Problem with hard reset - can't prompt iTunes restore

So, this is my 3rd time needing to restore my iPhone. I'm about to chuck this thing out the window.
I'm stuck on the boot screen and I'm holding the sleep and home buttons so I can prompt the iTunes logo so I can restore it. Well, it's not letting me. It's just a black screen - nothing there.

After it restarts, let up on the sleep button while still holding down the home button. It should go into recovery mode in a few seconds.
Your not alone. At this moment, I'm in my 5th recovery in 4 days (8th or so since upgrading to 2.0). Each time, I bring it up "slowly", adding more apps and trying them. Tonight's "winner" was Scrabble (which has triggered several total freezes), however it's not just a single app causing this. Most of the other times happened sometime after an app crashes (various). Last night, one crashed, and I though I'd just shut off the phone normally and restart. No go. Hung during boot.
This phone is a day 1, 1st gen. It's always had factory firmware and updates.

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Erm.. I'm not quite with you johnjoel. From what I understand, the problem isn't sorted at all??
First, What was the inital problem, and when did it occure? - Did you install anything on it before it happened? Did you upgrade the fw?
Anyway, your phone's stuck on the boot screen. Usually there's nothing more to do other than take it to a Nokia care point as mccoy did, if the hard reset fails.
But do you have a memory card installed? If yes; pull it out and try another hard reset. if it works, you will most likely have to format the memorycard.
If you don't have a memorycard installed or the trick doesn't work; leave the memorycard outside the phone and pull out the sim-card too. Try another hard reset. - If the phone boots without it, but fails to boot with it, even when you've just performed a successfully hard reset, I would try another simcard if you have one spare. - If the phone does not work with that simcar either, you will have to take it to a Nokia care point.
If i did misunderstand you, and you have sorted it out, let me know by posting here, and I will remove this.
If youre not sure if you do the hard reset correctly; let me know.
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