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Friday, October 14, 2011

iOS 5 jailbreak using Redsnow

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If you updated your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, or iPod touch to iOS 5 yesterday evening — or if you’re only just doing it now because Apple’s servers were hammered to smithereens last night — your first port of call is jailbreaking and installing Cydia. Because the beta builds of iOS 5 were relatively easy to obtain, jailbreakers have easily kept pace with any of Apple’s security tweaks. The final build of iOS 5 was released yesterday, and the Redsn0w jailbreak, courtesy of theiPhone Dev-Team, was released just minutes after.
Now, at this point we should remind you that this is a tethered jailbreak — you’ll need a Windows or Mac computer running Redsn0w every time you reboot your iOS device — and there doesn’t seem to be a confirmation that the Windows jailbreak works. Also bear in mind that this jailbreak won’t work with the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S; the A5 processor doesn’t have a bootrom-level exploit yet (today’s jailbreak still uses Geohot’s ye olde limera1n exploit).
Jailbroken iOS 5 running CydiaWith that out of the way, and remembering that you could always brick your device, here are your Redsn0w 0.9.9 download links:Windows / Mac. Make sure iTunes is updated t0 version 10.5 (iTunes > Check for Updates), check your device has iOS 5 installed, and then run Redsn0w. Click “Jailbreak” and follow the on-screen prompts. If you’re new to jailbreaking, hit up Redmond Pie’s step-by-step walkthrough.
Redmond Pie also has a guide on how to downgrade from iOS 5 to the last stable version of iOS 4.3, which you may have to do once a tethered jailbreak emerges.



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