Corona A5 untethered jailbreak is nearly ready to pop, that’s what the iPhone Dev Team said in a new blog post earlier today. You’ll finally be able to theme your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 just in the way you want. You’ll be able to install helpful jailbreak tweaks and add widgets for your iOS 5 notification center. The wish is coming to be true.
The iPhone Dev Team’s post confirms that the jailbreaking Dream Team is nearly ready to release the A5 untethered jailbreak to the public since it’s as bug free as possible.
Here’s what the team says about the jailbreaking programs. The A5 untethered jailbreak Windows and Mac OS X will come from the Chronic Dev Team, most probably GreenPois0n. However, there are more methods to do the jailbreak.
To be as flexible as possible, the A5 version of the corona jailbreak will take multiple forms:
- Chronic Dev have incorporated the overall flow into a GUI that runs on your Mac or PC. The goal is for the GUI to be enough for most cases.
- iPhone Dev have incorporated the exact same flow into a command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through individual steps of the jailbreak manually, to both help the user and help improve the overall flow. Although the CLI will also allow the user to perform the entire jailbreak from beginning to end, we anticipate it will be more useful in debugging the occasional errors. The CLI currently has over 20 individual options (in addition to the single “jailbreak” option) that should be useful during debug after the GUI release.
- Once all the bugs in the flow are worked out, we’ll also incorporate it into the redsn0w GUI (but still leave the CLI freely available too). In order to maximize the chances of the jailbreak working for everyone, the redsn0w GUI will use native Apple iTunes libraries — this technique is slightly different than how the Chronic Dev GUI handles communications, and should provide nice combined coverage for all the odd computer configurations out there.
The supported firmware versions will be:
For iPhone 4S users who want to unlock their devices:
iPhone 4S owners looking to maximize their chances of achieving an eventual software-based carrier unlock should be staying at 5.0. Everyone else should be at 5.0.1. If you’re an iPhone 4S owner who already updated to 5.0.1, it’s too late to go back down to 5.0. But if you’re on 9A406 it is possible to downgrade the BB by going to the 9A405 version of 5.0.1 while the window is still open.
iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users, get ready!
The overall flow used by the GUI and CLI to inject the A5 corona jailbreak has never been done before, and there may be unforeseen problems once it’s released to the public. It’s very important for you to sync your data, photos, and music before attempting any version of this jailbreak.
Release date? Nothing specific, but very soon.
As mentioned at the start of this post: when testing has shown most of the bugs have been fixed!
UPDATE: It’s out. Check our guide posted here to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 5.0.1 untethered.
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