Need help from all the sifu here. My gf just received a used Samsung Galaxy i9000 from her brother-in-law who happen to stay @ Singapore. She brought it back from there now but the machine itself is locked with the message "Too many patterns attempt". The original phone owner is not the brother thus retrieving the right login info is out of the question.

After I did some research and read plenty of info, I found out the best way to reuse the phone is through hard reset. To make things complicated, I suspect this phone belongs to the batch that cannot be hard reset via the 3 buttons combo (LOL really FML) as I lost count on my attempts to hard reset the phone.

I'm a newbie in Android phone and never use one before, so my question is, what should I do next ??