TS4515 - MY OWN phone locked me out?

Question

Ugh, I'm freaking out here. >:(
TL;DR - teenager, given an iphone 4s, restored it a bunch of times, connected a few different emails to them. Restored after iOS 7.1 update, now I'm locked out. Bought new from legit mall retailer years ago, don't know what to do?
I have an iPhone 4s that I got 2 years ago as a graduation present from my parents. And in the past, my phone has needed to be restored more than once. I chalk it up to the fact that I've dropped it quite a bit and the thing has some weird quirks now and again, like closing apps or restarting itself. Anyways, if an update came out and I didn't download it right away, it would shut itself down after a while (couple of weeks) and need to be restored. I didn't keep track of all my passwords (dumb teenager) and made five different accounts for my iphone over two years before finally sticking to the last one – since Apple used to have a limit on a maximum of five accounts associated with one phone, and that any of them could be used at any time to re-activate the phone.
Now, thanks to iOS 7's clever anti-theft thing, it won't accept my current apple I.D. Despite the fact that I have been using it on that phone for MONTHS, since it wasn't the first email I set up with Find My Iphone. It says “this phone has been linked to b*****@gmail.com. Awesome – I think have that one, same number of characters and everything. My notes from my iphone is still on my icloud, everything is fine. After much password searching, I got it to finally log in...but oh, wait, this ID can't be used to activate this iphone. I don't remember any of my others, or if I do, they aren't working. So what am I expected to do? I only used 2 different passwords for all five accounts and not one of them is working.
I've looked around for similar issues and everyone is basically shrugging their shoulders, going 'that *****. You lost your device.” when I DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO RESTORE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. This is ridiculous.
And before anyone says anything, THE PHONE IS NOT STOLEN OR SECOND HAND. This is even more annoying – anyone who has my problem seems to get that thrown at them, and this time that's simply not the case. The phone was bought, new, from a Rogers store with myself and my parents over 2 years ago, like a year after the 4s came out and it was still pretty new. I have multiple copies of paid bills with my phone's number on it, attached to THIS iphone. They might even have the initial reciept somewhere still. . I'm on a serious budget and a family contract with my phone company that continues for another year, so I refuse to up and buy another phone. I shouldn't have to, and I don't understand how this company can just go 'whoops' and wash their hands of the whole thing, while I'm out $500 on a bricked phone PLUS cutting my contract OR buying a new mobile. What can I do?

Answer 1

Try reseting the phone, then connect it to Itunes and , Use "Help" run Diagnostics from the Itunes menu to check
communication between the Phone and Itunes.
If you are using a firewall such as Zone Alarm or similar check that it's no preventing communication between the Iphone and Itunes. Turn it off or if you can make sure that the correct communication ports are open.
good luck