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itunes error 9, 21...what are my options?

I am very sorry about the extremely long description but I wanted to give the full story.

About two months ago I happened upon 2 broken iPhone 3G's....one had a cracked screen and broken LCD and the other kept giving error 23 when restoring so was completely useless. See this thread on hackint0sh (http://www.hackint0sh.org/f148/150803.ht...)

I took the display assembly out of the iphone with the restoring issue and installed it in the other iPhone. Everything seemed to work perfectly. However after a few days it spontaneously entered a reboot loop...often just ending up on a whit screen. When I repeatedly rebooted it, it eventually booted up normally. So I restored a few more times (it gave me many errors but I persisted (21 was common I think)) and eventually these issues stopped...until about two weeks ago.

Every once in a while it decided to go on a reboot loop but until today I had no problem just holding home and sleep a few times to eventually get it back to normal.

Today it entered a very familiar reboot loop and I just cant get it out. Errors 9 and 21 are very common when restoring. There are few others which I will edit this with. I have tried dfu and regular restore mode countless times.

So basically I have still got the carcass of the other broken iphone mentioned above.

Is there any way I could use the parts which are still useful to bring this phone back to life.

Again sorry for the extreme length of the question. I would really sincerely appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,

James

edit: I can post itunes restore logs if that would help

edit 2: here is a restore log which returns error 9:

http://pastebin.com/GLZGTvsU

here is a different error 9 :

http://pastebin.com/nfbJiTDp

here is an error 21:

http://pastebin.com/GLzSGp3p

here is an error 1604:

http://pastebin.com/Q5UPbQ4a

here is an error 1603:

http://pastebin.com/n4nEGc7W

here is error 14:

http://pastebin.com/VGbSsDJx

I have 25 restore logs from the past two days and many are different..I'll just post a few.

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sure, logs would be helpful.

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

check out the specific error codes section on this page... usb/dock connector could be problem or your security software.(for error 9 an 21)

error 23 is ? radio/software. have found a shop in uk that says is able to fix this... am waiting for them to get back to me about my phone... will let you know....

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Thank you vey much for your help...I will try a few things with error 9/ 21 in mind and post back here.

Please do let me know about the error 23 repair. I live in Ireland so it would be very possible for me to send it there.

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Follow my original link - most of your error codes are for USB... Take good lookat both cable ends and your dock. Then look at computer software/security/iTunes. It's a really good guide

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