Iphone 3gs keeps rebooting and will not restore

hi
i got an iphone 3gs
randomly today i was in the middle of a phone call and its just rebooted itself and would not stop rebooting itself until i manually turned it off. got home, set it in recovery mode and it went through the whole iphone recovery process. right at the very end it came up with "iphone "iphone" could not be restored error(-1)
i cant find out what it means on the internet so i was wondering if you could help me i did the whole restart computer, change usb etc process and still not recovering
HELP

(-1) it basically is the iphone "iphone" canot be restored due to an unknown error (-1)

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