Neither my wife nor I have a good record of checking pockets prior to laundry time, and my nano is the latest victim.  What’s worse, we recently got a fancy new LG washing machine, which sounds like a 777 starting up.  It’s a beautiful machine, but it’s not good for electronics survivability.  The startling thing is the nano has some signs of life.  I wasn’t getting it to start up initially, so naturally, I took it apart.  I was able to sync it at that point, but it locked up on the screen you see here afterwards.  Since then I had to let the battery go dead since it wasn’t taking a reset.  After that, it synced again, and hasn’t locked up yet.  My only problem now is putting the stupid thing back together.  There’s a little ribbon cable connecting the click wheel and the headphone jack to the mainboard, and that’s giving me fits.  In the meantime, I’m looking pretty hard at the Creative Zen V Plus as an alternative for this slot (I use the nano mostly as a workout player and for my Audible account).  One can tell Apple really doesn’t want end users taking these things apart; there was some prying and peeling back glue, and I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to get the thing back together right.  If I were a smarter man, I might work on putting the guts into an Altoids tin or something.