It was announced last night si today that the untethered jailbreak solution for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S is getting closer to release and now the Dev Team comes and makes the same announcement through an article published on own blog. The Dev Team informs us that the jailbreak solution is ready, that it is being tested in order to solve possible bugs and that it will initially be available through an application designed by the Chronic Dev Team and then it will be included directly in redsn0w. Those who need unlock must keep their baseband intact and iPhone 4S terminal owners must stay on iOS 5 to ensure that they will be able to unlock in the future.
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
- 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 debugging 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.
Regarding compatibility: the untethered jailbreak solution will work on iOS 5.0/5.0.1(9A405) and 5.0.1(9A406) on the iPhone 4S, but on the iPad 2 tablet it will only work on iOS 5.0.1 at the moment. Those who have iPhone 4S with build 9A406 (you can check it from Settings>General>About) can restore from iTunes to build 9A405 because Apple still signs SHSHs for it.
Firmware:
The supported firmware versions will be:
- iPhone4S: 5.0 (9A334), 5.0.1 (9A405) and the “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
- iPad2: 5.0.1 (9A405)
iPhone4S 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 iPhone4S 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.
Finally, the Dev Team asks all those interested to donate any amount of money to this paypal account in order to support the development of future jailbreak solutions. If you have money, I recommend you to donate because this will encourage the developers to hurry in the future with the launch of solutions of this kind.
Because there were so many different people and teams involved in the A5 corona release, we all felt the most equitable approach to any Paypal contributions should involve a single shared account. If you do feel the desire to contribute to the "dream team" Paypal account, it will be distributed to the members according to internally agreed-upon proportions 🙂 The same link will be on both the Chronic Dev and iPhone Dev versions of the GUI. This method seemed like the fairest to everyone involved!
