This iPod didn’t have the spot originally. I got it in an eBay lot and plugged it in overnight to see if the battery would hold a charge. I woke up and it had THE SPOT.

@JackGoo7792

6 ай бұрын

You can use a little saw or something at the top. What I did for mine and I pushed it our

@TweedierTick9

6 ай бұрын

It's Canon

@Ambipie

6 ай бұрын

Refrigerate. Don't freeze it might puncture. After it's been refrigerating for a while check if it'll budge. If the tension changes not enough try freezing it

@tsume_akuma8321

6 ай бұрын

You just need to empty the battery somehow. The danger of Liion Batteries comes entirely from their charge. Once they are discharged, the energy is already out, and you can even open the battery itself without causing a fire. All those Liion Batteries catching fire videos are done with charged ones.

@aliabdallah102

6 ай бұрын

No! That’s not even remotely true. Lithium batteries are dangerous when fully charged AND when fully discharged. In fact over discharging the lithium battery can cause it to flame on.

A good friend of mine repairs the ones where they still had value and showed me how to put them in a plastic bag and freeze them for 3 days. Then you can get them out of there

@Kelson01

7 ай бұрын

thanks for the info, I've seen people say to freeze them but not for how long. I will try this.

@jash6105

6 ай бұрын

@@Kelson01maybe go the route of using dry ice?

@EuropaBallYT

6 ай бұрын

​@@jash6105 kaboom? Yes kaboom

@jash6105

6 ай бұрын

@@EuropaBallYT would the dry ice react with the battery and cause a bigger explosion or something?

@Depl0rable10

6 ай бұрын

​@jash6105 dry ice is only really needed when you need something to freeze quickly or especially cold. For a battery it could freeze unevenly or even make the pouch brittle. I'd just suggest a freezer unless a lot of people suggest dry ice

You can put it in a freezer for about 10 minutes so the gases in the battery condense and make it easier to remove it Thank you all for the likes I’ve never had this many

@juanamedh

7 ай бұрын

I came here to comment the same lmao

@___idk

7 ай бұрын

ty for the info

@Zoroaster4

7 ай бұрын

That's smart. Just make sure you have an explosion containing cookie tin like Big Clive recommends.

@DAN_CLERGYMAN

6 ай бұрын

​Another clive fan!​@@Zoroaster4

@zed4643

6 ай бұрын

Back when my iPhone 6 would get hot I’d pop it in the freezer for 10 min 😂😂

That ipod needs to go into quarantine. Put it in a glass jar that says 'shake the jar. Win a prize.'

@iqwastaken

5 ай бұрын

na-no

@lukedavis436

3 ай бұрын

It's really not that dangerous, dead lithium batteries that have expanded have no energy in them

@iqwastaken

3 ай бұрын

@@lukedavis436 na-no 🐍🔋

@lukedavis436

3 ай бұрын

@@iqwastaken y e s

@TheUnfallenLord

2 ай бұрын

obscure dankpods reference

It’s not the same when the guy talks about an iPod and isn’t Australian.

@crashbflexin

6 ай бұрын

he's also not screaming about some mythic creature named frank

@SauceTheSecond

6 ай бұрын

​@@crashbflexin "FRAAAANK!"

@crashbflexin

6 ай бұрын

@@SauceTheSecond "YOU STINKY IDIOT"

@sussyballer

5 ай бұрын

I agree

@michaelbastien958

5 ай бұрын

THE BLACK SPOT

This shit was a prized item for me back in the day. Mix that with long sleeved shirts, headphones under said shirt and long hair. You had music all through out school

THE BLACK SPOT QUICK GET THE BRASSO WATER

@johncocharo5531

6 ай бұрын

"NAH ITS DONE. ITS FINNISH!"

