Tutorial: Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using redsn0w 0.9.9 beta 8 on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch(Windows, Mac)

By
Adrian Gabor
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  Last night Apple released iOS 5.0.1 for users, solving some of the existing problems in the operating system and blocking the exploit discovered by Charlie Miller some time ago. The new version of the operating system is still exploitable using the limera1n exploit released by geohot more than a year ago for iOS 4.1. redsn0w is still able to jailbreak old iDevices but unfortunately this jailbreak is still tethered and no, the iPad 2 tablet or the iPhone 4S terminal are not compatible with it.

  Before you do update to iOS 5.0.1 read this article to understand why it is possible to be left without the possibility to do untethered jailbreak.

redsn0w 0.9.9 beta 8 jailbreaks using the bootrom exploit from limerain and is compatible with:

  • iPhone 3GS;
  • iPhone 4;
  • iPad 1;
  • iPod Touch 3G;
  • iPod Touch 4G.

Step 1

Download redsn0w 0.9.9 beta 8 from here: Windows, Mac OS X.

Download iOS 5.0.1 available here.

Download iOS 5 available here.

Step 2

Connect the terminal to PC/Mac. In Windows, go to the folder where you downloaded redsn0w, right-click on the executable, select Properties and from the newly opened menu go to Compatibility and tick Run this program in compatibility mode for then select Windows XP, Press Apply and then ok. If you do not follow the correct step, you will not be able to start the tethered terminal. On Mac/Windows redsn0w 0.9.9 beta 8), press the button Extrasthen Select IPSW and select the iOS 5 ipsw and press Next. redsn0w will implement the exploit and move on to the next step.

Step 3

After correctly selecting the ipsw, press the Back button to return to the main menu.

Step 4

Now you have to enter the phone in DFU MODE. First close the terminal, then press jailbreak si Next and redsn0w will show you how to enter the phone in DFU Mode.

  • hold down the power button for 3 seconds;
  • without letting go of the power button, press the Home button for 10 seconds;
  • after the 10 seconds pass, release the Power button and the phone should already be in DFU Mode and redsn0w will start implementing the exploit.

If everything worked and the jailbreak was implemented then redsn0w should show you the Finish button.

Step 5

If everything goes well, you should have a jailbroken iPhone, but unfortunately the "fun" doesn't stop there. Your terminal is jailbroken but the applications do not work on it because you have a tethered jailbreak. You must follow the steps below to boot in tethered mode and be able to use Cydia, Safari and other applications.

Step 6

Re-enter the terminal in DFU Mode following the instructions from Step 4.

Step 7

If you have not closed redsn0w, then press the Back button to return to the Jailbreak & Extras menu, i.e. the first one. If you closed redsn0w then repeat the second part of step 2 to select the ipsw for iOS 5.

Step 8

After selecting the ipsw, press the Just Boot button from the Extras menu and redsn0w will start the tethered terminal and you will be able to use the device without the slightest problem.

After the terminal starts, you should have access to all applications without any problem. This step must be repeated absolutely every time the terminal is reset because otherwise it will not start at all. This jailbreak solution is temporary, so if you don't want to bother with a tethered jailbreak, you can wait.

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147 COMMENTS

  12. The same problem with redns0w and sn0wbreeze: after about 5 minutes after the jailbreak, the phone resets and I get a blank screen with no applications and nothing.

  15. I did everything with steps 7 and 8 twice and I have the same problem: I finish the jailbreak, everything is fine and dandy, cydia installed. after 2-5 minutes the phone resets and I see that all the applications have disappeared. I did it twice with redns6w and sn2wbreeze but nothing! I'm currently on 0 untouched (original)

  22. I restored with sn0wbrezze, then I did exactly as in this tutorial and it worked.
    I should have been more careful.
    Thank you.

  23. I did exactly as it says and everything works. You have to be careful not to turn off the phone, otherwise you'll be left with a bitten apple - it goes into DFU and steps 7 and 8 again. That's it 🙂

  26. @alinb it's the same with me.... I have win95, win98/win me, win NT 4.0(sp5) and win 2000, win XP DOES NOT APPEAR anywhere... so how to select win xp when it DOESN'T !!!

  27. so I finally put win98/win me because I don't have win xp as a choice... I jailbroken but when I give Just Boot I get an error I don't know why.. redsn0w has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. if you were in the middle of something, the info you were working on might be lost...
    any opinion???

  28. that's exactly how it is with me and then I have to restore factory settings. I think that using windows xp you don't have the option to select the same operating system...

  34. hello.. I updated to 5.0.1 and I have an untethered jailbreak on a 3gs, but the problem is that I have no signal on any card.. I don't know what network it is coded on. someone help me?

