30GB iPod Video Screen Replacement

I have a fifth generation 30GB iPod Video and it's really scratched up.
It's weird because it was in a hard case and they both got scratched, but it's like it was with sandpaper...well that doesn't matter.
Ok, so it's scratched a was on eBay looking at iPod accesories (cheaper there) and there were these iPod screen replacements that came with a tool and manual too. It's $15 so I was gonna get it but does anyone know if that's just junk and if it will mess up my iPod because now I can only watch videos when I'm in a dim room. It's really annoying and I need someone's help. Thanks! ^_^

no, i never broke my LCD screen but i had a friend that broke her nano and she sent it here and got it back with no problems..just a new LCD screen!

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ok get a belkin hardcase it is the best it has a veryhard screen and a thing for the click wheel ive had it for 7 months and there is only minor scratches when i took the ipod out the case can take a beating but when the ipod get taken out poof it looks like new!i mean i dropped it on concrete had a baby throw it into a table and its fine heres a link to show you at radioshack where i got mine from they come in alot of colors too if u want pics to show how mine looks ask
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I've just purchased a 30gb ipod video, along with a skin. While i was putting on the skin, it roughly damaged the screen and scratched it. I am very dissapointed for the screen is suppose to prevent scratches, but while putting it on. It actually created a big scratch and smudges on it. And it is quite unbearable to watch videos with it. Does anyone know how to remove, or if the apple warranty covers it?
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I have had success removing scratches with Brasso and a cotton ball. It takes a bit of effort. Wait until the Brasso dries then wipe it off with a face cloth, then buff with a microfine cloth.

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Hey, I have a 5th generation 30Gb Ipod video. I recently went out and bought a new 2.0 USB port for a PCI slot for my Ipod since I only had a 1.1 before that.
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Hey, I have a 5th generation 30Gb Ipod video. I recently went out and bought a new 2.0 USB port for a PCI slot for my Ipod since I only had a 1.1 before that.
Well my problem is, I had it plugged in last night and it had the do not disconnect screen on the ipod for about an hour, so I pulled it out without ejecting it, and later on it said that windows said that the device was not able to be identified and was malfunction try unplugging it and plugging it back in, I did that and it still would work, so I restarted my PC and got it to work, then about a hour later I was uploading some photos and it gave me the same message, so I just turned off my PC and went to bed as it was getting late.
This morning when I woke up I thought maybe it was just the port so I unplugged and plugged it back into a different 2.0 port since I got 4 with that card I bought, I then left for school and came back to find that my Ipod is working like nothing happened since I changed it's port.
I just want to know if I should pull out that warrenty card and get a new one or if that message was just because the one port could recognize something was there, but not able to tell what device it is.
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Greetings,
I've owned my iPod for about a week now, but it seems to have a little bit of an issue with nForce 2 based ASUS A7N8X-X motherboards, specifically in regards to the fact that if the iPod is connected to the PC during boot, the motherboard will not complete its POST and the boot is aborted. Where the POST aborts isn't consistent, but the majority of the time, it will abort on or before the CPU diagnostic. If I disconnect the iPod and then reset the system, the motherboard completes its POST as it normally would.
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trust me if ipod screens were really that fragile i'd have broken one by now.
I like have the worst care for electronics ever.
let's see i've had three ipod's. my mom said she'd buy me a new one if i'd let her have my old one. that one still works. the next one suffered a corrupted harddrive. and my third one still works. it had better i only got it christmas.
anyway, at multiple times i have sat on dropped and banged against things each one of these ipods.
trust me if ipod screens were really that fragile i'd have broken one by now.
I did have a theory about this though. the accidental breaking.
this depends on the supposed idea that the front cover of the ipod is a layer of glass and one of plastic.
there may be a thin layer of air or moisture trapped between the two layers and when moved from intense cold to heat. the air or moisture expands and causes the material to break.
note the last science class i took was high school chem and i got a D. so no you can't take this to the bank, probably.
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Let me start off by saying that I'm not happy with Apple at the moment. My iPod mini just died on me after only 1 year of useage and Apple refused to help me out in any way because the warranty was 2 WEEKS past due. As a customer and lifelong advocate of the Apple brand, this really angers me. Especially since all in all I've spent over $15,000 on apple products.
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I just want some opinions on the new 30GB iPod video from people who actually own one. Both good and bad. Let me hear it all. I couldn't bear plunking down over $400 for another player that's just going to quit on me in 1 year.
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I've only had mine for a month, but it's still working perfectly.
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Plus, while it's nice that you can download TV shows, like The Office, through iTunes, just watching a few of them will drain the battery significantly. Kind of lame that the new video feature is so weak in this regard. Though I bought it mostly for music, so it's not that big of a deal to me.
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I performed the 5 R's, no luck. I checked out and compared the file properties between one of the files that plays and one of the ones that don't. They're identical.
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hi,
i just bought the new 30gb ipod with video.
last night when i switched off the ipod, it was in perfect condition, but tody in the morning..i discovered tht the screen has weird light and dark patches (these r not surface patches) when the ipod is switched on there is weird colors coming on the screen... very similar to how a screen behaves when some magnetic material is brought close to it!!!
could this be a bad hardware problem which warrants a replacement? or is there a way to get rid of this problem and avoid it in the future?
please let me know asap.. so tht if the ipod needs to be replaced i can send it with my colleague to japan for replacement!!!
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im not sure if this is normal or not so im checking. i have a 5g 30g ipod video. when i hold the screen at a slight angle, i see a big rainbow colored spot. when you look head on you dont see it but then if you angle it slightly it catches your eye. its actually bugs you after a while. the spot is in the bottom middle half of the screen. A defect maybe? does anyone else know anything about this???
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