Is it possible to remove the jailbreak as well? I need to take my phone to the genius bar and would like to remove not only the tweaks but also the jailbreak itself without upgrading so that I can jailbreak again after it's serviced.
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Not sure about removing the JB but here's what I did a few weeks ago when my speaker stopped working and had to bring my JB i5 to Apple.
Removed most cydia tweaks and left just sbsettings and activator.
Used sbsettings to hide/poof the cydia icon and all other JB icons.
Then disabled all ways to bring up the sbsettings screen from within activator.
So everything looked stock on the phone beside the activator entry all the way down at the settings menu.
They didn't bother playing with it much besides going to settings/about to get the serial number. And then they went to the audio section where the ringtones are to test the sound.
They replaced the speaker and now I'm good and still JB
On Twitter, Coolstar recommended just uninstalling Cydia after Semi-Restoring. Later, you can re-runn the Semi-Restore to reinstall it (one of the things it does is re-install Cydia). I am still a bit concerned about it still being jailbroken and having the modified file structure, but I suppose the worst that could happen is that they refuse to service it. I'd rather have it in an un-jailbroken state from which I could just re-run evasi0n, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.
I hear you but I don't think they go into such detail like looking at file structure and such. They just get the serial number and go on with the rest.
The Apple stores are always busy and they spend seconds with your phone.
I would rather not use the semirestore tool cause heard a few horror stories.
If they refused service and they noticed the JB somehow I would just pay for the repair elsewhere. Personally I would rather void the warranty than stay stock again
I used both iLEX RAT and Semi-Restore on my iP5 6.02 because of battery drain issues, works ok, but second time i had to rejailbreak with evasi0n to reinstall Cydia, otherwise works ok.
Hi,
i've tried semirestore on my iPad2 (gsm) 6.1.2 JB
the issue is that i can't activate it
i've read about some issues with the gsm version (he just wrote an advice on twitter about that... but i don't use twitter.. )
the only thing he said about that is to replace the lockdown folder taken from another activated jb device (my ip4s 6.1.2 as well)
Even if i manage all the permissions, still not working
now i will try to use redsnow again and still looking for a solution, i don't want to upgrade to ios 7
edit: no way through redsnow and evasion.. it has to be activated before... and there's no way to activate it.
edit 2: tried again through redsnow, by restoring from 4.3 (i have bloobs on cydia) but it's says that couldn't obtain fresh basebad blobs.. not signed... don't understand why.
i've tried semirestore on my iPad2 (gsm) 6.1.2 JB
the issue is that i can't activate it
i've read about some issues with the gsm version (he just wrote an advice on twitter about that... but i don't use twitter..
)the only thing he said about that is to replace the lockdown folder taken from another activated jb device (my ip4s 6.1.2 as well)
Even if i manage all the permissions, still not working
now i will try to use redsnow again and still looking for a solution, i don't want to upgrade to ios 7
edit: no way through redsnow and evasion.. it has to be activated before... and there's no way to activate it.
edit 2: tried again through redsnow, by restoring from 4.3 (i have bloobs on cydia) but it's says that couldn't obtain fresh basebad blobs.. not signed... don't understand why.
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