Vertical Lines/cannot recover/unresponsive

[stevep320]

iPhone 3GS 16GB
there are black flickering vertical lines on a white screen from the moment it turns on, it does not go to the apple logo at all.

i've gotten it to connect to itunes to get this message every time...i am not forcing it into recovery mode, it just always is

notice that itunes displays no info for this iPhone no serial number/capacity/or software version
when i click restore i get this

my first guess is that its a broken LCD but....
even though iTunes recognizes it as an iPhone, it cannot recognize it's serial/software. i really hope it's not the logic board. anyone have any ideas???

 

[stevep320]

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i used irecovery to get it out of the recovery loop...and changed the backlight level. was able to see a faint apple logo in the center of screen...which turns to something totally different shaped believe it is the usbcord and itunes logo screen when in recovery???

 

[CSMchris376]

Check this Apple doc out. It explains the 3194 error as something to do with contacting the Apple servers. See if this helps.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275

 

[mertez]

steve have you maybe found a solution? I have spent a lot of time fighting with the same issue but i could not find nothing to bring it back.. let me know if you found something

thank you