Originally Posted by i robot
yeah this is pritty fightening. The only thing that worked for me was to press and hold the sleep and home buttons and at the same time connect to iTunes (not easy). As soon as you connect release the sleep button. This will hopefully enable the iTunes connection icon on your iPhone screen and iTunes will recognize your iPhone. You'll then have to recover from a back up.
You may have to try a few times!
I tried it all day today about 20 times total. And im on a v1