The highly anticipated version of Absinthe is finally out! The new version promises untethered jailbreak for all iOS devices on iOS 5.1.1 except the iPad 2,4.
It wouldn’t be wrong to say Absinthe 2.0 is one of the easiest jailbreaks to use. Simply plug in your device, click ‘Jailbreak’ and wait for your device to restart to confirm the jailbreak process. Absinthe 2.0 carries support for iPad 1,1 – 2,1 – 2,2 – 2,3 – 3,1 – 3,2 – 3,3 and iPhone 2,1 – 3,1 – 3,3 – 4,1 and iPod Touch 3,1 – 4,1 except the iPad 2,4. In layman, that’s nearly every device that has the capability to run iOS 5 and above. Please backup your device before using Absinthe 2.0 through iTunes or iCloud. Once the backup is complete, go to Settings – General – Reset – Erase all Content and Settings. This will make the jailbreak process much faster.
The Chronic Dev Team, as expected, has released an update to the Absinthe jailbreak tool to enable iPad 2,4 untethered jailbreak support for iOS 5.1.1.
Later, you can restore the backup once the jailbreak is complete. Update: The Chronic Dev Team just released Absinthe 2.0.1 for Mac, Windows, and Linux just to fix some bugs that was on 2.0. The jailbreak is just like before, with only minor updates to make it more stable Use these links to download Abstinthe 2.0.1 for,.
Absinthe is the successor to the jailbreaking tool and was developed in collaboration between many in the jailbreaking community; including the iPhone Dev-Team, Chronic Dev-Team and Pod2G. This jailbreaking tool only does untethered jailbreaks on the iOS 5 firmware generation and came in three iterations: the actual Absinthe tool, a command-line version for advanced users, and also integration in. A lot of people have wondered, and there is many theories. It turns out however, that the name Absinthe was a homage to the GreenPois0n tool.