How to revive my dead Ipod touch?
Last time I used my ipod was yesterday at about 5pm, working completely normally. I went out from then and had the ipod in my pocket. I got home at 12 and noticed the Ipod was dead. I connected it to a dock incase it was just out of battery, left it for about 10 minutes and still nothing.
This morning I've attempted to restore the Ipod. On connecting to Itunes, the software told me the Ipod was in "recovery mode" and couldn't be used untill the device was restored. I attempted a restore several times, each ending the same with error code 28 (sometime varying to 2005).
((On connecting the Ipod and attempting the restore, I do see the screen light up and show an Apple logo and a loading bar. After two minutes Itunes gives up on the restore and says "Unknown Error 28".))
The Ipod is a forth generation
Itunes also cant tell me anything on about the ipod e.g. Serial Number, Memory and so on are all "n/a".
After calling Apple earlier they've told me to try switching wires, USB ports and PCs (all of which I've done). The I told the "Genius" that the restore wasn't working and resulting in Unknown error 28, to which they replied "The restore has to work"... They then went on to tell me that because my warranty was out, I'd have to fork out £124 for a replacement which (In all honesty, I want to avoid at all cost).
Since then I have found out how to Force Restore my already seemlying capput device. This did make me slightly optimistic as the "Connect to Itunes" picture showed up. One seeing this I attempted to once again restore the decive having (seemingly) a little more success as on this occasion the device appeared to reach the end of the restore load bar. But lone behold, I met another error, this time "Error number 14".
I realise this is ask to get this back to the way it was. Just feel a little cheated is all.
Any help is appriciated.
((I'm running a Win 7. Itunes is the latest version and I've got firmware version 5.0.1))
iPod touch, iOS 5.0.1