The A5 jailbreak tool, Greenpois0n Absinthe has been updated to v0.4. Chronic Dev Team released Absinthe 0.4 for Windows, Mac and Linux. According to release notes, here are the changes that this latest release brings:
- Mac: added support for OSX 10.5, PPC and Intel CPU
- added consistency check on startup to make sure required files are in place
- Windows: fixed bug in payload generator that might cause a crash
So, if you have been facing problems while trying to jailbreak iPhone 4S & iPad 2 iOS 5.0.1, you can now use Absinthe 0.4 and try to jailbreak again. Here are download links:
- Windows: absinthe-win-0.4.zip
- Mac OS X: absinthe-mac-0.4.zip
- Linux: absinthe-linux-0.4.tar.gz
After downloading Absinthe, you can follow our step by step guide to jailbreak iPhone 4S & iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1.
For those who have successfully jailbroken, there’s no need to jailbreak your device again using v0.4.