Tag: iPhone4S jailbreak

📅 January 24, 2012

Chronic Dev Releases Absinthe For Linux. iPhone 4S/iPad 2 Jailbreak

Just a quick heads-up for our fellow Linux users: Chronic Dev has just released the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S/iPas 2. If this your first time jailbreaking your iDevice(s) ( welcome! ) , or don’t know how to use the the tool, check out either one of our Mac or Windows Absinthe tutorial.

Download GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.3 for Linux (x86/x86_64) ( FSM download mirror )

📅 January 24, 2012

800,000 New A5 Jailbreaks In A Little Over 3 Days

With the iPhone 4S/iPad 2 jailbreak being available for a few days now, the iPhone DevTeam has announced the number of A5 owners who have jailbroken their devices since Friday morning. The numbers as of Monday afternoon are:

  • 491,325 new iPhone4,1 devices
  • 308,967 new iPad2 devices
  • 152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices

Total: 953,232 new A5 jailbreaks in a little over 3 days

The reason these numbers can be so precise is that one of the housekeeping activities that happens when you launch Cydia is a query to @saurik’s server for the list of available SHSH blobs.  (Even if you have none on file, the query is still made).

Remember the cardinal rule of jailbreaking: never update your firmware until a new jailbreak is available.  This is especially true for A5 owners, who currently have no way of restoring to 5.0.1 once the 5.0.1 SHSH blob signing window is closed.

📅 January 21, 2012

Absinthe For Mac Updated To v2.0

Just a quick heads-up: Absinthe for Mac has just been updated to v2.0. This update tries to fix no reboot after activating VPN/tapping Absinthe icon. We also tried to fix white icons on SpringBoard after jb. Just re-run the updated version over your existing jailbreak. ( NOTE: If you’ve already successfully jailbroken, rerunning an updated version of the jailbreak is pointless. )

If you don’t know how to use Absinthe, check out this tutorial. Windows users, check out this tutorial…

Download Absinthe v2.0 here ( FSM mirror download )

📅 January 21, 2012

HOW TO: Use Absinthe To Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S/iPad 2 [Windows]

Finally. The wait is over. Absinthe for Windows has been released and now Windows users can easily jailbreak their iOS devices. Jump over the break to check out a step by step tutorial on how to use Absinthe to jailbreak your iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

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📅 January 21, 2012

HOW TO: Use The Terminal To Run Absinthe And Bypass Errors

Absinthe, the new jailbreaking tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2, is here but it’s not perfect. Many users can’t jailbreak their devices no matter what they do. The tool was updated to bypass the database connection errors that most people encountered due to massive server loads. Still a no go for some. Planetbeing suggested we try to use terminal.app to run Absinthe, and we did just that. Worked flawlessly.

Jump over the break to see how to use terminal.app to run Absinthe and jailbreak your iDevices….

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📅 January 21, 2012

Absinthe Updated To v0.1.2-2 To Fix Database Connection Issues

Just a quick heads-up: the new Absinthe jailbreak has been updated to fix the database connection errors that most people encountered due to massive server loads. There was an easy workaround it, but in case you didn’t get it to work download the updated version here.

To learn how to use Absinthe, check out this tutorial…

📅 January 20, 2012

iPhone 4S/iPad 2 Jailbreak About To Pop

Yesterday, based on a planetbeing tweet, we were speculating that the A5 jailbreak is just around the corner. This morning, our speculations were confirmed by MuscleNerd and a post on iPhone DevTeam’s blog which says that the jailbreak should drop any moment now. To be as flexible as possible, the A5 version of the corona jailbreak will take multiple forms:

  • Chronic Dev have incorporated the overall flow into a GUI that runs on your Mac or PC.  The goal is for the GUI to be enough for most cases.
  • iPhone Dev have also incorporated the exact same flow into an alternative command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through individual steps of the jailbreak manually, to both help the user and help improve the overall flow.  Although the CLI will also allow the user to perform the entire jailbreak from beginning to end, we anticipate it will be more useful in debugging the occasional errors.  The CLI currently has over 20 individual options (in addition to the single “jailbreak” option) that should be useful during debug after the GUI release.
  • Once all the bugs in the flow are worked out, we’ll also incorporate it into the redsn0w GUI (but still leave the CLI freely available too).  In order to maximize the chances of the jailbreak working for everyone, the redsn0w GUI will use native Apple iTunes libraries — this technique is slightly different than how the Chronic Dev GUI handles communications, and should provide nice combined coverage for all the odd computer configurations out there.

The supported firmware versions will be:

  • iPhone4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
  • iPad2: 5.0.1 (9A405)

We will keep you posted. Stay tuned…

📅 January 20, 2012

iPhone 4S/iPad 2 Jailbreak To Be Released Any Moment Now

After seeing a video of a jailbroken iPhone 4S and a picture of a jailbroken iPad 2, there’s not much to add to the subject. The jailbreak is almost done, and planetbeing just informed us that the tool is in test mode but a release is imminent. We will keep you informed stay tuned…

📅 January 18, 2012

iPad 2 Jailbroken On iOS 5.0.1. A5 Jailbreak Is Around The Corner

A couple of days ago, a video was posted to show the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S in action. Today, pod2g posts a picture of the iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 and Cydia. It shouldn’t be long until the dream team finalizes the packaging and the jailbreak will finally be released. We will keep you updated. Stay tuned…