You love your iPod, we all do, but what if something happens and your iPod breaks? Your first thought is’Oh my God, I cannot possibly exist without my iPod!’ Well that might be my first thought anyhow.

shall we say the iPod slipped from your pocket while you were jogging and broke into 1,000 tiny pieces ; no brainer, time to get a new iPod. Shall we say your iPod just started acting strange and stopped working, or it fell into the water but you got it out quickly so it couldn’t potentially have gotten all that wet. And, naturally, this all occurs after the warranty on the iPod ends.

Just in case you perchance hurt your iPod shortly after you buy it, Apple provides free one year from date of purchase guaranty on iPods. The warranty does not include damages caused by accident, liquid damage, disassembly or unauthorized service or modifications. So essentially only if your iPod stops working for some unknown reason is it covered by Apple. They also offer, for an extra fee, and extended guaranty plan that extends to two years from the date of purchase.

Great, but my iPod is outside the guaranty or extended guaranty date, or is damaged by an implies makes it excused from the warranty. So, what to do? I’d be thinking it may be worth looking into getting my damaged iPod mended rather than heading out and buying a new one. As we all know, we like them but they are not inexpensive.

A quick Google search will find several websites asserting they will gladly fix your broken iPod for you. Okay, let’s think about this what is the essentially damage to the iPod and is it worth purchasing a new Ipod or getting the damaged iPod repaired? Repair IPod

You dropped the iPod and the screen is cracked. You find a website where a company says they can replace your screen. O.K, this is worth looking into ; it has to be cheaper than replacing the iPod. Repair Your IPod

Your iPod battery is going running out of juice faster and faster. Is sensible that you would need a new battery. Okay, this is worth looking into ; again, it should be cheaper than replacing the iPod.

If you’re only getting sound from one ear bud, it could be a broken headphone jack. Again, makes sense it might be less expensive to replace a headphone jack than replacing the iPod. Repair IPod

Your iPod fully died. It did not fall in the water. It didn’t hit the floor. But it is dead, not a good sign. It could be that the drive died, and it might just be time to bury it and go to the store for another one. But some folks don’t give up all that easily. If you want a diagnosis of death, or a postmortem to discover why your iPod died, or are maybe interested by learning whether a transplant that would bring your iPod back to life, there are web sites that say they can perform these services for you.