Last week, in a post titled “Sandboxing difficulties” pod2G had announced that the iPhone Dev team, Chronic Dev team and iOS hacker planetbeing had joined him to figure out out a way to publicly release his untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 that relied on a developer account.
It looks like the jailbreak "dream team" have made more progress.
Yesterday, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev team had tweeted that they're making progress:
props to @saurik for major contributions to the A5 version of @pod2G's untether yesterday! (still no ETA, but moving forward)
pod2G had gone on to add:
@MuscleNerd @saurik And greetings to @planetbeing for the coding + research. Really great stuff to escape from the sandbox.
planetbeing - who has credited for developing xPwn - the front end of the popular jailbreak tool - Snowbreeze and for porting Linux to iPhone 3G has just provided some more details. He tweets:
And we're out of the sandbox with @saurik invaluable help! (well, at least there's a PoC) :D Turning out more complex than X-Gold 618.
So it looks like the jailbreak "dream team" have indeed figured out a way around the sandboxing difficulties that pod2G had mentioned.
In case you're wondering, Qualcomm XMM 6180 is the baseband platform used in iPhone 4 and iPad 2. It is produced by Infineon and is marketed as the X-Gold 618. Qualcomm XMM 6610 is the baseband platform used in iPhone 4S.
As planetbeing has pointed out, the untethered jailbreak is still in the proof of concept stage and there is still quite a bit of work to be done before it can be released publicly.
Update:
pod2G has just confirmed that the sandbox has been successfully jailbroken, which means that the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is imminent.
We’ll let you know if there are any further updates so stay tuned here at iPhone Hacks or join our Facebook Fan page or follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed.
[via @planetbeing]
Ohhhhh yeeeeaaaaaa
Still quite a bit of work. Man o man.
Please Realease “The Beast”
I lol’ed
I’m pretty sure the jailbreak ‘dream team’ would include Comex.
R u?
No it doesn’t
And………..*waiting for stampede of ungrateful 4s/ipad2 users with ignorant comments of haste*
Good job guys. Any progress is progress no matter which way you look at it. Good luck!
Looking forward to it. Please verify iBooks works before release. That’s been a snag in more than one recent JB.
-iBooks troll
Releaseeee the Krakennnnn…..
Man oh man! it’s only a matter of time now. My 4S needs to be unleashed from it’s cage; its hungry!
Already had this thing for 3+ mons..
Lol ^wel why don’t u share it with us u have these guys working hard for no reason haha. Good luck dream team
Great job guys I can’t wait to finally break my 4s out of jail it’s very lonely in jail.
Hope they release after ios 5.1. We can wait.
Not a bettin’ man but i’d say looks like its only 3 weeks away.
Hah, I meant the 4s not a jb for it
Well let’s see how the kings of jb can work together this time to impress us with their awsome work and effort for the jb on ipad2 and iphone4s coz I’ve been waiting pretty long now to get a jb for em , and Dan its me and my awsome apps :p all the best dudes ! Hope to hear soon from u all !
And yeah btw click my name and like my fan page everyone just a little help when I’m not here and the jb comes out do inform me
I’d be thankful !
It would be awesome if it’s a combination of jailbreak and unlock in one package.
What about the unlock for the iphone 4 …4.11.8 has that been forgot now or dont donation payer matter no more.
Best news all week, amazing work guys,