Your Wait is (Finally) Over
Greetings, friends & jailbreakers!
We are well-aware of how very many of you, our faithful fans, have been waiting for months for this announcement, so – with no further ado, we are excited to unveil the newest addition to our GreenPois0n toolkit…
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 !
This release should come as no surprise to those of you who have been following pod2g’s iOS blog for the past few months. Earlier this week, you might have even wet your pants a little when you watched the video demonstration of today’s release (named Absinthe A5) and first witnessed our jailbreak working its magic to liberate both the iPhone 4S & iPad 2.
What you may not fully realize yet is just how hard the exploits in this Apple A5 jailbreak are working behind the scenes – and, though I mentioned it last week on my Twitter – what a glorious hacker’s wet dream the Absinthe A5 toolkit has ultimately evolved into!
Hacking the A5: Not Exactly a Walk in the Park
The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers, several of whom have been working diligently on this project since the dual-core A5 processor was unveiled by Apple last March. Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world’s first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2.
At that point, I don’t know if any iOS hacker anticipated how much the A5 chip would completely change the game & up the stakes. The endless war we fight to jailbreak has become more & more difficult with each new device released, and our recent battle against A5 only proved this further. After working for months with few tangible results, Chronic Dev hackers tried a new approach – we launched CDevReporter to accumulate all your devices’ crash reports, an invaluable source of information for iOS hacking & research. You answered our call-to-arms quickly & emphatically, sending us more than 10 million of these reports in less than a week. (Keep up the good work!)
Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S was released with resounding success – more than four million devices were sold in the first weekend alone. As a result, demand for an untethered A5 jailbreak grew exponentially overnight, and a mob-like mentality was adopted by many of the (usually courteous) Apple fan-kids. Suddenly, every iOS hacker found himself the target of constant clamoring – on Twitter, in our (& other) blog’s comments, in forums & tech news blurbs. Their message was loud & clear: “We want our new iPhones jailbroken, & we want it NOW!”
Introducing the 2012 iOS Hacking “Dream Team”
We finally admitted that the escalated obstacles presented by Apple’s new A5 processor would not likely be overcome by one individual or team – but all together, we should be more than able to conquer any challenges encountered. As such, a diverse group of iOS hackers all decided to set aside our personal goals & egos, relax our die-hard team loyalties, and pool our respective skill-sets, talents & exploits to form an iOS Super-Hacking “Dream Team.”
Numerous prominent iOS hackers contributed time & expertise to the project through their troubleshooting, brilliant obstacle-clearing ideas & other support. We’d like to extend special thanks to saurik & MuscleNerd, both core members of iPhone Dev Team.
Of the 4 hackers who deserve extra recognition & gratitude for completing the lion’s share of the research, development & programming of this jailbreak, 3 are members of Chronic Dev Team: myself (posixninja), pod2g & nikias. The fourth & most legendary member of our “Dream Team” is planetbeing, the globally-admired iOS hacker/developer responsible for initially porting both Linux & Android to the iPhone (among his many other contributions).
As to the amazingly innovative fusion of exploits used in this iOS jailbreak – we plan to save most of that discussion for a panel/presentation we hope to give at a conference later this year. If you want to learn more now, pod2g wrote an excellent blog post after the release of Corona, in which he describes in detail the userland & kernel exploits we used, both for the A4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and as a starting point for this Absinthe A5 toolkit.
Help Advance our Ongoing iOS Research & Support the Future of Jailbreaks!
CONTRIBUTE HERE directly to Chronic Dev Team
Say “THANK YOU!” to Developers of this A5 Jailbreak for a Job Well Done!
CONTRIBUTE HERE to iOS Hacking “Dream Team”
Download GreenPois0n Absinthe Now
To jailbreak your iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1**) and/or your iPad 2 (all Wi-Fi only, GSM & CDMA devices supported; must be running iOS 5.0.1**) – select one of the links below to download your Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak. Simply unzip the file, then install on your iOS A5 mobile device with one click of a button!
Windows » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.4 for Windows
Mac OS X » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.4 for MacOSX
Linux » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.4 for Linux x86/x86_64
**NOTE: If you haven’t yet heeded the advice I gave weeks ago – before you take one step further, upgrade your firmware to iOS 5.0.1 NOW! (Unless you need an iPhone4s Unlock) Also, we don’t mean to beat you over the head with this warning, but please remember: you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak! Bookmark our GreenPois0n blog now, and be the first to know the next time we advise our jailbreak users to safely update their iOS firmware.
