i really want to get it to work since i had so much stuff in it and i want my icloud account back :(

[@lewisdsd]

Amazing conclusion! I have an old iPod Touch 5th gen, and i wanted to repair the battery for using it as a music player, but yep, after watching this, I may be reconsidering my options!

[@pentiummmx2294]

the old iphones are a better option, just use those

[@noeldeguzman2379]

Same...got one..no power..tjinkin how to open the back cover is like chinese puzzle...hehe...thanks to this..i didnt continue...

[@mhtweeter]

Missing the old intro :(

[@hypnoshroomwes3592]

Same

[@dinanikolaidou1177]

Hugh: the unrepairable ipod tpuch Jerryrigeverything: hold my mohs scale of hardness

[@martinsb28]

Always wanted an iPod. The new intro really good ☺

[@sirsavagethe21st56]

I have the ipod touch first gen (2) and they work...... well one the back has some gaps in it and the other one one loses charge quickly the backlight is fried and it cannot connect to WI-FI but they work.

[@HearMeLearn]

it's a shame they're so hard to repair otherwise I would repair my old iPod touch from back in the day. It's so fucking tiny tho, 8 GB

[@y0u5uf]

Of all the devices out there I really didn't think the simple iPod touch would be the most difficult to repair..

[@Muxzy]

If Hugh Jeffrey's says it's unrepairable it's unrepairable

[@ar8812]

Mustafa Hussain what don’t make sense

[@DavidNikkiZane]

@@ar8812 he meant unrepairable. Apparently it is unrepeatable lol

[@realxdeadinside]

Personally i liked the old intro more. It was nice and clean. Nice video btw

[@zeusgames3343]

Hey. I was wondering what you do with ur refurbished phones? I am interested in a 8 or 8 plus. I am not sure if ur selling or not. Ps i love ur vids. Keep going!

[@HypernovaGT]

I used to work on mobile repair between 2013-2017. The first few devices I worked on was this iPod touch 4th gen since in 2013, that device is widely used. They're bane to my existence and the primary reason I get a lot of angry returning customers. Also the 5th/6th gen iPod touch are nightmare as well. The only other device I have the hardest time is the HTC One M7 (2013). I'm a software developer now. But I miss and don't miss mobile repair career. Maybe I can do some side hustles for fun later on.

[@Muxzy]

I used to own one of those... good times :)

[@skullkidunott6912]

Me too when I was 9 but unfortunately it died in the middle of me playing a game and i got angry and slammed it on a bunk bed pole and the screen cracked real bad and the charging hole was damaged so we had to put it back to normal by pushing it hard with something and I was still able to use it all tho the damage was just getting worse and worse like small bits of the screen were breaking off then the home button came off so I had to put tape on it to keep it on then the whole screen was coming off like in this video where he had the screen up and it was still able to work surprisingly and the screen was even turning white and flickering already then one day it was in my pocket and my father sprayed me with the water hole's then i ran inside to see if it was alright and it didn't work no more the water got into it ): and this was in 2012 ya pretty long ago /:

[@jakubjanicki4090]

The new intro is honestly better than the last one !!

[@curlminion]

If Hugh Jeffries fails, we send it to Louis rossman

[@stephensnell5707]

You mean Hugh Jeffery

[@OfficialBeaverYT]

Love the new intro for 2020 hugh, hope you had a great Christmas and all the best for 2020, looking forward to another year of top notch videos ❤️

[@raphaelsdias]

I already broke 2 iPod Touch 4th Gen trying to replace the screen, one 32Gb other 8Gb 😡

[@nomebear]

These iPod 4th Gens were a beautiful and elegant device, and I still have one, which is in beautiful condition. The battery is beginning to show some age and I hesitate getting it replaced.

[@TechyMedia2023]

I’d throw it across the room 😂

[@3thalluing339]

ElectronicsAreMyThingTM I had this phone and I did it and the hoe still worked 🗿some girl dented the side though and I was mad at her for a while but then I got the 5s and now have the X so all’s good

[@mxmln8699]

•Ь3thálluяing• But this is... not a phone.. u know

[@nw4538]

Love the new logo! Keep up the good work!

[@tyrek78]

Uh oh that doesn’t sound good!

[@tahaparvez7314]

Repairing since 2019 🤣🤣🤣. Love your videos and it's unique too because what you show no other KZbinr shows. Love from India Since 2016.

[@lailasanti2588]

When I what ten I repaired my first iPhone

[@HearMeLearn]

iPhones are a lot easier to repair than old iPod touches

[@cleos_jericho]

Woah! Nice Intro!! Love It ❤

[@elipolkinghorne8307]

Bro can you send me the stuff you can’t repair, I’d be able to talk to you why it doesn’t work. You made 2-3 major errors

[@Endidixknsej]

Nice try

[@windowsvista3193]

I am so thankful I did not try repairing one of these

[@rasmabegum1975]

How about sending me this iPod I can repair this iPod motivated by #hughjeffreys

[@ronniesunshine1163]

I had one of these and the screen got smashed. I decided to buy a screen replacement from amazon when I was 15 or so. I did the replacement and it worked! I didn't have adhesive so I just ducktaped the corners to hold the screen in place. About a week later, only the bottom half of the screen worked and it slowly got worse and worse. I still have it, it can power on but the screen just doesn't work. I thought about replacing it now and properly fixing it but I'm not sure its worth it

[@TheiTE]

Cool new intro Keep it up 👏🏻👏🏻

[@sur_shrimpster]

Love the new intro bro. Happy New year!

