ipod frozen on screen with apple logo

also the backlight has stayed on and the battery died. i plugged it into the computer and it came up with the little thing showing that it wasn't charged, the empty battery or whatever, but when i plugged it into the wall, it just went to the apple logo screen and froze there. it just won't go past that screen

i have not tried to restore it. right now i really want to be able to fix it and not lose all of my music because a lot of the music was borrowed from people and stuff and i only have the cds for like 25% of what was on there. i'm trying to find a way to fix it without restoring it

i just ended up saving all the files to my computer, putting it in disk mode, restoring it, and sending all the files back. quite a hassle but its working now. if it does it again though i will be furious

well first off i don't use itunes, i use anapod explorer so i'll tell what i did with that. first soft reset the ipod (menu + select) then as soon as the apple appears go to disk mode (play/pause + select). this can be difficult to do, you can type it into yahoo or something to get tips on it. then i connected to the computer and i saved all the tracks to the computer which took like 1.5 hours and was about 10 gigabites. then i used anapod reinitializer to restore it, and then sent all of my songs back to the ipod, which took a while.

you can get a free trial with limited features. you cannot save songs to the computer with the trial. the full edition costs $25. there are other free programs with the same type of thing though. anapod reintializer is free

i don't know. i would suggest that at this point you get some kind of tech support