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How To Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 With Absinthe
Mar 11, 2025
A quick how-to on jailbreaking iOS 5.1.1 For all the links discussed in this video, check out the article at http://www.cultofmac.com Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MichaelSteeber Follow Cult Of Mac on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cultofmac
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hey everyone this is michael with cult
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of mac here and today i'm going to show
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you how to jailbreak your ios device
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running ios 5.1.1 whether it be an ipod
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an iphone or an ipad
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using the new absinthe 2.0 jailbreak so
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what i'm going to show you here today is
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just how to use absinthe
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if you're looking to do stuff like back
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up your sh sh blobs or things like that
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more advanced stuff there's a text guide
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on cult of mac and i'll put a link to
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that below the video so you can see how
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to do some of those more advanced
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features what i'm going to show you
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today is just how to do the absinthe
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jailbreak itself
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so right here i have my fourth
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generation ipod touch
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and i have it connected to my imac and
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now since i am on mountain lion i do
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have to open up absinthe a little bit
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differently normally you just open it up
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like any other application but i
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actually have to hit show package
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contents
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and then i have to go into contents and
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from here mac os
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and then right click on the absinthe
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10.6 file and open with terminal
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so if you have
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mountain lion you'll want to do this too
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now to download absinthe for me right
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now the website the green poison website
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where you download this
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is currently down for me and if you're
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watching this video
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you know within the next few hours of
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this being posted it'll probably down
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for you too so below the video i'll have
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not only the green poison link but also
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the direct download for absinthe so you
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can still get it even if it's down so
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here i have absinthe open and all i have
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to do is make sure my ipod in this case
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is connected to the computer and it's
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turned on you don't need to shut it off
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or anything like that
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and then from there
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it warns you to make a backup but like i
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said once again i'm just showing you how
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to use the absinthe tool and now that it
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sees it's connected i can just hit
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jailbreak and this is pretty simple
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so you're going to see this little
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progress bar and it says it might take a
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while
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so it's just going to run through this
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process here and i'll speed this up so
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that you don't have to sit through the
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whole process but it shouldn't take too
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long
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not more than just a few minutes and
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it's going to go through every step it
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needs to do and you might see some stuff
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on your device's screen
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but it's all part of the jailbreak
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process you can see that
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45
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and after it gets to a certain step in
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the process it will say restart progress
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and then reboot like this
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and then currently you can see that
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there's just a
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black screen and now once it's rebooting
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again here
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we can see that there's a little
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progress bar on the device itself and
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this is what you'll see towards the end
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of the process so at this point we can
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see that absinthe says done and enjoy
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and only took about two or three minutes
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total and our ios device is back up i
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can unlock it here and i see that city
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is here if i open up cydia i should see
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the screen that asks you to wait as it
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prepares the file system and cydia once
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again will exit as it's completed so
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you're just going to wait want to wait
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for this to run there's nothing you can
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really do in the meantime and this
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should also take a minute or two so
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basically once the city is done
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preparing file system you'll see
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springboard restart and then you can
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unlock your device go into cydia and you
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should see the menu that asks you
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what kind of user you are and that's if
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it's the first time you're running cydia
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on that device now in my case i've
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already run cydia so you can see it
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loading here and it's looking at the
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packages and everything like that and
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that's really about it it's that easy to
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use absinthe to jailbreak any device
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running ios 5.1.1 so as always if
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there's anything that you'd like to see
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me do a video on
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whether it's something with jailbreaking
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anything with the mac os anything like
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that make sure to send me an email i
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hope you found this video useful this is
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michael with call to mac and thank you
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for watching
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