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iTunes Restore does not wipe your drive clean.

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darngooddesign

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This is just a FYI.

I've long suspected that doing a restore left traces of your previous jailbreaking. I just upgraded to 114 and did a restore twice and my 3rd party app preferences were copied to var/mobile/library/preferences.

Just a heads up to anyone who thinks that hitting restore will blank-slate your iphone.
 
marykay9507 said:
so if you needed to bring it in for service they would know it had at one time been hacked?
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Logically they would have to have a way of browsing the Phone's filesystem. The question is whether they have a way to do that? A better question is whether they care if its been JBed but not unlocked.
 
I think the trick is to not restore from the previous settings, and set it up as a new iphone. I have not tested it by looking at the file system, but I did that last time and it seemed as though none of the settings were retained for programs, whereas they were when I chose to restore the iphone image
 
what if u just deleted the whole file system, then did a DFU restore? im pretty sure that would clear everything... or would that just brick it?
 
Restore does clear EVERYTHING however when iTunes asks if you would like to restore from a backup it copies those settings back.
 
werkedm3 said:
I think the trick is to not restore from the previous settings, and set it up as a new iphone. I have not tested it by looking at the file system, but I did that last time and it seemed as though none of the settings were retained for programs, whereas they were when I chose to restore the iphone image
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This is correct.
 
I just restore (in ziphone) my phone, brought it into the Apple store, handed it in and got a new replacement. They had no idea it was hacked....ever.

when you restore it and then go to set it up, do it as a new phone in itunes.

easy.
 
Dadeleine said:
I just restore (in ziphone) my phone, brought it into the Apple store, handed it in and got a new replacement. They had no idea it was hacked....ever.

when you restore it and then go to set it up, do it as a new phone in itunes.

easy.
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can i restore using iTunes? if not, I do not see where to restore on ziphone. please advise
 
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