After recovery via DFU, I'm unable to get beyond the apple sign.

Hi,
I have tried to recover my iPhone 3gs in every possible way.
Last resort seemd to be via DFU mode. The whole process looks good and runs withou any errors.
After recovery is done the iPhone appears in iTunes again, but the phone is not getting beyond the apple.
When I then try to restore the phone from backup or even try to set it up as a new phone, I get "iTunes could not restore the iPhone "XXX" because an error occurred.
When I try to switch it off using the wake+home button, I never se the slider again that would enable me to turn the iPhone off.
Any other methods. I don't care about lost data etc. since it can all get recovered from Address Book and iCal etc.
I just need to get to a point where I can access the phone again.
Your help is VERY much appreciated.

I am having the exact issue as yours, but, I fixed this issue myself and I would like to help many of those suffering from this issue to not be treated by Apple -- when I woke up in the morning I found my iPhone 4 was in "Upgrade to iOS6" mode on the moring that I planed to travel -- my alarm is still alarming me to wake up but the phone could not be used anymore, so fortunately I have backup phone to switch the sim-card to. When I am back home I went to a local "Short Hills" apple store Genius Bar and the staff told me that it could not be fixed, the only way to resolve this was to pay $150 for "Replacement" for a refurbished iPhone - I didn't believe him! My home PC/iTunes can detecte my phone, but the Genius Bar staff said it can't be deteted. I tried many different ways and finally I came up the followings which fixed by iPHone: 1) if you need to backup your stuff within the iPHone, you can use iTools from your PC; 2) Install the latest iTunes; 3) Try to recovery your iphone with iTunes several times and to see if it could be fortunately restored, Pay attention to the error messages, I got (-1) and (3194) which are ok, if they all are not working, then perform the last: 4) download the latest firmware for your version of your phone, such as iphone 4,5, GSM, CDMA, etc and save it into your PC; 5) perform a recovery mode from iTunes, but this time, you are pressing down the "Shift" key while you are clicking the "Recovery iPhone" from your iTunes, it will pop up a window to ask you to upload the firmware, you then select that downloaded firmware and it should fixed you problem and your iPhone will be just like brand new from Apple manufacture! Good luck! -- I have several negative experience with Genius Bar -- they are using refurbished phone with much older screen life LCD to replace my warrenty new phone -- this is apple the policy which are being complaied worldwide!!!! If I had choice, I would not have been using iPhone!

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