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December 29[edit]

How to uninstall Cydia Jailbreak[edit]

I need help. I bought a iPhone 6 from Apple which is a Tmobile unlocked phone. My ex boyfriend (who was not my ex at that time) jailed broken my iPhone with Cydia and Pangu. He is a phone technician. Unfortunately I broke up with him and now he is not in talking terms with me.

I have no idea how to uninstall the Cydia Jailbreak as I did not install it.

I am thinking about performing a backup using my iTunes in my macbook and then install an (new) IOS 8.1.2 upgrade on the iPhone but I have no idea if that would even work so I did not try that yet. Please help and advice me. 166.154.94.86 (talk) 17:31, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It may not be necessary to uninstall it. What problems does it cause ? StuRat (talk) 18:03, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The problem it is causing is that Apple Store told me that they will not support my phone and will not answer any questions about how to use my phone. I literally have no support at all. 166.154.94.86 (talk) 18:07, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As far as questions, you can probably find online manuals and discussion forums to help with that. You could also ask here. And note that putting the phone back the way it was may not mean they will then support you, if they have a record of it having been previously hacked. StuRat (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you have iTunes, you can connect your phone to the computer, open iTunes, select the device, go to the summary page, and click "restore iPhone". This should reinstall a clean image and restore all default settings. Unfortunately (?), it will also wipe all your data off the phone. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 20:45, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia dropping my edits ?[edit]

I had a couple edits of mine just disappear entirely, from the history of the page as well as my contribution history, as if they were redacted. These edits were in no way controversial, so that should not have happened. The edit sessions seem to complete with no error message, but when I look at the page, no change has occurred. I even caught one soon enough after that I could hit the back button on my browser (Chrome, on Windows 7) to go back to the edit session, and to my surprise the edit was gone there, too !

So, is there something wrong with my PC ? Has anyone else had this problem ? I've made many other edits before and since with no problems. StuRat (talk) 22:22, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @StuRat: Odd problem. Eran Galperin writes: "Bugs that are hard to reproduce are the hardest one to solve."[1] You should install Lazarus Form Recovery or a similar tool for now. It is freeware. It will save an extra copy of all your future edits for a couple of weeks or so after you make them. I've used Lazarus inside Chrome, and it works very well. If you do install it, I advise you to set a Lazarus master password, for security reasons. But why have your edits disappeared? I have no idea. Do you remember whether or not you were told "Your edit was saved" after you saved them? And are you sure you clicked "Save page" instead of "Preview"? I forget where I read this, but based on what I read in a very old book about computers, perhaps your best bet is to install Lazarus and then to abandon trying to find the cause of the problem. Please let us know whether or not you've installed Lazarus, and whether or not it is working for you. Regards, —Unforgettableid (talk) 06:15, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I used to have this problem fairly regularly, but, in my case, the cause was a dodgy internet connection. Sometimes I could go back and resubmit the edit and sometimes I couldn't. When the problem was at its worst, I used to copy all my edits to the clipboard (or even to a text editor) before submitting so that I didn't have to repeat them. I wish I'd known about Unforgettableid's suggestion. I assume that your internet connection doesn't have any glitches. Dbfirs 08:16, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware of any, but that doesn't mean they don't happen. The way it seems to have erased all memory of the edit, even what should be local to my PC, seems quite odd, though. StuRat (talk) 18:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear StuRat: Unfortunately, the back button is not always reliable. Did you install a form saver browser addon? (I think everybody should install one.) If so, how do you like the addon? —Unforgettableid (talk) 20:19, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No. I'm concerned about security, specifically it logging my passwords, etc. StuRat (talk) 20:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the issue involving the "back" button, note that: When you click the "back" button, as in many other cases, the browser may load the page from your computer's cache instead of reloading. So, remember to try loading the newest version of the page with a "hard refresh" (Ctrl+F5 on Windows and Linux in most browsers). Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 11:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]