iOS 5 GM Jailbreak Available via Redsn0w 0.9.9b3, Still Tethered & Not Ready for iPad 2, iPhone 4S

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iOS 5 Gold Master has been released into the wild yesterday, and everyone with a developer account can download the new firmware. In fact, even if you don’t have a registered dev account you will be able to install iOS 5 on your device, as long as it’s an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, iPad and iPad 2. The iPhone 4S will be launched with iOS 5 already preloaded.

Those of you interested in jailbreaking iOS 5 GM will be glad to hear that that’s possible, not that we’re advising you to do it. The iPhone Dev Team has a new Redsn0w beta available to download, version 0.9.9b3, which will recognize your installed iOS 5 GM version and perform the jailbreak you desperately crave. We’re not really surprised to see that the Gold Master version can be hacked as all the beta versions that preceded it were jailbroken almost immediately after being rolled out.

However we’re still talking about a tethered jailbreak, which means you’ll have to connect your device to the computer while booting it into a jailbroken state. Also worth noting is that the iPad 2 is still not jailbreakable. The device can only be hacked if running iOS 4.3.3, although word on the street is that the iPad 2 will be jailbroken later down the road, probably together with the new iPhone 4S.

Redsn0w 0.9.9b3 for Mac and 0.9.9b3a for Windows are available to download, and here’s all you need to know about them as posted by the iPhone Dev Team:

Update #11: redsn0w has been updated to 0.9.9b3 to auto-detect iOS5 GM firmware. Remember: it’s still tethered for all devices except for iPhone 3GS with old bootrom. If you don’t use redsn0w to “Just boot” at power up, all jailbreak apps (and even some native ones like MobileSafari) will fail to launch.

If you already jailbroke the GM by pointing an older redsn0w at the beta7 IPSW, there’s no need to re-run the full jailbreak step again…just use this newer one to make the tethered boot easier :)

Update #11a: We’ve replaced the Windows version of 0.9.9b3 with 0.9.9b3a. The new version fixes a caching bug that affected only Windows users — point it one more time at your iOS5GM IPSW, and from then on you won’t have to point at it again.

As a special bonus to Windows users, we’ve made it so that if you make a copy of redsn0w.exe and name it something like “justboot.exe” (anything with the word “boot” in it), it will start up in “Just Boot tethered” mode. That way you don’t have to click on any buttons at all to boot tethered! :)

Have you jailbroken iOS 5 GM yet?