Ipod touch (4th gen) is disabled and stuck on "recovery mode" and i keep reciving "error 3259" connetion time out when i restore. what should i do?

hello, i left my ipod touch connected overnight to my playstation3 to charge and the next morning i woke up to find the ipod disabled. i put it on recovery mode and tried to restore it, but everytime itunes downloads the file, a windows pop-up appears saying "network connection timed out error 3259" and now my ipod is stuck on recovery mode. what should i do ?

You posted in the iPad forum instead of the iPod forum. I'll request that Apple move your post.
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
iOS: Resolving update and restore alert messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
 Cheers, Tom

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