HT201210 my 3gs stays on the screen with the usb and itunes picture on it. when i restore the phone on itunes it give me (-1) code. what shoud i do?

my 3gs stays on the screen with the usb and itunes picture on it. when i restore the phone on itunes it give me (-1) code. what shoud i do?

You could try restoring and staying away from that backup.  I've had that happen to me before on my iPhone 4 from a corrupt backup.  You could be coincidently mixing the two issues, sounds to me like you got lucky and your phone is A-OK but you may be using a corrupt backup.

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