This only occurs when I plug it into the charger. When i attempt to restore it loops and on Apple it gets stuck on the "verifying iphone restore with Apple" then i get error 1602, where do i go from here?
160X is a driver issue. Uninstall your USB drivers then reboot your PC. If not, uninstall your USB drivers and iTunes, reboot, reinstall iTunes, retry. Otherwise, use a different computer or create a new User on your PC and retry.
AFAIK yes. It's because iTunes has always, and I mean ALWAYS had a conflict with Windows. iTunes and Macs are basically brothers and sisters since it was originally designed with the Mac as the primary OS all the way back in the day