Help to Diagnose Blank, White Screen for 4th Gen iPod

Can you help me diagnose my problem? Fully charged Ipod Gen 4 syncs and plays music, but I can’t navigate due to blank, white screen. Reset to original factory settings from iTunes, re synced with no improvement. Doesn’t even show apple or battery icon when charging. Any advice?

So you basically cannot see anything on the screen, because it is all white.
Since it can play music, connect your earphones and let it play continuously until it runs out of power and turns off. Keep trying to turn it back on and playing music until it will no longer turn on. Then let it sit disconnected for at least 24 hours.
You are trying to make the battery dead so that the iPod is completely unpowered.
Then connect it to the computer or the power adapter and see if the screen is working again.
Alternately, if you know how to open the iPod with the plastic tools, you can simply disconnect the battery for a few minutes and then reconnect.
There is always the possibility that your iPod's screen has become defective.

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