My iPhone won't boot up anymore, help?

Hi, I'm Lee! My iPhone will not boot up, and I don't know what did it. My friend said his iPod won't come on because he charged it on a friend's XBOX overnight, and so did I. I really don't know if the XBOX did it, but it's possible. The other day I turned it off to save power, and when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't completely boot up. The Apple logo shows up for about a minute and then the loading symbol comes up and just keeps going and it won't ever get to the lock screen. I've tried to restore it. It won't show up in iTunes so I heard about putting the device in Recovery Mode to make it recognizable. It made it show up, but every time I tried to restore it gave me error codes like 21, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, and 1604. My iPhone was on 5.0.1 and at the Restore page in iTunes that only had options to Update and Restore. Update was grayed out, and there should be an update to 5.1. Then today when I tried restoring it the message at the top was stuck on "Verifying iPhone restore with Apple..." iTunes isn't frozen on "Verifying iPhone restore with Apple," it just won't say anything else. I've tried everything and nothing works. I've even tried holding the Power and Home buttons forever, and still, nothing works. Please help!!
Message was edited by: ulyssesfromalabaster

I've read all the error codes already. I've downloaded 5.1 again and tried to restore and it's stuck on "Verifying iPhone restore with Apple" again. After about 10 minutes, iTunes doesn't recognize my iPhone anymore and the tab with my iPhone goes away but it still says "Verifying iPhone restore with Apple" at the top. I'm going to try reinstall iTunes. This should fix things.

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