IPhone 3gs will not go past black screen with apple?

I was sending a picture txt msg, had 16% battery and phone died. I plugged it in, and let it charge maybe 15-20 mins went and looked at it and the black screen with the apple was on (usually that does come on once enough battery has been charged and right before phone turns back on) . I tried to shut it off once it was stuck on that screen for a few mins, but the turn off screen wouldnt turn back on (the one with the red slide bar) so I then held down the sleep button at the top of phone and the round home button on the face of the phone, and the little logo came on to connect with itunes. I connected with my itunes, and it said a device was recognized to be restored (something along those lines), I tried to restore the phone, it went through all steps but then comes up with an error saying it cant be restored...any ideas or is this phone completely done??

3194 usually means one of the following:
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You are trying to downgrade the phone to a version lower than 5.0.1
Your phone has been jailbroken or hacked to use with a carrier other than the carrier it is locked to

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