Posted by unlocker under Jailbreak on Wednesday Feb 1, 2012
In a recent post, pod2G announced that the iPhone Dev team, Chronic Dev team and iOS hacker planetbeing had joined him to figure out a way to publicly release his untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 that relied on a developer account.
It seems that there has been progress in developing an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 in iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Now, Cydia’s founder and developer Jay Freeman also known as saurik joined the team in creating the jailbreak.
MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev team has just tweeted that the team’s combined efforts is making progress. He tweeted, props to @saurik for major contributions to the A5 version of @pod2G’s untether yesterday! (still no ETA, but moving forward)
pod2G also replied, @MuscleNerd @saurik And greetings to @planetbeing for the coding + research. Really great stuff to escape from the sandbox.
Thus, it looks like they have figured out a way around the sandboxing difficulties that pod2G had mentioned. pod2G has also tweeted that they don’t plan to release the untethered jailbreak to developers for obvious reasons. He said, sorry, we can’t release the A5 for the developers, the exploit used have to be kept secret. I know this is unfair.
As MuscleNerd has mentioned there is currently no ETA. However, this noted progress is good news for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users.
Posted by unlocker under Jailbreak on Wednesday Feb 1, 2012
A few days ago, iPhone hacker and developer pod2g revealed exciting news that he may be able to release an untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and users were eagerly waiting for an update.
The iOS developer published a recent post providing more details and information about the untethered jailbreak in the format of question and answer. Below is a copy of the blog post of pod2g.
How could pod2g have an untethered 4S and dev teams still haven’t released tools to achieve this at home?
The exploit I used to inject the untethering files to the 4S relies on having a developer account, and can’t be released publicly.
It’s the same reason why @MuscleNerd has an iPad 2 tethered jailbreak but couldn’t distribute it.
So, we need to find a distributable exploit to remount the system partition read/write and to set Corona files at the correct places.
Why A4 version of Corona was easier to release?
Because a tethered jailbreak is a good way to install Corona!
Why don’t you do a tethered jailbreak then?
A tethered jailbreak also relies on an exploitable vulnerability that we still haven’t found yet!
pod2g, release this stuff quick, [your insult here], I’ve waited enough now.
If I could, I would!
Initially, pod2g confirmed that his version of untethered jailbreak for the new mobile operating system iOS 5 will not work with iPhone 4S and iPad 2 because the devices both have A5 processors. iOS hacker and developer pod2G said that he is working on the untethered jailbreak for the latest generation of iPhone. In a post he published, he wrote, “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. I could sort it out quick, it’s a matter of chance. I’ll report you my progress tomorrow.” However, iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users were still hopeful of the new improvements on the untethered jailbreak.
