Need help with locked iPhone 4

[Shinmar]

Ok.... This might not be the right place for this but I can't find somewhere more appropriate...so anyway... my apologies to the mods if I started this somewhere wrong.

My now exgirlfriend decided to pull one last thing on me: she locked my iphone with some random 4 digit password. I have tried everything to restore my phone but I cannot because of the passcode lock. I have tried reasoning with her, it was an expensive phone, I cannot buy another, this is ridiculous, etc, but she "does not remember what the pass was".


I tried using iTunes to restore the phone but it wont work. I understand now the only way this would have worked is using the computer with which the phone was originally activated, but this itself is a problem as well-- I sold my old laptop last month (which also happens to be what I activated my phone with T-T)

It is jailbroken with greenpois0n, though I never installed the SSH app so I cannot ssh into it...

What am I supposed to do!? I could care less about having to wipe my phone, I did not have much on it I cannot recover anyway, so please, anything helps.

To summarize, its an iPhone 4, jailbroken with GreenPois0n. My ex locked it and since I cannot get what the passcode is from her I am trying to wipe it or somehow extract the passcode from the phone. If there is any other info I need to give lemme know. Please help? Am I left single AND with completely useless phone?

[Simon]

Put it in restore or dfu mode and restore it in itunes.

[Poseidon79]

Hold down power and home until the iTunes logo appears. This is recovery mode. iTunes will allow you to restore from here.

[Shinmar]

I should have said what I tried...

I think I have already tried to do DFU mode but it did not work.
I turned my phone off, plugged into pc, turned on holding home button till apple logo dissappears and connect to iTunes shows up.

When I try to restore iTunes says the phone is locked and to unlock so it can be restored.

I tried a similar method to this but instead of the connect to itunes message, the screed goes completely black. Same error message.

[Simon]

never seen that message before when trying to restore. DFU is the black screen one where itunes see the phone in recovery. It should work doing it from that.

[Shinmar]

Ill try again when I get back home from work and post the error message, maybe that will help.

I also noticed my phone spontaneously exits DFU or restore mode while plugged into iTunes mid-restore, after which the password lockscreen shows up, and the restore fails. Is that normal at all?

Thanks for the above posts, any other help greatly appreciated.