Forgot lock code on iphone

I purchased someone's older 3S Iphone to use and had changed the 4 number lock code after adding all of my phone numbers from my old phone. I now have forgotton the pin code and I had never got around to connecting it to my I-tunes. I am not worried about losing the info that I entered I just would like to activate my phone. Is there anyway to delete the lock code or to recover it?

Nope. You're about to lose ALL of your data. Since you've never backed up, there will be no backup to restore from. Thus, your only option, if you can't remember the passcode, will be to force the phone into recovery mode & restore as a new device. All data on your phone will be erased.
Turn your phone off, then:
Leave the USB cable connected to your computer, but NOT your phone, iTunes running, press & hold the home button while connecting the USB cable to your dock connector, continue holding the home button until you see “Connect to iTunes” on the screen. You may now release the home button. iTunes should now display that it has detected your phone in recovery mode, if not quit and reopen iTunes. If you still dont see the recovery message repeat these steps again. iTunes will give you the option to restore from a backup or set up as new. In your case, new will be your only option.

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Hi friends,
hope my post will find you all in healthy state. I have two queries and shall be very thankful to you if you guide me accordingly:
Q1: I want to restore factory settings of my N900, but unfortunately forgot the lock code. How lock code can be renewed?
Q2: I want to hard reset my N900, does any one has some simpler and straight forward process?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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nabeelurrehman wrote:
Hi friends,
hope my post will find you all in healthy state. I have two queries and shall be very thankful to you if you guide me accordingly:
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Thanks a lot in advance.
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