Solution for iphone 3g hanging / freezing during restore!

Well like many other iphone users my little bundle of joy decided it didn't like one of the app updates (happened during the voicenote update) and decided to reboot and get stuck on the apple logo "screen of death".
Firstly i put it into recovery mode (holding power and home button down then restarting while still holding down the home button)
iTunes recognized that it was in recovery mode and that it neeeded to be restored. Good times so far...
Once it restored it then wanted to know if i wanted to load my backup. I really needed this to work as it has all my data, sms, important stuff like that.
So it is happily ticking along restoring from back up and it gets to about 95% done and looks like it freezes. Nothing.... for 1 hour so i get an itchy iphone finger and disconnect it. when it reboots it loads with an incomplete set of apps.
Bad times
So i do the whole process again and not let my itchy iphone finger run amock but after hanging at 95% again for 2 hours i disconnected it again. it reboots (by itself after leaving it for a minute) and when it loads up it still has an incomplete set of apps installed on it but guess what? There were far more installed than the first time i tried with the restore!!
So i did this whole process for a third time but this time i just left it and went to bed. In the morning i woke up to a healthy iphone!!!! GOOD TIMES!
Granted the music and vids are missing etc but i always create a "iphone playlist" so in the event that something like this happens i know i just resync that playlist and everything is sorted.
Moral of the restore and restore from backup story... Don't let the itchy iphone finger get the better of you.Just leave it be, it took a fair few hours and looked like it had frozen at 95% but it got there in the end. Unless you get an actual error with the update/restore just be patient and let it do it's thing.
I think it looked like it was freezing / hanging as it was reinstalling all the apps back on the iphone(i have a fair few).
I now have my bundle of joy back and all is well.... for now.
Beware of the itchy iphone finger!
Hope this helps

You were right - waiting solved the "freezing" of the restore process. It didn't even take much longer than two or three hours this time (maybe because I already had a couple of hours done the time before?).
Sadly my problem wasn't solved, but I guess that was because the backup itself was faulty.
Apple should really not automatically replace a good backup - especially not after a restore that could be broken (because a part of iTunes crashed, for example, which did happen to me already twice out of two times I started a restore "project").

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