IPod Nano 4th Gen is stuck in a cycle of freezing; hard resetting only results in another instantaneous freeze.

Hey, guys,
I've had this iPod for a while (And, admittedly, I bought it secondhand- a few years ago. It's worked perfectly fine up until now), and just within the last week, it's begun freezing a lot, but it was nothing a hard reset (Lock -> Unlock -> Home+Center button) couldn't fix.
Well, yesterday, the situation grew worse. Now, when it freezes and I hard reset it, the screen won't even make it past the Apple logo before becoming unresponsive again, 99% of the time. The only way I've found to counterract this is if I drain the battery completely, reset it, then plug it into my computer immediately afterward to restore the iPod. When there's nothing on it whatsoever, it won't freeze, but the moment I put pretty much any file on (That has been tested previously for freezing and works perfectly fine any time except for this), it freezes up again.
Has anyone encountered this, or is it literally just me? Does anyone know of any other fixes I could do, or will I absolutely have to take it in for repair? If so, how much do you guys think it would be?
Thanks,
Ren

i have tried all of that as well and im still stuck on the apple logo. i hit it against a table and everything. Does anyone know what to do?

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