Help needed iPhone 3gs Black Screen/Crashing iTunes.

Good afternoon!
So my problem is rather annoying. Last night my phone was on my night stand. I woke up and it was not responding. I thought it was dead so I set on the computer to charge. Itunes wouldn't open. So I disconnected the phone, and started iTunes on its own. Once that was up I replugged in my phone. It's crashing the program. What worst is that my computer brings up the window asking about the pictures, etc like it does for any other camera. Still..no picture on the screen. Does anyone have any tips? I've tried the holding both buttons for 4 seconds, then releasing the sleep/power while holding the square for 10 more seconds and nothing. I love my iphone, but this is rediculous and my only phone.

Reset the phone if you haven't already - press both the home and on/off buttons for at least 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears.
If no go, the phone has hardware damage and can't be fixed with any troublshooting-software methods.

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