iTunes Restore does not wipe your drive clean.

[darngooddesign]

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]

so if you needed to bring it in for service they would know it had at one time been hacked?

 

[darngooddesign]

so if you needed to bring it in for service they would know it had at one time been hacked?

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.

 

[werkedm3]

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

 

[derandrew09]

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?

 

[joelypolly]

Restore does clear EVERYTHING however when iTunes asks if you would like to restore from a backup it copies those settings back.

 

[CD3660]

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

This is correct.

 

[Dadeleine]

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.

 

[cprint]

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.

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