The iPhone 4S is a marvelous piece of gadgetry. It took the entire gadget world by storm, and nothing beats its flagship feature Siri (yet). Though, there are people who are content with these features alone, while there are some others who will not rest unless they take complete ownership of their devices. For those who like jailbreaking their iPhones and truly owning them, Greenpoison has finally released an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and for the iPad 2.
The beauty of untethered jailbreaks is that it does not require your phone to be connected every time you want to boot. Although other Apple devices running iOS 5 received a tethered jailbreak in October last year, the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 have received this untethered jailbreak only recently.
The Chronic Dev team used a utility called CDevReported that reported crashes numbering in thousands. This crowdsourcing helped them discover vulnerabilities for A5 devices, which were exploited, hence this jailbreak. However, they have constantly remarked how difficult it was to jailbreak the new A5 system.
For a live tutorial on jailbreaking the iPhone 4S, take a look at this YouTube video.
Jailbreaking voids your warranty, but lets you run unauthorized applications. For the iPhone 4S, it is mandatory to upgrade to iOS 5.0.1. With the initial release of a Mac OSX version, they have released Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak for Windows as well. A Linux version of Absinthe is coming soon.
Download links for Absinthe and links to detailed instructions can be found at this post on the Greenpoison blog. If you want detailed instructions for an iPad2 jailbreak, you can get it at theipadguide.com.
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