Restore needed, but itunes wont see it???

Hi,
Phone all of a sudden just turned off, then back out telling me to connect to itunes, i have done that but it comes up with
"Restore needed, blah blah" then itunes tells me that my sim is locked and doesnt see the phone??

Both of you can try this out and see if it works. The method below will put your iPhone into DFU mode:
1. Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes.
2. Hold down the sleep and home button (ignore power off slider) and continue to hold for 7 seconds after the screen shuts off.
3. Let go of the sleep button, but continue to hold the home button. The screen should stay black while in DFU mode, if it turns on try the process again.
4. iTunes should pop-up saying that there is a iPhone in recovery mode.
5. Try restoring now.
Let me know if it works for you. If you are using a MAC to do this, you cannot be on 10.5.6, you have to update to 10.5.7. There was a problem with 10.5.6 recognizing iPhone's in DFU mode, but it was corrected in 10.5.7.

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