I doubt it.

I have an old gen 2 iPod. The headphone jack came adrift from the motherboard (a common problem). Other than that it seemed to be working fine. So, I took it apart and carefully (I thought) soldered the jack back to the pads on the motherboard. It was a delicate operation, with the need to solder about 8 small pads. I thought the operation had gone well, but now the patient shows no vital signs. It won't turn on at all, though the face of the iPod gets warm when I plug it into the charger. I'm guessing that I've killed it unless I hear other suggestions here. Oh well, at least it is worth a 10% discount at apple against a new one.

use desolding braid to remove what you did and check to see if it works. Maybe you shorted something in the process of your operation.

Carm

Look for somebody that replaces drives and batteries - preferably local.

They should be able to whip a soldering iron.

too late now, but you could have done NOTHING and kept it as an external portable hard drive rather than get now 10% off a new iPod. What is that, $30 discount? I don't think you can get a bootable firewire hard drive for that price

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> too late now, but you could have done NOTHING and
> kept it as an external portable hard drive

If only I had the ability to predict the future I could have made a lot of decisions that would have netted me big gains!