About inserting the CF adapter: You should watch the sides of the Microdrive, it will have a deep line on each side and in one side is wider than the other one. The CF adapter has those lines too. Just put it the same as the Microdrive.

@ChrisEpp

8 ай бұрын

Oh nice! I never know/noticed that. Thanks for the info (:

the minis (ideally gen2) are highly moddable, i've done a few, chromed cases, (re-coloured or bare polished) re-anodised cases, clickwheel and centre button swap from 5th or 6th gen classic (requires some filing), led backlight colour change for MADE IN THAILAND lcd displays, recolour the PVC endcaps with upholstery vinyl spray dye .. there's lots you can do .. remove the end caps without case damage by hot gluing a cable tie to them in two places, practical memory limit is 128gb, as there is a limit to the amount of songs they can keep track of .. maybe 20,000 - 22,000 or so, can't quite remember, go 256gb if your library is lossless and less than 20,000 songs

@ChrisEpp

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! I’d love to do stuff like that with the cases and LED backlight (the film trick) sometime

@antdavisonNZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisEpp MADE IN THAILAND lcd variant (there where 2 types used in the minis) can be pulled apart, desolder surface mount LEDs, replace with the colour of your choice, maybe not red as they are alot less voltage than white, i've done green and orange - orange wasnt the best cause LCD is blueish, cyan would be good. Strip cases in phosphoric acid overnight, then polish, if you want a shiny case, reanodize with 16-18% sulphuric acid .. which is like battery acid with an equal amount of distilled water, from memory reanodise with 2 aluminium plates in sulphuric acid bath, 12v 1.5a for a hour .. but would have to check my diary of the time, so dont hold me to that ... i suspect the black powdered anodizing dye is laser printer toner, but again dont hold me to that as i bought the dye as being for anodizing, but polished and clear - no dye anodising looks really good, otherwise use the silver stock cases . Chromed cases hold up well, but you need to go to an electroplaters... only MEK (solvent) car upholstery style aerosol / spray can dye you buy at an autoshop will be powerful enough to etch the PVC plastic endcaps ... painting PVC is difficult, it doesnt adhere well unless you use a specialist plastic paint which will have a high and strong solvent content anyway, and will effect engineering tolerances .. automotive vinyl spray dye is the way to go for PVC, as for most other plastics (ABS, acyrlic, but not polycarbonate) , it will etch the surface and be very scratch resistant

