if you do the sequence what I put on my first post it turns the phone into safe mode and then turns it back to factory settings, I think the main problem is that people have not done the latest update on there old phone so you are trying to make a restore on your new phone with a older IOS which causing the crash.
just copy my first post on page 3 which turns phone back to factory reset ( not normal reset there is a difference), you will need the latest I tunes on a computer or MAC and then start your phone again.
so basically the only way for this to work is old phone as to have the latest update of iOS and you have to have the latest I tunes on your computer