iPhone 4S Untethered Jailbreak Could Be Just Days Away, Except For One Hiccup

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While hackers have already managed to figure out how to get a tethered jailbreak working for any iOS device released before the iPhone 4, and there’s even an untethered jailbreak on the horizon thanks to jailbreak master pod2g.

But what of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2? Thanks to security enhancements made to the A5 CPU, they are tougher nuts to crack. But hope is in sight, thanks to the efforts of pod2G, who thinks he’s almost managed to successfully jailbreak the iPhone 4S… except for one little hiccup.

According to pod2g’s official blog:

The untether fails right now because I’m having processor cache issues.

I’m close, but I can’t figure out what happens. It certainly has something to do with the Cortex-A9 cache management.

pod2g promises that there’ll be another update tomorrow, but things sound like they are coming along nicely, and an untethered jailbreak may well be within reach. And if the iPhone 4S goes untethered, you can expect the iPad 2 under iOS 5.0.1 to come right after.

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