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    Sweet Vengeance's Avatar
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    Default I wanna wipe out all existence of jailbreak iPhone 4s

    I tried jailbreaking for my first time, played around with it for a bit and i just didn't like it. I know that i need to restore from backup to get rid of jailbreak, but it leaves some jailbreak stuff in there. Is there a way to completely wipe out all jailbreak data? should i put iphone as new?
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    Restoring the phone as "New" is the best way IMHO. It's a PITA because you lose all your Apps settings but it works.
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    What kind of things does it leave behind? I have restored a couple of times after I have jail broken and I always install as new just so that there is nothing left behind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oliverg109 View Post
    What kind of things does it leave behind? I have restored a couple of times after I have jail broken and I always install as new just so that there is nothing left behind.
    I don't know, you tell me O.o
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brickman View Post
    Restoring the phone as "New" is the best way IMHO. It's a PITA because you lose all your Apps settings but it works.
    Does that mean I'll have to re install my 2g apps? o.O, oh well i don't mind. Thanks
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    All I did was click restore. Which then downloaded the file from apple. Erased and installed firmware. From there it asked if I wanted to restore from my previous backup. That I did and stored on another hard drive then placed back in the backup folder only because it automatically backed up after jail breaking so I had to delete that backup. So once I restored to my pre jailbreak backup it was as if nothing happened. All traces gone but all my apps back
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    Quote Originally Posted by |-KGB-|CaptHowdy View Post
    All I did was click restore. Which then downloaded the file from apple. Erased and installed firmware. From there it asked if I wanted to restore from my previous backup. That I did and stored on another hard drive then placed back in the backup folder only because it automatically backed up after jail breaking so I had to delete that backup. So once I restored to my pre jailbreak backup it was as if nothing happened. All traces gone but all my apps back
    Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. Still waiting on the apple software, 2 hours of staring at the comp T.T
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    Some of you should get in the habit of backing up a pure before jailbreak. That way when you restore as new you can restore that pure backup before jailbreak and not lose your data and settings.
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    I did that, I backup up on stock iOS and then jailbroke it and I haven't restored it yet, I'll leave the back there just in case anything crazy happens.
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    I make sure that stock iOS backup is a computer backup. That way when I turn iCloud back on it can't be overwritten. Just in case some of you use iCloud for backups.
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    I would have to agree, restoring your device as a new device is the best way. Its time consuming but I would rather do it this way to get rid of all data related to jailbreak or even corrupted data...
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    i must say i did jailbreak. But i am sick of screwing with phones after all my androids. So i took it back b/c the only real benefit for me was free apps. I figure if i cant afford it I dont need it so i took it back to stock. The phone works so well unjailbroken that i dont need to lol. there were always reasons with android to make something work better but really no need. Again this is just for me not everyone obviously
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    Fully restore in iTunes then when it gives you the option choose set up as a new device or just use a backup from before you jail broke

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