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Erase all contents & settings

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ckc

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Nov 13, 2010
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I am preparing my 3GS 32GB iPhone for sale, the phone has been jailbroken to unlock it.

If I use the 'Erase all contents and settings' to erase my data will that still retain the jailbreak as naturally I wish to retain the unlocked stae of the phone for the buyer?
Thanks
 
if you restore whit itunes you lose the jailbreak and the unlock is the only way to lost it
 
ckc said:
I am preparing my 3GS 32GB iPhone for sale, the phone has been jailbroken to unlock it.

If I use the 'Erase all contents and settings' to erase my data will that still retain the jailbreak as naturally I wish to retain the unlocked stae of the phone for the buyer?
Thanks
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If you want to keep the jailbreak and unlock don't hit "reset all". Manually go into your iPhone and take everything off through iTunes.
 
PsstGreek said:
If you want to keep the jailbreak and unlock don't hit "reset all". Manually go into your iPhone and take everything off through iTunes.
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That is what I thought would be the way forward. Thanks for confirming it, much appreciated. :)

As an afterthought, if I just delete all of the phones contents through iTunes and then synch so the phone is blank does that also ensure that when it is plugged into iTunes by the new owner that no details of my iTunes account is still on the phone? i.e. the new user will not have access to my iTune account. I assume that the iTunes account details are secured on my computer.
 
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ckc said:
That is what I thought would be the way forward. Thanks for confirming it, much appreciated. :)

As an afterthought, if I just delete all of the phones contents through iTunes and then synch so the phone is blank does that also ensure that when it is plugged into iTunes by the new owner that no details of my iTunes account is still on the phone? i.e. the new user will not have access to my iTune account. I assume that the iTunes account details are secured on my computer.
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Yeah. Log off your iTunes account on your iPhone. Make you delete every trace of your info. Then when the new owner has it go over the speil with him (e.g. don't restore/update or you'll lose the jailbreak/unlock). When he/she syncs the iPhone to their computer it'll put all their info on, so you'll be good.
 
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