It is advised for you
to back up your data on iTunes. Open iTunes>Right click on your iPhone name
on the sidebar> Click “Back up now”
Step 1: Download the iOS 5.1.1 update if you have not done
so. If you have a clean unjailbroken iDevice, it is faster if you update
directly from your iDevice as the update file would be smaller.
However if your
iDevice is a jaibroken one, you must perform additional step later on.
Just plug in your iDevice to your computer, open up iTunes
and click on Restore. This would
prompt iTunes to Restore and Update your iDevice.
If all goes well, iTunes would finish updating your iDevice
without getting any error and your iDevice would reboot as clean iDevice
running iOS 5.1.1. If this is the case then jump to Step 3
If you run into any error code, do
not worry, just look into step 2.
Step 2: This step is intended if you have encounter any
error. Mainly this error would come from iDevice that has been jailbroken prior
to restoring.
Download an additional piece of software called the Tiny
Umbrella (
Download).
Once you have finished downloading it, open up Tiny Umbrella
with your iDevice connected to your computer. First (presumably your iDevice
would be displaying a graphic that instruct you to connect to your iTunes, if
not, skip this) click on your iDevice on the sidebar and then proceed to click Exit Recovery.
This would reboot your iDevice to its original state. Now on the same window, click on the “Advanced” tab and uncheck a box that states “Set Hosts to Cydia on Exit”.
Exit the program.
Once done, you have to complete one last part on this step,
that is if you are running Windows, proceed to download this file called
WinFixIt (
Download). This would fix your hosts file that is blocking iTunes from restoring
your iDevice.
Once downloaded, open up WinFixIt and proceed with the
instruction.
By now, you would need to restart your computer to apply all
changes.
For Macs, go
here and click on
"Blocked by Configuration: (Mac OSX/Windows)" > "MacOSX"
Once done, open up iTunes and attempt to Restore your
iDevice again. Hopefully now, no error code would appear on iTunes and your
iDevice would be loaded with iOS 5.1.1
Step 3: Extract the Absinthe file that you have downloaded
to your Desktop. Once done, open the folder and proceed to open the file named
Absinthe-Win-2.0.1.exe (or Absinthe-Mac-2.0.1.exe).
This would extract another folder into the Absinthe folder.
Look for it, its called absinthe-win-2.0.1. IT’S A FOLDER this time, not a
program.
Open the folder and
run Absinthe.exe
Assuming your iPhone is plugged in, just click on the
Jailbreak button!
Let it do its thing and once done, open up your iDevice and
you should see an app called Cydia if the jailbreak is successful.
Now all you need to do is restore from back up using iTunes
and all your old apps and files would be loaded back into your iDevice!
If you encounter any additional error, please comment below!
Happy Jailbreaking.
Step 3: Tap on “Manage” tab at the bottom, and then tap on the “Sources”.
Step 3: Tap on “Manage” tab at the bottom, and then tap on the “Sources”.
Step 5: Now add http://cydia.hackulo.us repository in field and tap on “Add Source” button.
Step 5: Now add http://cydia.hackulo.us repository in field and tap on “Add Source” button.
