Iphone stuck in recovery mode, itunes can't get past 'waiting for iphone' after I repaired the broken screen...

So awhile ago the screen broke so I bought a kit on ebay to fix it, my boyfriend did a beautiful job using a tutorial on Youtube, it turns on, tells me to connect to itunes. I did that and now it's been connected to my laptop for 9 hours and the status bar never moves. I'm getting very frustrated! I've tried putting it in DFU mode but nothing changes.
Please help me! What do I do?!

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