My 3gs is frozen on the Apple boot screen with a spinning wheel despite resets and restores as advised everywhere I look? Any other tips?

I'm sure this is probably covered in here somewhere but I can't find it, after an hour of searching I have already done everything I see suggested!
I'm stuck on the Apple booting screen on my 3gs with the spinning wheel, I've tried resetting and restored to earlier versions and to blank but everything ends the same.
Please help me!

Well if you are mechanically inclined you can try removing the battery and then reinserting it. There are a couple of good videos on youtube--milliamp has one---. You will need a .00 phillips screwdriver and a tool to remove the cables. I just replaced my batter and I can say that the difficulty level is about a 5 out of 10.

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