TARKAN IFLASH UPGRADE

I have both a white and a black one in my collection, so I thought it’d be fun to upgrade one of them. Tarkan iFlash-Solo Sold Out Were sorry, but this item is no longer for sale. In addition to a new battery, I replaced the 30 GB hard drive with a 128 GB SD card via a third-party part called the Tarkan iFlash. The iFlash is a small black card that holds an SD card inside the iPod. It plugs into the cable used by the standard hard drive, and is shaped to snap directly into the iPod’s case. Even with previous experience and the tools iFixit shipped with the battery, I ended up cutting across the back of one of my fingers. Replacing the battery involved prying the old one out of the case slowly. The adhesive used is made of some type of ancient magic. Once the battery was in, I unplugged the old spinning hard drive and placed the iFlash into the case, SD card pre-installed. Tarkan iFlash Solo with a 256gb Samsung EVO MicroSD. I’d also recently come across a nice little PCB made by Tarkan Akdam called the iFlash iPod Compact Flash Adapter (mk II) which allows one to replace the 1. It’s shaped to fit into the chassis cleanly, and once the data cable was set, I buttoned everything up by popping the iPod closed again. I put it together about a year ago and had to use a special build of Rockbox, as the stock kernel would get SATA. I have an iPod 5G with an iFlash mSATA adaptor and 480G mSATA drive. Screen protector on lower part of front plate, click wheel and on backplate. I’ve also read about switching to stock firmware when transferring music so that’s what I do, haven’t had a single issue. Qumox) for Euro 35, much much cheaper than a 128Gb CF card. I did send you an email suggesting the iFlash-bundle instead you can pickup a 128Gb SDXC (e.g.

I powered up the iPod and plugged it into iTunes. Tarkan 11, February 2015 at 3:21 pm Vincenzo you should be ok with either the iPod Classics work ok with the newer UDMA CF cards. After a quick restore, it showed up as a regular iPod and synced music and photos without any issues. The finished product is a stock-looking iPod that weighs a noticeable amount less than the other 5th generation I own. Specifications: Simple and convenient cleaning solution for PC/laptop keyboard and other rugged surface cleaning such as the car vent, camera, printer, cell phone, calculator and peaker.

Praying ancient gods // sacrifying my cat on their altarĮhehe.With no moving parts and a new battery, it should be in good shape for years to come. Apple disk mode transfer (sadly, computer refuses to see it when in diskmode :'() They will eventualy skip.Īfter a certain amount of transfers, the ipod is not recognised anymore, solved by reassigning a letter to the drive (like me, he runs out of words )Īcteur spending hours lurking each post on the subject, here's what I tried : iPods have a new 600mah battery installed. 64GB 128GB 256GB SDXC installed using Tarkan iFlash SD to CF adapter. Here's the deal : not only the files randomly stop transfering (tried : other cables / computer / etc.) which is annoying but can be bypassed by transferring little by little.īUT = transferred files are -partly- blured / mixed with other song's part (which is musicaly interesting though, I almost thought that argentinian tango was part of that expérimental noisy track ahahah). Refurbished exterior with excellent condition parts. Tarkan iFlash-Solo SDXC Adapter For the iPod Model TARSOLOUSD,Memory Card Adapters,Memory Card Accessories,Computer Accessories & Peripherals,Computers. (Fun part is I bought a 5th gen because I was getting tired of all issues the 6th gen encounter when used with rockbox )

As said in the title : I run 4x 128gb samsung evo with the 5.5 with the help of tarkan's device.

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