As with all our previous GreenPois0n releases, should you run into any bugs in the A5 jailbreak, leave us a comment below or contact us on Twitter (via Chronic Dev Team, GreenPois0n, or directly to “Dream Team” hackers posixninja, pod2g or nikias). Even if we aren’t able to respond to your messages individually, we depend on all users to let us know about any issues you run into so that we can address them & fix the most-reported problems as quickly as possible.
Muchas Gracias
First & foremost, THANK YOU to all our loyal fans & readers for your enduring patience over the past several months. We’ve been toiling night & day in order to perform the serious hacking ninja magic required to develop the most advanced iPhone jailbreak yet – we only hope it was worth your wait! And as always, thank you for your never-ending support of Chronic Dev Team & all our GreenPois0n releases!
I also want to express my personal gratitude to:
- saurik – for all your guidance & support, especially in helping us out of the sandbox, and for acting as administrator to the “Dream Team” donation fund;
- Chronic-Dev, LLC – for hosting the web servers that will inevitably crash due to the sheer number of simultaneous download requests; and
- finally & especially, the other “Dream Team” members – for all your expertise, dedication, cooperation & countless hours of hard work! It was a true pleasure to work closely with each of you, and without your contributions, this jailbreak would not have been possible.
Category: 5.0.1, A5 devices, Untether
could you jail brake an ipod 4th gen. with iOS of 5.0.1 version?
if you jail brake an ipod and somthing goes wrong will the device be messed up?
no u just restore, thats what he function is there for
Jailbroke my phone and everything is cool except the fact that I can’t play any purchased songs now……is this normal?
you need to connect to itunes re-sync your content
Jailbreaking went smoothly on my Windows 7, thanks for the efforts
Will you guys ever fix the 10.5.8 crash error? Its really restricting me : (
it is fixed, will you ever learn how to use it? because right now you are restricting me
Hello. I have an iPhone 4s. I downloaded the correct absinthe. My phone is up to date (5.0.1) and backed up.
After I download, unzip, click, etc.. The box pops up and the Jailbreak button is grayed out, so it won’t do anything when clicked. What would cause this?
Hi, do i really have to restore the 4s from factory settings before i cab proceed to jailbreaking? I have a factory unlocked 4s and i’m worried that if i restore the phone i might have a hard time activating it due to our location. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
It says beginning jailbreak, this may take a while… then loads the blue bar about even with the C in Chrnic-Dev and its stayed like this for 15 mins now not moving
I’m having the exact same problem, the bar fills to that point in under a second but stays there for hours. I’ve tried starting over completely and starting over after restarting my iphone/computer, the only thing I havent tried is restoring my phone and starting over (I was trying to avoid doing this because for some reason my MacBook Pro wants me to free up a massive amount of hard drive space in order to do this) Luckily its my day off so I had a bit of time to kill anyway, but I’ve been at this all morning, and its starting to get pretty frustrating. If anyone has a solution, the sooner the better, thanks.
Jailbreak button won’t do anything when iPhone is connected to pc so can’t start jailbreak , please help .
Hello evryone i deleted cydia on my iphone 4s accidently the i try to rejailbreak with absinth
i can’t jailbreak they say device already jailbroken 
can i jailbreka with out restoring ?
Sorry for bad english
did all that was said, downloaded absinthe and opened it. I now cydia installed on my i4ne… But the problem is that when i go to apptrackr.org and dwl some games i can’t put it in my i4ne 4s… But still it does work on my ipod. How can i run them on my i4ne? PLS HELP!!!
oh my.. *facepalm*
Does this jailbreak unlock the iPhone4 to use on other carriers? I did the jailbreak and put in my sim card only for it to say “sim failure”.
Prison break you great god, excuse me, absinthe-win-0.5: when will the ah, look forward to, everyday attention
it says please attach only one device?
After jailbreaking, Cydia was not properly loaded, so I attempted a restore and phone now says “Phone damaged, your phone cannot be activated”
just got my iPhone 4s jailbreak hassle free.
no prob or error on me, before you jailbreak make sure you back-up your phone then after back-up master reset your phone as it was bought in the first place then you can now perform jailbreak.
when i try to run absinthe on my pc wth windows xp and my ihone 4s with ios 5.0.1 absinthe just says consitency check failed: could not find required files?
Any ideas???
…and I had seen the similar comments below — I wiped it, started as a new phone, and tried jailbreaking it again. same thing…
It works what else can I say
works flawless on new ipad 2! Thanks Greenpois0n!!!
i did the jailbreak on my iphone 4s evverything went good a frist but now my music player dosnt work wat can i do?
i must put the phone in the dfu mode?
