So, after fiddling with the promised “Fix Number Three” — an iPod Classic that would only charge — this week, I determined that although the harddrive was to blame and I could easily replace it; it was still under warranty. Which prompted me to write this, as I’m sure a lot of people don’t think about this when reading my blog posts here: Please, please check your warranty statuses. You could save both of us a lot of time, and yourself a lot of money by running your serial through a little box, or submitting a simple repair request. On average, I find warranties to normally end after one year. Visit the following to find some more information:

Apple
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

Sony
https://eservice.sony.com/webrma/web/index.do

Microsoft
http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/LiveIDSignIn.aspx?redirectUrl=http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/registerdevice.aspx?step=repair

Aside from all of this, I have another fix planned on the software side. I’ll show you all how to set up an unlocked iPhone to correctly use a data connection over a local (or any) GSM provider.

See you tomorrow,
Mic-B