Help!! Iphone 3 restore needed!! - keeping data

HELP!!!!  my iphone 3 is displaying a msg saying "restore needed" i have no signal from a network (which i have already spoken to them about) and iphone tells me to plug into itunes. When i plug it in, my computer asks me to unlock my phone, i am unable to do this as my phone has locked me out, allowing emergency calls only. I have heard about doing a type of reset however, i havent baked up my phone (idiot) and i dont want to loose pictures or messsages, or contacts!! about to cry ...any ideas??

Has happened to me buddy..... But there are a few ways to get around it.
1)
- Take your iPhone and hold sleep/wake button + home button....
- Your iPhone should power off then reboot, when it reboots release both buttons..
**soo if that didnt work try this... And this is the last thing u can do**
2)
- Hold sleep wake/button + home button again
- But when iPhone reboots ONLY RELEASE THE POWER BUTTON DO NOT TAKE YOUR FINGER OFF THE HOME BUTTON
- This should put your iPhone into recovery mode. (At this point if you plugged it ino the the computer it would read it)
    — When You do the step above your iPhone should have the iTunes sync on the screen which is what we want, do not get worried when you see that.
- Return and do step (1) above
After that your iPhone should be good to go and actually not need a restore haha
Good luck to you i know this stinks

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