Jailbroken iPhone 3 stuck on loading circle after being reset?

My cousin gave me his used iphone 3, it still had some of hir data. It is also jailbroken. I wanted to delete them, so I have gone to settings>general>reset>erase all data ang settings.

After I confirmed that I wanted to erase all data and settings, it is stuck on the loading cirle. It does not connect to itunes too, and the sleep/wake botton is broken so I can't force restart it. What should I do?

Normally I would advise recovery mode but with a broken power button it can't be done. The phone is done.

You can try holding down the home button and as you are connect it to iTunes and see if you get a recovery mode prompt but simply the phone is too old.

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