My iphone 4 wont start or even go into recovery mode. Help?

My iphone was working fine until I went to check something on the phone and it wouldn't turn on.
I tried all the common things to fix it:
1) I pressed and held the power button to restart it in case it had shut down.
2) I pressed the home and sleep button to force shutdown
3) I tried charging it on my dock (eventhough at last check the battery was at more than 90% moments before)
4) I connected it to itunes on my macbook.
5) I disconnected it and pressed and held the home button before connecting it again to the mac to enter it into recovery mode but it still wouldn't start.
Any suggestions? Thanks

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275

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