iPod Touch won't start

This is exactly what is happening to me. I have had to restore my iPod Touch 4 times now and its getting very annoying. My iPod freezes and only shows the apple sign and get extremely hot. Is there any way to to fix this before i have to restore once again?

I had the exact same problem 2 weeks ago, and found no help on these forums. I have now noticed that many other people are having the same problems.

The bad news is that it HAS to be restored (I spoke to an extremely unhelpful Apple 'genius', who I think I knew more than him), and he at least agreed with me. It has to be restored. Which, yes, means that you will lose EVERYTHING, and I mean everything of your iPod - unless you have a backup. If you're lucky, you will have one, and this will have saved most of the stuff not stored in iTunes. The bad news is that even though you may have a backup, it won't restore properly, and you'll still be left with the same problem. Even doing a clean install doesn't solve the problem.

The good news is that at some point, it will restore successfully - at least, it did for me. It even brought up the notes I had lost on the previous backups, which surprised me. I think this happened after the 3rd restore, and I'd tried different things like restarting the computer, reinstalling iTunes, etc. If it is the same, just keep restoring, and at some point, you'll get there.

i've been having the same problem and it is ridiculous. Like 5 times now since i updated to 2.0 for no reason my ipod will just totally crash. and will the display the apple logo like all day, getting hot. I keep trying to reset it by holding the home and wake buttons, but that doesnt do anything. and then after like a day of beingn broken it will just start up again. Connecting it to itunes just crashes itunes and freezes my whole computer

Ok, first try to see if you can still ssh into your iPod.

Fix everything how it was before and see if that helps, which it probably will...

If you can't ssh then restore by...

1. Holding both buttons at the same time for a while to turn off the iPod.

2. Then unplug your iPod fr your computer, then hold the home button on the iPod and plug it back in.

3. Keep holding the home button while it turns on.

iTunes will ask to restore.

anyone check if the above method works??

My iPod freezes and only shows the apple sign
so i shut off my ipod with the two buttons and plug it to my com again
itune do not detect any device and my ipod remain freezes with apple sign

any way to restore since itune cannot detect any device?

I have been having the same problem for over two weeks
this method though worked for me
thank you so much

After doubling my memory, two intense days of renewing the latest down loads, trouble shooting on many different sites which can not get me past an apple on the screen, the answer is to just take it back to the store. We should all find
out what problems people are haveing with a product before we buy.
With all Sincerity, marquesa.