14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of Redsn0w for Mac OS X and Windows is now available from the iPhone Dev Team with a fix for DRM-protected books. Corona will also include the fix in an upcoming 1.0-6 release on Cydia.
Those who are already jailbroken under Redsn0w only need to re-run the jailbreak sequence using the newly updated tool. Users must remember to un-tick the “install Cydia” option.
The iPhone Dev-Team’s official announcement reveals that “[hacker] @planetbeing wrote a utility called ‘crazeles’ that overcomes jailbreak detection by iBooks that would cause about 10% of images to show incorrectly.”
According to the infamous hackers, “this fix is similar to the ‘hunnypot’ fix that @comex wrote for the 4.x jailbreak.”
This untethered jailbreak is for iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4-CDMA, iPad 1, iPod touch 3G, and iPod touch 4G.
If you are not on iOS 5.0.1 yet, you’ll have to update now. According to the iPhone Dev Team, “the SHSH window is still open for 5.0.1” if you ever want to unlock your phone.
“Once you’re at 5.0.1, use the latest redsn0w […] to both jailbreak and untether. If you’re already at 5.0.1 with a tethered jailbreak, you have two choices: either run redsn0w 0.9.10 over your current jailbreak (deselect ‘Install Cydia’ if you do that), or install the Cydia package prepared by the chronic devteam. The patches are the same regardless of which you choose,” the Team clarifies.
For those using a hybrid 5.0/5.0.1 configuration, “do not attempt to install this untether over that setup! You will most likely get into a reboot cycle,” according to a Dev Team blog post dating a few weeks ago. “Do a sync and fresh restore to 5.0.1 then install the jailbreak + untether,” reads their advice.