Today, I thought I would take a different route and talk about jailbreaking. While I personally have not jailbroken in about a year, getting the new iPod touch 5g (You can check out my review here) allowed me to jailbreak my old iPod touch for use for whatever I wanted to do that requires a jailbreak - including writing this post. To start off the jailbreaking page, I thought I would show you just how to jailbreak in the first place (there would be no use in reading it if you couldn't do it, right?). It's very simple to do, but unfortunately can't be done within a single paragraph, so read on to find out how to Jailbreak.
First off, Jailbreaking is NOT, repeat NOT illegal!
Before I show you how to jailbreak, I want to set the record straight. Some people may be wondering if Jailbreaking is illegal or not - it's not. According to Wikipedia, Canada, Singapore, India, The US, and New Zealand have all been found to allow Jailbreaking. That's it! If you live in those countries, then you are safe, and most of Europe is believed to allow Jailbreaking as well.
Now, with that out of the way, lets get to the good part...
How to Jailbreak your iDevice
Part 1: The Initial Jailbreak
Note: It is recommended to backup your device to iTunes before you proceed in-case something goes wrong. I don't foresee anything going wrong but your better safe than sorry.
Note 2: As of this writing, there is no Jailbreak for the iPad 4 or the iPad Mini. I will update this page if a jailbreak comes out for both devices before the official iOS 6.1 comes out, at which point I will come out with a new tutorial on how to jailbreak all devices running iOS 6.1.
Step 1: You need to download redsn0w and the iOS 6.0 version that matches your device, not iOS 6.0.1. The link for both of those are located at the bottom of this post for ease.
Step 2: Plug in the device, launch redsn0w 0.9.15b3, and click on the 'Extras' button:
Step 3: Once you get to the screen below, click on the 'Select IPSW' button:
Step 4: Select the iOS 6.0 firmware (even though you're on iOS 6.0.1) for the device you have plugged in and then click on the 'Open' button:
Step 5: redsn0w will alert you that the firmware you chose will be used for the rest of your redsn0w session. Click 'OK':
Step 6: Now you can head back to the first screen of redsn0w and click on the 'Jailbreak' button:
Step 7: Now you will see a new redsn0w screen that will have “Install Cydia” checked, if you are using an iPod and want to see the battery percentage, make sure "Enable Battery Percentage" is checked, otherwise, just click 'Next' to continue:
Step 3: Once you get to the screen below, click on the 'Select IPSW' button:
Step 4: Select the iOS 6.0 firmware (even though you're on iOS 6.0.1) for the device you have plugged in and then click on the 'Open' button:
Step 5: redsn0w will alert you that the firmware you chose will be used for the rest of your redsn0w session. Click 'OK':
Step 6: Now you can head back to the first screen of redsn0w and click on the 'Jailbreak' button:
Step 7: Now you will see a new redsn0w screen that will have “Install Cydia” checked, if you are using an iPod and want to see the battery percentage, make sure "Enable Battery Percentage" is checked, otherwise, just click 'Next' to continue:
Step 8: Place your iOS device into DFU mode by following the instructions on the screen. Note: the instructions move pretty fast, so make sure you can keep up.
Step 9: redsn0w will begin the process of jailbreaking your iOS device. This process may take a few seconds to a minute and you will see multiple loading bars in the application:
Step 10: Soon after, redsn0w will say that the process is complete, however, you are not yet. Click the Back button:
Wait for the device to boot back up to the lock screen and then continue.
Part 2: Booting Tethered
While your device is now jailbroken, you may have noticed that Cydia is not in your Springboard. This is because your jailbreak is Tethered, which means that you have to boot your device with redsn0w every time you turn on the device.
Step 1: From the main window, click the 'Extras' button:
Step 2: Click on the Just Boot button to boot the device in a tethered state:
Step 3: Boot your device into DFU mode again using the steps provided by redsn0w.
Step 2: Click on the Just Boot button to boot the device in a tethered state:
Step 3: Boot your device into DFU mode again using the steps provided by redsn0w.
Step 4: redsn0w will begin to boot up your iOS device, just wait:
Step 5: When redsn0w says you're done, you can wait for the device to turn back on and start using Cydia:
Congratuations! You're now running a tethered jailbreak on your iOS 6 device!
Update #1: This method also works with iOS 6.0.2
Step 5: When redsn0w says you're done, you can wait for the device to turn back on and start using Cydia:
Congratuations! You're now running a tethered jailbreak on your iOS 6 device!
Update #1: This method also works with iOS 6.0.2
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