IPhone 3gs won't update to ios 5.1.1 PLEASE HELP!

I got an iPhone 3GS from a friend thats running 4.3.3 and when i try to update it to 5.1.1 it says "isnt compatible with this build" or something like that. Also its jail broken (updating issue also happened before it was jailbroken) and everytime i try to erase all content and settings it just gets stuck so then i will just turn it off and back on again and it works still. Does anybody know how to fix these two things?

Try restoring it through iTunes.

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