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Hi,
I recently bought my iPhone 3G in Abbotsford, BC (Canada). This week I took a trip to Europe, and during a flight... the phone completely froze up.
I have done the "soft-reset" (holding down power and home button until reboot) numerous times, but it won't go ANYWHERE. The Apple logo is all that I have seen on the device ever since. It appears to be freezing on every boot.
I can't even sync or reinstall the software (for a hard-reset). Basically, the device is completely useless. What do you recommend? is there other button combos for an actual "hard-reset" of all data? Any possible solution?
I am in Europe until August 6th, so I can't exactly take it back to the store I bought it from (for a couple weeks at least).

Don't know and magic button combos. All I can suggest is to find an Apple store nearby.
You can find stores in the UK or Italy here: http://www.apple.com/retail/storelist/
Worldwide technical support numbers are here: http://www.apple.com/support/contact/phone_contacts.html
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