@CaddebostanRdr

6 ай бұрын

@@johncocharo5531 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

@giygasness7646

6 ай бұрын

​@@johncocharo5531JAMES DONT TOUCH IT

@rlyboringalt

6 ай бұрын

THAT’S GOING IN THE JAR

@giygasness7646

6 ай бұрын

@rlyboringalt I got a notification saying "THATS GOING IN THE JAR" that was horrifying

You have the vectorpod and Dankpods has the shrekpod😂

Didn’t wanna deal with doing a repair myself like a normally do because it’s really difficult. Brought the iPod to some stupid mall repair shop because the other one said they didn’t have the battery for it but the other could order one. They killed it! RIP pink ipod

@snjert8406

6 ай бұрын

Ouch.

Planned obsolescence apple's favorite trick

@SibaNL

Ай бұрын

I wouldn't disagree, but this thing is over 15 years old by now. Li-On way past its lifetime

@abysses

Ай бұрын

@@SibaNLI assume he was being sarcastic lol. I hope anyways.

@moonrabbit3228

Ай бұрын

this was back when apple actually had to try to keep their consumer base. They last forever, compared to now at least.

@turolretar

Ай бұрын

Ikr microscop zune was much better than whatever this is

Actually throw it in the freezer then let it set in there overnight at 20°F then when you take it out the housing will expand first allowing more room along with the contracted battery membrane will allow you to easily push out the guts for a certain length of time after first getting them out of the freezer. It is a short amount of time so have it ready to come apart when it goes in so you can immediately put pressure the assembly with the spudger.

wade from dankpods also explained how awfully HARD to take everything out with an expanded battery on an na-no, and he calls this: the black spot. edit: HOLY STINK MOM IM FAMOUS

@CaddebostanRdr

7 ай бұрын

Hehe na-no hehehe

@caydongamingyt9499

6 ай бұрын

na-no

@supergee5393

6 ай бұрын

na-no

@dingusboi7045

6 ай бұрын

*na-no*

@Mr.Heister

6 ай бұрын

The black curse

THE ONE PIECE

@zebamahmood1324

3 ай бұрын

IS REAL

@Real_Roronoa_Zoro

2 ай бұрын

Is reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

@LetMeSleepPlease

Ай бұрын

*kanye wests dark fantasy starts playing*

@ashmintyrina

26 күн бұрын

omg

DankPods on KZread is daddy when it comes to repairing and explaining how these old iPods do their thing

THE BLACK SPOT (dank pods).

@matthewhorton5293

6 ай бұрын

The black spot starting.

@Hezy

6 ай бұрын

Frank says nothing

ah, the na-no’s good ol’ spicy pillow, great for a one time nap.

Ah yes. The danger pillow.

Run the battery down and put rubber bands around it until the screen is flush. Also you put it in the freezer to help de-expand the battery

@athenovae

6 ай бұрын

Yea I was gonna say if he can completely discharge it somehow, then it’d be safe.

Good old apple, they have great designs, but their true feat of engineering in their modern era is making their products as disposable as possible. Truly, no one does it quite like them.

First my dad has one with a black and white sock second the fact that there’s just random people with knowledge of how to fix that issue is amazing

I already knew this because of dankpods but good video

Apple has been finding ways to make sure you can't repair their products well before the 1st smart phone.

We already know this because of Dankpods. LMAO 🤣

Those were really the best feeling piece of technology ever made

the demon dot (yes that’s my term for it) is the ipod equivalent to a bsod

@stanb1455

6 ай бұрын

Not really Shindows computers crash constantly, with the most damage usually being lost work. The Black Spot is a a massive design flaw that makes the IPod dangerous.

@rhythmickiller4604

6 ай бұрын

@@stanb1455 i was talking more about the repair side of things because for the bluescreen the only way to know what is throwing a hissy fit is to test every part of it or use a special device that the average household can’t afford and for the black dot you have to pray and hope the battery doesn’t tear when you’re repairing it

@InaraClocks

6 ай бұрын

@@rhythmickiller4604 or use event viewer with windows

@lukedavis436

3 ай бұрын

Man the amount of people who don't wanna fix Black spotted iPods...I could make a business refurbishing these because I don't give a crap about them blowing up Because scientifically...they won't! Especially if the battery has no energy, it could smoke a little....but it won't violently blow its guts out unless it's fully charged (or above 25% the safe level of charge)

I remember seeing a Hugh Jeffreys video where the same problem happened, but on a more severe level. The way the battery was removed was by cutting off the screen. In this case, it would damage a perfectly good screen, but the risk of a fire hazard is partially gone.

