Broken Ipods/Ipod HDD's

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:49 pm

I was wondering if anyone has a broken 3rd or 4g ipod with a working hdd

If so pm or post a reply here

(Mods if this breaks any of the forum rules feel free to lock it)

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:02 pm

I HAD one, but I got another one.

Why?

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:45 pm

my hdd on my 3rd gen is scratched, and im trying to put linux on it, you can play doom1&2, half life, etc.

here's the link:
http://ipodlinux.org/forums/index.php

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:30 pm

iPod Linux rocks. I use FloydZilla. It pisses me off though, a little over a year after I buy my iPod, you can get one with a color screen that can play movies with 1.5 times the hard drive space as the one I bought, so I'm stuck playing Doom in 13 shades of grey.

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:39 pm

same thing happened to me, I bought the old 3g 10gig ipod 20 days before the next gen came out,
I was so pissed, not to mention, iv had to send my ipod back 3 times bc of a faulty battery

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:57 pm

If you bought them at bestbuy then you should be able to bring it in and say it's broken(think of a way to do that first

) and then trade it in for the same amount as when you bought it. This requires the original reciept, but you can basically just upgrade for free.

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:26 pm

i bought it three years ago, no return for me

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:59 am

will this Linux thing work on my Nano or not?

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:01 am

Any great classics aside from doom supported?

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:29 am

yea cuda, you can even put a gb emulator on it called iboy

Check out the site

Btw, there's half life, doom 1 and 2, tetris, and a few more that i forgot

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:36 am

It supports Doom I & II, Duke Nukem, and I've heard and seen on Nano's you can run the Half-Life .WAD file on the Doom engine. (And yes, it does work on Nano's, there's even a MAME emulator for it)

imgettionowned · Post by **imgettionowned** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:45 am

another great thing is that you can switch between either the orig ipod OS or the linux one

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:14 am

imgettionowned wrote:another great thing is that you can switch between either the orig ipod OS or the linux one

That's especially good because I can't get music to work in Linux >.<

On a side note, I used iPod Linux to cheat James Bond style. For my English final, we had to summarize the plot, characters, and settings of all the books we read in poem form. So I wrote my poems ahead of time, saved them as a .txt, loaded them on my iPod. So when time came to take the final, I busted out my iPod, (my teacher let us listen to music) and opened the .txt file with PodWrite in Linux and copied the poems from there.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:17 am

OR, just put it in the Notes folder when your iPod is connected, and put the .txt in there...

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:33 am

Cuda wrote:OR, just put it in the Notes folder when your iPod is connected, and put the .txt in there...

I didn't even realize you could do that. lol

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:18 pm

well, since my Burner decieded not to work today, I cant get Linux on a disk to install the ISO, now, my iPod is stuck in Disk mode....

jks · Post by **jks** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:01 am

The_Hushed_Casket wrote:On a side note, I used iPod Linux to cheat James Bond style. For my English final, we had to summarize the plot, characters, and settings of all the books we read in poem form. So I wrote my poems ahead of time, saved them as a .txt, loaded them on my iPod. So when time came to take the final, I busted out my iPod, (my teacher let us listen to music) and opened the .txt file with PodWrite in Linux and copied the poems from there.

Tsk tsk. I do something like that, but I use my calculator for it, no one ever suspects it even though its the most suspectable thing.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:05 am

well I got it done, but when I try to switch back from Podzilla to the Original iPod, It goes into black screen with blue text saying that there was an error. then when you turn the wheel, it says

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
or
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

VoYdE · Post by **VoYdE** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:35 pm

I Just Got An IPod Video (30gb) And Have No Clue How To Work It. How Do You Get Album Art To Go On It? Also How Can You Play Music From Your Ipod On Itunes?

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:47 pm

Album art will usually come on the original track. Or, you can drag it into the box in iTunes where it says, "drag Album Art Here"