iOS 5 Jailbroken (Tethered)

[Joshua Tucker]

About two hours ago, MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd), a prominent developer and hacker for the iDevice, has confirmed that iOS 5 (Beta 1) is jailbreakable. The picture above shows MuscleNerd's iPod running Cydia. According to him, the jailbreak was done in conjunction with the limera1n exploit and a tethered boot. He mentioned that the boot rom exploit has not been patched and will work on iOS 5 final.



Although a tethered boot is aggravating as you have to connect your iDevice to your computer every time you reboot, the sign that jailbreaking is still capable so early on is a huge plus for jailbreakers worldwide. For those of us who are die hard jailbreak users and will for life, it is no longer a matter of will iOS 5 be jailbroken but when untethered will be available.

Source(s): MuscleNerd

[vantheman169]

nice!

[tha5150]

so for us devs, we can use limera1n and choose teathered boot and will be good to go?

[Poseidon79]

Be aware that just because it's able to be jailbroken does NOT mean Cydia will load or Mobilesubstrate is updated or any of your favorite jailbroken apps will work. Jailbreaking a beta is good for REAL devs that need to update their apps for 5.0 compatibility. There will not be an official jailbreak from the dev team until a public release of 5.0 comes out from Apple and Saurik won't push a mobile substrate update until after that happens.

[Joshua Tucker]

Be aware that just because it's able to be jailbroken does NOT mean Cydia will load or Mobilesubstrate is updated or any of your favorite jailbroken apps will work. Jailbreaking a beta is good for REAL devs that need to update their apps for 5.0 compatibility. There will not be an official jailbreak from the dev team until a public release of 5.0 comes out from Apple and Saurik won't push a mobile substrate update until after that happens.

Well said Poseidon, well said.

[mmaboi21]

Wow that's awesOme, Cydia alongside iOS 5 will be too much. great work Josh, muscle nerd.

[plumoso]

Well said Poseidon, well said.

Just wait for a official release

[femibrim]

Good grief Musclenerd! You are a baaaaaaaad man! And thanks for quickly bringing our heads back to reality Poseidon!

[kadinh]

a HUGE step in the right direction!

as long as the dev team can hack iOS, i will be happy. i dont know if i could update if the OS wasnt "jailbreakable". i'm still on 4.1..... when i get all of my cydia apps running perfect, its hard to update.

[chris102192]

Wow that's awesOme, Cydia alongside iOS 5 will be too much. great work Josh, muscle nerd.

lol just noticed we are from the same town! random i know.

[DisneyRicky]

Never really got a chance to post this, but look at the new boot logo!

[tlawrence7808]

apple needs the jailbreak community...where do you think they get their ideas from....just look at the IOS5 updates....camera button on lockscreen, volume up to take pic...they will never stop us from jailbreaking...they will make it seem that way...but apple knows if there is no jailbreak community their phones will not be that popular...I know for my own sake ip4 is not that interesting without the jailbreak...

[57mark]

Glad to hear, hopefully if the Apple Gods are in my favor, I will be able to get an iPhone 4S on contract with T-Mobile in September, and be able to jailbreak right away with iOS 5. I love how hard the devs work to keep us happy!

Crossing my fingers

[theman1232]

when will a:
guide to jailbreak using this method

[GrandMstrBud]

Nice, still patiently waiting for iPad 2 jailbreak

[brianiino]

nice, still patiently waiting for ipad 2 jailbreak

yes.

[Spaceman1701]

Nice, still patiently waiting for iPad 2 jailbreak

Ditto, just my patience is running low. If only the ipad 2 JB came as easily and quickly as IOS 5 JB came. The Ipad 2 is an amazing piece of technology without the JB, I cant wait to try it with the JB.
I wish I could find info on how to learn how to write the JB codes, I would be all over it, learning.

[Imahottguy]

Great shot MuscleNerd! The iPhone Dev Team is amazing. I'm serial, I think I will get back into the iPhone game, and just get the 250MB plan. Since my iPad has unlimited data, I can just use MyWi and leave Cellular Data off. Sorry, bit of a tangent. Go iPDT!

[iN2K]

yes.

Just got an iPad as a gift. I was about to give it back because I can't jailbreak it

[ar1b3nz]

Wow, good job MuscleNerd this is an awesome achievement!