How to jailbreak iPhone 4s or iPad 2 with Absinthe

Connect your iDevice (iPhone 4s or iPad 2) to your computer and backup all data.

This is essential when you upgrade your iPad 2 from iOS 4.X version to iOS 5. If you perform Upgrade and not restore on the iPad from 4.X version the jailbreak will not work. You need to perform Restore then do the jailbreak and after that to restore from backup.

Close iTunes and start Absinthe.

Press jailbreak button and wait until instructions tell you to open jailbreak app on your springboard.

Normally this app will jailbreak your iDevice, but for now Chronic-dev servers are overloaded so there is a trick to continiue and finish the jailbreak process.

Without doing anything else aside, open settings and set VPN to ON, error will pop up, wait a little more without touching anything else, the iDevice will reboot and after the reboot it will be jailbroken :)

Absinthe updated to 0.3 - Linux support added

Chronic Dev Team updated and released Linux version of the new A5 Devices jailbreak. Here are links and mirrors for it:

Absinthe 0.3 (win): Ziddu, Mediafire
Absinthe 0.3 (mac): Ziddu, Mediafire
Absinthe 0.3 (linux): Ziddu, Mediafire

Absinthe released for Windows

Chronic Dev Team updated and released windows version of the new A5 Devices jailbreak. Here are links and mirrors for it:

Absinthe 0.2 (win): Ziddu, Mediafire
Absinthe 0.2 (mac): Ziddu, Mediafire

Firmware Page Updated

Just updated Firmware Page with all the latest firmware updates.

Added iPhone 4S firmware links and all the current firmware builds for iOS 5.

A5 Devices (iPhone 4s and iPad 2) Jailbreak Has Been Released! - Absinthe

The 'Dream Team' of hackers have just released their untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.

P0sixninja details some of the background in a post on the Greenpoison blog:

The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers, several of whom have been working diligently on this project since the dual-core A5 processor was unveiled by Apple last March. Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world's first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2.

Despite new tools to help with finding exploits they realized a team effort was necessary.

We finally admitted that the escalated obstacles presented by Apple's new A5 processor would not likely be overcome by one individual or team – but all together, we should be more than able to conquer any challenges encountered. As such, a diverse group of iOS hackers all decided to set aside our personal goals & egos, relax our die-hard team loyalties, and pool our respective skill-sets, talents & exploits to form an iOS Super-Hacking "Dream Team."

The initial release is currently for Mac OS X only but Windows is coming soon! You can download it here or here

Steve Jobs has passed away...

He is a visionary, creative technology prophet, true genius, brilliant CEO. I use present tense because he will always live in my mind.

He have technology vision like noone else. Things he dreamed 20 years ago are now reality, and he is the reason that they are present. He dreamed about tablets, video calls, personal assistants... He was rediculed for hes ideas,(too modern for that time). He never quit dreaming, he never changed hes ways. He gave us the future in our hands. Even when he was banished from the company he saved it twice from bankrupcy which is a testament for hes brilliant CEO skills.

Hes touch is present within all apple products, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook Air... which many are trying to copy without success. Hes vision about technology is that things should be simple and easy to use and accessible to everyone, fast and stable hardware-software combinations, beautiful and unique design, environmental friendly.

I really hope that Apple will continiue the vision of Steve in their products, or else there will be noone to save them this time.

There is one thing i will regret for the rest of my life, that i haven't met Steve in person during my lifetime. He shares very similar vision for technology as me, and i am truly sad about hes passing away. This is loss for all mankind. True technology revolutioner is gone.

Rest in peace Steve.
See you in iHeaven.

HTC say iPhone is not cool anymore - My thoughts about it

If you read about this in the iPhone news portals such as iclarified and 9to5mac and others, then you are familiar with the story so i will not rewrite it here.

My thoughts about this subject:

Why kids do not like iPhone (here i am taking about these specific kids from the article, because here (Bulgaria, Eastern Europe) students and kids are crazy about iPhone 4)

1. It is expensive and they parents will not waste money for high tech toys for their kids. So everyone else prefer a lot cheper android phones and other shinese knockoffs (again android based)

2. Android is not perfect but it does the job (emails, IM, Social networking and few games)

So these reasons of not liking the phone are not quite convincing.Here is why

1. iPhone i far stable than any android based phone (i have more than 3 years of technical experience with iphones, they do not crash that often as the Android ones)

2.Technologically Apple are far ahead from their competitors. When Apple designed and used SOC others used separate CPU, RAM and graphics chips. Now everyone started designing and using System On Chip. So far noone produced such sensitive touchcreen as Apple. Apple patented noise cancelation technology with second microphone which makes audio recording and calls and voip more clear than ever. In iphone 4 apple used combination of camera and software which produces far better video quality of any 5 megapixel cameras in other mobile devices, and better than most of the 8 megapixel ones. I will stop here because I can write for days on improvements.

3. iPhone 4 is more than a year old. This means that the competitors had time to improve their mobile devices in order to keep up with Apple. A5 CPU have far better performance than any other mobile CPU (according to recent benchmarks), and it will be used in the upcoming iPhone model which will raise the bar even higher for everyone else in this market which will make the iPhone most preferrable phone in the world again.

You can not judge the whole world just because of the opinion of couple of kids, so the title of the original article is rediculous. Like the collegues at 9to5mac wrote "College kids don’t want an iPhone because their dad has one. They also have no interest in dad’s Porsche.".

If you don't like it, thats fine. Don't buy it! It is that simple! Just don't whine that you are fed up of this and that.

I like my iPhone 4 and will buy the next one when it comes out.