IPad wont restore, stuck in recovery mode!!

My iPad wouldnt turn on, it would show the apple logo for like 10 seconds then the screen would flash black and then the apple logo would show again, this happened over and over again and would never turn on. I tried everything, then finally I gave up and decided to just restore it. So I put my ipad in recovery mode and plugged it in. It would get to the point where the bar on the ipad started filling up then it would stop and give me an error. At first it gave me error 14, so I did everything this website told me to do: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694. Then it gave me error 9 but I dont even have any security on this computer. So I tried different things and it kept giving me different errors. I even tried restoring on different computers. I gave up and now my ipad is stuck in recovery mode. Ive tried putting it in dfu mode, tried turing it off and back on, nothing, still recovery mode. I have an iPad 4. I dont have any other options. What do I do?

If you tried this, and still nothing, then a trip to the Genius Bar is in order.
Turn your device off and connect your cable to the computer, but not the device just yet. Start up iTunes. Now, hold down the home button on your device and plug it in to the cable - don't let go of the button until iTunes tells you it's detected a device in recovery mode. Now you can restore to factory settings.

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