HT201263 iPhone restores and then goes right back into recovery mode

Overnight, my iPhone 4 went into recovery mode on its own. I plugged it into iTunes, which detected a phone in recovery mode and asked if I wanted to restore it. I went ahead and clicked restore and the phone went through the whole process. I received a notice on my PC saying that the restore was complete and to wait until prompted to unplug my phone. I never received a completed sign and the phone just goes back into recovery mode and I eventually get another notice saying that iTunes detected a phone in recovery mode.
Is there any hope for my phone or is it toast?

No one does. It's an iPhone 4. Totally and completely out of warranty. I use Straight Talk for my service carrier so I don't even have any sort of support from AT&T.
If I contact Apple, they will charge me $20 just to troubleshoot. Hence me posting in the community. I was hoping someone would have some further information that might assist me in determining whether there was any chance of getting the phone in working order again or if it is toast.
If the problem is hardware, like you indicated at first, it is most likely not even worth spending the money to have the hardware fixed (if even possible) because it is an iPhone 4, not under warranty, and pretty outdated.

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I do backup with iCloud. I can't wait until the new iMac is available so that I can once again have my files in more than 1 location without needing to rely solely on the cloud.
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HT201263 iPhone restores and then goes right back into recovery mode

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