[Junkers]

You think it would be possible (As long as your good at unsoldering and resoldering) to replace the 8gb HD with a 16 gb iPod touch's HD?

[Trent J.]

Hmm.. this is an interesting concept.. I think it would be possible as long as you had all the files and stuff to run an iPhone on the iPT 16GB HD..

[spotdart]

it really wouldn;t work, since the iphone/touch son;t use hard drives, rather they use flash memory. flash memory uses tiny little chips, and it would be near-impossible to add more.

[pingywon]

This subject was brought up in another thread. Just the fact that you are calling it a "hard drive" means ..you prolly shouldn't try to do it.

[Junkers]

Originally Posted by pingywon

This subject was brought up in another thread. Just the fact that you are calling it a "hard drive" means ..you prolly shouldn't try to do it.

Wow... Some people really need to get a life. I know its not a "Hard Drive" but the majority of people will call it that. In fact on most websites, if not all, it is under the hard drive category... sooo good luck with all that!

[Jimbo]

Just because the majority is wrong is no reason to side with them... Set an example by using correct terminology.

[h3lpmedic]

interesting concept. The task to utilize the iTouch Flash Memory for the iPhone maybe daunting. If I'm not mistaken the iTouch uses two flash banks while the iphone uses one (again I may be wrong.) switching the flash memory may not be as simple.

[Boosty]

lol here

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/showthr...ghlight=boosty


interestingly enough Pingywon had the same amount of "useful" insight to share each time

even though neither Junker or myself said we were going to attempt anything


and I also started out my thread calling it "memory" and ended up referring to it as "hard-drive" because of someone who replied after me.

[rupchurc]

Cool thing about flash memory is less chance on it going bad compared to the HDD that are in some ipods. =P

[pengcm]

save a disk image
desoldering all the connectors(100s??) .... remove the chips
solder the new larger capacities ones on
then flash the disk image

sounds like a lot of weekend projects =) lol ... sigh

[pingywon]

Originally Posted by Junkers

Wow... Some people really need to get a life. I know its not a "Hard Drive" but the majority of people will call it that. In fact on most websites, if not all, it is under the hard drive category... sooo good luck with all that!

Funny to me how defensive you get - just proves your ignorance I suppose.


I was simply trying to be correct in both instances of both posts.


....carry on

[mutt]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Just because the majority is wrong is no reason to side with them... Set an example by using correct terminology.

Reminds me of Family Feud - truth and fact meant nothing... Answers were always "Survey Says" or as I like to think of it-> pooled ignorance...

Use the correct terms and people will think you know what you're talking about!! ;-}

[prophecy]

Ok,

So the bickering has settled down and now possibly things can move forward on this thread. So, short of getting ahold of iTouch memory and trying to use that, what is the possibility of getting the 16 Gig chip from Samsung and do a replacement this way. I would hope that the 16 Gig chip from Samsung would be a pin for pin replacement on the 8 Gig chip.
Has anybody else got any info on this?

Justace

[PhoneLine]

I saw one on eBay a while back before the Touch even came out. It was a 4 gig phone that was upgraded to 16 gig I believe. It had a crazy high reserve and starting price, so I have no idea if it sold or not, and just cause it was on eBay doesn't even mean its real.

For talk sake though, if the failsafe restore when the phone needs to be connected to itunes is on the phone's ROM, then if a totally clean 16 gig flash was installed, it 'might' be possible to just do a restore and get the firmware back in.

Then there is also the possibility thats the phones firmware will not see more then 8 gigs. So, you could install it and it'll only format to 8. Like trying to put a big HD in a old PC, the bios needs to support it. So, could have a similar issue here.

That being said, you'd need to be more then good at soldering. I've not seen the inside of the phone up close, but normally your looking at 50-60 solder points on a area thats like one inch long. I still remember sweating when I did my PS2!

[Stealth1029]

Well, craptastic, Apple screws us once again, look at the following:

iPhone 8g flash:



iPod Touch 8g flash:



As you can see, the 8gb iPhone has one 8gb Samsung flash, while the 8gb iPod Touch has 2 4gb Toshiba flashes. There you go, it's not possible.