IPhone 4s - Fail during iOS update (7.+) & Unable to recover

So the title is pretty much clear. But just to be sure:
I have an iPhone 4s.
It started acting up. By that I mean that a few applications started crashing at random times. And the connection between iTunes and iPhone (cable) wasen't working well.
Asked some friends, told me that I probably didn't update everything properly.
Then I updated iTunes and my iPhone, while my iPhone was updating it suddenly stopped and it put on the "connect to iTunes" screen.
So it basically went from updating iOS to asking for a clean recover in 10 mins.
The problem now is, that when I connect it to iTunes and click the "Recover iPhone" button, it gets stuck.
The exact point where it gets stuck is where iTunes says "checking/updating iPhone Firmware" and on my iPhone the loadingbar stops arround 55-60%
After that the message "The iPhone iPhone cannot be recovered. An unknown error has occurd (29)".
Any help would be appreciated!

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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.
Try to restore your iOS device two more times while connected with a cable, computer, and network you know are good. Also, confirm 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.
The above comes from here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#10

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