The Gadget Doctor’s Blog

Lots of changes have been taking place at The Gadget Doctor. We’re discontinuing a lot of our repair services and focusing more on product offerings. But we still fix iPods & MP3 players. Here’s a list of the ones we still repair:

• iPod Video 30GB/60GB/80GB
• iPod Classic 80GB/120GB/160GB
• Zune 80GB/120GB
• Creative Zen Vision:M
• Creative Zen Vision:W
• Creative ZEN (8GB and up) (LCD replacement only)
• Creative Zen X-Fi (8GB and up) (LCD replacement only)

We’re adding more relevant products to our store, such as iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPod Classic repair parts. We know that you will need headphone jacks, batteries, LCD screens and more.

The Gadget Doctor focuses exclusively on OEM (original equipment manufacturer) repair parts/components; we will never sell you a fake illegal copy. We sell the same parts that Apple uses during manufacturing of iPods and iPhones. And yet, we will still offer you the most competitive pricing, even as some of our competitors try to take shortcuts by selling illegal fake copies.

During the next few months we will be adding more inventory to our store. And all of it will be brand new and OEM components.

The Gadget Doctor offers free repair help, connecting you directly with highly trained technicians who can instantly tell you what is wrong with your iPod, Zune or Creative Zen MP3 player, and tell you how to fix it!

Don’t pay the fees at FixYa or Creative Labs to get repair help; chat directly with The Gadget Doctor techs! What are you waiting for? Click the link below to get instant help, M-F 12pm - 6pm. Sometimes the technicians are online on Saturdays; check it out!

Another series of videos for Creative Zen owners who need to perform repairs on their Zen. Common problems are: bad or cracked LCD, dead touchpad/keypad, and bad battery.

Good luck! If you have any questions please post a comment.

Disassembly Video:

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The Gadget Doctor has hired an Electrical Design Engineer. With this new addition to the team will come a much wider variety of services and plenty of price cuts - a huge benefit to those seeking repairs for their gadgets. The Gadget Doctor will now repair your device with less parts replacements; for example, instead of replacing your whole motherboard for $99.99, The Gadget Doctor will fix your motherboard, and for half the price!

Not only will repairs be offered at a lower cost for the customer, but they will also be of the highest quality and workmanship, as they will be completed by, or pass inspection of, our Electrical Design Engineer.

The Gadget Doctor currently offers iPod & MP3 player repair services, but will very soon be accepting Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, select other game consules, laptops and computers for repairs. The Gadget Doctor also plans on accepting cell phones and PDA’s for repairs in the future. All repairs by The Gadget Doctor are covered by a 90-day parts and labor warranty.

The Gadget Doctor is expanding, hiring more staff, and will soon offer repairs for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Playstation 3.  Classic repair issues are: Red Rings of Death (RROD), overheating, failed hard drive, does not power up, does not display video, does not read/load disk, and more.

The Gadget Doctor seeks Electronics Technician who can repair iPods & MP3 players - especially the Zune 80GB and 120GB. The Gadget Doctor seeks someone local to the Portland area who has intermediate to advanced soldering skills, including SMT and Through-Hole. The position will pay $40/hr.

Please email TheGadgetDoctor@gmail.com for inquiries.

Another series of videos for Zen Sleek and Sleek Photo owners who need to perform repairs on their Zen Sleek or Sleek Photo. Common problems are: bad hard drive, capacitor failure/loose capacitor and motherboard failure.

Good luck! If you have any questions please post a comment.

Disassembly Video:

Reassembly Video:

Here’s my next series of videos for Zen Micro owners who need to perform repairs on their Zen Micro. Common problems are: bad hard drive and loose headphone jack.

Good luck! If you have any questions please post a comment.

Disassembly Video:

Reassembly Video:

I made this video for those brave Zen Vision:M owners out there who want to try and repair their own Zen Vision:M MP3 players. Common problems are: cracked LCD screen, bad hard drive, harddisk failure, bad headphone jack, and touch pad not responding.

Good luck! If you have any questions please post a comment.

Disassembly Video:

Reassembly Video:

AnyThingButiPod.com is a website that offers news, reviews and discussion forums for all MP3 players except iPods. About a year ago or so, AnyThingButiPod.com was sold to a new owner. Almost instantly, the new owner and the mods at ABI became hostile and extremely unfriendly to a long-standing member of ABI who wrote helpful “do-it-yourself repairs” articles for the site’s forum.

Before the site transfer, Erwin (the previous owner), allowed this member to have a link in their signature to their personal website, which offers repair services and do-it-yourself repair articles for MP3 players. Recently, I, the long-standing member spoken of above, tried to login to www.AnyThingButiPod.com, and was greeted with this highly professional message from the owner and mods:

“You are incredibly rude. I don’t know how many times i as well as my mods have asked you not to spam the site. All links to your site have been banned from this site. FUCK OFF! Date the ban will be lifted: Never”

Links to my site www.TheGadgetDr.com directed readers to instructional do-it-yourself repair articles and benefited members, but they were taken off the site. ABI members have been disappointed. But now they can just come directly to my blog for do-it-yourself-repair articles and take-apart video tutorials.