Unable to restore iphone 3GS after updating with iOS$

I have a 32GB iphone 3GS purchased online in hong kong and therefore fully unlocked. I updated the software with iOS4 and now it will not fully restore and the error message is "error 29". The phone serial number, phone name etc have all been deleted.

OK, so nothing else was working so I took my phone into the Genius bar and explained what had happened. The Genius said He was unsure what error 1013 was so he looked it up and explained "It's an error related to the baseband and that more than likely the phone was unable to communicate with Apple servers as Apple had the phone marked as non existent"
He continued to explain that there was a fix he could do but would be quicker and easier to replace my phone. He did so and I left happy.
I recomend you just take your phones in if you are having this same issue!

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