Itunes wont let me back up the iphone 5 i just restored because it says its not set up.

     I had a problem previously where I reset my password and shortly forgot it. In that time, I tried to restore it and then back it up but I couldn't restore it because Find My IPhone was enabled. Unfortunately the only way to disable Find My IPhone was to access it from within the phone. But I was locked out. So I logged on to Find My IPhone and I clicked on my phone and told it when it came back online to erase all info. Before this step I had read that the phone had to be offline for this. So I turned on airplane mode on the pull-up bar and shutdown my iPhone.
     After I told Find My IPhone to erase my phones data when it cam online, I turned back on my phone, but I couldn't access airplane mode to turn off and get my phone back online. So I was completely stuck there until later today I remembered my password. So I opened my phone up and disabled airplane mode. Then my phone erased.
     So I plugged it into my computer and started it up. When it asked if I wanted to set up as a new iPhone, or restore from iTunes or ICloud.I chose Restore from iTunes. The sync started on my computer screen. But about halfway through, it stopped and said, "iTunes could not back up the iPhone "Name" because it has not been set up yet. Then the download stops.
     Please help, I'm lost without my phone. Thank you!

Hello Wazang203,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. You may want to consider putting the device in Recovery Mode, and then restoring it from your backup:
If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

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