Hot on the heels of providing details of the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2, Chronic Dev team has just released the greenpois0n Absinthe to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
greenpois0n Absinthe is the result of the hard work of the jailbreak dream team.
greenpois0n Absinthe support the following iOS devices and firmwares:
- iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
- iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1
You can download greenpois0n Absinthe from this link. greenpois0n Absinthe is currently available only for Mac users, but the Windows version should be released shortly.
Please remember to take a backup of your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 before proceeding.
iPhone Dev team are also expected to release a command line tool initial to perform the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. It hopes to incorporate it in Redsn0w in the near future.
Update 1:
Check out our step-by-step guide to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 using Absinthe (includes troubleshooting steps to fix some of the issues you may be facing).
Update 2:
Absinthe Untethered Jailbreak For iPhone 4S, iPad 2 Updated to 0.1.2-2 to Address Load Issue. We have updated the download link above as well.
Update 3:
Absinthe for Windows is now available. Check out this post for all the details.
As always, let us know how it goes in the comments.
[via greenpois0n blog]
Worked great for me… wooohoooooo!!!
Despite reboots and running via terminal. it fails stating Absinthe quit unexpectedly. on Mac Lion (all updated, latest iTunes etc…)
**White Screen Solved!!!**
I had tried for an hour and kept getting the white screen. The VPN thing never rebooted my iPad2.
But finally I sorted it:
Made sure all pass codes and locks were set to OFF
Ran the jailbreak again from the start
Then DO NOT RUN ABSINTHE FROM YOUR IPAD2 OR IPHONE 4S – just do the VPN trick again. Mine said something like IPSec in the VPN config, but this time when I got the VPN error IT DID REBOOT!
Then HURRAH! my Cydia icon was there! You don’t actually need to run the Absinthe icon from your device! Hope this helps people!
YES!!! Follow these instructions by sidneysides if you want your iPad2 to complete the jailbreak process. No need to run the Absinthe icone just go straight to settings/network/vpn and turn it to on….you will get the VPN error and then it will reboot. I spent hours trying it all the other ways. THANK YOU sidneysides and of course the Jailbreak DReam TEam
Alright now all you cry babies I think it’s fair for all of us to donate some feria to these hard working team
well i downloaded greenpois0n absinthe it downloaded unziped file on my mac osx 10.5.8 and wouldnt launch.. i dont know why it wont launch so if u know why or no how to fix it please reply thankyou.
Ran through it this morning. Aside from having to refresh refresh refresh til I connected it has worked, nearly, flawlessly. There were times where an odd icon would go blank. A simple respiring and it’s back. I’ve rebooted several times, installed all my old jailbreak apps, and am trucking along. The only real issue is that bitesms is missing some of the bells and whistles it used to have. To be updated in the future so kind of a baseless complaint.
do you think i could jailbreak my iphone 3gs with this software when it comes out for windows.. ive got my device jailbroke already with redsn0w but its running really slow. please help guys thanks
Arghhhh… Got to wait a little bit longer for windows version
Mine works perfect after the second time, what i did was upgrade itunes to the latest version and all went according to the instructions posted by the DEV team….
Guys this is awesome! Thank you! But I’m having troubles. When I open Absinthe it opens fine and I hit jailbreak which is fine. But then it stalls on “Beginning Jailbreak, this may take awhile.” then after about 10 minutes Absinthe just crashes. Anybody know what’s up?
When I ran Absinthe, it detected my iPad, I clicked Jailbreak and the progress bar went about 10% and stopped there. I waited about 10 minutes, quit the app and restarted. It said that I had apparently tried to jailbreak and had failed and that it would fix the error. It recovered (says recovery completed), the progress bar is full, but it isn’t doing anything with my iPad.
Any help?
Same as ur problem let me know if u reaches anything I even tried on Mac and pc !!!
Everything worked great! Thanks greenpois0n team. On iphone 4s just had to reload Absinthe a couple times and it connected and on iPad 2 turned on VPN and it said it wouldnt do it and then restarted and cydia was there. Excellent job. And all those PC users out there complaing: stop being cheap and get a Mac and appreciate that they’ll even put this for you guys.
absinthe cant seem to find my iphone 4s when i open it anybody else having this problem?
Friends
I jailbreak my iPad 2 with absinthe and after that facetime is opening but not call functionality is working only contact are showing is there any solution please help
Hello all,
First of all thanks to the DEV team for their hard work.
On my side no matter what I do I am unable ot get this working !! Not sure if it is because of full greenpois0n server but I’m getting frustrated like hell. Been trying for 4 hours now !!!
I have iPhone 4S 5.0.1 just bought 2 months ago, latest version of iTunes, Snow Leopard and MBA.
