Planetbeing has tweeted for the first time in over 500 days, and he proudly proclaims the iPhone 4S jailbreak is out of the 'sandbox' thanks to help from Cydia founder, Saurik: And we're out of the sandbox with @saurik's invaluable help! (well, at least there's a PoC) :D Turning out more complex than X-Gold 618....
Pod2g earlier assembled a hacker 'Dream Team' to help him release the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. He recruited the help of MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team, p0sixninja of the Chronic Dev Team, and Canadian hacker Planetbeing. The latest update provided is that a new member has joined--Saurik, the founder...
As indicated by famed hacker Pod2G, his latest blog post shows it takes a village to raise an iPhone 4S jailbreak. It appears a public release of the A5 jailbreak will require some help, rather than Pod2g running solo again. Titled Sandbox difficulties, he goes on to write: @planetbeing, the legendary hacker behind iPhone Linux...
A couple of days back, @Pod2g, the hacker behind iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for A4 devices, announced that his work on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered jailbreak is almost done and it should be released to the public as early as this week. He also tweeted to his followers that updating to iOS 5.0.1 will be safe...
Heads up guys! @Notcom has just updated his handy SHSH blobs extraction tool TinyUmbrella for Mac and Windows bringing support for the iPhone 4S. With TinyUmbrella 5.10.04 you can save SHSH blobs for iPhone 4S 5.0.1 build 9A406 in addition to all previously supported iOS devices. It is highly likely that an untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for A5...
Further information has been provided by @pod2g in regards to the status of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak. A few hours ago pod2g sent out the following on twitter: I made a step today for the A5. With some luck we could expect a release in a week. Yes, upgrade...
The world has to thank @pod2g for uncovering an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1. After he figured out the jailbreak for A4-powered devices, he handed over the untether to the Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team to test and release updated tools. The latter released an updated version of redsn0w, and the Chronic Dev...
The following is an updated tutorial to assist you in achieving an untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch using redsn0w 0.9.10b3. The untethered jailbreak is currently for non-A5 devices only (will not work with iPhone 4S or iPad 2). Warning: do not proceed if you're unsure about what you're doing....
Some people are running into the iBooks 'configuration error' after their untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak: There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks. In order to fix this, you can install iBooksFix2, from the insanelyi.com repo via Cydia. This fix is an updated version of iBooks...
Developer @chpwn (Grant Paul) has just announced his latest tweak, Zephyr. Available in Cydia for $2.99, Zephyr introduces multitasking gestures to the iPhone and iPod touch, similar to those available on the iPad and iPad 2. Instead of double-tapping Home to show the multitasking tray, a one finger slide up does the trick. Swiping left...
The Chronic Dev Team has released Corona, a tweak available in Cydia that will untether your tethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak (built upon pod2g's untether work, which was then turned over to them). You can quickly access, download & install Corona 5.0.1 Untether (Chronic Dev team’s version, packaged in the Cydia store) for your iPhone 4,...
Update 2: The iPhone Dev team has released an update to redsn0w, version 0.9.10b3: Update #3: The b3 version of redsn0w fixes a problem where re-running redsn0w over an existing jailbreak would cause MobileSubstrate-based apps to stop running until MS was installed again. Now you can re-run the redsn0w jailbreak step without worrying about that (but...
