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.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “iPhone 4S Untethered Jailbreak Could Be Just Days Away, Except For One Hiccup”
“But what of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2?” — is that English?
It was in circa 1492
Looking forward to it. I’ve been jonesing for SBSettings & InfiniFolders ever since I switched to the 4S. Before the disapprovers start with their tirades of “piracy” and “instability”, you clearly have no idea what legitimate features you’re missing out on (some of which Apple “borrowed” for iOS 5), nor how stable most jailbroken features are…
can’t wait to get my I4 off Rogers because I was foolish to update to 5.0 :-( …..
Untethered Jailbreak:
-Apple sells more and more iphones/Ipads/ipods consolidating today positions
-Users (or some of them) gets “32 teeths smiles” with new tweaks, free (!!) apps and everything forbidden by Apple that makes iphones amazing
-Saurik & c. bills 3million per year revenues from cydia
– Pod2g gets donations and celebrity ….and may be a job (Twitter this time ???)
….Who cares?? everybody is happy !
Come on guys: please let untethered become true
Yes
Should I update to 5.01 or should I stay on 5.0 does it matter? If I stay on 5.0 will there be a jailbreak for it on the 4s or do I have to update? And if I do update to 5.01 will I lose 1.0.11? Cause last time I updated to 5.01 my firmware went up to 5.0.13 I got scared and returned my phone to apple. And switched out to a new 5.0 4s!!!! Please help don’t no wht to do. I’m a jedi in training