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I had the exact same problem as you. Took me about 12 hrs to solve this.
This is what i did.
1. Connected the phone to my mac and launched iTunes.
2. Removed the sim-card from the phone.
3. Put the phone in DFU mode to do a recovery with iTunes.
4. When itunes was done and the phone had booted...