Untethered Jailbreak Finally available for iOS 5.1.1!

It took a while, but @pod2g and his crew have finally come out with an un tethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, and I must say it is the slickest I have seen yet.  I jailbroke my iPhone 4 using Absinthe 2.0.1 a bit over 24 hours ago and am very impressed with the reliability so far.  Additionally I found zero slowdown took place, which has been a real problem with many of the jailbreaks that have come out with iOS5.

The software can be found here courtesy of iClarified

A few things to note about this jailbreak:

  • It will take a long time.  Instead of having iTunes open up after you jailbreak the phone so that you can restore from a backup, the Absinthe software does everything by itself with no need for iTunes.
  • Make sure you are using Absinthe 2.0.1 and NOT 2.0.0 which was released earlier yesterday.  Version 2.0.1 can be located here.