#5th gen Sad Face

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covert pine
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So i was restoring my moms old ipod and i first had gotten just the iflash solo and battery. Before replacing any of these i tried booting it up and it originally had the sad face. I thought it was maybe battery. i left it charging and it still didnt boot. So thats when i got the iflash and battery and replaced those. STILL nothing boots and it continues to show the sad face. i can tell the sd card is reading as its showing 96ish gb. I thought it was the hdd connector as it still had the original, so i got the iflash one and still the sad face. Ive been stuck like this for a week and im unsure of what to do🥹

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warm bobcat
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There's something wrong with your hdd I'd re format it personally

covert pine
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re format it in what sense?

warm bobcat
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get all of those sd cards

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reformat to fat32

covert pine
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ive reformated the sd card that im using to fat32

warm bobcat
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@covert pine

covert pine
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nothing happened

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it still boots up to the same sad face

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and i doible checked to make sure it was fat32

warm bobcat
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That's all I got then

covert pine
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alright 💔💔

jolly plinth
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Maybe replace the HDD cable itself. Theyre cheap on Amazon and even cheaper on iflash

chrome musk
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I see no description of "recovery" - did you connect it to iTunes and tried recovery process? Only after recovery iPod will have operating system to boot into. With empty card there is only bootloader that can do the diags, enter disk mode or tray to find the operating system on the card/drive and boot it or... freak out with sad face.

covert pine
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