The day my iPod died, and was reborn.
I distinctly remember it was on the midnight the final Harry Potter book was released, and I was trotting in the direction of my local Waterstones to pick it up (yes, I am a fag). My iPod, which I had been in loving posession of for about a year at the time (2007), suddenly topples out of my hoodie pocket and falls right down onto the concrete, basically resulting in the front coming off the back, and the various innards spilling out, shattered, onto the moist ground.

One Harry Potter book and a music-less walk home later, I hastily squeeze the innards of the iPod back into the casing, however one piece won't fit. It got left on the table as I clicked the front and the back together again, held the play button and waited.

My iPod is still working fine, and is still missing a clearly non-vital piece. I am not a technical wiz by any standards, I put this repair down to dumb luck.
(thorned_soul, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 0:14, 4 replies)

it was probably due to stop working anyway as a year was almost up
the bit you took out was probably the bit that makes it stop working after a year.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 8:41, closed)

I wouldn't be so sure
Mr bin has one of these www.batteriesforipod.com/ipods/iPod3G.jpg

Battery has been changed but other than that it's still going strong.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 8:48, closed)

I'm sure you would have noticed..
..but perhaps it was a piece of random crap off the pavement!
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 9:27, closed)

My two gig ipod nano
still works fine. I picked it up in 2004 (I think it was 2004), and only stopped using it in april because it got a bit too small for my music collection. Bought myself a 16gig nano, which is lovely.

Got the battery replaced under warranty, that was in 2006.
(Scritty Bakerman., Thu 27 Aug 2009, 13:25, closed)