iPhone Dev Team have released their CLI tool named cinject 0.4.3 that lets you jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on Windows. With this tool, finally Windows users will be able to jailbreak 5.0.1 iOS on A5 devices. Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe, released yesterday, was released for Mac only and Windows version is still not available. So, cinject is the only option for Windows users at the moment.

Download cinject_0.4.3.zip

Cinject Tutorial: Jailbreak 4S, iPad 2 on Windows

Step 1: Extract the downloaded zip file

Step 2: Copy the extracted folder (named cinject_0.4.3) in the drive where Windows is installed (C:).

Step 3: Launch the command prompt

  • Click on Start button > Run
  • Type cmd in Run to launch the command prompt

Step 4: In Command prompt, type following commands:

  • CD C:\cinject_0.4.3
  • cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig

Step 5: When you execute this command, you’ll notice a Profile pop up on your device. Tap on Install and then on Next to proceed further. When it asks for password, leave it blank and click Next.

Step 6: Back to command prompt on Windows, execute following commands:

  • cinject.exe -j payloads
  • cinject.exe –w

Step 7: Now on your device, navigate to Settings > Network > VPN and turn the VPN on.

Step 8: Your device will now reboot. Command prompt will display a series of errors and warnings, ignore them. When you see the following line in Command prompt, it indicates completion of process:

<Warning>: Installing filemover…

Step 9: On your device, launch Absinthe app, this will install Cydia.

That’s it! Your iPhone 4S 5.0.1 jailbreak is complete.

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