iPhone Dev-Team Releases Tethered Jailbreak for iOS 5
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Posted October 13, 2011 at 2:59am by iClarified
The iPhone Dev-Team has released a tethered jailbreak for iOS 5. Currently only the Mac version has been made available; however, the Windows version is coming soon.
With today's official iOS5 release, redsn0w has been updated to 0.9.9b5 to include the public URLs for the IPSW files. This way, first-time iOS5 jailbreakers don't need to supply the IPSW file manually. It's still a tethered jailbreak on all except the old-bootrom iPhone3GS, and it doesn't apply to iPad2 or the upcoming iPhone4S.
Because the jailbreak is currently only tethered for most devices, we're not going to release a new PwnageTool yet. Instead, we've decided to build some of PwnageTool's functionality into redsn0w (since you need redsn0w to "Just boot tethered" on every power cycle anyway). The new "Custom IPSW" button on the Extras screen will create a custom IPSW without the baseband update for 4.3.3 or 5.0gm (iPhone3GS and iPhone4 only, for now). Remember not to accidentally restore to the stock IPSW after you create the custom one! The custom one begins with NO_BB_ (for "no baseband").
You must enter "Pwned DFU" mode before trying to use the NO_BB_ IPSW with iTunes (and your hosts file cannot be pointing to Cydia's servers due to the new blob nonce mechanism they're using in iOS5).
Version 0.9.9b5 only available for Mac for now, until we can do more testing on the Windows version of "Custom IPSW".
We're currently working on a normal compatibility update for existing ultrasn0w unlockers. After that we'll try to fix the iBooks issue on jailbroken iOS5.
hello all,
how can i fix the no firmware, no iccid, no wifi, no imei problem on my iphone 3gs? is my fone dead?
i have already downgraded it to 4.1 and still its not working. please help.
carlo
Yaqoob Hussain Gopang - October 15, 2011 at 2:09am
After using ios 4.3.3 jail break on my iphone 4 now on ios5 ya I jail break it thx to dev team for red snow for windows
Hackolu got appsync 5+ n instAllous 4
Got all my crack apps n games
It's safe to shift to ios5 ( new features)
Cheers
I think it would be best to wait for the 4gs to be released before releasing the untethered ios5. Just to be on the safe side. BTW, thank you DEV-Team for the time and effort.
K so just tried to update my factory unlocked iphone to 5.0 with the NO_BB method and it says not eligible for build. I am on 4.3.3 with 4.3.3 shsh (reason I am using NO_BB method) and ive tried with modified host server and unmodified host server and got the same result both times. Anything I am missing?
All I really want to do is update to 5.0 to see how it runs with the JB and then I am downgrading back to 4.3.3 because an untethered JB is more worth it to me.
Yep I've been running 10.5 for about 1 1/2 months too but updated after this post. I'm guessing the dev team still has a few bugs to fix, but I wonder if my old upgrade method would work, update stock and disconnect from iTunes 15 sec. After it says "restoring iPhone firmware" and using recboot. Worked on AT&T iPhone 4 4.0.2 to 4.1 and keeping 01.59.00
I was having that problem too with the slow seconds count. What worked for me was to plug in and be turned off. Launch Redsnow and start the process, where the seconds count down.
Hold down the Home button and then hold down the power button for a few seconds. Look closely at the iPhone, release the power button as soon as you see any sign of life on the iPhone, but keep the Home button held down until Redsnow advances to the next section and starts jailbreaking.
Oddly, I can now reboot and remain jailbroken with my iPhone 3GS
so the custom firmware feature is essentially a stock firmware without the baseband update? meaning that after restoring to the custom FW you still need to run redsn0w over it to JB it?
yep it would be very useful to know whether the untethered jb for ios5 is going to come out soon, if i remember correctly it was posted that they already found 5 exploits to jailbreak ios5, untethered.
Now to know if the jb is already done and/or they're waiting for 4s release or what.