ipod touch repair advice

JasX

lo all.

I have an ipod touch 2nd gen with a 'dodgy' headphone socket (one ear cuts in/out when you wiggle it).

I have found an 'only slightly dodgy' loking local repair place that claims to be able to do the repair for £30.

Question 1: What's the minimum I should be doing to make sure account details etc etc are removed before handing an ipod to a 3rd party?

Question 2: anything else spring to mind to double check/be concerned about? -I'm hoping replacing/resoldering an audio jack is pretty difficult to screw up to screw up too badly :cool:

Enterprise_1701C

Silly question - are you sure it is the socket and not the earphones? Of course if the socket wobbles then the question is moot.

JasX

Well it seems to affect the 3 pairs of headphones I've tried with it in exactly the same way, all of which work fine in my main PC

GunJack

Jas, a guy I work with does this as a sideline, I'll collar him at lunchtime and get back to you

GunJack

Jas, he suggested you have a look at this:-

http://www.rapidrepair.com/guides/ipodtouch2g/ipodtouch2grepairguide.html

for complete stripdown instructions, complete with pt. no's if you need a new jack (not me, obviously )

JasX

Cheers Gunjack.... from looking around I could well get the jack for £5 and have a go but the rest of the ipod is in very good condition and when you get to the minature / hand held device sized board level my solder skills probably only run to a 50% success rate.

for the extra £25 I'm happy to pay someone experienced-ish to do it and as this place is round the corner I can physically go and badger them if the repair isn't up to scratch ;p