@antdavisonNZ

2 жыл бұрын

clickwheel mod .. how-to 1) remove the 4 rear clickwheel screws, and disassemble as much as you can without pulling apart any glued components ... put both black and white glued-together clickwheel assemblies in a small container of methylated spirits for 1/2 an hour ... isopropyl alcohol would also probably work ... this will loosen the glue used to attach the plastics to the circuit board which tracks the finger movements 2) the black plastic outer has some protruding tabs on its underside which i removed with a sharp blade, they were used to align the plastic with the finger-track circuit board 3) from memory, i think i used a hand held spherical-looking grindstone to remove some material around the inside hole of the underside of the black plastic clickwheel .... do by hand, not with a machine, and slowly; i think i recall also using a flat blade around the inner bottom of the black clickwheel which stops the button rotating, as that portion interfered with the mini's finger-track circuit board 4) the inner clickwheel button also needs trimming with a small file, removing the 4 anti-rotation tabs on its circumference, and i think i sanded both it's bottom surface and circurmference; 5th gen are flat plastic, 6th gen are dished aluminium 5) removing the tabs as in #4 will cause the inner button to be able to rotate, so get the white button, sand the domed top surface off until it is quite thin, and glue that to the underside of the 'black' button, the tabs on the underside of the old white button will then locate into the mini assembly 6) everything needs to be fitted so the centre push button works correctly, but without any slop; so take your time, it is easy to remove too much plastic, too quickly ... put some tape over the clickwheel when re-inserting into the case, to stop it being scratched if the black click wheel is affixed to the finger-track circuit board, or better still, cut up a square of thin flat plastic sheet (like you find on a plastic blister pack), a bit bigger than the click wheel a put it above the clickwheel plastic, and slide it out after inserting the assembly into the case 7) you can get some special ipod clickwheel 3M adhesive pads from ebay to affix the black plastic to the finger wheel circuit board which is what i did, but double sided tape or easily dissolvable glue would work as well ... don't use water based glue ... take your time getting the alignment correct; the 3M pads only give you one chance 8) painting the white plastic end caps requires vinyl paint, like you get in an auto-parts store for car upholstery ** ... i used a mini-airbrush to apply it, but spraying straight from the aerosol can would probably work too ... don't worry if it looks like you applied too much paint ... just let it dry ... vinyl paint is very forgiving in its application, and is great for other plastic types as well, and is the only thing that will stick to PVC plastic, and remain scratch resistant .. the high level of strong solvent in the vinyl paint melts the surface of the plastic, etching it, for a good bond ... enamel paint will not stick well and can create a thick layer which can interfere with the tight tolerances apple uses... clean the white end caps with methylated spirits or isopropoyl alcohol before painting ** I went thru the drama of painting pvc, and auto/car upholstery paint was the best and most scratch resistant I found ... the black is mainly carbon black and MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) and butane propellant... MEK is a very strong and nasty solvent, and also the most active ingredient of pvc pipe primer ... it will "melt" the top layer of pvc allowing the pigment to bond. It is also great for acyrlic (perspex) and ABS plastics, and doesn't really effect dimensional tolerances 9) to remove the endcaps without damage, i drop one or two blobs of hot melt glue onto them (without the hot melt gun metal tip touching and hence melting the end cap), and press a cable tie into the hot glue, when the glue is cold and hard, pull on the cable tie to remove the endcap, then remove the glue by twisting the cable tie, and any remaining glue with your fingernail 10) black clickwheel and silver button looks good on a silver case, you can get brand new, cases on ebay .. they dont have the apple branding, disksize logo or other text, as those are probably laser-ed on after anodizing, and the text can come in different languages, it will make you mini look like a macbook .... re-anodizing is quite an involved process, you need sulphuric/sulfuric (car battery) acid, a controllable powersupply, and optionally, some water soluble pigment dye ; strip old anodizing with phosphoric acid which you can find as clear-as-water 'rust remover' at a hardware store -- it can take a day or two if the concentration you are using is like 33% ... chroming requires the stripped and polished case to be 'zincated' for the underlying copper plating to adhere to the aluminium 11) there are spare clickwheel assemblies on ebay 12) the backlight mod will only work on one of the two types of display the gen2-MINI used, the moddable ones are marked "made in thailand" ... i haven't tried modding a gen1 display

@antdavisonNZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@acaseofcorona what do you expect the actual loss apple will suffer if you change the cse finish .. the new-old-stock cases i got from china years ago didnt have any lasered text, serial numbers or branding. i guess they do that after assembly, once the main board serial number is known. you will need to have the cases stripped of their anodising, zincated, then a copper base plate appplied. I did do a 'clear anodise; on some polished cases, but 'dyed' them in a bath of colloidal silver, they were marginally brighter than a water only clear anodize. i really wanted to do a white anodise, but never got around to sourcing the required chemicals

@cutekat444

4 ай бұрын

You said this in another video too

I did the exact same mod, 128gb with iflash, and I always put it with the metal side facing up and it always booted to sad face, turned it around and it worked. yay

@ChrisEpp

2 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah! That’s awesome to hear (:

Woww dude! Have you tried the Mtn Dew Major Melon? It is probably one of my favorite flavors. It reminds me of jolly ranchers.

@ChrisEpp

3 жыл бұрын

Julian Gonzalez yep! The Crush watermelon drink is even more of a strong Jolly Rancher flavor then Major Melon is if you haven’t tried that one before.

@user-tz2mb

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisEpp Alright thanks!

Before sliding in, you can plug it to iTunes and check before if it all works

@ChrisEpp

2 жыл бұрын

That is good advice! Haha, I guess I’m a little too thorough 😅

These mods are the reason I keep getting scammed on eBay and receiving 1st gen minis instead of 2nd gen ones

How long does the battery last with the flash mod?

