Jailbreak iPhone 4S 5.0 and 5.0.1 on Windows PC with Absinthe

If you are a proud owner of the best Apple smartphone: iPhone 4S, you will be happy to know how to jailbreak it. So here are our short jailbreaking instructions which will guide you through the step by step process fro jailbreaking your device. Please be sure to backup you device completely. AS always it is pretty safe to jailbreak your device, but it is always good to take measure just in case something goes wrong. Some users have reported issues with loosing photos in Your Camera Roll after jailbreaking with Absinthe.

Step by step instructions:

iPhone 4S unlock close, do not update to 5.0.1 firmware!

Many rumors are claiming that it is necessary to update iOS version if you want to jailbreak as the jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 is close, according to reports from various jailbreak developers. Now a completely different claim is circulating in jailbreak world, claiming something different! If you want to unlock your iPhone 4s or iPad 2 you must stay away from the iOS 5.0.1 upgrade. It seems that users with earlier 5.0. firmware version, have much better chances for an unlock.

Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S video

It looks like the long awaited, untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and probably iPad 2 is around the corner. The developer who has made the breaktrough is of course Pod2G, the same jailbreak developer which responsible for the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone and iPad. He has just published a short video which shows iPhone 4S with a working, untethered jailbreak, and Cydia installed on iOS 5.0.1.
He said in a comment that he and his buddy @DHowett made this video. @Dhowett also happens to be a iOS jailbreak dev and a member of the famous Chronic Dev Team group.

Corona untethered jailbreak, additional informations released

Famous jailbreak developer Pod2g has added some new stuff about his Corona jailbreak on his own personal blog. If you are by some chance interested in how the mechanics of jailbreaking iOS 5.0.1 really functions, you might want to check out his blog.

In his own words: by using a “fuzzer”, he found out after some effort that an vulnerability exists in the sol called racoon config parsing code. If you wonder what racoon actually is: no its not the small hairy mammal, racoon is actually “ IPsec IKE daemon”. It is a part of iOS and it starts up when you begin a Ipsec connection. By the way: the name of this jailbreak - Corona is actually an anagram of racoon.

How to jailbreak iPhone or iPad on iOS 5.0.1

More than two months has passed since the famous jailbreak developer, Pod2g publicly announced his discovery of a bug which could provide a working, untethered jailbreak for devices on iOS 5.x. And now we finally have a functioning, untethered jailbreak solution at our disposal, thanks to Pod2g but also to Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team which were quick to implement the solution.

iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch launched!

And finally after many weeks of patient work by jailbreak developers and long waiting for iOS users, jailbreak which was created by Pod2g is now officially launched. This jailbreak works for iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G and 4G and for the original iPad tablet.

Only a couple of days ago, Pod2g has forwarded his jailbreak solution to both iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team. Both groups have immediately added the jailbreak to their respective tools which in case of iPhone Dev Team is RedSn0w and PwnageTool. Chronic Dev Team has made the jailbreak available in a Cydia package.

New version of RedSn0w launched, version 0.9.9b9 for jailbreaking latest version of iOS now available

iPhone Dev Team strikes again! RedSn0w version 0.9.9b9 is available right now for download. It finally offers compatibility with App Tickets and support for jailbreaking firmware 5.0.1.

Here are some new interesting features, courtesy of iPhone Dev Team:

Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 soon to be available!

Only a couple of days has passed after the well known jailbreak developer Pod2g demoed his first untethered jailbreak of iOS 5. And now he has some new exciting news for jailbreakers around the world! Untethered jailbreak world well for iOS 5.0.1 too! He has tested it initially on his iPod 3G running iOS 5.0, but he wasn’t sure if it would work on iOS 5.0.1. So he decided to continue testing this jailbreak.

How to jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on your iPhone or iPad with RedSn0w

iOS 5.0.1 is the latest iOS upgrade released by Apple, and it can now be easily and safely jailbroken with RedSn0w jailbreak tool. We have tested this solution for ourself and we can vouch for it: it works and even more, it works magnificently! The only draw back is that at this point the jailbreak is untethered only, and you’ll know what it means if you are a frequent reader of this blog. Just in case you don’t recognize the term, it means that you need to use RedSn0w every time you restart your iPhone for any reason. Not really a big deal if you have your computer nearby. But rest assured: untethered or even semi tethered jailbreak is much better than no jailbreak! Just try it for yourself as there is nothing to loose really. If you for any reason decide you don’t really want or need the jailbreak, just restore the device and the jailbreak is gone without any trace!

iOS 5.0.1 upgrade seeded

Apple has just released the next version of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch firmware which is now being upgraded to iOS 5.0.1. Major reason for this upgrade was the battery life issue reported by many users where iPhone’s were draining batteries very quickly, even if the devices were in stand by mode only. There were also other things Apple solved with this upgrade including some security risks, bug fixes, better voice recognition, re introduction of multi touch gestures for iPad and much more.

Here is the short list of most important features iOS 5.0.1 brings: