Chill, Jailbreakers! The Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak Is Already Covered

Killian Bell (6:48 am PDT, Oct 10 2011)

Chill, Jailbreakers! The Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak Is Already Covered

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If you thought untethered jailbreaking was dead, then think again. i0n1c, the jailbreaker behind the iOS 4.3.1, 4.3.2, and 4.3.3 untethered jailbreaks, reports that an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 is already “covered” — days before the release goes public.

Apple’s iOS 5 firmware is set to launch this Wednesday, October 12, and many thought an untethered jailbreak was no longer possible. According to a tweet from iOn1c, however, that’s not the case:

As far as I know iOS 5 untether is covered by other people already. Guess who :p

While it hasn’t yet been confirmed, iDB believes that the Chronic Dev Team, the group responsible for GreenPois0n, is most likely behind the iOS 5 hack.

A tethered jailbreak for iOS 5 betas has been available for some months, but using this method to jailbreak means that you must plug your device into a computer in order to reboot it. That’s no good if you’re battery dies or your device crashed while you’re out and about, because you won’t be able to use it. The advantage of a tethered jailbreak is that once you’ve performed the hack, you don’t ever have to tether your device to your computer again if you don’t want to.

Jailbreak developers are already pushing out updates to make their apps and tweaks run smoothly under iOS 5, and it looks as though jailbreaking under Apple’s next-generation firmware is still very much alive.

Will you be looking forward to an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5?

[via iDB]

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  • Jared

    I used redsn0w and after i did “just boot” It deleted almost all the preinstalled icons and ALL OF MY APPS! Thats why im waiting for untethered. Cause ive done it before and want it again… But anyway, SYNC BEFORE JAILBREAKING PEOPLE!!!!!

  • michael

    listen mother fucker stop lieing and feeding us shit there in no unthetherd jb for ios 5 at least not yeat cause if there is than it would have been out days agoo so shut the fuck up

    • Troller

      Ur a dumb fuck any i am using my jb ios5 ut right now butch so suck my dick

      • Tegan :)

        @Troller.. I am afraid you are a dead-set fucktard! If you are using an untethered jailbroken iDevice with ios 5, then you are the only person in the world with an untethered jailbroken ios 5 device. How does that make you feel? Knowing you are the one and only? You are going to shoot right up the cyber space fame ladder pretty bloody quickly. I must admit though, i have not heard a damn thing about you, how long it took you, or even where you graciously posted a link for all of us that are anxious, but patiently waiting to legitimately jailbreak our ios 5 devices using the untethered hack! You must have the incorrect impression of yourself. You are not a software hacking god.. You are a shit talking wanker!

      • Jimmy

        Seriously?? This douche can’t even spell.. What makes you think he can code a jailbreak solution?! ;)

    • Shycunningemo17

      Chill dude you have to be patient.

  • michael

    listen mother fucker stop lieing and feeding us shit there in no unthetherd jb for ios 5 at least not yeat cause if there is than it would have been out days agoo so shut the fuck up

  • Najam

    Waiting for untethered, However I never got the hang of the concept of controlling what you do with your device. you *ing paid for it and own it, should be allowed to whatever to your property. nonsense by Apply, But we love iProducts :)

  • Chris

    Hmm, if it’s already covered, why don’t we have it yet?

  • Shamolll

    its like waiting for baseband 3.10 and above unlock.. some one did this someone did that, i did this but not gonna show you or ….. but the real things never come… its alrdy more thn 15 days..

  • Jin

    i dont think they gonna release untethered jailbreak yet until november

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000997253865 Max Hops

      novenber first …soooo

  • Bunnylover60

    I cant wait, great work. Thank you very much for allowing me to use this hack to free my phone i spent 700 to make it do what ever i want it to do!

    • Anonymous

      $700?!?!?!

  • http://www.iphone4g-pro.com/le-jailbreak-semi-tethered-ios-5-est-disponible-t10084.html IOS5untethered

    Icant wait where is it? how to ? 