  38. Come on guys, help me too 😐 I installed 5.0.1 from iTunes without any problems, and after jailbreaking I stay at the "connect to iTunes" screen. I tried jailbreak several times. What should I do to him?

  40. The thing is that I no longer have the operator's card to activate it, and I did a restore, it opens and I stay with it at that part of the setup from the beginning where you have to select wifi or iTunes so that it can check simultaneously, so that it can activate. And from there I closed it to jailbreak it, and after redsn0w does its job on the phone, it opens and I stay in that screen with connect... 🙁

  41. @zaone I know it's not compatible..I've tried and I've been waiting for a few days for a newer version of ultrasn0w..at the moment it's only 1.2.4...maybe you'll leave me a reply when it appears 😀 but I usually check daily. a good day

    @moshu that's how I suffered when I installed 5.0.1. it needed the activation card, then I jailbroken it and it worked. or maybe you didn't put it in DFU mode, follow the instructions...I don't know very well, but someone helped me.

  42. Ultrasn0w works on ios 5... I had a signal and the phone worked perfectly (3gs) after I jailbroken it... but through a stupid and unfortunate mistake I updated to 5.0.1... a version with which ultrasn0w is not very compatible... The only what I can (we can do (those with 3gs who get the No service error)) is to wait for an ultrasnow 1.2.5 or something like that or to downgrade to 4.1... which I don't feel like doing because I lose many applications and facilities offered by ios 5, 5.0.1... So it seems that I am not the only one with problems... but all those with 3gs...

    PS: I jailbroken with redsnow and it worked perfectly... but my phone is now an iPod... I hope that update will come faster for ultrasnow

  43. For those with Windows XP, there is no need to select anything, simply open the application and follow the next steps. It worked perfectly for me. iPhone 4 32 GB never locked,

  44. ok .. the jailbreak went .. when I open cydia - it says preparing fyle system - Storage almost full you can manage your storage in settings - it gives a kind of "respring" after which only a few icons appear .. what is the phase? .. I have 3gs – 8gb .. isn't it running out of space?

  53. I don't understand, if I select the ispw for ios 5.0 with redsnow, then I don't get 5.0 at the end of the jailbreak process? if I try with 5.0.1 it gives me an error

  56. I managed to jailbreak but further with just boot it gives me don't send.. and my iPhone remained switched off and now when I want to resume the jailbroken it gives me don't send there too :))

  57. hello:). I have an ipod touch 4g and I updated it from 4.3.3 to 5. when I tried to downgrade, the surprise is that it is not possible. I mention that I did not release the shsh blobs. is there any way to go back to 4.3.3 to make jb untethered? thanks :)

  62. I did exactly as it says in the tutorial, only that when it has to start, that bitten pineapple appears, then it waits a bit, the bitten apple appears... and it returns to activation, so it hasn't passed activation, to protect my icons, it asks for my sim, etc. .. thank you.

  66. Hello!

    I have an ipod touch 4G, I have iOS 5.0.1, I jailbroken with 5.0 because at 5.0.1 it says that redsn0w doesn't support it, I got cydia .. I installed intall0us and when it rebooted it doesn't enter my ipod anymore it stays at that bitten apple :D.

  70. Because iTunes deletes them. From installous, go to settings at the top right and select there to sync iTunes. After you put the iPad in the PC, right click on the iPad in iTunes, transfer purchased.

  71. Hello,
    I followed all the steps exactly as in this tutorial and all went well until "just boot" which after I put it in DFU mode and it should reboot, it gives me the message at the end...no identifying data fetched...and the iphone remains in DFU mode. Thank you in advance.

  73. I have redone countless times, I even did a restore from itunes to install Cydia again, the same problem... when I boot in "just boot" the process starts, the screen lights up for 1 second and then goes out and redsn0w gives me that message ...no identifying data fetched...and I have to take the iPhone out of DFU mode. I really don't know what to do anymore, I reread the tutorial several times, I thought maybe I missed something, but no, the same message.

  74. I forgot to specify, Cydia appears on my iPhone but I cannot access the application because the iPhone does not open in "just boot" mode. To delete Cydia, apart from restore, is there any other way?

  75. Restore to a downloaded iOS version and try the jailbreak again if it doesn't work, restore to iOS 5.0.0 and make a custom ipsw

  76. No, there is no other way, but by doing a basseband prevent mode from snowbrezer or whatever you call it, you update but without jailbreak but with keeping the basseband

  77. After a clean restore from itunes, I redid everything and the surprise... it worked until the end, now I can enjoy the benefits of jb. Thank you!

