Iphone 3G- DFU mode Help

Hello,
I have a Iphone 3g, I bought it about a year ago and have been very pleased with it until now. I was sitting in the car on my way to a hotel and noticed my iphone restarted, I let it do its thing and saw the apple logo, so I assumed that it was turning back on, so i went back to messing around on my new mabook. About 1 hour later I looked down and it was STILL on the loading screen with the apple logo. I have put it into recovery mode after about 2 hours of failing to restart it and make it work correctly.
Now like many of us, I have ALOT of important things on my phone: Contacts, My music( which i did backup but the computer that it was backed up on broke..), Applications, notes, and just everything in general. I would really like to avoid restoring it but I guess I am going to have to. Although I would just like to know if I can back up my iphone while its in restore mode, before restoring and erasing it..
Thank you in advance,
Jacob

Your iTunes library on your computer should be included with your computer's backup along with all other important data - documents, photos, contact info, etc., which should be stored on an external drive or some other external media used for backup purposes only. If your computer's hard drive fails, you''ll have a backup to restore your most important data from, or it can be restored from the backup with a new computer.
There is no way to back up your iPhone while in recovery or DFU mode.

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