[@vasylsky9486]

Somehow I managed to replace the screen on it while in high school. I used normal hairdrier to take it apart, also broke and replaced that flatflex cable, and didn't have good glue to keep new screen properly in place. But it worked. Definitely removed motherboard in process. I remember that thin strip of pcb keeping two halves together and bending it to take board out, luckily didn't break it

[@mikaelbiilmann6826]

"The Hammers...the Hammers, is a nickname for which football team?" "Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. Know what I mean? Know what I mean??"

[@GabrielGarcia-wd1te]

I think one of the screws is probably causing a short of some sort so try removing a screw and testing it out and it might just work idk just an idea

[@jaimeleon7011]

I really enjoy your channel. Thank you for uploading these kind of videos, they're so entretaining

[@joshmurton202]

Love the new intro 👍👍👍

[@ubreakitirepairit3569]

These are a walk in the park to repair. I've repaired hundreds of them. The hardest part was getting bent ones sealed back up properly. Pull the WiFi cable away from the white plastic thing it's stuck to. Once that's done, it will allow you to fully pull the motherboard away on an angle from the housing. Just enough to get a full finger behind it to snap in the digitizer cable.

[@TdawgGaming195]

Nice intro Hugh!

[@moritzmuller4925]

The iPod touch 4g was the first „high tech“ device i tried to repair. It turned out great but now the volume up functions also the power button, so now i have 2 power buttons instead of none you got. This thing is crazy

[@ABFan-bj2uj]

Damn! I love the new introduction!

[@00SNIVY00]

I have one of these and I decided to open it up one day just to see. That latch that you have to press down before laying the screen down is hell, it took me SO LONG to put that down and it took FOREVER to get it back in place. I didn't even replace anything, I just opened it, to hell with that.

[@rickapplequist6078]

It looks like you didn’t cover the solder connections on the board with kapton tape so the metal plate is now shorting out the soldered connections when the screws are tightened. Great video.

[@livonium]

Wow, new intro! I like it. Great video BTW.

[@jackthatcher7477]

The new intro is amazing btw I love your videos

[@HALO56482]

Love the video man that looks like a crazy hard repair Please stay safe out there hopefully the fires haven’t come near you

[@martinkrabowski2057]

as an general tip which I do not see very often (and honestly I dont know why...): Before trying to remove the battery for example, get an small syringe and draw up some ethanol... Even normal hand disinfection fluid will do it. Just put a litte bit on every side of the battery. wait 1-2 mins and the ethanol will start to make the gluestripes soft. You can than lift one side up a little bit and again put some fluid underneath it. Doing it like this will let you remove any glued part as smooth as possible. And dont think too much about, that ethanol could damage anything. Thats not the case. Anything else used in such devices does withstand it really well.

[@muscatspb]

Обожаю залипать в твои видео, спасибо за контент, мастер)

[@dotmars2568]

Love the vids! ❤️ New intro looks good aswell! 😊

[@jindrasmutny4181]

Holy moly the new intro is epic 😃

[@_retrogamer999]

defeated by power button... feel for you HJ

[@coochiman9675]

I hope you're doing okay with the recent fires in Australia🖤🙏

[@vipereavp]

The soldering points on the cable that the power button is attached to is touching together against metal or the frame of the ipod. It needs to be covered so the soldering points do not cross connect

[@JJRicks]

This explains a lot, had similar troubles some years ago! My iPod 4 was never the same after a screen replacement

[@ac10372]

Wow that looks tough. Great effort. 👍

[@alfyer5]

I used to repair these back in the day. Easy stuff compared to todays stuff. (I do microsoldering on iphones etc) I'll just start by letting you know that the 2 holes behind the power button you need to keep those intact as theres a wire that runs just above or below the holes so most likely you tore it when you assembled it. Also you need to use FLUX when soldering. I cringed when I saw your solder joints.. Good luck let me know if you have any more questions

[@MineMiguel40]

I had one of these iPods but one day it just vanished. No one in my family knew where it went... I hope it’s living a fulfilling life now.

[@Tiramonium]

if I had to make a guess, I`d bet that what broke the power button was Apple`s brilliant idea of placing the camera screw hole right above the power button cable, so if you screw it firmly into place as is expect of screws, it actually pierces through the button cable

[@hishamrahim1231]

Good job hugh. I tried to repair mine. The soldering part is very critical. At first it was ok. But power button not working the next day. It was on and off when i keep on solder the cable. After 1 week of soldering i let it rest for good.

[@iEnayath]

When you clicked the Power Button and it wasn’t working, I could hear you lightly chuckling “How? *slightly chuckles* I have no idea”