Okay, some background info: I have the fourth generation iPod touch, and I’ve had it since last Christmas, less than a year. It is not jailbroken, which is everyone’s first question when it comes to iPod problems.

Okay, so last night I decided I was going to update to iOS 6 finally. I needed more space, so I deleted a bunch of stuff. The amount of storage on my iPod wasn’t updating, so I decided to reset it (which I often have to do and do all the time) by holding the top and home buttons. However, this time when I did it, it got stuck on the apple logo screen.

Then, it changed to the “connect to iTunes” screen, which I did. Several times, and it wouldn’t recognize my iPod. Then, when it finally did, it said that my iPod was in “recovery” mode and I had to restore it back to factory settings to use it.

I pressed restore and it said it had to update the software when it restored, so I did that. Several times. However, even after the software is updated, my iPod won’t restore. The same pop-up about it being in recovery mode and needing to be restored keeps coming up, over and over again, but it won’t let me restore it even after several attempts! The error message looks like this. Every time I click restore, it tells me it needs to update the software (even though I’ve done that about four times now and it says that the software is up to date.)

Now, instead of showing my iPod’s name, it just shows it as “iPod” and the capacity, software version, and serial number are just listed as “n/a”. The summary screen just looks like this.

I’ve Googled this and found no solutions, and I can’t fix it no matter how much I try! Anyone know a way that I can fix this?