Iphone data

I was at work with my iPhone in my pocket and after my shift, the “iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes” logo appeared. The data is now inaccessible. However, I do know my password and the command in settings “erase all data after 10 missed attempts” was turned off. Quite a sneaky awful trick my iPhone played on me considering my iTunes backup a week earlier failed to complete.

In another thread chigglesmalloy said the following: “ If you remember your password you may be in luck. I forgot mine but knew it had to be something I would eventually remember (like a birthday or post code etc). After attempting to enter passcode 10 or 11 times (can't remember exactly), my iPhone running iOS 8.2 was disabled. The plug into iTunes symbol appeared, then according to online instructions I was supposed to restore. However I didn't have a backup so didn't want to do that. my solution? I plugged device in to PC, started iTunes. Closed iTunes and uninstalled, unplugged device. Then I reinstalled the latest version of iTunes and plugged in device to PC and opened itunes again. At this point, my device passcode entry was reset back to zero, so I had another 10 or 11 attempts. I did this process (uninstall and reinstall itunes) 3 times (30+ passcode attempts) until I got the right one. i have since tested this on another device running iOS 8 and worked.”

Has as anyone had success with this? It appears this is a little too good to be true. Seems that there is professional technology that companies around the world use to extract data but it is not available commercially or for personal use. Are there any options if I had no iCloud backup to get my data off my phone?