iPod nano corrosion
A listener over at the MacCast is reporting that his iPod nano has been corroded due to sweat. As you can see from the above picture the corrosion is at the bottom of the iPod near the dock connector and the headphone jack. This particular nano is said to be less than a year old and has never been in contact with water. Bryan has said he uses his nano while running using a Belkin Sport Sleeve and his best guess is that the damage is being caused by sweat.
The iPod in question seems to be one of the 1st Generation nano’s with the silver back. Has anyone seen this type of damage (corrosion) on their iPod. Personally I ran with a 1st Generation iPod for around a year with the Nike+ Sport Armband and never saw any damage to the iPod. Could this all be related to sweat?
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Yes,
on April 28, 2008 at 05:59 PM - LINKI have an IPod Nano I have had for 6 months that looks just as bad. I have always used an Apple armband. I took the unit into an Apple store and they told me that there was nothing they could do.
I have a similar problem with the Gen. 3 Nano. It’s not nearly as bad as the one in the picture but there was some corrosion around the headphone port and the battery dies after 5 months for my 1st nano then after 5 weeks for the one I replaced it with. In both cases, Apple said there was nothing they could. I run with my ipod nearly every day but I keep it in an armband that I bought at the Apple store. I did not have this same problem with the Gen 2 ipod I had before. It looks to me like there is a design flaw in the product. No way it should die after 5 weeks.
on July 23, 2008 at 09:36 AM - LINKYes, my 3th gen 8gig IPod has the same problem.
on December 1, 2008 at 03:47 AM - LINKOn both sides of the docking connector at the rear side near the chrome back the aluminium housing has serious damage. Best to be discribed as “cratering”. This is due to the electrical tension between two different metals and a dielectricum (as salty water/sweat). Anode/kathode effect, wich will slowly eat away the aluminum and destroy your IPod.
This problem is a very often reoccurring construction fault, and imho the manufacturer should replace the faulty parts bij an upgraded version. I even use the original sport-Apple leather armband. Imho the armband with its possibility of collecting fluid is the major problem. As i stated earlier, Apple should take responsibility and replace/fix the devices with this problem.
Might very wel be that the 3th g being obsolete so soon is caused by this problem, who knows ??