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Chosen Solution A few years back, my father was handed this iPod Classic 7th Gen that had one major problem: the original owner had thrown it. Breaking the screen, bending the shell and displacing a ton of parts. To add insult to injury, the original owner took it apart and did further damage. My father was commissioned with retrieving songs from it. Fast forward 5 or so years and I dug it up from a junk pile on a shelf....

Chosen Solution I got an iPad 4 locked via icloud passcode for dirt cheap at a garage sale last week. I have a lot of experience taking apart just about anything with a power cord, but I was not sure about the best place to flip this, is it ebay? is it craigslist? . Thanks for all the help guys! Try contacting the owner. Not worth that much whole or in parts....

Chosen Solution I have bought a new Apple Watch Series 3. However, I want to go ahead and replace it with a aftermarket housing. Problem comes in, that these housings were introduced when Apple had just recently introduced Apple Watch. My question is, is there a huge difference in those housings? If not, can I replace the housing made for Apple Watch, 1, or 2 into the Series 3 Apple Watch?...

Chosen Solution @ladytech …I’ve tried to find the answer on the many topics you’ve replied to first, but didn’t find one that exactly fit my needs. However, this one is the closest.I have a Samsung RS25J50 it’s a side by side with the ice maker in the top left corner of the freezer. It makes ice, dumps into the bucket regularly until full but will not dispense. I’ve tried to reset, checked the arm for frozen ice, checked 100+ times to ensure it was put back into the freezer properly, and nada....

Chosen Solution Updated to 5 and now iPhone shows up in the iTunes left column, but does not show up in “Summary Page” in order to add Apps, etc. Changed SIMS, rebooted a 100 times, nothing ! Any ideas ? Thanks Mike i had some similar problems with different iphones - i fixed them by flashing in DFU Mode the important part is the proper timing, you can use this youtube video for that: CLICK HERE itunes should give you the message that it has detected an iphone in recovery mode click restore and let itunes “reflash” the firmware good luck

Chosen Solution Hi All, my question is my JBL earphones battery is continuously decrease the capacity. And I’m afraid as soon getting worse. Is it possible to change the battery? Hi @brummbear , It may be possible to change the battery but getting a suitable replacement battery may be the problem. Here’s a video that shows how to access the battery in the earphones. Starts at about 38 seconds into the video....

Chosen Solution Hello everyone please help me. My laptop shows no display when turning it on but the power led and charge is on the HDD is also spinning and the fans are ok too. Now before this mess happened, I change a setting in the bios to boot in CSM from UEFI and now the display wont show up no matter what key function i pressed. I also tried the remove the CMOS battery and left it for many hours with no good result....

Chosen Solution I have an LGExtravert which dropped in water. I put it in rice and did turn it on - I wish I had seen all this before I did. It turned on and I could see water in the screen. Now it turns on but the screen is black. I see recommendations to disassemble the phone. How do I do that? Also, I used a blow dryer because someone recommended it and it seemed logical (seems like I did everything wrong!...

Chosen Solution I dropped water on my New Nintendo 3DS XL all was ok, buttons, turning on, screens, everything, the problem is when the console tries to recognize the mini sd card, just don’t recognize the mini sd card, sometimes the console recognize the memory but after a couple minutes a message appear saying that the console can’t read the card, I think that the problem is only with the mini sd card reader but well, what do you think?...

Chosen Solution A few months ago, I spilled some water on my MBP. Took it to Apple and they said that the water damage was confined to the logic board, magsafe adapter, and battery. Roughly $700 to fix it. Ouch. So I got the parts (battery and magsafe from iFixIt, stupidly got a used logic board elsewhere) and did the repair myself. It started working just fine for a while, but then I got a few kernel panic crashes (which have stopped happening now), but now it’s artifacting across the screen with multicolored rectangles, crashing, then doing the Three Beeps of Doom....