How long does this actually take? I’ve been on the Beginning jailbreak screen for about half an hour now and I only have a 16gb IPAD 2 (though it is kinda full)
i have download and install but when i attach my iphone 4s message show that attached device is not activated, activate your attached device.
Hello,
cinject after jailbreak with wifi is just gray. Also reset the network settings does not help. I ask for help. Thank you.
Hey, Jailbreaking iPhone 4S iOS 5.0.1, using Absinthe 0.4, on Windows 7 x64 SP1. Absinthe says “connecting to device”, then “Beginning jailbreak, this may take a while…”, then after about 3-5 minutes it crashes “absinthe.exe has stopped working _ A problem caused the program to stop working correctly…” So I click “close program”
After this, I re-launch absinthe, click jailbreak again, and it says “looks like you tried to apply this jailbreak and it failed, will try to recover now”, then “recovery successful, to try again, unplug and reconnect your iPhone”; which, when I do that, the process repeats itself.
Notes:
1) YES you can have my iPhone crash reports if you want. I submitted 161 of them with your report tool.
2) YES I allowed the UAC prompt for absinthe when it requested elevation.
3) YES you can have the crash reports from absinthe if you want them: http://db.tt/BdTkthkw (Exported Windows Event logs via shortened DropBox link)
can i use this for iphone 4? not i phone 4s for iphone 4 ??
JB went as advertised but, when I go to my photos and select a pic, the pic will show up for a nano second then show another pic in the library. Seems to consistently grab the same wrong pic – maybe an indexing thing – idk
I’m about to post the DUMBEST question ever. I’ve jailbroken my iPhone, downloaded Cydia and MyWi. What do I do now to actually tether!?
Will this work on iPhone 4 iOS 5.0.1?
I’m currently on a 4S 5.0.1 JB. My device has some problem like playback issues with music, but most importantly when I take a picture it doesn’t save.
My plan is to restore and reJB
I want to make sure I understand the process because I think this is where I made a mistake. I want to clarify the steps I will take.
Also, I am using iCloud
backup on iCloud/sync photos with iTunes ->
restore in iTunes ->
Set up as new iPhone ->
run Absinthe and JB ->
restore from backup -> This is where I have questions. After the JB process is completed and cydia is on my phone, how can I restore from my iCloud backup?
I thought the only way to restore from backup with iCloud was through the initial iPhone Setup GUI.
-Thanks
sorry to be so dumb, but I cant dowload absinthe on my ipad2. I get an error saying safari can download this file. I am a complete dumbarse when it comes to mac. I have just purchased an ipad and I fond it cant tether to my nokia n8 because of joikuspot being a adhoc network on nokia.
Will it work for the iPhone 4? or will I have to use a different jailbreak method for it? its just a quick thought
Never mind ignore my comment
I tried to jailbreak using my win7 pro notebook and I dont even get the jailbreak button. Is greyed out. The PC detect the device as apple pad, I can browse it, but when I run exe, jailbreak button stays greyed out
i tried doing it but when i connected my iPad 2 [verzion 5.0.1] and it said” ERROR: Consistency check failed: could not find required files”. Please help
that’s great i will use it soon
hey guys i try to jailbrek my ipad 2 im plug in and it type “looks like you attempted to apply this jailbreak and it failed.we try to fix now” what to do???
please help meeee
and sorry,my english is bad
This worked fine for me on my Iphone 4S (Absinthe v4). Did restore and then jailbreak. Dead easy! No problems to report as of yet. Have 3G unrestrictor and AppSync installed.
Good work!
First of all big thanks for all the hard work that went into jailbreaking!
I got a new ouf-of-the-box 4s today and followed the instructions in the readme. Since it’s a total new phone it finished rather quickly and then I hit the Absinthe icon to finish the process and install Cydia. The first time it got through the “Wait for absinthe to complete…” process just fine, but I didn’t see Cydia installed. So I rebooted, but still no Cydia installed. Then I tried clicking the absinthe icon again and it gave me the “Didn’t work? Try this” message after a while. I went into settings to the VPN configuration, saw that there already was a jailbreak custom configuration, but still tried to turn VPN on, closed the error message and rebooted again, but still no Cydia installed.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I restore to factory settings and try again?
I restarted the jailbreak. First it recognized that I had already jailbroken it and said it would try to fix. After the fix there was still no Cydia, so I unplugged and replugged to restart the entire JB. After this JB I got Cydia installed.
Thanks again for this great JB, keep up the good work!
To ALL of you who did this possible, I can only imagine how hard you worked, THANK YOU! YOU GUYS ESPECIFICALLY
If it wasn’t for your hard work, there’s now way I would be as productive on my iPhone.
Thank YOU!