Checking over my search strings, I found that if you search Google for itrip mod, my site comes up fairly high on the results (#1, in fact, on the Google server my search went through). I posted something before about possibly attempting an iTrip mod, and posting and notes if I did try it.
Well, I just wanted to let you all know that I did not mod my iTrip, at least not intentionally. You see, while my iTrip was open, I tried using it, hoping that the uncovered antenna would yield a better signal. It turns out that the signal really isn’t all that much better with the exposed antenna, so I went to seal it up again.
When I went to seal up my iTrip, I noticed that two of the wires had become disconnected. Using the photos on the iTrip mod page, I tried to figure out where the wires were originally connected. The images were sufficiently blurry and dark, that I can’t say for certain that I picked the correct places to which I soldered the wires, but I soldered them anyway.
This is where the unintentional mod part comes. Since soldering the wires and resealing the iTrip, I’ve noticed that my iPod only gets about a half hour of play before running out of juice. Now, granted, the iPod is more than a year old now, has had its share of tumbles, and the iTrip is powered by the iPod, but come on! There’s no way that my iPod’s battery life is only a half hour with the iTrip. Unless, of course, I have somehow crossed some wires, causing the iTrip to consume more power.
I have noticed that the reception on the iTrip is phenomenal now. I still hear the occaisional blip, but I think that may be from my phone switching between cell towers as I drive. The blips occur at roughly the same places on my way home. It also happens when my phone is about to ring. Which brings me to another point: I may have hip and/or brain cancer one day from my phone. Call me paranoid, but if my cell phone can mess up the transmission from the iTrip and make my monitor go nuts when I’m closer than four feet to it, my phone has to be putting out some serious power.
Well, this post is long enough, I suppose. And I have to restart the transfer because someone’s website was returning a 404 error. Yippee!
2 Responses to “No iTrip mod”
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would you please tell or show where you soldered the wires?
Unfortunately, I can’t post where I soldered the wires because it’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten. If my iTrip comes apart, I will take photos and show where I soldered the wires.