How to Wipe Your iPhone Without Losing Your Jailbreak Using Semi-Restore [Windows]
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Posted June 23, 2013 at 2:31am by iClarified
These are instructions on how to wipe your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to near stock condition without losing your jailbreak using Semi-Restore for Windows.
Before beginning make sure you do a backup of your device.
**Until a fix is released, do NOT use SemiRestore if you installed afc2add.
Step One Create a Pwnage folder on your desktop. Download Semi-Restore from here and save it to the Pwnage folder you just created.
Step Two Extract the Semi-Restore archive to the Pwnage folder
Step Three Right click the Semi-Restore executable and select Run as Administrator from the popup menu.
*Note: If you have issues running Semi-Restore make sure you have the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable from Microsoft installed. You may also want to try Windows XP compatibility mode.
Step Four When Semi-Restore launches click the OK button to continue past the welcome message.
Step Five Connect your iOS 5.0 to iOS 6.1.2 iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the computer and click the SemiRestore button.
Step Six You phone will be rebooted as Semi-Restore wipes it clean.
Step Seven Once Semi-Restore has completed you will be informed that the process was successful and your iOS device will be rebooted to the new device setup wizard.
THANKS: Thanks go to CoolStar for making this tutorial possible.
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I did a semi-restore on my iPad 3 all went OK. BUT i have a big problem when I connected to iTunes to sync my date back it doesn't work. I cant sync any information no Apps,Photos ,Music ...
Followed all procedures, I have been jailbroken since 3g model, I had a ip4 with 6.1.2. And while doing restore the system halted at the apple logo with progress bar at 75%; never continued after 4 hours.....
Lost jailbreak, had to restore to 6.1.4....
Very sad.
Dear CoolStar + iclarified
I have use this app and i have restore my iphone without losing jailbreak ,
However , more thanks for ( cool star ) for make this explanation .
Thanks ,
Abdullah Bn Faisal
I don't know what your issue is, but this sounds like a godsend for anyone who has an issue with their phone and the Apple 'Geniuses' insist they remove the jailbreak before their even look at it).