Chosen Solution Hi, My Galaxy S20 FE recently took a long soak in a lake (14hrs). It was still powered on when I retrieved it, but I powered off, took everything apart to dry and cleaned all the connections. In the process, I damaged the battery. So long story short, I’m looking for a replacement battery for a S20 FE and have been unable to find any. Does anybody know of a good source for a S20 FE replacement battery?...

Chosen Solution Hello everyone, There is loud sound from the fan I don’t know from what, and what I have to change. Explanation: in the normal Mac laptops when you use browser there is no loud sound but if you open big app like photoshop etc. you will hear the loud sound till you close this app. But in my laptop I hear this sound from the fan even when I open just the browser and when I close the browser I still hear it....

Chosen Solution I heard the click but will turn on. @fachill check a few things that Apple recommended: No Power/Dead Unit Unlikely cause: Optical drive(s), hard drive(s), fans, memory, processors, PCIe cards, speaker, AirPort card, Bluetooth card Quick Check No Power/Dead Unit Reseat all DIMMs. Refer to Memory Diagnostic LEDs. No power Verify power source. No front panel power/sleep LED Verify power cable. No startup chime No Image on external display No HD Reset SMC by unplugging the AC power cord for 15 seconds....

Chosen Solution I am using a 2nd internal drive with an optical bay caddy. However, whenever I use the 2nd drive it will randomly eject itself after maybe 5-10 minutes of use. This drive only does this internally and works perfectly externally. I have tried other drives in the same slot and they all work fine. The drive also works fine in the normal hard drive slot. I am tired of having this issue and have yet to find a solution....

Chosen Solution The Ifixit guide rated battery replacement for this laptop “very difficult” so I paid an experienced but unauthorized Mac repair guy to do the job. The battery seemed fine at first, but then the Mac didn’t recognize it. Coconut verified this information. The repairman deflected the blame and said that it must be because of a bad motherboard. Suggestions? Might it be the battery connector? Let’s get a better view of things, post a screen snapshot of CoconutBattery and post it here for us to see Adding images to an existing question Make sure the charger is plugged in....

Chosen Solution Macbook pro 13" i think a 2010 model was on the table and next to it a glass of water. Glass fell on its side right next to the Mac’s side i think where the power cable gets hooked on and now it doesn’t start at all. Do you think is the power supply inside the machine that went or do i need to replace the whole motherboard? Thanks, Yiorgos....

Chosen Solution Hello everyone, Would appreciate a keyboard+backlight replacement that actually works. I will post some photos, replaced keyboard on an A1502 late 2013, liquid damaged. The keyboard is fine, took out 80%+ of rivets, bolted in, feels and works fine. But the backlight - piece of chinese engineering, only lights up top row function/F keys properly, rest of keyboard is dim and poor. Ended up using the original backlight strip, cleaned with isopropyl, looks good, not like new… I’m a perfectionist, if anyone knows a good manufacturer/ place to buy a working backlight, I’m willing to pay the price to have something that is working fine....

Chosen Solution My MBP shuts down 4 seconds after I press the power button. I had a very noisy fan for the last couple of weeks, got a new one from iFixIt, but haven’t installed yet. I’ve tried most of the solutions suggested by the Apple Knowledge Base at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570: Safe reboot, PRAM reset, start from CD plus resetting the SCM. (I mentioned the noisy fan, because that’s one of the symptoms Apple describes in its article on resetting the SCM at http://support....

Chosen Solution I just set up my Blu G60 as a tracfone. Cannot get mobile data to work. Am only using SIM1 Hi, Check Settings > Mobile Network > Data usage and see if there is a setting there that has to be enabled.

Chosen Solution I’m relatively new to this, so please bear with me here… It’s only been a month since I’ve built my own PC. I’m not sure if my monitor and its wires (HDMI and display port) have a play in it but I had it exchanged (a HP Pavilion) hoping it would fix the vertical lines that appeared on the screen. … It did and now I’ve encountered a whole new problem....