Restoring a jailbroken 2G iPhone

jesta · 29 Nov 2008 at 15:10

Hey guys,
I have a jailbroken unlocked 2G 2.1fw iPhone and I want to restore it back to the original settings (locked on O2) how do I go about doing that? The screen on my iphone is getting worse and worse (screen burn, screen sometimes click when touching it) so going to take it into the Apple Store to get it looked at but I need it back to original settings.

Thanks.

Cybertronic · 29 Nov 2008 at 16:58

Plug your iPhone into your Mac or PC and iTunes will pop up and you will see a restore button

After iTunes has finished restoring it, you can set it up as a new phone or restore any of your backups.

jesta · 29 Nov 2008 at 18:38

So a normal restore through itunes will make the phone locked again? Would they know has been jailbroken before?

Feek · 29 Nov 2008 at 18:42

iSam · 29 Nov 2008 at 20:36

1) Make sure iTunes 8 is open.
2) Switch the phone off.
3) Hold the home button, and plug it in, keep the home button held down until iTunes recognises the phone in recovery mode.
4) Hit restore.

jesta · 30 Nov 2008 at 15:54

I have restored it but it tells me to connect to itunes (the image on the iphone with the itunes logo and the usb plug), when connected it asks me to activate the iphone, as I don't have an O2 contract can I just put in any O2 card (PAYG) and activate it?

iSam · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:09

jesta said:
I have restored it but it tells me to connect to itunes (the image on the iphone with the itunes logo and the usb plug), when connected it asks me to activate the iphone, as I don't have an O2 contract can I just put in any O2 card (PAYG) and activate it?

Yes.