Iphone 4 stuck on a black screen not recognized by computer

So bassically my other Iphone 4 is now stuck in a powered on state between the bootloader (apple logo) and the powered off state. my computers(win xp through win 8.1) all say unrecognized USB device and i checked its not the cable using another iphone.... the iphone is completely unresponsive (nothing happens when it is plugged in the wall or computer, holding home and power does nothing, itunes won't recognize it, vibrations don't work either and if i try calling my iphone after around 3-5 seconds the other iphone i use to call my iphone just says call ended...) please try and help me! this happened after letting it charge from around 9% battery for around 3 hours and when i unplugged it, it was kind of hot to the touch, but that has been happening for a while now due to one of the pins on the charging port being pushed back onto the metal part and causing current to flow through the metal housing of the phone(the antenna i think?) but i never cared about it since i dont really need the antenna so much....
P.S. if i can get it to get into DFU mode it would be great since i made a program a while back for IOS 4.2.1 and IOS 5 to access the filesystem in DFU mode.... i really need my data but even recovery mode would be fine if i can get the phone working again! PLEASE HELP ME!

Your iPhone is in recovery mode and any data that was not backed up is already gone. You have no choice but to restore the phone and restore from your last backup.
~Lyssa

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Hello Cassandra602,
It sounds as if screen curtain has been enabled. This can be disabled by triple tapping with three fingers on your iPhone's screen.
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