My ipod nano's clicker wheel's play button is not workin

Question

Please Help. I have no idea what happened to it. There has not been any damage.

Answer 1

I had the same issue with my iPod nano 4th generation. Tried all of the suggested fixes but nothing worked. After months of trying read and figure out what was wrong I stumbled across a possible fix.
This is partly a theory, but probably true in a lot of cases. I use my iPod nano a lot in a speaker dock. I  think over time using the speaker dock caused some kind of connection to become loose. I got the idea from someone else that when you connect the docking cable, as if you were going to sync your iPod and wiggle the cable at the connection back and forth until locating a place that allows the click wheel to work again. Start gently and push a little harder toward the front or toward the back. If this works then here is what I did to solve the problem.
Take a small flat head screw driver and gently pry the white cover away from the bottom of the iPod near the sync port and headphone jack. It is held in place by a type of rubber glue. I have a computer pry tool. I gently put insert the tool between the back case of the iPod and the where the sync cable attaches and pry it slightly enough to fit something in the space. I cut off a small piece of a paper clip (1/8'' or less). Needs to be small enough to fit and still apply enough pressure to allow the click wheel to work. After inserting I tested it to make sure it worked and sure enough it did. I carefully put a small amount of school stick glue on the white plate and put it back in place.
Hope this works!