  80. When I select Ipsw and select (iPad1,1_5.0.1_9A405_Restore.ipsw) it tells me that redsnow does not support it. I have an ipad 1 and I have version 5.0.1 and I would like to jailbreak it? please help me too, I said I'm trying to do it myself instead of throwing 100 ron. with respect and esteem Victor

  83. I succeeded Anonymous, as Cyndia doesn't have any picture on the icon, I entered it and it says Preparing Filesystem. Is there anything else to do? very nice

  91. well, that's what I did... I used ipsw 5.0.0 with to make jb... I still don't know if I succeeded, I got stuck in the wifi trap that keeps giving me unable to join network... I don't even know if it was hacked

  93. sorry, I really need help. I did exactly as it says in the tutorial and I can't even jailbreak it. I get the same error on redsn0w: that ISPW is not supported by this version of redsn0w. please help me, I don't know what to do i still do

  94. zaone, I also have a question... I have 4.3.5 on iPhone 4 Neverlock. is it possible to switch to 5.0 and not to 5.0.1? THX

  99. I used to have 5.0 and I switched to 5.0.1 with snowbreaz.... what can you see, it had a nush bug, especially when I was buying something from the appstore, a bunch of accounts appeared, no matter how many times I canceled, it still appeared, but everything else was different, I would switch to 5.0.1 because I was used to 5.0, but I didn't want to switch because of k maybe there will be an untethered solution for 5.0, but I can't switch to 5.0 anymore .. there's no point in staying with 4.3.5 .. ms!

  100. gabit I want Jb .. but untethred honestly I'm a bit tired of tethered ... now we go with what we have until untethred in your opinion should I fak Jb to 5.0.1 with snowbreaz or redsnow? thx

  101. I didn't know there was any difference..with snowbreeze you do custom ipsw and with redsnow JB but you can do JB directly from snowbreeze. I don't know much, but I manage mine when it has problems 🙂

  105. Whatever I took from the appstore, it gave me different accounts, and whenever I canceled, all sorts of others appeared...!

  108. I have a 3gs from Orange Romania, and I put in 5.0.1 and it gives me searching, I can't activate it.. I put in 4.3.3 and it's still on searching. I activated it through jb for nothing, I installed ultrasnow and still for nothing 😐 what should I do? and I tried 4.1. all for nothing

  109. Hello, please help me too. I took the ipsw from that jailbreak table. and redsn0w 0.9.9b8 says it's not compatible! I use an iPod touch 4g. and I have iOS 5.0.1 Thank you very much!

  112. it doesn't occur to me to check compatibility with windows xp except with 98,95,nt and 2000...and when I select IPSW it comes out of redsn0w 0.9.9b8..IPTSW is version 5.0..please help me:)..thank you

  118. I have iphone 3gs with baseband 6.15.00
    I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I always enter recovery mode at the end of the operation
    a question... do i need to tick ipad baseband at the beginning or just let cydia be installed?

  125. A much simpler method (the simplest) of tethered jailbreak is the one with Redsn0w 0.9.9 b9d, without having to choose the ipsw. This is also the solution for those who receive the error "that ipsw is not supported by this version of redsn0w" that those with Redsn0w 0.9.9 b8 receive, especially iPod Touch users (like me).

    You could update this section, if you consider.. the jailbreak method changes noticeably like this 🙂

  126. Please, who managed to jailbreak the iPhone 3gs with baseband 6.15.00, please tell me how you did it, because I can't do it at all....
    everything goes perfectly until the phone turns on. The apple appears, after which the wheel keeps spinning for hours... As if it would freeze at the moment when the phone should be activated.
    Maybe something needs to be checked and I'm not doing something right... I'm asking you who managed to give me a little help,
    ms.

  128. Well, the thing is that after I jailbreak the phone does not turn on at all, it remains blocked right before turning on, the apple appears, after which the wheel appears and remains blocked like that for hours...
    do you think that if I do tethered, will it work??

  129. mother, finally, after hours of torment, I succeeded....indeed, it had to be tethered to start
    ms zaone that you enlightened me in the 12th ceased
    now it goes razor

  131. I don't just have the impression, it really works well...
    I have cydia, I decoded with ultrasnow, I put appsync, installous, etc
    everything works

  133. I can't find the network at all.. not even tethered.. does anyone know what could be the reason? I had tethered and I tried untethered.. at first I installed from cydia because it seemed easier to me.. it didn't work 2 times I tried, installed and uninstalled, now with redsnow the same.. cydia appears but without network.. what else should I do.. any solutions?

  137. I have the same problem...except that when I have to activate it, it says "Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is unavailable"..please help me!

  141. Hello.. I have the same problem. I tried to install version 4.3.3 again but at some point it shows "we are hanging here" and it stops... what should I do??

  143. hello, I also have a problem... I have an iphone 4 ios 5.0.1, baseband 04.11.08 I did exactly the steps above but at the end it told me that it could not be installed and when I open my phone I can't open safari anymore can someone help me?