iPhone Restore to Factory After Jailbreak and Keep Contacts/Calendar

[nhartline1]

I jailbroke my iphone 5 and quickly had problems with apps crashing, both Cydia and native apps. I installed an app to monitor my memory being used and noticed that even after I force quit apps, most of my memory was still being used. I eventually had to make the habit of hard resetting my phone, which became very annoying. The memory app told me that many cydia processes were still running and using a lot of memory.

I decided to get rid of the jailbreak and restored to a backup, but unfortunately that backup was after the jailbreak...so, many of the jailbreak remnants (processes) were transferred over. Which I found out is one way Apple can tell if you have ever jailbroke your device. Now I have the same memory issue and apps crash (usually after letting me know that memory is low and that the app may crash).

I know I can restore to factory settings and set the phone up as a new device - and not restore to a previous backup...BUT I want to keep contacts and calendar entries.

Is this possible?

 

[TriJetHero]

confirm that you did a firmware restore not a restore from an itunes backup?

 

[Jessica Lares]

All your contacts/calendar stuff should be in iCloud.

 

[darricksailo]

I jailbroke my iphone 5 and quickly had problems with apps crashing, both Cydia and native apps. I installed an app to monitor my memory being used and noticed that even after I force quit apps, most of my memory was still being used. I eventually had to make the habit of hard resetting my phone, which became very annoying. The memory app told me that many cydia processes were still running and using a lot of memory.

I decided to get rid of the jailbreak and restored to a backup, but unfortunately that backup was after the jailbreak...so, many of the jailbreak remnants (processes) were transferred over. Which I found out is one way Apple can tell if you have ever jailbroke your device. Now I have the same memory issue and apps crash (usually after letting me know that memory is low and that the app may crash).

I know I can restore to factory settings and set the phone up as a new device - and not restore to a previous backup...BUT I want to keep contacts and calendar entries.

Is this possible?

you can backup your contacts and calendar to icloud. however, doing a restore will cause you to give up your jailbreak as you can only restore to iOS 6.1.3 which is not jailbreakable

 

[nhartline1]

Giving up my jailbreak ability to jailbreak is ok. So just to make sure I am understanding...I should...

(1) Backup to iCloud
(2) Restore iPhone to factory settings
(3) Setup as New Device - without backup

...then the part I'm not sure about...
(4) Transfer contacts, calendar, etc from iCloud back to phone

?

 

[~Ks383~]

Giving up my jailbreak ability to jailbreak is ok. So just to make sure I am understanding...I should...

(1) Backup to iCloud
(2) Restore iPhone to factory settings
(3) Setup as New Device - without backup

...then the part I'm not sure about...
(4) Transfer contacts, calendar, etc from iCloud back to phone

?

If you have backed up your contacts and calendar in iCloud and you set up the device with the same iCloud account those things should transfer back over automatically.