iPod Frozen 4G iPod: help very much appreciated

4G iPod has frozen in an 'on' state... display showing start of track, can't hear disk spinning, scroll wheel and all buttons including lock unresponsive so can't turn it off, disk doesn't mount by Firewire in Finder or Disk Utility, nor does it activate iPod HiFi when docked...



Thoughts?

Thanks
BV

Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Have you tried a reset: toggling the hold on and off and then holding down the center and play buttons for 5+ seconds...?

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Yep. Display doesn't change when hold button is toggled and holding buttons does nothing.

It's almost as though the iPod is off with the display still on in a frozen state. It's been like that for the past 6 hours or so.

PlaceofDis said:

although i would try plugging it in and giving it a reset

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The buttons don't work. Plugging it into anything doesn't work.

OK, it just sprang into life (i.e. had shut down) when I came back from making some coffee and glared at it. Honestly.

It must have been suffering after the night before but is now working properly, unlike me.

Thanks all.