Ipod 4th gen affected by ios6

Question

i have had my ipod 4th gen for 11 months and recently it had started to play up and so i went to the apple store who agreed and replaced it with a new one which i was unable to pick up until the day after the launch of the new iphone as they had run out of stock. when i went home with my new ipod and it installed the ios6 and i started having problems straight away, i could not access my game centre via my user name and login details, the app store was also giving me problems where it would log me out every time i would try and view a app that i was interested in. the ipod was also running extremely slow and so i went back to the store on monday this week 3 days after new launch. they agreed that there was a problem and replaced it with another new ipod 4th gen and so i went home again and found that i still could not access the game centre and the app store was shutting back to home screen every time. i then went back to the store againg on tuesday and the guy who i had my appointment with i started to go through this issue with the game centre and he said that it is probably needs to be restored to factory settings and i said that i had the issue with the app store and he said well the appointment is only for 10 minutes. i said that i have been in 4 times in 8 days and cannot afford to keep on coming in to the city every day and so he ended up helping by restoring back to factory settings which then allowed a app that was featured to download succesfully so he figured that the problems had been fixed. when i got home i discovered that the issue was still there and have also found that there is an issue with internet connection saying not connected when it is connected, unable to send imessages to previous contact and also the battery life has become extremely poor and has needed charging twice a day at least where as i was previously able to go through the whole day with only needing to charge overnight.
now i here that there are similar issues with the new iphone and ios6 and am wondering what i can do as this is so annoying and not good enough as i now only have a further 90 day warranty which could mean i could end up with a useless ipod which has been corrupt since the changeover from my 11 month old ipod

Answer 1

I solved it myself by dropping the iPod repeatedly, from a height of about 2 feet. I just hit it hard against a flat surface whenever the hard drive starts giving me the Click of Death. As crazy as this sounds, it's kept the thing running!