It’s Fixed!
A couple of weeks ago, the night Seryozha came up to visit, my iPod dock went to a state of being busted. The little solder joints that hold the minijack snapped quite randomly. I popped off the cover and at least it seemed that was the case. I did attempt a gentle and undetectable solder fix, but that didn’t quite work.
I decided to just wait until I went to an Apple store and see about getting it replaced, but then I forgot it the last time I was near one… on secret agent day.
I can still listen to music and charge without the dock, but it’s more of an annoyance since the iPod itself doesn’t have a line-out function, which is better for the stereo.
I deliberately snapped the jack, breaking all but one of the solder connections; breaking so many connections wasn’t really my goal, but I wanted to at least figure out where the solder had snapped originally. So, at least it was truly broken, right? HA.
I finally decided to fix it this evening, heating up the joints and dabbing solder in just the right places… took less time to actually fix it than it did to warm up the soldering iron. It appears to be fixed perfectly now, at least it was during testing prior to putting the cap back on, so yay!