@isheamongus811

7 ай бұрын

Or chassis

I used to repair this exact issue, only issue I had was the lock switch ripping, the batteries expanding is wayy less a big deal than the cables getting pinched inside ❤️🤙

Never did i think id be listening to a man call Tuesday "feminine" at 1am on a Wednesday

If you get an atmosphere chamber you could replace the atmosphere inside with something less reactive than oxygen, like agron or smth, and just pop the battery. I know this is probably a long shot but it would definitely work.... Probably.

@JuneNafziger

6 ай бұрын

Lithium batteries can self-reignite. If it’s in a state that it would ignite in normal atmosphere (such as torn open), then it will ignite once oxygen is re-introduced. It’s part of why water doesn’t work too great on them.

@Snekspert

6 ай бұрын

Well the idea is that he can safely remove the battery from the iPod and place the battery inside a jar of oil to prevent combustion in the atmosphere. It still is a super silly and over complicated method but it might work as a last ditch effort.

@metaleggman18

6 ай бұрын

The cost of a vacuum chamber and enough of a non-reactive gas to safely fill this would likely cost far more than several eBay bundles of old nanos, plus some replacement batteries. Plus you'd have to somehow deal with the likely pierced lithium battery, which would essentially be able to reignite for months afterwards unless you somehow detonated it in some sort of chamber. Even if you just stored the battery in sand, it could take months for all the cells to be finished reacting. Usually lithium batteries will unpuff with cold temperature, so that's a much easier and safer method.

@Snekspert

6 ай бұрын

That sounds like a nile red collaboration in the making (plus it would be kinda funny)

@iscander_s

23 күн бұрын

You are overthinking it, discharged li-ions do not explode, just dischare it flat and you would be safe. Then take the needle and poke a smal hole in outter plastic layers of battery (do not stab it deep, just outter layer) and by slowly pressing it deflate the spicy pillow.

Just saying, the chassis is the serialized part, if you were to replace all of the internal components fully, it's still the same ipod, technically speaking. Just get a new screen, logic board, and battery, scrap the old internals, and boom, same serial number on case=same ipod.

@charliekahn4205

4 ай бұрын

Doesn't the ROM contain the device ID?

This makes me feel old even though I’m 23. I have an IPod that was a tiny bit older than this one but I remember if I wanted new songs on my iPod I had my friend I had to go to and make a list of songs I wanted on there and he would look them up and put them on the IPod. Now you can just instantly look up a song and save it to your phone. 😵‍💫

“All in one piece” *sigh* can’t wait for an entire fandom to be summoned.

THE ONE PIECE...IS REAL🗣🗣

@DH_Fireofficial

6 ай бұрын

You made me chuckle

@stanley_owo

6 ай бұрын

@@DH_Fireofficial :D

I'm pretty sure if you took a Dremel to the outside of the case all around you could create two halves and then you could pull it out then from there you could remove the battery and assuming the screen is still good You could just 3D print another case.

I have the same iPod,it puzzled me what it was but thanks for clearing that up,still listening to bangers from the rave era👍

Man that ipod is so nostalgic, me my brother and my sister all had one growing up, that and the nook were our childhood

For iPods like this, my strategy would likely be to purchase a replacement screen and screen glass and use the existing ones as a sacrifice to basically cut them up and remove them without puncturing the battery. That way there’s plenty of space within the created cavity that the battery should be able to slide out, unless it’s so swollen to the point where you can’t even remove it with that, in which case it’s done anyway.

