Iphone 4 will not fully restore

i have an iphone 4 with ios 7.1.2 and it went into recovery mode and when i plugged it into itunes like the screen showed me to it said there is an iphone in recovery mode that needs to be restored so i tried to restore it and it went through the first process of extracting software then the iphone screen goes black and itunes gives me the error code 21 also i retried several times and a few times the screen didnt go black but gave me the error code 11 and i went through all the steps to fix the errors but it still hasnt worked and im not sure what to do, this has happened to me before but i dont remember how i fixed it

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Related errors: 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 1000, 1002, 1004, 1011, 1012, 1014, 1667, or 1669.
These errors mean that your device or computer may have a hardware issue that's preventing the update or restore from completing.
Check that your security software and settings aren't preventing your device from communicating with the Apple update server.
Then try to restore your iOS device two more times while connected with a cable, computer, and network you know are good.
Confirm that your security software and settings are allowing communication between your device and update servers.
If you still see the error message when you update or restore, contact Apple support.
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