Ipod touch 1st gen. touch screen freezes up

I have a 1st gen ipod touch, after a year the touch screen freezes up constantly. I reboot, restart, re sync, upgrade, updated firmware, made sure sure the browser was cleared, I don't even have 1/2 the memory used, now & then it will unfreeze, but most of the time it is frozen. Very unreliable. Thank god it is not a phone. I even took it into the so called "Genius Bar" and they just told me to buy a new one...had this thing a little over a year...and they really think I am going to purchase more Apple products? It is pretty sad when the folks that make this crap can't diagnose it...
Anybody else in this boat?

Try restoring to factory defaults/new iPod if you have not already done that. If you still have the problem then you very likely have a hardware problems and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

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