IPod touch won't start at all!

Hi all,
My iPod touch is a 2nd gen. version3.1.2 . I did a restore from iTunes and now my iTouch won't start at all. I think it's dead, someone please help me!

First ? would be is it charged sorry got to ask. Did you try and hold the button on top and the one on the front at the same time and keep holding it even when the turn power slide shows don't let go until you see the apple than let go. than try to turn it on. Sometimes they freeze it happen to me when I first got it.

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- See:
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- Try another cable
- Try another charging source
- Look at the dock connector on the iPod. Look for abnormalities like bent or corroded contacts, cracked or broken plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genus Bar of an Apple store.
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Try:
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Hello everyone,
Since about a day and a half I have been having problems with my Ipod Touch. All of the apps I got via the App store fail to start up. That is, they start up, the opening screen of the app quickly flashes and I am returned to the home screen. This ONLY goes for apps I installed myself, i.e. Internet, the App store itself, email and the like all work properly.
I believe it was tuesday night that I updated to the new operating system for iPod Touch, iOS 4.3.3 (I have checked and my Ipod is running on iOS 4.3.3, just not sure when I installed it...). Wednesday morning I used a few apps and they worked fine, but in the afternoon none would open anymore. I tried switching it off and on again a few times, hooked it up to iTunes and searched for updates, but nothing helped. Since all apps that are downloaded have this problem, I doubt removing and re-downloading all would work. That'd take ages too, so I hope someone can help me with how to fix this? By the way, it is thursday night as I write this, the problems have been going on for over a day now
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- Try resetting the iPod:
Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Next download/install a free app. Others have said that that worked.

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Last night, I plugged my Ipod touch into a radio system to listen to music falling asleep. When I woke up this morning, I grabbed my ipod and it wouldn't open, just had a black screen. There is no apple logo when I press the power button or "plug to itunes" icon, when I plug it in it doesn't show it's charging (so I'm not even sure if there's battery in it at this point, it might as well be at 0%), if I hold down power and home button for 10+ seconds nothing happens, if I hold down power button nothing happens, you get the point: it simply won't open. Also tried everything while it's plugged in to my computer with iTunes open.
The only thing which produces a reaction is when I enter DFU mode while plugged in. I see this message on iTunes: "iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore this iPod before it can be used with iTunes." And it shows "iPod Touch" is connected and in recovery mode. I have the option to restore it. Nothing happens on the ipod screen itself though, it's still black. I click "Restore iPod", then it gives me a confirmation message (this will erase everything...) and I click restore and update.
Now I'm doing this in real time as I'm writing this, usually what happens when I click restore is it starts extracting packages, then preparing iPod for restore and after 10 seconds or so gives me 2006 error with "can't be restored". Apparently this is due to USB cable, so I tried it with another cable, same thing happened; also tried both cables in a different USB port, same error.
I also got error 1604 one time, also related to USB issues.
This time around I got 3014 (first time I see this). According to Apple, "If iTunes can’t communicate with the update server, you may see one of these messages".
It tells me to update iTunes which I did reluctantly since I hate the new look of iTunes (had restored to previous version with time machine backup). Then it tells me to look for the host files; I don't see this file in Terminal like it wants me to do. So at this point I'm at a loss what to do. I'm starting to think my iPod is basically dead, but then why does it even tell me it detected and iPod in recovery mode?
Also just tried restoring again after updating iTunes, error 2006 again.

Check your USB connections
Related errors: 13, 14, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1611, 1643-1650, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 4005, 4013, 4014, or “invalid response."
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To narrow down the issue, you can also change up your hardware:
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Plug your cable into a different USB port directly on your computer. Don't plug it into your keyboard.
Try a different computer.
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If you're still seeing the error message, check for hardware issues by following the next section.
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If you tried all the suggestions of:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
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2. Never cancel a backup or sync (by clicking the X in the iTunes window). I realize the backup process takes forever, but if you cancel it, you'll end up with a corrupt backup, and if you try to restore from it, it will not work. The worst part is, it deletes your previous backup before starting the new one. So, if you cancel the backup, you will not be able to revert to a previous backup either. You will lose all of your data in all of your applications, and there is no way to get it back.
3. After completing a successful backup (during the sync process), you can disable backups so you don't have to sit through the whole process everytime you sync. To disable backups, paste the following command into Terminal:
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- A reset.
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Place the iPod in recovery mode. For recovery mode:
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