When I reach the “click on Absinthe icon” step, nothing happens just a white screen with sometimes an error and sometimes nothing at all. When I try the VPN trick, it tries to connect and then throws an error (as expected) but then nothing at all happens (should I click on the “OK” button when this error occurs?
I really don’t get it..
PLEASE PLEASE HELP !
THanks
Jeremy
Wankers! NOW DONATE!
Oh…. its not working on my iPhone 4s….. just sits at a white screen all day…. zzzzzz…… worked well on the iPad though.
thanks.
I start with my iPad2 and it worked like a charm .
Then i did with my iPhone 4GS , had the icon but did not work and I think it is because the server is down. I think when this problem is solved it will work.
Remember there are millions who wants to jailbreak and heavy load on the server caused this, So it brook down.
Thanks DREAM TEAM you are great and did it.
the application absinthe quit unexpectedly WTF???? sum1 help plz!!
sum1 help plz
1 try on another comp:
-it works – get new com stop whining
-it doesn’t – you totaaly suc need step by step diy to jb?! get a life and pay for jbreaking
will absinthe ever be available for the iphone 4 if its not already? please say yes.
Works great on the iPad and the iphone (mostly). The only minor problem on the iPhone is that when I go to settings and select GENERAL, it crashes. It may not be the jb, but may be one of the jb programs I installed from Cydia. Like I said, it’s minor and I’m able to do everything, but access the hardly missed GENERAL. I may restore the iphone and try again because the ipad is not having the problems and I installed the same programs except Tetherme (which didn’t make a difference in General on the iphone when I deleted it. It still crashed.). Let me know if anyone is having issues with GENERAL crashing.
Smiley
Experienced one more problem. PRE-JB: I use to be able to connect to my computer (screen share) using a VNC program, on my iPad 2, but now it won’t connect POST-JB.
Even 0.4 is not working for me. I have got 4S 64 GB 9A406 and Win 7 64bit.
Absinthe stops after creating a file in C drive which is just about 1 GB size and then it stops in the beginning jailbrake phase.
When I ran Absinthe, it detected my iPad, I clicked Jailbreak and the progress bar went about 10% and stopped there. I waited about 10 minutes, quit the app and restarted. It said that I had apparently tried to jailbreak and had failed and that it would fix the error. It recovered (says recovery completed), the progress bar is full, but it isn’t doing anything with my iPad.
Just the same cycle again and again.
Please help….
Thanks
I update os 5.1 and i lost my jailbreak
when is going to be on os 5.1 jailbreak ?
With greetings!
during of jailbreak of my iphone 4s it need to on the VPN,
but gives massage of VPN “error in VPN configuration.
please guide me to jailbreak my iphone.
Best Regards
Its good
What’s the difference between this and the normal Greenp0ison?
VPN error not working
:’(
guys how to download plz help me plzzzzz guys
PS – Im a Windows user. I have bootcamp for Mac as well, but I prefer Windows. If no solution exists, I am willing for a Mac solution as well. Thanks!
they have mac version but it wont launch for me for some odd reason but go to greenpois0n.com and dowload it for mac
wtf, i wrote something and it enver got posted, all that remains is this stupid scrap!
Ok, here it is again, and I hope someone could be kind enough to help me out with this. I have an iPhone 4 which was restored to 5.0.1 firmware before I got it handed to me. It was with AT&T carrier, and I presume is still locked to that carrier. When I insert any other carrier sim, it refuses to acknowledge it.
My baseband is stuck at 04.11.08 and I dont know if theres an unlock/jailbreak for this situation. Been stuck with this metal paper-weight brick for a month and no luck to get its call functionality working.
As far as I know this phone has never been jailbroken. I am skeptical to procedure the Untethered Jailbreak I found somewhere here earlier to JB iPh.4, for the following 2 reasons:
1) it makes a clashing statement about “this guide is for iPhone 4 running 5.0.1, etc.. BUT a few lines down says that I should download Custom firmware files for 5.0.1 from Apple and restore using the SHIFT+Restore method in iTunes.
A lot of people have had problems getting stuck in DFU’s, bootloops, white screens and general chaos and worse. I dunno if I want to take that risk, perhaps Ive misread the guide? I really need this sorted out, its gotten on my final nerves and i want to throw this shyt out the window. As patient as ive been, like many others as well, i cant seem to find a blog/post/somETHING to direct me towards a Jailbreak+Unlock for my iPhones situation. No Gevey sim out either for this baseband and I am just,.. so.. lost..
-HeLP!
You can jailbreak the iPhone 4, but you can’t unlock the 4.11.08 baseband. It will still be a paperweight for you.
crap. thanks for the update. so maybe i should consider selling this one off somehow and getting an unlocked one instead. Atleast I can JB and use it as a phone.
Thanks.