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So I Just Built This...

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EastcoastAR5
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I just made my first Flash-Pod. It is a 16 GB Ipod Video. I have always hated Hard drives, refusing to buy another HD based player after seeing so many break. So I went ahead and built my dream Ipod. 16 GB of pure flash RAM memory. The UI interacts so quick its amazing (no HD to spin to get data) and will increase my battery life like crazy. Oh and to touch it off I replaced the black click wheel with a white one. This thing seriously kicks ass. Check it out.

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Message me if you want more info!
Mar 22 2008 4:11PM
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user098123
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Damn dude that is nice! Did you have to change the connections at all really when you switched from the HD to the flash?
Mar 22 2008 4:14PM
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Sufferboy
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how long did it take u
Mar 22 2008 4:16PM
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EastcoastAR5
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Nope, Finally the chinese came out with a good cheap adapter...cost me 18 on ebay. People have done this before and soldered like 64 wires to make it work hahahhaha. This was just plug in and go. If anyone is interested in doing this I will make a tutorial and put it up on here!
Mar 22 2008 4:17PM
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EastcoastAR5
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I have been working on Ipods for about a year now, so it took maybe 4 minutes replace the HD. But the click wheel took me about 15 minutes to do because you need to disassemble the whole entire ipod.
Mar 22 2008 4:19PM
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ECfreeski3
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you.are.the man. and the white wheel makes it even more badass.. i wish i was as 1337 as you (sarcasm 0/10)
Mar 22 2008 4:20PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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i'd be interested
Mar 22 2008 4:23PM
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vincepru
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more info please. also can this be done on all ipod gen's?
Mar 22 2008 4:27PM
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freestyler540
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good job man


Mar 22 2008 4:29PM
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infedel_one
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im interested...
Mar 22 2008 4:32PM
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EastcoastAR5
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Short answer, yes. Any HD based ipod can do this. Nano's obviously not. There is one type of adapter for generations 1-4 and one for the 5th and 6th generations. What make and model do you have?
Here is a link for the card I used http://www.meritline.com/adata-16g-cf-card-speedy.html

Also I can build this for you if you are interested and don't want to screw anything up.
Mar 22 2008 4:32PM
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duckets.
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that ipod is illllll
Mar 22 2008 4:54PM
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skijunkiedtm
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i will remember this for if my HD dies.
Mar 22 2008 5:38PM
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pizbuin
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I love it when people use "for if"
Mar 22 2008 5:59PM
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Scott~
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Shouldve scrounged up another 700 bucks or so and used solid state disks haha~
Mar 22 2008 6:04PM
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user098123
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too bad 1/3 of them are failing
Mar 22 2008 6:06PM
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Boodje.
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thats fresh as hellll.
Mar 22 2008 6:07PM
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2+2=5
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get an imod so ur ipod wont sound like shit. google  imod

then its the ultimate ipod period
Mar 22 2008 6:19PM
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0123456789
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sooo sick can this be done with zunes?
Mar 22 2008 6:19PM
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R-Bertsch
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tutorial man you'll get mass karma points!!!!!! i'm very interested tho im  tired of my slow ass hd
Mar 22 2008 6:19PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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... thats pretty much exactly what he did. He just used a 16 gb flash card. Almost all memory cards are solid state.
Mar 22 2008 6:41PM
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EastcoastAR5
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Or if you don't want a HD and want flash, you can just sell the HD on ebay and come out even, if not make profit.

And to those interested in the tutorial...I will work on it!
Mar 22 2008 7:13PM
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prosnurfer
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this is sick. if u can tell me what the name of the addapter is id love that. i have a extra ipod laying around and i deff wanna do this. and u got 16 g of flash dor 18 bucks or what kinda flash did u use. if u dont wanna post all of this plese pm me. thanks dude this is a sick mod

Mar 22 2008 7:23PM
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EastcoastAR5
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thanks man. the CF card was around 70 for me...I think you were looking at the price below it for something else. But yeah I will make a post later tonight or tomorrow outlining every single step and exactly what you will need.
Mar 22 2008 7:27PM
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prosnurfer
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word cool dude im doin this. thanks man
Mar 22 2008 7:56PM
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C+Thompson
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That's awesome man.
Would you be interested in building and selling one?
If so, I'd be interested.  Cause I don't know if I'd trust myself to do it, unless its not too hard?
Mar 22 2008 8:33PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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it shouldn't be hard at all. Opening the case is the hardest part and really the only hard part about that is not being a pussy about possibly scratching your ipod. From what I can tell, you pop open the case plug an adapter into the harddrive cable and you're done. The click wheel is a little more complicated but still probably not too difficult.
Mar 22 2008 8:44PM
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skijunkiedtm
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look at this site for some good tutorials http://www.rapidrepair.com/ivueinstallationguides.htm

Mar 22 2008 8:51PM
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skibikeclambake
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my threads
Mar 22 2008 10:42PM
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IcePointa
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thats pretty sick, you should build those and sell them on ebay if it isn't flooded with them already
Mar 22 2008 10:47PM
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.makuma.
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thats soo sick, you should def try to sell them..you could make a ton of loot
Mar 22 2008 11:00PM
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FUUUCK
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I'll try that when I can get at least 32gigs of memory.
Mar 22 2008 11:06PM
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tronnnnnnn
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, you can get a 32 mb card from the site he put a link to above
Mar 22 2008 11:12PM
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lushlaxstr
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wow thats pretty sick
Mar 22 2008 11:18PM
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Mooose...
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thats looks sick, definitly like the white click wheel
Mar 22 2008 11:22PM
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JaphyRyder
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youre a lot smarter than i am
Mar 22 2008 11:25PM
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Reptar.
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zomg i fuckin hate the hard drive, especially in the cold. good work.
Mar 22 2008 11:38PM
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bobross
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He said 32 gigs
Mar 22 2008 11:50PM
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RudyGarmisch
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You cant just switch out the flash cards for larger ones with the Nano? I'm pretty sure my friend has a first gen nano thats had that done to it.
Mar 22 2008 11:52PM
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lushlaxstr
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how did you get the ipod software on it?
Mar 22 2008 11:55PM
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Scott~
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Whoops youre right, I was under the impression that solid state drives were a whole different ball game. Now I see they use flash memory, thanks haha~
Mar 23 2008 12:03AM
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BigJew
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Nanos have their flash memory soldered to the main board, people have swapped them but it's not plug and play or easily do-able for the average person.
Mar 23 2008 12:44AM
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spudz
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nah, no need. you dont have to mod zunes to make them better.. they come that way.
Mar 23 2008 1:09AM
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tronnnnnnn
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i meant gigs, there was a 32 gig one on the same site that wa linked above
Mar 23 2008 1:18AM
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EastcoastAR5
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Wow thanks every one for the feedback!

To answer your question, all you need to do is restore the Ipod through Itunes after the mod and it gets the necessary software.

To the question about the nano...nanos memory chips are soldered onto the motherboard, and are produced in no viable form to purchase.

And yes you can get 32 gig compact flash cards...
Mar 23 2008 1:28AM
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EastcoastAR5
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Well I love how Creative has large capacity flash players. However, I have an apple computer, which they (last time I checked) don't support. So lets relax on the cock sucking statements eh?
Mar 23 2008 2:46AM
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Shorton
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thats so sick, definatly post up a tutorial...im interested in changing my click wheel
Mar 23 2008 6:50AM
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skiblandford
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sick man but i have no idea what you were talking about butstill sick you got 16 things of memory and shit thats better than 15 things
Mar 23 2008 7:42AM
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