Worth the wait, the untethered jailbreak for A5 devices iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released yesterday through Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe Tool for Mac. The windows version is yet to be released but atleast we know the jailbreak is out. The jailbreak for iPhone 4 and other devices was released through Corona. Pod2g, Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev team, contributions and hard work from everyone has made it possible for iDevice users to enjoy the endless tweaks and fun that a jailbroken device brings along.
We have posted a very simple and easy to understand guide for jailbreaking your iPhone 4S and iPad2 using Absinthe for Mac. Command Line Interface (CLI) tool by iPhone Dev Team has been released for debugging and diagnosing issues if anything goes wrong after jailbreaking your device. The CLI tool can also execute the full jailbreak process if required, but with twenty options built-in, it acts a powerful troubleshooting utility.
The OS X version of the iPhone Dev Command Line Tool can be downloaded from the link posted at the end, with the corresponding readme information also being available; which outlines the options available to debuggers and tinkerers. If you intend on using the iPhone Dev CLI then make sure that you are familiar with the risks involved and follow all advice from the authors.
If you have viewed the included documentation, you will be able to see a number of options available, and the increasing complexities of the more advanced options, users would benefit from having some previous command line experience. The CLI tool is generally intended to be used for debugging purposes and could cause problems if used without any proper knowledge. The documentation provided, although only one page, provides a number of example usages for the CLI.
Download the iPhone Dev Team CLI Tool for Mac.
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