Hello Milliampers!! How the heck have you been?! Can you believe that tomorrow is thanksgiving? This year has gone by way too fast. 

So, im in a band. I think I may have mentioned that before. We’re called THE SKY DIVIDED. In October of 2009, we started working on our first record. We tracked 2 songs and were extremely impressed with the studio quality. So much in fact that we decided we were not ready for the studio. We decided to slow everything down and re-evaluate who we were as a band. We started to look at the songs we had and what we could do to make them better. For the past year we’ve had between 20 to 30 songs to work with, some finished and some just small parts. We picked out 10 songs that we really really liked and started developing them. We even changed the way we played shows. How? Instead of playing 3 to 4 times a month, we cut it down to 1 or 2 a month. We would play new songs at shows to see how they would fit and how people would react to them. Back in March we tracked another 2 songs. Thats 4 songs done. Great! We thought we would we would have the record done in no time after that. Wrong. We got offered some pretty good shows between April and July, so we spent the summer playing shows. August is where things picked up. I spent a little time doing scratch tracks and writing even more new songs. lol Since September we’ve been in the studio trying to finish up the record. We FINALLY picked the 12 songs that would go on the record. More importantly, these are songs that we are excited to be playing live for the next year or so. As of right now, there is only 3 songs left that need to be tracked. The finish line is not too far ahead friends. Im so excited that we’re so close to being done. We should start mixing the record late December and have it available late January. Maybe you’ll find some of our songs on your iPod after you get it back repaired!

We’ll thats it for me friends. Have a great holiday and be safe. Until next time, stay classy….

It may not be a well-known fact, but we have been encouraging our customers to (if they purchased one of our do-it-yourself battery replacement kits) to send back their old, original, stock battery when they have compleed the repair so that we can dispose of it properly for five years now.

And if we perform the battery replacement here in our shop, we take care of that chore for our customers immediately.

We Can Dispose Of Your Old Battery - The Proper Way

We have a long-standing partnership with Call2Recycle, which is this great outfit that sends us a sturdy box that we dutifully fill up with old batteries, and ship it back to them when it is filled. They can then properly dispose of our old iPod batteries, iPhone batteries, and iPad batteries so they are not clogging up some landfill in San Antonio.

call-to-recycle

We do not charge our customers anything extra for this service – we WANT to do this, and it is the right thing to do. So the next time you purchase a kit from our site, or send in your device to us for a new battery or other repair, you can rest assured knowing that we not only have YOUR best interests in mind, but that of the environment as well.

Heck, that’s the main reason why we have a green leaf in our logo!

Best regards,

Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
Milliamp LTD

Let Us Recycle Those Old iPod Batteries for You

milliamp.com was given 4.5 out of 5 stars during a recent review of our iPhone LCD repair services conducted by TechTrackr.com over the weekend.

“It was an absolute pleasure working with Milliamp,” said Matt Gibstein, Owner and Editor-In-Chief of TechTrackr.com. “They did a fantastic job servicing our iPhone and the turn around time was unreal. We were definitely highly impressed.”

Near Five-Star Rating from TechTrackr.com

Although a bit time-consuming to prepare for and conduct, facilitating devices that come in for reviews like this are loads of fun and help get the word out that iPhone repair is a viable option for the general public. So many people simply do not even consider the idea that their broken iPhone screen can be replaced, but video reviews like the one conduct by TechTrackr.com over the weekend help get the word out. And heck, if we do a good job, it helps illustrate to the world that we know what we are doing and can provide excellent products and services that every one of our customers demand and deserve.

You can check out the video yourself here – be sure to leave a comment on the TechTrackr.com website and/or on the video itself (assuming that it allows comments there).

For the rest of this week, use the coupon code ‘TechTrackr’ (watch your spelling!) during checkout on the milliamp.com website and get a nice 10 percent discount off any order greater than $10!

Thanks TechTrackr.com!

Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
milliamp.com

P.S. Here’s a link to the video review:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsWvGua9f3c[/youtube]

So, I take my wife to a local movie establishment to see the new monster movie, The Wolfman. We were having so much fun that night, to be more exact, things went swimmingly. Like most movies we show up early in order to reap the benefits of the an ancient system of organization…the “line”. Any who, we finally get through the theater doors. My first thought is that this place doesn’t have much seating; my second thought is, “Oh there’s two seats in the middle!”. As i approach the row, I kindly tell a women excuse me, as I try to make my way to a seat. Immediately I was denied passage to the promised land. The lady whom I had treated so nicely a few moments ago had revealed herself to be the real monster. This lady was trying to tell me that her and this other women are saving 12 seats. Unimpressed by the lady’s attempt to command the seating arrangements, I kindly made my way to the middle of the row they said was “reserved”. This action by me really opened the flood gates to the situation, because as they were trying to instruct me to move, the rest of the theater was telling them that that can’t try to save a whole row. Even though I sort of instigated the situation, I wasn’t the one who the ladies wanted to argue with. Soon after the start of the complaints an usher was trying to take command of the situation, and he told the women exactly what I had heard at another theater, and that is that, a ticket holder can only save one seat. So if the dirty dozen wanted to have all of their seats taken care of they would have needed 6 ticket holders present, since they did not I was free to sit where ever I wanted. But, for some reason this explanation was not good enough for this rag tag duo, so the manager was brought in at this point. When the manager arrives he didn’t do anything, and he was obviously under some sort of influence. His speech was slurred and I don’t think he could walk too straight of a line. In the end we got the seats that we deserved and they got the heck out and asked for a refund. As for the movie i think they did a great job at making a suspenseful feature that may keep some guessing, but for those who are tuned in the the symbolism and dialogue you may quickly guess the ending. The cinematic effects were spot on. I honestly enjoyed the dark and gloomy sets, and the accents were not bad. However, I was mad that Benicio’s character didn’t have a English accent at all, but they quickly explain this with a few lines of dialogue…phew! All in all I would like to give this movie a 3.5 out of 5, but more importantly I hope people start learning how to act at the movies…especially the managers that work there.

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!

For those that know me, I have a bit of a domain name addiction. I think it reached its’ peak of insanity when I purchased the domain blake-is-the-new-sanjaya.com (true story) a few years back when Sanjaya was voted off ‘American Idol’ and hack Blake was deemed the next in line Howard Sterns’ goal to inspire enough people to vote a talentless dweeb to the top spot.

I’ve struggled to hold my personal obsession with URL’s back, but I think we got a bit lucky when, back in April 2009, we registered the iPad repair domain names ipad-repair.com and ipadrepair.com. Since we are going to be hard-core in the iPad repair business, having domain names that say what we do will be most helpful to Milliamp LTD:

Two New iPad Repair Domain Names

For now, these two sites aren’t doing a whole heck of a lot for us, but they will eventually become a great resource for our future customers seeking iPad repairs and parts.

Now, who has any suggestions for helping us monitize our leet-inspired domain names for Twitter?

Have a great evening,

Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
milliamp.com

P.S. We had two GOLD iPhone backplate winners this week – one worker here at Milliamp LTD and one iPhone fanatic from Alaska. More details on this coming soon!