Can't add music to iPod touch 1st gen.

songs in iTunes are greyed out so they won’t add or sync. Did a restore and keeps getting errors. This is an old ipod touch but I had it working fine at first added a bunch of music and after deleting can't add music from my mac. please help

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I can not turn on my iPod touch 1st Gen at all.

I tried to plug it into my computer and charge it and it wont charge and itunes will not reconize it. I have tried holding the home and power butten and the same time for 10 sec and releasing the power button and holding the home button for 5 sec to put it in DFS mode and it wouldn't come on. I have no clue what to do now. o and I have also held both buttons for about 5 1/2 min and nothing happen.

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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
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I have restored it 3x in various ways. I have tried 5 times to downgrade the operating system but ALWAYS get an error, so it never completes. Of course the ipsw files where found using google because there isn't any links that work on Apple's site for previous iPhone software. If I try to restore to 3.1 right after that it goes through perfectly.
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I too have had this exact same problem, except that I was running 3.0 and hadn't updated to 3.1. I put my ipod on the table overnight, after listening to it, and when I picked it up the next morning, theres no volume slider. I never even unplugged the headphones. Double clicking the home button while on the home screen would bring up the popup to skip songs, and there it says "Dock Connection" even though it not connected to a computer. Multiple reboots an no effect. I've tried different sets of headphones, to no effect. Its like the iPod isnt detecting them being plugged in. The worst part is i DO get sound in the headphones, but no volume control, and the sound level is turned really low. So the headphones ARE working.
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Can't add music to iPod touch 1st gen.

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