...and now it's stuck on the "connected ejct before disconnecting" screen.

 

i pushed down the menu and select button several times and toggled as well, but nothing works.

 

i let the battery run down and when i tried various places to plug it in, the "connected screen" just comes on.

 

my computer recognizes it, but itunes won't so i can't restore it.

 

what the hell do i do now?

How old is it?

And more importantly which generation is it?

i got it about two years ago. might be a fifth generation.

Have you tried holding down the menu and play buttons at the same time to try and force a reboot?

^That works! I didn't know about it until some friends told me to do that! My ipod nano is 2 years old too and sometimes it happens the same to me :(

The only downsize of forcing a reboot is that you lose everything on the iPod, although as it's a nano it shouldn't take that long to put the music back on it

I didn't lose any of my music when I did that a few weeks ago!! Now I won't do that again, because my music was on my older computer and it doesn't work anymore so I lost everything, so if I lose what I have on my ipod i'll lose 90% of my music. iTunes kinda sucks in that way, because I can't transfer the music on my ipod to my computer :\

It's easy to transfer it back

 

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i have tried to those buttons mentioned down and the screen with the apple appears for a mili second, then it's the lower battery screen. when i plug into the computer, the "connected eject before disconnecting" comes on and stays forever.

 

how do you do i force a reboot? thanks in advance for further advice.