Iphone crashed, had to reboot, now it won't start

I have the original iphone running the 2.0 software and it crashed while I was in the settings messing around. It froze up, so i rebooted it holding the sleep button and home button. Now, it will not load up past the apple loading screen. I've tried so many times but it won't load up. All I get is the load screen with the picture of the apple! What in the world do I do?

Well, ok. So here is how you force your phone into recovery mode when it won't boot so that Itunes can discover it and restore. With the phone off, hold down the home button then simultaneously hold down the sleep button and you will be prompted in itunes to do a restore.

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