Ipod nor recognised and curious blinking

Hi !
I have a problem with my new iPod Shuffle. He is no more saw by iTunes, on usb devices, or by my Xbox360.
Sometimes a strange unreferenced blinking apears : 2 green and 3 orange, continuously.

Here's the article that describes what the lights mean:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304510
I don't see your pattern there, but maybe you have to check it again.
Sounds like you need to do a restore.
It might be damaged.
Scott

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Hi nataliexcupcakes,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/
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Illass thank you for the reply, but as I said I have done everything on the support page. I even printed off the uninstall instructions as it gave you a rather precise order to do it in and I did check for the folders to see if they had been left, I learnt that when I updated my graphics drivers and still a game said my card wasn't up to scratch, even though my card supported shading 4.0 it only needed 2.0 for the game.
I also printed off the software conflict information otherwise I would have gotten totally lost.
However thank you for the disabling info, as it was getting a tad annoying when I was connecting it to charge up.
I decided to uninstall and reinstall again and low and behold it is recognised again. That makes it the second time I have had to do this to get my touch recognised. However doing this everytime I want to update is going to be rather annoying.
Ah the days of the Nano 2nd gen, and the innoence of those times. Shame some clumsy so-an-so knocked it out of my hand and stepped on it as it was just so simple to use.

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i think this is a very similar problem to everyone else but i can't find a helpful answer so i'm going to outline my situation to see if anyone can help.
to start with my ipod was ok, then when i plugged it in to load new songs on it my mac and itunes didn't recognise it. this has happened to me a couple of times before so i thought i'd go to restore it and updater didn't recognise it.
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it also keeps showing the battery icon when it's not plugged into anything and when i do plug it in it wont charge.
last time it did something like this i left it for a couple of weeks and then it sorted itself out, but i find this very inconveniant.
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Refer to this Apple Support article on the 5Rs.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
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