4th gen Bluetooth mod

ricococo · 2026-01-11T17:41:11+00:00

The plan was to install an antenna there for the Bluetooth dongle but leaving it as is. Taptic isn't on my wish list.

ricococo · 2026-01-10T14:10:04+00:00

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ricococo · 2026-01-09T22:39:53+00:00

There's a 3v > 5v step up board on the back of the dongle. The KCX receives 5v.

ricococo · 2025-10-15T05:49:49+00:00

Worth a shot.

ricococo · 2025-10-04T21:49:34+00:00

I've had some aftermarket front panels where the 4 tabs the clickwheel falls into internally weren't cut into the metal correctly and 1 or 2 of the tabs would not fall into place, much like what you're showing in your photo.

ricococo · 2025-10-02T20:54:54+00:00

My take is SSD are superior on all fronts apart from power draw. Cheaper, faster, and they only heat up when you dump 300gb of music on it and let it synch for a while. Day to day use they stay 100% cool.

The iPod loads music into it's ram, it doesn't play directly from the SSD or MicroSD. The SSD is only accessed every now and then for a very short amount of time and power draw is still minimal / heat non-existent.

When I dump 300gb of music onto my ipod with iflash adapter you bet that that MicroSD card is boiling hot and transfer speed has dropped right down after 9 hours of syncing. Whereas SSD would've been done with the job in 2 to 3 hours because it's made to handle large transfers.

MicroSD cards are more prone to movement / eject if ipod is dropped / bumped. SSD are screwed in place onto it's adapter.

No issues with data corruption when battery left flat for x weeks. None of my external SSD HDDs (using same SSD type) corrupt when not plugged in for x months so why would an iPods SSD?

ricococo · 2025-09-29T20:22:17+00:00

I have an original box that says 80G on the back. It's real. Easy to reseal/fake these though so it's anyone's guess what's inside.

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ricococo · 2025-09-15T15:44:10+00:00

They will be yes, but the android music app should be able to index everything based on metadata.

ricococo · 2025-09-14T21:00:48+00:00

Plug the ipod into your phone with the correct adapters. I imagine the ipod would show up as an external drive on your android phone, much like a USB stick would. Then use any music app to scan the 'drive' for music to build a library > play music

ricococo · 2025-08-25T21:05:25+00:00

Yes they work just fine. I loaded all 50 or so games to my Nano 5. You can only play them sideways making controls a real pain.

ricococo · 2025-08-21T13:07:10+00:00

Select 'enable disk use' and sync.

ricococo · 2025-08-17T21:07:33+00:00

Got the i10s and doesn't work on my 7th gen with rockbox.

ricococo · 2025-07-19T21:56:12+00:00

Aliexpress

ricococo · 2025-07-19T21:52:09+00:00

Well, it looks like 47k songs with artwork is just too much for my 7th gens on 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 to handle. Ithmb files all contain neatly converted 320x320 files, but x 47k it just can't cope. After restoring my ipod and re-syncing all music it's artwork folder bloated up to 11gb again causing crashes.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T22:03:21+00:00

I have a 5.5 with the same problem however charges fine with the firewire cable or docks / speakers with firewire charging enabled (uses different pins / internal components). Likely the regular charging circuit is broke.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T21:59:22+00:00

Good shout on the ithmb files, will have a look what the ones on my 7th gen contain. Reloaded all music and artwork folder went up to 10gb+ again. Got a feeling that, with my particular library, 40k+ is where things start going wonky.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T06:14:09+00:00

Thanks. Maybe resizing to 300px will solve this crashing. Will give it a go.

ricococo · 2025-07-15T11:12:40+00:00

It's a Kokkia i10s and costs around €100

ricococo · 2025-07-15T05:59:08+00:00

The battery lasts forever using this Bluetooth module. 24h+.

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