My iphone 3GS will not turn on

So, my partner was using my iphone when it all of a sudden turned itself off. I have tried to charge it with numerous chargers: NOTHING. I have tried holding down the home + power button for a restart: NOTHING. I have just tried to do a restore through itunes, got through the whole sequence, had a white screen then came up with an error advising that it was unable to complete the restore. HELP! I do not want to take it into an apple store as it is no longer under warranty. Is there anything I can do to get it working again ??

You could try to connect in recovery mode to restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
If this does not help, you'll have to get it serviced. Are there any error numbers given when the restoring process stops?

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