This was the most precious thing back then ❤️🤩

Yeah I got lucky when I was being dumb and removing the back glass of a phone plugged in, with 100% battery, with a knife and punctured it and all it did was smoke. All I’m saying is be careful with those batteries because you may not get lucky

🎵Shawty's like a melody🎵

DankPods has an Entire long form vid on this

Thank you for reminding me that I needed to watch despicable me again

One of my favorite ways to explain this to someone who has no idea what the hell it means when a battery expands. I often use the analogy of ice in a water bottle when it's been frozen, you can't get it out without unthawing the ice. Although this would mean having to completely discharge the battery the battery will still be expanded to some extent.

Expanded battery? That’s a spicy pillow

Yeah the VectorPod's ready for quarantine, I've seen some videos that show how to deflate the spicy pillow, but it just tells you to gently puncture the membrane of the ticking time bomb. Not worth it. Shake the jar! Win a prize!

Thanks bro you just reminded me of the backyard scientist

One time we were replacing my iPhone’s battery because it was awful, it’d barely last a few hours, and then it ignited. 😂 we threw the battery outside.

When he said 😂 watch backyard scientists 😂😂 i really feel it 😂😂😂

Now imagine growing up with these. 😂 Losing these was the easist most expensive mistake I've made multiple times. 😭 But Apple has always been wildn with the enclosed batteries.

Makes me miss my ipod like that, just because the baso sauce spilled in the bag, it finally died😅

I repaired one of these live on Twitch recently :3 I desoldered the battery aswell and imo it’s a pretty easy fix

There’s a strategy of doing it correctly that makes a lot easier

I still miss my iPad nano.

I cut in to a Li-ion battery no knowing what it could do. Nothing happened and I looked what could happen up because it got warm. I got so worried but about a month later I’m very thankful

Batteries only catch fire when they are charged, if they are empty I think it's somewhat safe to pinch them

This was the first iPod i ever opened. Was also the first time i ever soldered. Both was super easy

I remember these from the fifth grade lol can’t believe people still do stuff with em

I still have my ipod like the blue one you have, same color too!

You can puncture the pillow if you run it till dead, I just use something like a thumbtack to make a tiny hole to let the gas out. But 4th and 5th gens are just horrible to take apart.

This is how companies like to implement tecnologies for the consumer market: cool and unfixable. A fine example!

Oh man, planned obsolescence go brrr

You could also take a dremel into the top bar of the frame. Sure might be difficult to fix that later, but then you do not have to slide the guts underneath that top bar anymore, so little expansion is not an issue anymore

Officer I promise there was an australian guy talking about nuggets!

You can use a needle to pierce the battery. And will not catch any fire if you wont damage the internals, just the casing , so it will make it leak fumes and gas, which will deflate it. Tho my dad did that with his old nokia phome and it even works till today, he just used aome glue to cover the hole

I mean, you COULD slice down one of the sides, replace the battery then put it back together as well as you can, or use a chassis from one with a dead board. But I doubt anyone will go through that.

Dankpods fans will refer to this as “the spot”

I have concert hall on and this is a surreal experience

Dam haven't seen these ipods since 10th grade. Had a blue one and i have no idea where it went since i got a smartphone haha

I have this exact same iPod…. And it has despicable me on it.🔥

I used to repair and mod iPod Classics and iPod videos, they are a PAIN IN THE AS$ to open up, especially if you want it to not look like it was opened previously.

this just reminded me of my ipod nano, i left it in a drawer and later checked and saw the battery expanded so much that the screen just came off and shattered. RIP, i got it when i was 7 :(

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

dang that sucks! But is unfortunately very common with them

If someone wanted to do it the "easy" way is to split(cut) the top part of the aluminum casing above the screen to allow for more room. Then soldier it back before sliding it back in

I have a 5th Gen nano that just randomly stopped working back in 2019. Still have it somewhere just can’t get it fixed or put new music on it anymore so it’s just a memento

Amazing engineering

Pretty sure the funny Aussie guy DankPods did one of these

Noooooo, not the black spot of death 😰 i recognized that shit immediately, this ipod nano is so notorious for being an absolute FIRE starter past a certain point. So effing scary!!

