Absinthe A5 Jailbreak Released for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
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The first untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 was released in late December, but it didn’t include support for Apple’s newest devices – the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S.
As of today, however, an addition to the Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool, “Absinthe A5,” will allow iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners to perform an untethered jailbreak on their devices for the first time.
A typical tethered jailbreak requires a jailbroken iDevice to be connected to a computer each time it is booted, while an untethered (and preferable) jailbreak will allow the device to be booted without a computer. Absinthe A5 is the first untethered jailbreak that’s been released for Apple’s A5 systems.
Absinthe comes complements of iOS jailbreak author Pod2g and the Chronic Dev Team. A similar offering from the iPhone Dev Team will come bundled with a command-line tool for even greater control over the jailbreak, plus diagnostic and repair tools.
Absinthe is only available for Mac OS X users at this time, though the teams are working on versions for both Windows and Linux.
These devices can be jailbroken using Absinthe: iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1, and iPad 2 with iOS 5.0.1. Absinthe can be acquired from the Greenpois0n website, but you may want to wait a day because the site has been intermittently down due to high traffic, or use this mirror link.
