IPhone 3g dead after iOS 4.1 update

Hi All, like many I waited to update my iPhone 3g to update from 3.1.3 to 4.0.x.
So yesterday I did perform the update. Everything went well, iOS 4.1 was in my iPhone, but when iTunes started to sync my personal data back, the connection got lost and the iPhone rebooted itself. It kept doing that during data sync. So I restored the iPhone with new firmware, but the same problem occurred during the new firmware load.
Now it only boots in recovery mode and every time I want to recover my iPhone, it reboots you see a progress bar on the iPhone, but the iTunes comes with an error 2. There is no way the iPhone can be restored now. I tried 2 versions of iTunes 9 and 10. I try setting it in dfu mode and restore, but no luck.
I never jailbreaked my iPhone!
Patrick

Hi Patrick
I have an iPhone4. I tried upgrading to os4.1. Had the exact problem like you had. I thought I bricked the phone. But I got it come back to life eventually. Here is how I did
I used a program called tiny umbrella. I clicked start TSS server then clicked kick out of dfu mode(please check wording for similar ones. I cannot remember exact name from top oft head. But it is below the start tsp server area). Then magic happened the phone reboot and starts like normal. But all my app installed was lost. Luckily all contacts emails messages were retained. That is very lucky! Hope that helps.
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