5th gen ipod has dead pixels.

Hi i turned on my ipod today and discovered a horizontal line of dead pixels i ran it through diagnostics mode everything seems fine. i was wondering if there were any fixes i could do to it myself before mailing it in to apple for failing on me. no it isnt covered under warranty

This has been discovered to be a very common issue with the 5th Generation iPods, unfortunately.
There is a very informative thread on the topic here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8177702#8177702
Hopefully that can answer your question.

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very simple:
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2. Restore iPod to factory settings
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4. enjoy.
Hope this helped
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