Ok when I had my iPhone 3G when you wiped your device it took two hours! But now when I wipe my iPhone 3G S it takes a matter of seconds..... Does anyone know why... it takes two hours on the 3G and seconds on the 3G S
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Wiping your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S
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Might have it as a process not showing. So quick delete everything, then do the 2 hour process in the background?
3G S has hardware encrypted file system, it just erases the encryption key/header of file system, without the key rest is garbage after that.
Whereas 3G has to physically overwrite entire flash with 0's to wipe it.
Whereas 3G has to physically overwrite entire flash with 0's to wipe it.