IPod Screen Color Modification

From IPodWizard.net Wiki

Getting Started

• First choose the color you want your screen to be, then find some sort of film that is the color (the extremely thin kind doesn't work well, it should be about the thickness of the blade on a box cutter or thinner but only to the size of the plastic in a pair of 3d glasses. Any thinner is probably too small.) Roscolux Filters work great on the Mini, and are available for free. The sample swatches may be too small for a full sized iPod.

• Next disassemble your iPod. There are tutorials all over the internet to do this.

• Then take out all the parts you need to so that you have the screen as a separate unit. Now here is where it gets specific to your iPod.

• You want to separate the screen but be vary careful, the lcd can crack and you just want to remove the glass part form the plastic case (it is some sort of glass in a plastic frame for every iPod)

• Now you want to cut the film into the dimensions of the plastic (not hard just guess and check)

• Insert the plastic into the frame (there should be either smd's or very tinny led's visible. I have only done it on a mini and a 3rd generation and in the mini they were located on the bottom of the plastic frame in a layer of ribbon of electric wire, in the 3rd generation they were located to either the right or left site (I don't remember) but they were connected to a ribbon that wrapped around)

• Place the plastic between the frame and the glass lcd.

• Reassemble your iPod.

• Turn it on

• BAM!!!!

The effect should only be seen when the backlight is turned on because the film is embedded and not on top of the screen.