Dude you're so lucky mine keeps getting read as corrupted and won't let me go forward

I wouldn't try prying anything with a razor blade!!! It could slip and people will start calling you STUBBY, ok???

Where did you buy the battery and the memory thing I’m wanting to upgrade mine but don’t know which stuff to buy

@ChrisEpp

11 ай бұрын

Battery I bought if eBay for about $14 USD, I went with the brand “Cameron Sino” and would recommend it, the flash adapter I got from iflash.xyz (that’s the website name) and they have the SD-CF adapter for $18 USD before shipping. Looping back to the battery, Insten is also a good and well known battery brand, you can order the battery through eoe.works (and they even have the same iFlash CF adapter on their site for just a couple dollars more), and idemigods.com also carries both parts but their battery is neither of the brands I’m familiar with. But please use the iFlash branded adapter as they tend to always work the best and are quality products, and as far as the battery try to get one of those two brands I recommend. Hopefully my answer isn’t overly complicated and that helps you out! Best of luck on the upgrade and remember to take your time to avoid rushing and damaging anything (:

I have a 64 GB CF card in one of my Minis, and I have thousands of files (over 4000) on it. It isn’t even half filled. 128 GB is overkill unless you put Rockbox on it and then convert a bunch of your DVDs into mpeg2s. At less than 1 GB each you can put a LOT of mpegs on it Watching videos on the tiny black and white screen sort of reminds me of the miniature tvs from the early 70s! Same sort of vibe, but in a MUCH smaller package.

Tengo uno igual modificado a 256 GB con el adaptador de memoria UDMA compact flash con micro SD. Sabes si soportaría una mayor capacidad? Digamos una micro SD 512GB?

@ChrisEpp

28 күн бұрын

Looking online at forums it appears the safest/most stable higher capacity is 128GB for the 1st Generation Mini and 256GB for the 2nd Generation Mini. A very small amount of users claim they successfully got 512GB working but I’ve never tried it and I’m guessing you’ll run into issues when you load tons of music on the 512GB as the iPod Mini has a limited amount of RAM to handle working with that much music. So if you want to try it, go for it but you may need to only fill the 512GB part way or swap it out for a smaller card in the future if there is issues. I hope that helps!

I just got a first gen can i put in a 32gb CF card not the adaptor the CF complete card.

@ChrisEpp

21 күн бұрын

Assuming I understand what you’re saying, yes you should be able to swap out the stock CF Card/Drive with a 32GB CF Card (no adapter needed) and I would expect that to work after restoring the iPod with the firmware on iTunes.

Sad, not first.

@vwhooligan59

Жыл бұрын

Not first? Like first gen?

Since it is Scandisk can you install a larger disk other than 128gb?

@ChrisEpp

5 ай бұрын

Taking a look online (primarily at a few Reddit threads) it appears you can do 256GB but once you start going that high and you are loading it with a lot of music you could have issues, one of the main issues being if you try to shuffle all music the ram built into the iPod can’t handle it all and will cause the iPod to freeze up. You can definitely experiment with it and worst case you either swap it back out for 128GB or smaller, or you can just choose to not load up the iPod to the point where there are issues.

@garylollman5339

5 ай бұрын

@@ChrisEpp Thanks!

Would it work on the first gen?

@ChrisEpp

3 жыл бұрын

Gerardo Zaragoza From what I’m aware it should, I think it may have slight difference with completely either with the adapter and/or SD card size. I would double check r/iPod on reddit and iFlash.xyz website

@lexluthor3811

3 жыл бұрын

128gb max for first gen

@TheJoker-zt4nk

2 жыл бұрын

I too have a Gen 1 & evidently YES it DOES, --> kzread.info/dash/bejne/inx2qKttdM6thbg.html

@tyzerro

2 жыл бұрын

1st gen wasnt backlit

@vwhooligan59

Жыл бұрын

Mine are unless somebody swapped something.

Come back please

@ChrisEpp

3 жыл бұрын

If you say so 👀

Mtw dew plz

@ChrisEpp

3 жыл бұрын

Tika Masala I can make that happen 💚

@tikamasala9868

3 жыл бұрын

Yay thank you.