Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 available

After months of work, Pod2g, the iPhone Dev Team and the Chronic Dev Team released the untethered jailbreak for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S. The jailbreak tool, Absinthe, is compatible with the iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406) and the iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1.

The jailbreak tool is available for Mac owners and can be downloaded from greenpois0n's website. A Windows version is in the works. Once you have Absinthe, the jailbreak process should take about 15-20 minutes, but it could take longer as greenpois0n is swamped. If you have any problems, you can hop onto IRC ad connect with the experts at #greenpois0n on http://irc.chronic-dev.org.

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Source: http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/01/absinthe-iphone-4s-and…

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Scott Kersten

Will this work on an iPhone 4 running 5.0.1? Then what about an unlock for use on T-Mobile?

January 23 2012 at 8:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Derek Jacobs

Took nearly 45 minutes to run through the process. I was a little worried it had stalled, but it eventually told me to launch the 'jailbreak' app it had installed. Found it (actually named Absynthe) on the last page; about 30 seconds after running it, the phone restarted and Cydia had been installed in its place. Normal jailbreak from then on.

January 23 2012 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anthony

pretty much, I jail broke my iPhone 4S, which after iOS 5 came out with the better notifications i said I would never need to do again... because I missed BiteSMS THAT MUCH. That, and Cyntact. I love being able to see peoples pictures in my phonebook, as I tediously add photos for any new contact that has a Facebook account. Being able to respond to text messages without leaving the app you currently are in, as BiteSMS allows you to do, is really a great time saver.

January 23 2012 at 3:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sethmeisterg

What an amazing feat of engineering this was, whatever you think of the jailbreakers.

January 22 2012 at 2:26 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

Leko

So does that mean we are finally closer to get siri on Iphone 4? I heard it would make it easier as soon as a jailbreak for 4S was found.

January 21 2012 at 11:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

daddy

i Cant get it to work on my iPad 2 wifi only

January 21 2012 at 2:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brandon

Explain to me again why jailbreakng is a good thing?

January 20 2012 at 4:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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puhsitch

On the iPhone, the most useful things for me are SBSettings and My3G. On the iPad, a combination of FullForce and RetinaPad

January 20 2012 at 5:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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aplardi

Why do you feel SBSettings and My3G are helpful? I'm not trying to be smart, I really want to know. I haven't jailbroken my iPhone in ages.

January 20 2012 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down

puhsitch

aplardi: SBSettings is great for home-screen access to toggles (3G, Bluetooth, etc.), brightness control, and process-killing (and you can see what apps are actually running in the background) -- and other toggles can be added on pretty easily. It's a little ugly out of the box, but there are classier skins available.

My3G lets you bypass restrictions for when a wifi connection is required (e.g., Facetime, high-quality streaming videos, large app downloads, etc.).

January 20 2012 at 10:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down