How do I fix my iPhone?

I am having terrible luck with my iPhone 4S.
First, I have voided my warranty, so it would be $199 to have it fixed or replaced. At this point, that would have been worth it.
Here is what happened:
My speaker messed up somehow, I ordered a replacement and replaced it myself. Easy enough, so I thought, seeing as I work on phones and computers all the time. When I turned the phone back on something strange was happening. The phone was continuously searching for service, however wifi was working. I put the old speaker back in thinking it was the antenna but no go. Didn't help. Then during my 4th opening of the phone I snapped the ribbon connecting the power button to the mobo! So now, I have to open the case to turn off the phone. So I take the phone to Verizon and they say the service thing is bad off and I need a new one. However, being stubborn I decide to try one more thing and restore it to factory settings. It makes it through all of the way and then at the very end says Error. Cannot restore iPhone. Error code (1) Unknown error. So now the phone was stuck in recovery mode and wouldnt restore on any computer I have. The I used tiny umbrella to kick it out of recovery mode and it is stuck on an endless loop of the Apple logo and progress bar and then the spinning circle and I cannot get it back into recovery mode, or anything really.
This sounds like some sort of horror story, I know... Can anyone help or give me an idea?

If you had taken it to the apple store before opening the phone they probably would have replaced it for free since it is still under warranty. Maybe this should be a lesson learned that you should not try to repair something while under warranty.

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