Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is about to end now! The popular and expert iPhone hacker pod2g has recently announced that he, and the jailbreaking “Dream Team”, will release Absinthe jailbreak tool today to free your A5 devices. Absinthe jailbreak tool, developed by the Chronic Dev Team, will jailbreak your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1.
Today is a Fun-day! Yes, that’s right. Earlier today, the iPhone Dev Team made a blog post informing users that Corona A5 untethered is nearly ready to be released and now comes pod2g’s new blog post which confirms that the necessary tool is READY to be released.
There are two tools on the horizon now. The Chronic Dev Team’s one which will be named “Absinthe”. The iPhone Dev Team will also release a command line tool which will help you to diagnose issues and repair any issues.
A tool named Absinthe and developped by the Chronic Dev Team will install the untether on your device. Also the iPhone Dev Team will release a CLI (command line) tool to help diagnose issues and repair things if it goes wrong.
What’s new about this jailbreak is that it’s the first time hacker use the backup and restore functions of iTunes to install software. So they’re warning, there might be some issues with it.
The iPhone Dev Team will release Redsn0w soon after Absinthe is released and most of bugs which will surely meet users are fixed.
Here’s what pod2g said about the release time:
I know the wait was long, too much long, but it’s about to end! You’d be able to free your iPhone in some hours.
You can read our previous post here from the Dev Team for more info. Don’t forget, I mean it, to follow me on , and subscribe to our newsletter to get the news and jailbreak guides once the hackers drop the tools.
UPDATE: It’s out. Check our guide posted here to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 5.0.1 untethered.
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