  • makes

    its all lies,it seems nobody is working on a jailbreak,most of these guys were paid off,they release statements saying its covered and 5 exploits etc,we upgrade our jailbroken devices believing in these guys,the only winners is apple,we gonna wait long,if you upgraded pray some hackers will come along and take some interest,in the meantime software sites like “fastrain” will take advantage of this and make a quick buck

    • Hammad Ajmal Ajmal

      First off, a jailbreak program NEVER asks you for money, so if some program is asking you for money to jailbreak its obviously a scam, second give these guys a break, they’re trying to make the jailbreak process simple for the average man, unless you feel like running a bunch of complicated Command line statements, wait for them to develop debug and release a final version of a working Jailbreak program with a good GUI that won’t crash everyone’s iPhone, if you can do that in a matter of weeks to months, please go ahead and publish your own jailbreak program, if not then just wait patiently.

    • Bad_boy_12m

      I agree with you if they realy want to jailbreak it they wode have done that a long time ago that’s why there is no jailbreak for ios 4.3.3 ++

  • Bas

    Lets move on guys.
    jailbreaking was hot its not anymore

    • Jackdsmith2327

      F**ck you

    • stlfan

      …what friggin’ planet do you live on?

    • Bmx_freak_4_u

      Either that or u just came out of the closet ima go wit that

  • http://twitter.com/gravothermal Gravo Thermal

    I am ALMOST considering just going jailbreak-free. Things that are keeping me waiting:
    #1) Activator!!!!! I have gotten so used to it, especially w/LED flashlight
    #2) LockInfo—yes, I want to preview my emails on Lockscreen, which NC doesn’t
    #3) Possibility of Siri coming to i4

    I could do without SBSettings, Infini*, themes, etc…

  • http://twitter.com/gravothermal Gravo Thermal

    I am ALMOST considering just going jailbreak-free. Things that are keeping me waiting:
    #1) Activator!!!!! I have gotten so used to it, especially w/LED flashlight
    #2) LockInfo—yes, I want to preview my emails on Lockscreen, which NC doesn’t
    #3) Possibility of Siri coming to i4

    I could do without SBSettings, Infini*, themes, etc…

  • makes

    guys I think we should take a step back ,relax,take a deep breath,I  think people are starting to take note of all the anger out there regarding jailbreaking ios5 ,some news filtering regarding jailbreak for ipad2 and iphone 4s and I hope its genuine,I am really not interested in tethered or semi tethered,too much functional  problems ,for the moment I hang in there.

  • dan

    I can’t believe thirteen people actually goggle +1′ed this post. and whoever wrote this article should start responding to posts like this. What on earth inspired you to waste your time, and in the process waste the collective time of millions of people who read this? And yes, it bugs me that much….

  • dan

    I can’t believe thirteen people actually goggle +1′ed this post. and whoever wrote this article should start responding to posts like this. What on earth inspired you to waste your time, and in the process waste the collective time of millions of people who read this? And yes, it bugs me that much….

  • Dhd

    Fucking retards there is a jailbreak but not released yet do to bugs if u want to jailbreak with bugs don’t fcking complain when ur phone gets fucked up and crashes every second

    Dev team works hard to perfect their jailbreak, if they say it’s not ready for public then it’s not just be patient or go buy a shitty android

    • Bad_boy_12m

      Are you sure with this information cause if thereis a jailbreak than i dont minf waiting but if there isnt they just have to tell us :/

  • Comeupwithsomethingnewazzez

    If I hear that “is already covered” part again I will smash something close by, preferably the person in charge of that editorial. It’s REALLY annoying seeing the SAME comment and information being discussed in sites

  • IPOD TOUCH 4g 8GB

    I’m being unpatient for iOS 5.0-Jailbreak. Normaly for updates like 4.2.1 I weren’t unpatient. But I really really need this one.

  • Nicksavic

    it dint work 4 me i have iphone 4s and when i installed it cydia came up as a white app and it didnt let me access it. Then it went into recovery mode.:(

    • loolikilluuu

      what you have to do is once you have the jailbreak go onto the jail breaking program on your computer and do the jailbreak don’t worry this is a factual process

  • Ziggmaister

    COME ON ALREADY AND RELEASE IT!!! It’s in the middle of fucking november and still NOTHING!!!

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