Restoring iPhone after jailbraking with Ziphone!!! - Page 3

Buffy · 03-27-2008, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by psylichon

There are steps you can take to avoid losing your data.

1. synchronize your iphone with your Address Book/Outlook/iCal/Internet Explorer/Whatever you use... just use something. That way your contacts, calendar, and bookmarks get saved to something OTHER than the backup iTunes does when it syncs your phone. That way, you can start anew, sync with your partner programs, and get everything back.

Ya gotta understand, when you sync after jailbreaking, certain files pertaining to the JB are saved in your backup. That's why you can't restore to a previous save state... there will be remnants that could cause issues.

I'm just going to get it out there at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, because when it comes to computers I am an idiot: I've never backed up or synced my phone with any utility on my computer as far as contacts go! What do you recommend using?

Last time I restored my phone it wiped all my contacts off, so I restored from a backup and decided I'd figure it out later. I'm curious, as I'll be restoring in June...

Hondamaker · 03-27-2008, 01:33 PM

Restoring and setting up as a new phone does clean her out. I had to do it that way the last time I restored because of some conflicts with some leftover app files.

Hondamaker · 03-27-2008, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Buffy

I'm just going to get it out there at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, because when it comes to computers I am an idiot: I've never backed up or synced my phone with any utility on my computer as far as contacts go! What do you recommend using?

Last time I restored my phone it wiped all my contacts off, so I restored from a backup and decided I'd figure it out later. I'm curious, as I'll be restoring in June...

As long as you've synced your phone before a restore, you can restore and set up as a new phone, your goodies will be saved, just your personalized settings will revert back to factory, and you have to set up your mail accts again, but you contacts, calendar and music and such will re-sync.

Buffy · 03-27-2008, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by Hondamaker

As long as you've synced your phone before a restore, you can restore and set up as a new phone, your goodies will be saved, just your personalized settings will revert back to factory, and you have to set up your mail accts again, but you contacts, calendar and music and such will re-sync.

Gotcha - it's not as bad as I thought, then. Good!

psylichon · 03-27-2008, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Buffy

Gotcha - it's not as bad as I thought, then. Good!

Again, there's a lot of confusion surrounding this. Let me try to clarify further:

When you sync with iTunes, a backup of all the data on your iPhone (except media) is saved with each sync. This is what you'll get back if you do a "restore from saved backup".

The problem is, you don't wanna do that. You need to "restore as new iPhone" so you're not going to get that info back (contacts, calendar, bookmarks, settings, etc). This is why you need to set up EXTERNAL programs with which to sync. In XP land, Outlook and Windows Address Book is pretty much it, on the mac you can sync with iCal and Address Book. This is set on the "info" page of your phone when you plug in.

If you set up these external sync partnerships, you can always restore as a new iPhone, and then resync your media, contacts, schedule... pretty much everything except system settings and (obviously) jailbroken stuff.

Does this make sense?

Buffy · 03-27-2008, 05:05 PM

Yes...thanks, Dave! Now I just need to learn how to back up or sync to a Windows address book - is that already on my computer, or is it a separate program? I don't use outlook, just Thunderbird...?

ColsTiger · 03-27-2008, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by Buffy

Yes...thanks, Dave! Now I just need to learn how to back up or sync to a Windows address book - is that already on my computer, or is it a separate program? I don't use outlook, just Thunderbird...?

It won't sync with Thunderbird, but it will with Windows Address Book. You can import your Thunderbird contacts into Windows Address Book and then sync you iphone. That should back up all your contacts.

MundoGrande · 03-27-2008, 08:17 PM

I'm not too sure. I did about everything possible to try to completely restore my phone. When in stock condition, it works perfectly. But whenever I jailbreak, it gets messed up and the sound doesn't work, etc. Anyone know why?

vistablows · 09-07-2008, 09:22 PM

I was having problems with my unlocked iPhone (the original 8MB) freezing on me so I decided (perhaps unwisely) to RESTORE it to factory settings which it seems to have done without a problem. However when I try to use ZiPhone to jailbreak and unlock it again, it just hangs up after the following steps:

Checking ZiPhone integrity...
i386
Searching for iPhone...
Entering recovery mode.

From there ZiPhone just sits idle and the phone displays the "connect to iTunes" screen. If I start iTunes it wants to go through the whole RESTORE thing again.

I apologize if this is a dumb question... I'm not much of a hacker. I just want my phone to work again.

A little help??