Here's a tip, if the battery is fully and completely dead you can puncture the battery without danger

@louism771

4 ай бұрын

Hard to tell whether a battery is fully dead while its still in the ipod. Just because it doesnt turn on it doesnt mean its completely dead at 0 volts. You'd have to measure the voltage directly at the cell to be sure. But even then I'd not recommend to puncture a battery because of the escaping gasses

my iPod nano (3rd gen) has that too. It’s strange because it didn’t have it 3 hours ago. It just appeared.

As a dankpods viewer we call that the black spot. I bought a nano and I’ve been watching for one ever since. It’s terrifying.

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

yeah I don’t think it is too likely to happen unless you plug it in

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

but idk - This one was fine and I even shot a short video with it before I had it plugged in all night

It also happens to my cousin's Nintendo DS lite

Voice from early 2000s: Throw it away and get a damn mp3 player.

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

iPods are the best MP3 players, nothing else was close.

@cheesemanthe2nd

6 ай бұрын

​@@Kelson01mmm I smell a little bias

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

@cheesemanthe2nd no, it was universally accepted at the time that they were the best. The zune was the only thing that came close and it was a laughing stock. Google it amigo

@cheesemanthe2nd

6 ай бұрын

@@Kelson01 I ment now, not over a decade ago

Puts in freezer for 5 minutes. Slides the guts out😂

This made me miss my ipod nano so much T.T I lost 2, and after the second one I didn't want to waste more money

People: "why cant you just replace the battery" Me:"because its an apple device"😂

Omg I used to have that same model and color I miss it

Maybe if you put the phone in a zip loc and let the gasses shrink in the freezer the battery should shink but dont let it too long or the liquid in the screen could get ruined but i never tried it so i recomend some researsh and good luck mate

I have an iPod of mine that I loved so much. It has so much like value to me when I was a kid I would stay up and watch tangled on it and I would listen to books and watch the very few episodes of TV that I had on it and what happened was I used it so much it got a little like circle blotch on it and for whatever reason I couldn’t figure out what it was. I thought maybe something had like damaged the screen there but I’m looking at this and I now realized that I basically used it for 10 years straight And wore the battery out so bad that it basically expanded and it never went away so I’m not sure if that’s actually true but eventually the iPod died and we tried to get a battery to replace it but when we did my dad, his iPod died so he borrowed minehe dropped it at an angle and the screen just completely like he dropped it on the corner and the screen just completely like came off and it was dead and I cried for so long afterwards and I still haven’t forgiven him and it’s been like 5+ years probably more around like seven or eight and I still haven’t forgiven him

Maybe not easy to fix, but dang this was such a well designed model

DANKPODS HELP HIM WITH HIS NUGGET PLEASEEEE 😂

Eh, if you know what you're doing, you can just release the gas from the plastic wrapping on the battery. Puncturing the cell might get you fireworks, but not the plastic wrapping that covers the aluminium shell. But I would not recommend this to most people, especially if they're not handy and technically inclined.

If you make sure that you have no moisture and your battery is fully discharged you should be safe even if the battery is punctured

They should make these again like just the iPods it would be pretty cool tbh

My smart ass would bring it to my shed and using an angle grinder to cut the edges. But then id probably cut too far, so yeah... do with that as you will 😂

Apple: making repair difficult since 2001

@Kelson01

6 ай бұрын

at least it is possible in old apple products lol

I never knew they could catch fire that easily. I've popped several batteries and they never caught fire, I've even tried continuing to charge them to get them to catch fire or explode.

Well once battery is fully discharged first try freezer method and then try puncture method it's pretty easy

That iPod was indebted to Davy Jones with that bad of a black spot

I HAVE ONE OF THESE! It still works too! :3

Props to the "engineering team" at Apple for making their products unfixable! 🙄😑

you can cut the chassis and get an aftermarket one!