Ac1dSn0w Beta 1 Released - [MAC]

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Today has been a bit of a happening day for the jailbreaking community. A couple of hours ago, Chronic Dev Team released their Reporter program which sends crash reports to Chronic Dev Team servers (instead of Apple’s) so they can find exploits, and now we’ve received news of yet another jailbreaking tool. It’s called Ac1dSn0w and it jailbreaks iOS 5/iOS 5.0.1 tethered on OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. Check out the step-by-step guide after the jump!

Beta 1 of Ac1dSn0w released for Mac OS X Lion (should also work on Snow Leopard). Ac1dSn0w allows you to jailbreak your iDevice tethered. It also provides features like Tethered Boot, Pwned DFU, and Exit Recovery to get your device out of Recovery Loop.

Supported Devices (iOS5/iOS5.0.1):

iPhone 3Gs
iPhone 4
iPod Touch 4 G
iPad 1

NOTE: If you want more stable and trouble-free jailbreak, we still recommend using iPhone Dev-Team’s Redsn0w for Windows and Mac.

1. Download Ac1dSn0w from HERE

2. After downloading, open it and you’ll see the following screen:

Note:
You can click ‘Show Console’ to see some device related information. It also shows you the current state of your jailbreaking process. The Assistant Panel helps you to put your device into DFU Mod

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3. Connect your device with your Mac.

4. Turn your device off.

5. Click ‘Show Assistant’ and follow the onscreen instructions to enter DFU Mode.

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6 . Once you’re in DFU Mode just hit the ‘Jailbreak’ Button and wait until it’s done (the device will reboot).


7. Put your device again into DFU Mode (Step 5) and hit the ‘Tethered Boot’ Button.


If you followed the steps correctly, your iOS device will now boot in tethered jailbroken state with Cydia installed. If you wish to restart your device, you will have to go through Step 7 each time you wish to boot into tethered jailbroken state.

For semi-tethered jailbreak, simply install “SemiTether” package from Cydia’s BigBoss repo: semitethered jailbreak | iPhone News, Apps, BigBoss, Guides Jailbreaking to get semi-tethered jailbreak working on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.


Upcoming Features

The current version of Ac1dSn0w is in an early development stage. In the future it will also be able to jailbreak remote devices. This means that you just need to install a server program on any OS (Linux, BSD, Windows) and Ac1dSn0w will jailbreak it on a client machine anywhere in the world. Other upcoming features are:


Upcoming Features

The current version of Ac1dSn0w is in an early development stage. In the future it will also be able to jailbreak remote devices. This means that you just need to install a server program on any OS (Linux, BSD, Windows) and Ac1dSn0w will jailbreak it on a client machine anywhere in the world. Other upcoming features are:

Custom Firmware Creation
iRecovery Remote (you can talk to remote devices and send your own payloads etc