Semi-tethered jailbreak for iOS 5 available

Good news iPhone users, it looks like a semi-tethered jailbreak has finally be made available for iOS 5, meaning that iPhone owners not on the iPhone 4S (jailbreak for the iPhone 4S is still being worked on) will now be able to jailbreak their phones that is a cross between a tethered jailbreak, and an untethered jailbreak, hence the name “semi-tethered”.

The semi-tethered jailbreak will not bring about full functionality of an untethered jailbreak should you device reboot itself or shuts down while you’re out about during the day, and do not have access to your computer. It brings about limited functionality, such as:

1) Can use phone, sms (text messages)

2) Can use every other stock app on iphone.

3) Cannot use mobile safari

4) Can use other appstore web browsers such as atomic web browser

5) Cannot use mail app. You could install a gmail app from appstore or such instead.

6) You cannot use any jailbreak tweak, app, cydia until you boot tethered. While in the semitether booted state, you should not add a jailbreak ios5 notification such as sbsettings to notifications during this state or your device will be stuck in a respring loop until you get home to “boot tethered”.

For those looking to get a semi-tethered jailbreak on their iPhone, head on down here for the instructions and more information.