Pod2g Confirms: A5 Untethered Jailbreak Is ‘Hours’ Away

No more speculation as to when the A5 untether gets released to the masses. French hacker Pod2g has just confirmed in a new blog entry that iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users will be able to jailbreak their devices untethered in a matter of hours.

“I know the wait was long, too much long, but it's about to end! You'd be able to free your iPhone in some hours,” writes Pod2g.

The hacker says the hack will come by means of a tool coded by the infamous Chronic Dev Team, whose leader is none other than Pod2g himself. Named Absinthe, the tool “will install the untether on your device,” says the hacker.

A CLI (command line) tool using the same exploit to achieve an untethered jailbreak on A5 devices will be released on behalf of the iPhone Dev Team. This will allegedly “help diagnose issues and repair things if it goes wrong.”

“This is a little scary I know, but the chance you break something is really small, since we made lots of tests to verify the process on different devices,” Pod2g adds. “But it is the first time we use the backup / restore functions of iTunes to install software, and there are maybe things we are not aware of.”

According to the Chronic Dev Team leader, the configurations supported by Absinthe are:

iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0, 5.0.1 (9A405 and 9A406)
iPad 2 Wifi/GSM/CDMA running iOS 5.0.1

Pod2g continues his post with information on how to donate to all the hackers and security researchers who made this jailbreak possible.

It is only fair that at least a handful of generous users out there compensate them for their hard coding sessions. After all, both the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev are mostly doing charity work.

Visit Pod2g’s blog here for the details, and we’ll be back with updates after the official Absinthe release.