HT1386 i phone wont restore and now it wont connect to i tunes

I called at&t about unlocking my phone becase im overseas right now, and during the restoring process it failed and now my phone wont connect to i tunes or anything.

This worked!
Nothing worked until i finally went to 8.1.10 FIRST. I had this same problem last week, updating a customer’s 3G to 3.0 from 2.2.1, on a MAC (using iTunes 8.2.1)! I tried on 2 different macs, 2 different sync cables, a bootcamp Vista SP1 on my MBpro and then XP pro SP3. All registered a 1602, 14 or 16 error everytime, about halfway through the update on the iPhone. I also tried removing the old 3.0 update and prefs file from the user data > app > apple directories with no luck. Also tried reinstalling itunes on the Mac.
What finally worked was:
uninstall itunes (if you have anything above 8.1.10).
move your itunes library file (for windows, it’s located under the iTunes directory, usually called iTunes Library.itl). You want iTunes to create a blank file since your 8.2.1 upgraded itl file won’t work with 8.1.10.
put your ipod into DFU mode
restore your iPhone to 2.2.1 using iTunes 8.1.10 (go here to download older versions of iTunes)
use the same site above to download 8.2.0 (not 8.2.1).
install 8.2.0 and connect your iPhone. It will notify you about the update. Download & install the 3.0 update (if you uninstalled, the 3.0 update should be deleted).
upgrade back to 8.2.1
move your library (itl) file back. To be safe, I would hold the shift key down to select your 8.2.1 file (even if it’s named the same as the one you created from iTunes 8.1.10).
1 hour later, I have everything updated. All I can say is that there’s a bug in 8.2.1 that wasn’t there in 8.2.0. I updated my iPod Touch first gen no problem with 8.1. Hope it works for others.
iPhone 3G iPhone OS 2.x Upgrade from 2.2.1 to 3.0

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