Firstly, a big THANKS to everyone on this and the Rockbox forum, it was your enthusiasm for the iHP140 that made me decide to buy one about 4 years ago and I haven’t been disappointed. I have cherished my iRiver, never even letting it out of its case and it has proved an excellent player. I fashioned a crude docking station for it out of old pc/washing machine parts with the help of Haku’s excellent tutorial. I never even had the guts to try Rockbox on it though for fear of bricking the unit.
Cue the sad music…
Last week I plugged my Belkin Tunecast 12v car adapter straight into the unit by mistake!!! I could’ve cried, but being a 35year old bloke, I just used the F-word a lot and thumped the steering wheel.
Inspired once again by the amazing contributors to this forum, I got hold of a T5 screwdriver and took a look inside, I even got samples from Texas Instruments and Linear Technologies of the BQ24022 Li-Ion charger. and LTNP chips (top marks to both companies for sending out these items so speedily and for free!). However, the chips are tiny and the BQ24022 has no pins/legs, there’s no way I can possibly solder these in and besides, certain caps may be blown as well?
As I see it I have the following options:
· Get someone to try to fix it for me
· Get hold of a 2nd hand iHP140 or iHP120 and swap the circuit boards (my case is pristine and I presume battery and HD are OK)
· Get a 20gb H10 and swap in my 40gb HD.
My questions to you are therefore:
· Does anyone know for sure what has been damaged by putting 12v straight into the iHP140?
· Is there anyone out there who could have a go at fixing it for me?
· Is the circuitry in the iHP120 exactly the same as the iHP140 and is it therefore possible to just place iHP120 guts in my iHP140?
· Would my 40gb HD fit in the 20gb H10 and is the H10 just as good as the iHP140 or is it in any way inferior (I like the H10’s ability to record straight from FM radio)
Thanks in advance, I’m sure you’ll all descend like piranha onto these problems and come up with solutions by teatime.
BadMunky.