IOS 5.1 JAILBREAK UNTETHERED [STATUS]

One of the many confusing aspects of Jailbreaking that new users struggle to understand is the concept of a ‘tethered’ and an ‘untethered’ Jailbreak.

The question that we of course get asked over and over again here at GD is “When is the next jailbreak coming out?”. For the past weeks, everyone has been waiting for the jailbreak for 5.1, us included. Unfortunately, we cannot give a definitive answer as to when this jailbreak will come out, but we can say that it should not be long.

We know that this doesn’t give a whole lot of new info to those waiting patiently, but because we have been receiving so many requests for updates on the jailbreak status, we decided to let all of you know what the current news is regarding the situation.

The terminology used can sometimes be quite daunting, but most of the time it is just a technical way of saying something quite simple. When a device is Jailbroken a new ‘App Store’ is installed on the device called Cydia.

JAILBREAK iOS 5 STATUS:
Date: 13th, April 2012

iOS Status:
* Latest iOS Firmware: 5.1
* Latest Jailbroken Firmware: 5.1 [Tethered]
* Latest Jailbroken Firmware: 5.0.1 [Untethered]

Device Compatibility:
* 5.0.1: All Devices (Untethered)

* 5.1: iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G (Tethered)
* 5.1: 3GS Old Bootrom (Untethered)

Jailbreak tutorials:
* Jailbreak A4 Devices (iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPod Touch 3G, 4G) [5.0.1]
* Jailbreak A5 Devices (iPhone 4S, iPad 2) [5.0.1]

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Update 2:

Update 1:

Greenpois0n.com:
“I’m sure many reading this post are aware that with the geohots A4 limera1n exploit it’s always possible (and quite simple) to jailbreak each new version that is released with relative ease. What isn’t easy is finding an vulnerability for an untethered exploit, and sometimes, massive software changes require a lot of work to achieve cross compatibility with a reasonable range of software versions. As of right now the jailbreak for 5.1 on the AppleTV is limited to a tethered jailbreak, yes I am aware that Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) has an untethered exploit, I don’t know any further details, and am not certain of whether or not he intends to share his research. The tethered jailbreak is only part of the problem, right now we are still busily sorting out legacy and compatibility issues to make sure all roads still go through beigelist when loading third party appliances. I’m not certain how long it will take to merge the differences between beigelist and espresso, hopefully, not much longer. That being said you should all give thanks and praise to two brilliant developers that have been involved with the AppleTV community for a very long time. Brandon Holland (@640774n6) and Dustin Howett (@DHowett), if you run into either of these fine gents or follow either of them on twitter you should show them some love

There is still work to be done, there are some bugs to sort out, however I can report that nitoTV works about 95%, XBMC is broken, and I’m uncertain of the status of all of the firecore products, I know they are progressing along nicely, but I can’t comment any further than that.

There isn’t much to say about this jailbreak, so I’m going to move on to the final topic, which I am going to cover very briefly.”

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