I Phone 3GS wont turn on

Alright so two days ago my iphone worked just fine. Around lunch it would not turn on I had about 20 battery when I checked in the morning so I thought it was just dead. When I went home to plug it in for a little bit, it would not turn on any more. So I tried to do a reset (Holding Lock & Home buttons) and nothing happened. So I plugged it into my computer. It says "Your iphone has been detected in recovery mode. You must restore" or something in that nature. So I click "Restore & Update" and it goes to do it but i get an error "Error 21" and then my iphone screen goes all white. Nothing else helps like resets. Im currently trying to let it die but it has been unpluged for 2 days and still has not died when it was at 20% on thursday morning. So I am going to leave it to die and try again on monday at around 4pm but if it dose not work what could this be
Note - I may have had a snow ball hit me and some snow dampen the area around my pocket were my phone was but the phone was not even wet and it had a case and screen cover on it so I do not think its water damged
Also - The phone when i recived it was jailbroken but worked fine with updates & syncs for over 12 months untill this happen

That's normal. Keep the phone in a warm pocket. From the iPhone Tech Specs, http://support.apple.com/kb/SP565
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
(0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
(-20° to 45° C)

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