We get a lot of requests to fix iPods and iPhones, and we are happy to do it – it’s our livelihood! More times than not, we are able to fix iPods that need new batteries, iPhones that got partially-dunked in soda, and iPod touch screens that got shattered (just to name a few of the many types of repairs we can perform these days). We get devices from all over the world – most from the United States, but many from England, Canada, Japan, Abu Dhabi, China, Italy, Brazil, etc.
We even fixed an iPod that got run over by a tank from a U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan.
Recently, however, we had a woman walk into our shop with a broken iPod touch in need of repair. Now, we see a lot of iPod touch screens that are shattered, and from looking at the front of this device, our first impression was, heck, that’s something that we can do – no problem:
Damaged iPod touch Screen
But when we flipped over the iPod touch to inspect the backplate, our hopes to fix the device dropped:
iPod touch Backplate Damage
It’s an interesting story: a young man was using his iPod touch while working out and, when he lost grip of a twenty-five pound weight, his 2nd Generation ipod touch slipped out of his pocket, failling to the ground, and the weight fell right on top of it.
Rather than waste a lot of time, MaryLynn, the mother of the young man who accidentally-damaged his prized possession, took a few pictures and sent them to milliamp.com, just to see if it might be something we could fix.
We were not sure if this amount of damage would be repairable – and we told the customer that the odds were pretty low that we could fix it. We always try to set our customers’ expectations about everything from the amount of time it takes a device to move through our shop, to the likelihood that a repair could be successful, and this strange situation was no exception.
When we physically received the iPod touch, we were encouraged that the device appeared to power on when we pressed the ‘on’ button – a bright light on the damaged iPod touch LCD suggested faint life still remained.
Our main hope was the the iPod touch logic board survived the dumbbell trauma – if it did, we were sure we could replace the damaged LCD, digitizer/screen, battery, and battered backplate – iPod touch repairs that we do all day long here at milliamp.
Well, it turns out that the weight that was dropped landed right between the top and bottom of the logic board, so the owner’s data was safe and sound. We had one of our technicians re-build up a “new” iPod touch around his oh-so-lucky logic board, and the device looked brand new once again:
iPod touch Damaged then Repaired
In this image, you can see three of the battered components (LCD, backplate, and battery), along with a picture of the re-built iPod touch (the blue plastic you see is there to protect the brand new, scratch-free backplate we installed).
The young man was so excited that his iPod touch had been repaired (given to him by his Mom as an early Valentine’s gift) that he rushed to his Facebook account and gushed to his friends about the whole ordeal, and his happiness on how it all turned out.
We love happy iPod touch repair endings! Start your iPod touch repair adventure here now!
