IPod won't get past white Apple logo

I have a 4th gen. 8GB iPod Nano. For the life of me I can't coax it past the white Apple startup logo.
Done the hold switch and reset. Back to white Apple logo.
Reset and then enabled Disk Mode. Good sign. Connected to iTunes. RECOGNIZED! Added songs to it. Ejected it (still in Disk Mode). Did a restart with the same Apple logo.
Did the above but restored it after being recognized by iTunes and before adding songs. Still can't get past the white Apple logo.
Even used Disk Utility and reformatted it and then booted to disk mode and connected to iTunes. Same white Apple logo. It's pretty and all, but I want the darn thing to boot!
Any (and I mean any!) ideas would be appreciated.

ok. there is some progress. it is the most given advice when you search the internet for this issue. i was so frustrated and left the nano in my drawer for a whole week. then i wanted to give it a last try so i connected the nano to the pc and it booted to the menu where you can choose the language. the nano was also recognized by my mac and i thought it would work again. so i let it charge a bit an than my nano crashed again to the same problem. now it won't boot again. so my guess would be there's a probelm with the battery or something?
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