Frozen on apple logo and not connecting to iTunes

Question

I've had my iPod Touch for one year and then suddenly the other day, without having done anything, it got stuck at the apple loge starting page, but with a "broken" apple (see pic: http://i48.tinypic.com/i405tw.jpg ) I've tried tuning it on and off with the home and on/off button. I've tried letting it drain of battery and complete recharging it, and I've tried making it connect to iTunes by holding down the home button, but the only thing that happened was this: http://tinypic.com/r/20avrt5/6
Does anybody know if there's anything I can do?

Answer 1

Mine is 14 months old and I put it into sleep mode yesterday and this morning it would only show the Apple logo for a few minutes and them it showed me the battery with a very small red line (all but completely dead). iTunes didn't recognize it either. I searched and tried everything I could find the net for about 6 hours (what a waste of my time) but, I found the solution on a Mac forum that worked for my 32gig 2nd gen iTouch. I had to do a full restore but now it seems to be working fine.
This is the link to where I found the answer:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=447185
Here's the info from the post if you don't want to read everything:
Quote:
"Originally Posted by vegas-steven
try and do this:
1. start iTunes.
2. plug the ipod into your computer
3. hold the power (on top) and home (on front) buttons for a few seconds.
the ipod should power up, and if if is screwed up, will be in recovery mode... from there iTunes will tell you that it finds your ipod in that mode, and needs to restore it.
just click restore, sit back and it should work again.
did you hack it at all?
if you did not hack it, and that doesn't work, call applecare and see what they say. maybe it is faulty?
still, from my experience with my friends ipod that i made 100% unusable, there is a way to restore even the most broken ipod as long as it has a battery charge.
i suspect a small portion of the memory is dedicated to keeping emergency boot files that allowed you to restore, no matter how bad things get." End quote.
It seems to be working fine now. I suspect the 3.1 update is what caused the problems because before I PAID to install it everything worked fine for 14 months.
Words of caution...."If it ain't broke...don't fix it."