iOS 5 Semi-Tethered Jailbreak with semitether
Till now a tethered jailbreak would mean whenever you had to reboot you’re iDevice you needed a computer with Redsn0w to reboot. Of course this is not a problem when there is a computer nearby. But on the road it would mean if you’re device needs a reboot for what kind of reason, you will be stuck on the Apple logo.
Now there is a solution for this problem. With Semitether you can reboot you’re iDevice and use the most stuff on it except Safari, Mail, Cydia and you’re jailbreak stuff.
According to BigBoss you can use the following stuff:
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.
7) 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”.
I just installed it and it works perfectly. Whatsapp, iMessage, sms, phone are working and all the other normal iPhone apps form the App store.
So here’s a guide:
1 You need a jailbroken iOS5 device
2 Go to cydia/manage/sources/edit and add the following repo”:
http://thebigboss.org/semitether
3 Search for SemiTether, install it then reboot your device.
4 When you reboot you’re device you can now use the device in a semitether state.
5 Reboot tethered with Redsn0w to have a fully functional jailbroken device.
When you reboot with Redsn0w it will respring after the pineapple, this is completely normal. In my case it resprong and went to the Apple, so I had to boot tethered again, it resprong and everything was fine.
I tried it on my iOS 5 iPhone 4 GSM. Remember this is a beta tweak so you may face some problems.
Happy jailbreaking.
Update:
Version 07.9 is released:
This version will take about 90 seconds after it first boots up and then your device will respring again. This timing was the only way to get some of the launch daemons to properly relaunch.
This version should fix issues for some of you folks where:
1) Device does not sync with itunes and only errors. Hopefully solved.
2) Device reboots after 2-3 minutes.
3) App sync issue – this is unworkable
