Selling Your iPhone?

June 04, 08 by Doug

So lately there has been articles going around saying that your ’sensitive data’ is still on your device when you sell it. This made a lot of iPhone owners worried because they wanted to sell their current iPhone to help buy the new iPhone.

Developer NerveGas has just solved this issue with a new application ‘Wipe App’.

Click here to download Wipe App

I imagine this will get done in a simple 1 step process later with an application via Installer. For now you have to follow these instructions(from the README). . .

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Obtain a working copy of the iPhone Utility Client (iPHUC) on your desktop
machine. iPHUC can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/iphuc/

2. Use iPHUC to place the device into recovery mode by using the ‘enterrecovery’
command, or force the device into recovery mode by holding in the home and
power buttons simultaneously until the restore screen appears.

3. Once the device is in restore mode, exit iPHUC, then re-enter it. This will
enable recovery commands. Issue the following commands to load and run the
wipe software:

$ ./iphuc
recovery callback: Connected in Recovery Mode
recovery callback: Entering shell in Recovery Mode.
#: filecopytophone Wipe.bin
filecopytophone: 0
#: cmd setenv\ boot-args\ rd=md0\ -x\ -s\ pmd0=0×9340000.0xA00000
#: cmd saveenv
#: cmd bootx
#: exit

4. The wipe tool will load and execute. You will be given a 30-second warning
prior to commencing wipe to change your mind. After this, ALL DATA WILL BE
DESTROYED.