Black screen/reset doesn't work/restore error 1601

All of a sudden my iphone 3gs went dead. Reset with home and lock button does nothing. Plugging into a charger shows nothing on the screen either. When I connect to itunes (on a powerbook G4), it sees an iphone in recovery mode that needs to be restored. When i choose restore, it first gets the software, but when trying to update the phone it give the error "iphone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1601)."
Anyone know a fix for this? Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Hi,
Did you perhaps change provider recently?
I had the simlock taken of my old iPhone 3G to give it to my daughter.
The unlock procedure did not run the way the T-Mobile 10-step procedure described, after step 7 nothing happened for like an hour and a half (instead of the 30 minutes waiting time indicated) and all of a sudden the 3G was connected to the provider of my daughter.
Skipping steps 8-10 of the procedure.
According to T-Mobile support "something must have gone wrong with Apple during the unlock procedure over there"
And now, less than 20 hours of unlocking, we experience the same problems as you do.
A black screen, or just the Apple logo for 10-15 seconds when on the adapter, often no connection possible to iTunes.
And every now and again the iPhhone does connect to iTunes with a window popping up "a iPhone needing restore is connected"
However, restore is broken off every time, with this annoying "unknown error 1601"
And yes, I did uninstall iTunes and the AppleMobileDevice-thing.
What I am wondering about is that on the internet most discussions link error 1601 to jailbreaking.
This iPhone was never jailbroken, but could it "think" it has been because of some error in the procedure of unlocking the simlock and changing from T-Mobile to Vodafone?
And if does, what is the solution?

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