IPod touch potentially busted?

A few weeks ago I purchased a second-hand iPod Touch from a friend to get back into the Apple community. I quickly discovered I didn't need all the bells and whistles from Apple and decided to sell it. This transaction is happening Monday but due to a rather serious bump in the road I might be the proud owner of a brick.
During school today my iPod suffered blunt force trauma after it fell out of my gym locker onto the floor. I thought nothing of it after it turned on okay and the screen was intact. I brought it home on low battery and plugged it in to charge. I quickly realized that my iPod was not charging so I turned it off and on again to no avail. The following happened...
1. I turned off the iPod and plugged it in. The Apple logo appeared and the iPod booted. Although the cable forced it to boot it didn't charge after that first appearance of the logo. Restarting it did the same thing.
2. After the iPod died I plugged the cable back in. I got the low battery sign with a picture of the lightning cable with a bolt above it for a few seconds. And then it appeared again. I get it for about 6 seconds and then 4 seconds of a black screen before it appears again.
Anyone have an idea of what's up? Is it the cable? What can I do?
5th generation 32 gig iPod touch running the latest available version of iOS

Not Charge
- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
- Try another cable. The cable for 5G iPod (lightning connector) seems to be more prone to failure than the older cable.
- If a 5G iPod
Iphone 5 lightning port charging problem - SOLUTION!
- Try another charging source
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
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Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

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Since you've already done the "5 R's," your next option should be to visit your local Apple Store (should you have one) to have an expert check it out. If you're still under warranty, there shouldn't be a problem; if not, repairs might be your best option.
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Salt and electronics - not a good mix. If you cleaned your headphones, and thoroughly, you've minimized any chance of potential damage.

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I just bought a used iPod Touch 1G from a friend last week. It worked perfectly for him for the year he had it; having had no problems with the wi-fi ever. He decided to reset the entire device so it would be "clean and fresh" for me. The wi-fi was working fine for the entire evening, but the next day it started arbitrarily dropping the connection. (The router was fine as my laptop was still online.) So I went into settings to manually reconnect it, which it did/would do - but the connection would drop before I could even get back to the App Store or Safari. Then all of a sudden the iPod couldn't see my network anymore, and it just kept searching for any available networks.
I made a thorough search for possible causes and potential solutions. I tried resetting the network settings, shutting down and restarting the device - and after this several times with no progress: suddenly instead of the wi-fi simply telling me I was not connected and refusing to see my home network, the wi-fi button was greyed out and I couldn't do anything to change it.
At this point I emailed my friend (PC and web consultant by profession) and he could not think what might have happened. I went over to his place and he managed to get the wi-fi button usable again (but he didn't do anything I hadn't already tried), and the device performed exactly the same for him with his network as it did for me.
Then I realised that I was not on the most current O/S; so I paid the $4.95 to upgrade to 3.1.3 thinking this would certainly solve the problem, but it didn't -or at least not right away. The wi-fi button went back to being greyed out and usable, but the next day (again all of a sudden) the wi-fi was working flawlessly; it never dropped the connection once, and it continued like this for two days; I thought for sure the problem was fixed for good. Sadly, I was mistaken and the same problems I had at the start are repeating. And now that I am on the final O/S for the 1G, I fear that whatever bug it has will never be resolved by Apple.
I am hoping that there is something still left to try. I have not tried completely resetting the device again, since that was done just before I bought it, not to mention seems to be the cause of the problem in the first place; however if the general consensus of experience iPod Touch users is to try this again I will. Honestly, I didn't think this would be as disappointing as it has been since I only bought it to have an iPod again (I had an iPod Mini for many years and it finally died; since I had acquired a Zune I couldn't justify spending money on an iPod even though I loathe both the Zune and its software), but ever since the first night with wi-fi I feel like I'm missing out on a really fun feature. Any and all help with this will be immensely appreciated.
Message was edited by: wyldoxz
I did forget to mention that this happens with all networks, not just my home network. I've tried it at my friends place, my son's daycare centre, and random public networks I've come across.

wyldoxz wrote:
... And now that I am on the final O/S for the 1G, I fear that whatever bug it has will never be resolved by Apple. ...
Your problem is not caused by any bug in the O/S but with a failing WiFi chip in your iPod. The problem might start out as intermittent but develop into complete failure.
It's probable that your friend had the iPod 1G for considerably more than a year. The 1G hasn't been on the market since late 2008. It's also possible that this problem was starting to show before you got it.

Found Practically new iPod Touch 5th Gen. - I'm throwing it away

Hi,
I've read several of these same questions: Someone finds an iSomething, can't find owner, and wants to get it out of "disabled" mode and use it. And then they get accused of being a criminal. I have an iPhone 6, iPad 2, iPhone 4, and my son an iPhone 5s. I don't give an iShi* about this iPod that I've had for two months, but if I do not get an answer as to what to do, that doesn't cost me anything to return it to its rightful owner, it's going to be thrown in myTrash outside.
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Son found iPod Touch 5th Generation that was disabled at a party over two months ago.
Tried to find owner, and knows the owners name
Owner has changed his phone number, is no longer on Facebook, and his name is pronounced and spelled so weird, we (now i) can't locate him
So, iTried this:
Plugged into iTunes in recovery mode and wiped clean.
Turned it on and after asking the couple of standard setup questions, says it is attached to z*******@gmail.com
Had my son go on Facebook and ask if anyone knew how to get in touch with this guy
Stopped at AT&T and Verizon, and asked if they knew what to do.
They said, "I guess take to an Apple store."
Apple store is 60+ miles aways from where I am right now, and trying to contact support is enough to make me go batsh** crazy, as I've just gone through this same process with my son trying to get his XBox 360 repaired under warranty from Microsoft, and spent four hours with four different "chat specialist" just to get a simple e-mail sent in order to print shipping label and send the thing off.
I do not want the iPod, even if I could get it detatched from this guy. I'm 40 years old, and don't spend all my time listening to music and Twittering and Snapchatting, and Facebooking, and everything else that is ruining the minds of every young person I know.
So, if someone could kindly direct me DIRECTLY to the place where I can get ship this thing to Apple for free, or contact them, I will do so. If not, I've spent enough time on trying to do the right thing, because I'm sure this careless 19 year old who was drunk at a party didn't buy the thing to start with, and his poor broke mom probably bought it for him, and like my sons, because of the very things he's lost, his attention span is like that of a moth and he doesn't care.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
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