I have an Iphone 3G and it won't restore, I've tried everything and it's locked in recovery mode... What should I do?

Recently, my Iphone 3G failed... horribly... I tried plugging it in and a pop-up said it was on recovery mode and had to be restored. So I did that and I got an error message for a few days until I somehow managed to make it work. Then it happened again less than a week later, but I only got 2 error messages until it worked.
Now today it has failed again, and no matter what I do it doesn't even come close to getting fixed, saying a different error number everytime, going from 21 (while being frozen with a white screen) to 160x (while being stuck preparing for the restoration).
What should I do to get it fixed? I've never jailbroken it or done anything of the sort :/
Thanks in advance

Have you tried a "hard reset"? If so, I would take the phone to an Apple store. If not,
1. Make sure the phone is OFF
2. Hold the HOME button and then press the power button and HOLD IT.
3. Hold both buttons until the phone comes ON, goes OFF and come ON again (about 45 seconds)
4. Re-sync with iTunes.
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