The wait for the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 is finally over.
iPhone Dev team and Chronic Dev team have released the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G and iPad 1.
iPhone Dev team announced the release of the latest version of Redsn0w that supports untethered jailbreak on their blog. They've provided the following details:
A few days ago, @pod2g gave the untether to both the iPhone devteam and the chronic devteam. We’ve put it into redsn0w 0.9.10 and PwnageTool, and the chronic devteam put it into a Cydia package (the same set of exploits is in all three).
Here are the basic steps for how to get it:
You can download Redsn0w 0.9.10b1 for Mac using this link.
The link to Chronic Dev team's post is not working, we'll update this post with the details about greenpois0n as soon as it is available.
Update 1:
Chronic Dev team has released a jailbreak app called Corona iOS 5.0.1 Untether that allows users who have already tether jailbroken their iOS devices to install it for an untethered jailbreak.
Update 2:
Please note that pod2G is working on an untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. He has advised all iOS device users to avoid upgrading to iOS 5.0.2 as Apple is likely to fix the vulnerability that has been used for the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak.
Update 3:
You can checkout our step by step guides to perform untethered jailbreak using Redsn0w:
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If you give it a shot let us know how it goes in the comments and don't forget to give adonation to pod2G for all his hard work.
[via Dev team's blog, Thanks LG1 for the tip!]