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Fixing Wii noisy drive.

It’s been more than 6 months that my Wii was producing an awful lawn mower sound in the disk drive, and I finally decided to open it up and “try” to fix the problem.

Since I’ve seen other people with similar problems on YouTube, such as:

I decided to put my experience on how I fixed it.

You will need Nintendo screwdriver, which you can easily find on eBay.

I’ve used the following video as a guide during the disassembling of my console:

Now how I did it:

There is one screw above your Wii’s drive that is right above the power button, loose it a little and stick something to level the plate a little bit up. You can test this with your Wii still opened until you don’t hear that noise anymore.

Here is a front picture of my fixed Wii (follow the link to see the Flickr notes):

I should have taken a picture from above, but I was too happy that the problem was gone, that I just remember to register how I did it after most of my Wii had been put back together already.

Hope it helps someone!

Tags: disk drive, fixed, hack, noisy, Wii

Nokia 5200 + iSync

Finally I decided to Sync my Nokia 5200 with my Mac’s Calendar and Address Book software, the problem is that according to Nokia’s web site, there is no support for this device.

Being aware that this phone is basically a Series 60 device, I searched the web and find an easy hack, on how to get things working. Credits go to http://laiwebdejuan.50webs.com.

Here how it goes:

You will need to fake your phone as a 6131 to the iSync software:

• Open a Finder window, then right clink on iSync’s package on the Applications folder and select “Show Package Contents“;
• Then go to the folder: Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/Plugins;
• Right click on the Nokia-6131.phoneplugin file and select “Show Package Contents”;
• Then go to the folder: Contents/Resources and edit the file MetaClasses.plist with TextEdit;
• Search and replace for all “6131″ occurrences for “5200″ and that is it.

He also pointed that you can change the icon for the device by putting a .tiff file on that folder: com.nokia.5200.tiff.

Thanks Juan for that tip!

Tags: hack, iCal, iSync, leopard, Mac, macos, Nokia 5200