iOS 5 Jailbroken

Mightee writes "MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has posted some pictures on his twitter account, confirming the jailbreak works fine on iOS 5, but of course it is limited to tethered boot only, which means you will have to connect it to your computer on every reboot. According to his initial testing, Cydia appears to be working just fine on his jailbroken 4th-gen iPod touch; he managed to install an SSHing utility app called iSSH successfully, which can be seen in one of the screenshots below."

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[BrokenBeta]

Article images seem to be broken.

Interestingly enough there are some images which are ok and link to related content, such as "Unusual Facts About Breasts" and "Goalkeeper Attacks Hot Reporter". These images seem to work ok.

Re:Broken images

[somersault]

2 millimeter penis long penis.

Somewhat redundant, but possibly grammatically and factually correct.

Re:Broken images

[WrongSizeGlass]

Article images seem to be broken.

Here they are:

• First pic
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Re:Broken images

[__aaqvdr516]

Forbidden, forbidden, and forbidden.

of course

[Anonymous Coward]

"but of course it is limited to tethered boot only". Does the word "of course" in there mean it assumes I knew this already, or find it very evident that this is so?

Re:of course

[WrongSizeGlass]

"but of course it is limited to tethered boot only". Does the word "of course" in there mean it assumes I knew this already, or find it very evident that this is so?

But of course.

Re:of course

[RMingin]

Wrong. GeoHotz rolled out GreenPois0n last year. GP should, in theory, allow all of the then-current devices (pretty much everything before iPad 2) to have at least a tethered jailbreak forever. It's a very low level exploit. To become untethered, you need a userspace exploit that can reapply GP each bootup.

4.3.1-4.3.3 inclusive all have untethered exploits, courtesy of i0nic. I'm running 4.3.3 untethered on my iPad 1.

Well that didn't take long.

[scuzzmonkey69]

What is it? Less than 12 hours?

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[somersault]

I wasn't aware it was even on the horizon. Looking at the list of features, it seems like they are doing a nice job of copying Android 3.0.

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[iluvcapra]

They copied everything but the ads and carrier brown-nosing.

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[biglig2]

Lies!

The original Android was a clone of Blackberry.

It was only after the iPhone came out that it became a clone of iOS....

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[Hijacked Public]

Which was a 'clone' of OSX, which was a 'clone' of Mach, which was a 'clone' of BSD, which was a 'clone' of Unix, and so on and so forth.

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[larry bagina]

Android was a blackberry clone before it was an iPhoneOS clone.

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[h4rr4r]

It matters a lot, go try to install scummvm, or a tethering app. Either users get freedom or they lose choice.

Re:Well that didn't take long.

[oakgrove]

Does it mean my options for installing apps are somewhat limited? Maybe, but in practice it really doesn't matter that much.

I think you may be glossing over some of the other obvious benefits of Android over the iPhone that are just as important. Things like choice of form factor for example. Some people like devices with slide out keyboards like the Samsung Epic 4G or blackberry-esque business phones like the Droid Pro. People, at least in the US, like to have a choice of carrier. Sprint and T-Mobile have Android, they don't have iPhones. And don't discount the widget loving contingent of Android users. Many people like those giant clock and weather report boxes on their home screens rather than just a static icon list. There are obviously many reasons people choose Android as evidenced by the meteoric rise in market share and it is a bit arrogant for you to presume what people "need to worry about" when it comes to their choice of phone.

Re:503 smoking hole

[plunderscratch]

This is a better link, and is where the images in the linked article are being hot-linked from anyway ...

http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-5-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-successful-tethered-only/

Only on iPod Touch 4gen

[vgerclover]

Keep in mind this only works on the iPod Touch 4th generation because of a hardware/firmware vulnerability that can't be feasible patched. iPad2 can't be jailbrocken yet.

Wow Moron Alert

[Wovel]

ISSH is an App store app...(Yes I did RTFA and look at the pics)

Please stop posting summaries from uninformed idiots.

iSSH is not for jailbreaks

[MadChicken]

iSSH is just* a SSH client, available from the App Store. Installing it means nothing. TFA should have referred to installing OpenSSH server and connecting to it through [something like] iSSH.

*by just, I don't discount the amazing featureset of the program, including tunneling, VNC and X11. It's a "must have" app.

Re:Jailbreak for iSSH?

[pandrijeczko]

I want you to take a deep breath, close your eyes and think of an image of two cute little Golden Retriever puppies peeping out of a pair of bedroom slippers.

There... feel a bit calmer now?

It blows my mind

[d3ac0n]

That people would put up with having to jump through so many hoops just to have a jailbroken iPhone.

Don't get me wrong; I like Apple products. But Apple seems to go to such lengths to prevent the end user from using the phone in the way they want it just boggles my mind that so many supposed geeks here on /. still want to be part of that experience.

Personally I'm on WebOS. While it's a miniscule platform compared to iOS, "jailbreaking" it isn't even necessary. Just punch in the konami code and you are in developer mode, instantly enabling the ability to load up thousands of homebrew apps, themes, patches and mods.

Even my non-techie father had it figured out in minutes once I showed him how. I can't imagine trying to explain having to tether your phone JUST TO BOOT IT after jailbreaking.

I guess I'm spoiled.

Re:Why does anyone care?

[h4rr4r]

Motorola Droid.
I never rooted it, I just flashed an OS that already had root.
Also the Nexus line of phones is still being sold, so not sure what you mean about google not selling phones.