For more than two months already, iPhone 4S jailbreak and unlock program was not yet released. However, the good news is that soon we’ll have both of these as soon as it will be ready for public release. This is because “LOTS of work left” and there are “huge missing pieces” which prevented its release.

Last week, a member of the Chronic-Dev Team had released a video showing an untethered jailbreak for an iPod touch running with iOS 5. @pod2g is known widely because of his discoveries in exploits that leads to jailbreaking an Apple device. In the video, he showed his iPod touch with iOS 5 jailbroken (with Cydia installed. He then rebooted the iDevice and still showed that the jailbreak is still intact. This means that he got an untethered jailbreak for his iPod touch.

His jailbreak were tested for some of the iDevices which includes iPod touch 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPhone 3GS that runs with iOS 5.0.1. This means that his jailbreak is fully working on devices that bare A4 chips. He is now currently working for the jailbreak of iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 which both used A5 chips. We hope for the soon release of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S.

As for the unlocking of an iPhone 4S, probably it will soon follow after the jailbreak will be officially released. This is backed up by @MuscleNerd of the Chronic-Dev team two weeks ago on his tweet that a “very promising “ unlock for the iPhone 4S is in the works.

To wrap things up, an untethered jailbreak and unlock programs will soon be released after the Dev team will finalize all the codes. Follow us for more details.

In the jailbreak community, RedSn0w is the second most popular tool for jailbreaking aside from the JailbreakME 3.0. This is because RedSn0w is easier to use than other tools (except jailbreakME) and is always updated to support for the latest iOS from Apple.

And now, it has been updated again to its latest version RedSn0w 0.9.9b1 which is available for both Windows and Mac. The news came out from MuscleNerd via Twitter that a new update is available for everyone. Although the update doesn’t provide untethered jailbreak for the latest iOS, it certainly prepares the Dev-Team to the upcoming iOS 5 sometime this October. We really hope that it will not take too long to wait for the jailbreak once iOS will be released so we can then update and maintain a jailbreak. Here are the highlights of the RedSn0w 0.9.9b1 version.

• uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and FW you have

• fetches pieces of public IPSWs from Apple (once). Non-public IPSWs must be provided manually (once).  It then caches those pieces for future use.

• “Just boot” is a tethered boot.  Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args

• “Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below

• “Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails).  Should work on iOS5 beta too

• “Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection

•“SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options…

• “Fetch” – fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device.  Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds.  Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist.  Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build.  If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection

• ”Verify”  - cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server.  You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory)

• “Submit”  - both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia.  This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server

• ”Query” – queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs

• “Stitch” – stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW

1. FULL blobs stitched to a STOCK IPSW gives you a completely self-contained signed IPSW that iTunes will accept without any tricks (no need to go into pwned DFU mode, no need to start TinyUmbrella TSS server, no need to redirect to Cydia server for blobs).

2. PARTIAL blobs stitched to any IPSW requires you to go into pwned DFU mode before running iTunes.  No need to start TU or use Cydia though.

3. stitching either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a CUSTOM IPSW also requires a pwned DFU start before iTunes restores.  No need to start TU or use Cydia though.

4. stitching is NOT yet supported on iPhones (well, at least not tested).  Need to work out the baseband part of the restore process.

5. will eventually support fetching the blobs directly from Cydia instead of a file on your computer.

You can visit our guide in RedSn0w jailbreaking right here in iPhoneShine. The process for jailbreaking with the latest FirmWare versions is quite similar. For anyone using iOS 4.3.3, you can use JailbreakME 3.0 to jailbreak easily.

What’s next? After you are done jailbreaking your iPhone with JailbreakME 3.0, RedSn0w or any other methods, what will you do now? If you have done it successfully, then Cydia is now present in your iPhone’s springboard.

What is Cydia?

Cydia is an independent third-party software application for iOS that enables users to install software packages, including apps, interface customization and system extensions if your iDevice is jailbroken. Obviously, you cannot have Cydia if your iPhone is not jailbroken. This is the alternative source if you want to get non-iTunes applications.

How to install Cydia?

If you will jailbreak your iPhone, Cydia will be installed automatically during the process.

How does Cydia works?

Cydia provides GUI (Graphical User Interface) to iOS users using repositories to install software not available on the App Store. The repos come from different trusted “Sources”. These software packages can be downloaded directly to the same directory of Apple in your iOS device (/Applications directory). With this ability, iOS users can still buy apps to Apple’s official App Store.

Now that you know about Cydia and how it works, you can download INSTALLOUS through Cydia. Just follow my step-by-step procedure in installing Installous.  This will be your first app to install to enjoy your jailbroken iDevice. The feature of Installous is almost the same with the App Store but you can find cracked apps in there. With Installous, you can download your favorite games and applications for free so you can save money buying in the App Store.