ipod touch white screen of death

I've always been a PC girl, but my kid needs the newest tech.

So a week+ ago she (with her own money) bought an Ipod touch. All very good until tonight when we got the white screen of death and she (after too much candy/too little sleep) had a complete meltdown and I left to fix things.

Googled it of course. First option holding down two separate buttons til apple logo came up, but that didn't help. Next option doing that with ipod connected to computer and itunes. Did that, went through the whole restore thing on itunes, no luck.

Then had an "ahah" and disconnected the ipod from the computer (after the restore) and did the hold down two separate buttons (home and off/on) for a while AGAIN and lo and behold I got the apple screen and then her home whatever, the ipod lives again.

So try this if nothing else works. And laugh at the Apple commercials that make fun of poor PC guy, they all suck and we learn how to live with them...