How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble a Portable Music or Video Player

Need to upgrade or repair your portable (digital) media player? Need to fix a broken display? Want to know what chips are actually inside your mobile player? Or just in the mood of modding your mobile gadget? Here is a collection of links to take apart instructions, disassembly pictures, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for mobile media players (portable digital audio players and video players). If you have written a guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

• AIWA
• Apple
• Archos
• Cowon
• Creative
• DELL
• Diamond
• iRiver
• Lexar
• Mattel
• MicroSoft
• mobiBLU
• MSI
• Neo
• Neuros
• Philips
• Pontis
• RCA
• S1
• Samsung
• SanDisk
• SHARP
• Siren
• SoniqCast
• Sony
• Toshiba
• Xclef
• ZVUE

• NoName - manufacturer unknown

• building a homemade portable media player