Help: Bricked iPhone 2g (original)
 

So my buddy gave me an iPhone (my 1st one) the other day. It was a jailbroken 8GB 1st gen running iOS 3.0, with the aluminum backing.

My buddy isn't one of those techie guys at all, and got the phone off his bro who did the jailbreaking for him. Me, I've never owned an Apple product in my life. So we're talking about 2 n00bs here.

Anyways, he asked me to do a factory reset on the phone before handing it to me, which I did. Apparently you're not supposed to do that on JBed phones, but at the time both of us had no idea. Now when it boots, the Apple logo appears, and sometimes a little spinning circle icon too, but it freezes at less than 1 full revolution.

I've run a few Google searches, and everyone talks about connecting it to iTunes then doing a System Restore, in DFU mode. Problem is that iTunes won't even detect this thing anymore. The phone doesn't even show up as a USB device. So this is out of the question.

Has anybody had any experience with this scenario? I don't care if I lose the JB. I'm just hoping I don't have to throw this device into the garbage.

Thanks in advance.

Get the phone in dfu mode and connect to itunes.
Plug the phone in the computer, have itunes on
Press and hold power and the only button for 10 seconds, then release the power button and keep holding the "only button" for another 10 seconds.

The computer should recognize it in restore mode
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^ That's the problem. I can't get it into DFU mode.

This is my understanding. (grabbed off a site)

How to enter iPhone DFU mode
Connect the iPhone to your computer and launch iTunes
Turn the iPhone off (hold down the power button at the top of the iPhone)
Hold down the sleep/power button and home button together for exactly 10 seconds, then release the power button
Continue to hold down the Home button until a message appears in iTunes telling you an iPhone in recover mode has been detected

Problem is that the phone seems to just shut off and boot to the Apple logo, freeze, and shut off. It keeps cycling this way.

It dosen't have to be exactly 10 seconds, anything more is fine but anything less is bad.

We tend to count fast when we wait for something, try counting to 15 or something.