Apple ID Disabled, Lost Recovery Key, No Access to Trusted Device
My cousin gave me a White iPhone 4s. She had gotten a new one and gave me the old one.
I didnt need it at the time, but I played around with it sorta like an iPod touch for a while.
I made an Apple ID and turned on the Two Step Verification when I set the phone up.
After a few weeks I got bored with it and through it in a drawer. Now I would like to have it turned on and activated as I need a phone, its been months since I messed with it, but I am having some issue.
For starters I couldnt remember my @icloud account password, and after guessing too many times it was disabled for security reason. So I figured no problem I will just go unlock it, it seemed pretty straight forward. But when I enter the icloud account name, I have no idea what my recovery key is, and when I click on use a trusted device and current password (since I now remember the password), I notice the trusted device I had it connected to was my old phone which I dropped in the sink a few days ago and no longer works.
Sooo, I figured maybe restoring it to factory settings would fix all this mess.
I turn the phone off, put it into DFU mode and on iTunes I Click on Restore and Update, and it goes through the whole process and when its time to set the phone up, right after I oick the Language and Location, it says to connect to iTunes, so I do, and then it says "This phone s linked to an apple id (the one that is locked) but when I enter the user and pass (which I know is right now) it brings me back to having to unlock the account which I cant do since I dont have any of the needed stuff.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? I just want to restore it to factory settings and have it turned on and used as a phone. Thank you for any help.
iPhone 4S, iOS 9.3.5