While we're waiting for a full untethered jailbreak for iOS5 on iPhone iPad and iPod Touch, developer BigBoss has made current jailbreaking much easier.
At the moment, there's only a tethered jailbreak, which means to get your device working again after a reboot you have to connect it to your PC to kick it into booting.
A couple of weeks ago, BigBoss released SemiTether (available for download in the Cydia app store on jailbroken devices), which lets you reboot without connection to a PC and basic phone functions will work.
Well, SemiTether has had an update and lets more of your device's function work.
Big update to semitethered jailbreak today. v0.9.1 incorporates Saurik’s new mobile substrate. Thanks to Saurik, we are entirely rid of all the daemon patching – this means there’s no more daemon patching or restarting. Most the semi-tether work is now done by mobile substrate. The semitether package from the repository now protects your iOS 5 notification center plugins and gives you the option to patch mobile safari so that it will work on the non-jailbreak reboot mode. I’m still looking into patching mail, if possible.
Summary of changes:
1) Much more stable with new mobile substrate
2) Can patch safari so it works in the non-jailbreak reboot mode
3) App to monitor the status of your semitether and reapply. Check after cydia installs.
1) Much more stable with new mobile substrate
2) Can patch safari so it works in the non-jailbreak reboot mode
3) App to monitor the status of your semitether and reapply. Check after cydia installs.
Of course, if you've got an iPhone 4S or an iPad 2, there's still no jailbreak at all, although one is being worked on.
(Source: BigBoss)
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