Comments on: Erase an iPhone properly

By: Rogers %9

Rogers %9 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:06:51 +0000

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By: Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:31:55 +0000

you think by now someone would make an easy way to hack newer phones, an app – one for all kinda thing. just my thoughts, if you get a min take a look at my site, hopefully you’ll like :)

By: Free iPhone Wallpapers

Free iPhone Wallpapers — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:54:15 +0000

This is a neat article and I was shocked to hear that apple didn’t completely erase the contents of the referb. thanks for the info :D

By: Savannah

Savannah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:10:02 +0000

i found an iphone and the password is set, how would i change the password and use the phone?

By: Hello1024

Hello1024 — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:52:21 +0000

No – none of those methods will fully work, because the SSD has spare blocks (more blocks than it’s rated capacity), which are used for wear leveling and replacement of faulty blocks. Filling the device with anything won’t fill the remaining “spare” blocks that may have your data on.

Note this WILL work for some filesystems that work at a lower level than a block device – JFFS2 for linux being the most famous example.

By: PaulJ

PaulJ — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:09:05 +0000

I can erase any SSD drive, with a nice ball-peen hammer… though the resale value falls significantly, after the process is complete.

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:13:03 +0000

Well that wouldn’t work either, it would stop right as it erases itself. Just like doing a rm -Rf / on a linux box.

By: wackyvorlon

wackyvorlon — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:12:28 +0000

An important point to remember: Flash only writes zeros, not ones. When you write to a flash device, it sets the contents of the block to all ones via erasure, then writes the appropriate zeros in place.

By: ChrisSutcliff

ChrisSutcliff — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:02:46 +0000

Use the SDK to wite one that runs on the phone?

Doesnt have to be done via a PC/Mac

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:44:15 +0000

Hey polobunny, how would you go about that? The iPhone doesn’t show as a drive when you plug it in.

By: tony

tony — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:09:32 +0000

I like the will it blend idea. i saw the title and clicked on it thinking i was going to get to see an iphone that had been rapidly disassembled. now i am disappointed

By: polobunny

polobunny — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:30:33 +0000

Alternatively, a fill with zero secure erase would work fine…

By: jrod krip

jrod krip — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:29:16 +0000

hrrm, or you could try the will it blend approach…securely erasing the iPhone should work too…