How to use Terminal to run Absinthe A5 Jailbreak and Bypass Errors

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Absinthe, the S5L8940 userland jailbreak (5.0.1) tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released by the Chronic Dev Team, following which many users ran into strange errors while jailbreaking their device using Absinthe. The errors were obvious, since the nature of jailbreak tool was completely different from all other jailbreaking tools released till date.

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How Absinthe jailbreak Works

This Absinthe jailbreak packs Corona for the A5 devices and the rest of the firmware patches in a regular iTunes backup and then restores this backup on to the device, which injects the required files. The jailbreak is then completed by opening a web clip added to the home screen by Absinthe that uses an exploit in Safari to install Cydia. It actually loads a page that requires an IPsec VPN connection, which causes the racoon daemon to start and run the jailbreak payload.

If it gives you “Error establishing a database connection”, it is because of the fact that greenpois0n.com site is down. You can bypass that error by enabling a specially crafted VPN connection in the Settings app. Follow the steps mentioned here.

How to use Terminal to run Absinthe

Hacker @planetbeing has suggested running Absinthe directly from Terminal which will likely fix most of the issues for some people. Follow the simple steps below to run Absinthe from your terminal:

STEP 1) Download Absinthe – updated version listed

STEP 2) Unzip and put it in a folder on your desktop

STEP 3) Open Terminal /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

STEP 4) cd into the folder that contains Absinthe. Just type cd and drag-n-drop the folder into terminal

STEP 5) Type ./Absinthe.app/Contents/MacOS/Absinthe

STEP 6) Now Absinthe will load. Click on ‘Jailbreak’ button and wait for a while

STEP 7) Open up the Absinthe app (web clip) added to your homescreen, and wait for your device to reboot

STEP 8) Your device will now be jailbroken.

If you’re still having issues in jailbreaking your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 on 5.0.1, post your issues in detail and we will try our best to help you out! Before posting any query, please visit our previous article to fix and bypass common Absinthe errors.

For troubleshooting strange errors, a command-line version of the tool has been released by the iPhone Dev Team calledCorona injector CLI. The OS X version of the CLI can be downloaded from here.  This will essentially help hackers to debug specific issues. More info is here.

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  • sundeeps

    iphone4s 5.0.1  (9A406) from japan softbank… absinthe gets stuck at “beginning jailbreak” and then crashes. I am on windows. I tried both versions of absinthe, 0.2 and 0.3 and its giving me the same problem.  I ran as admin and unzipped ALL folders, not just the exe file. but the problem is same…
    any solutions????

  • Somieah

    absinthe gets stuck at “beginning jailbreak” and then crashes. I am on windows. I tried both versions of absinthe, 0.2 and 0.3 and its giving me the same problem.  I ran as admin and unzipped ALL folders, not just the exe file. Is it my phone? or is there a problem with absinthe?
    the first time i tried to jailbreak, it was a breeze but i kept getting the “small shrunken screen in top left corner of phone” problem. so i decided to restore and jailbreak again. and now this error is happening. Any solutions?

  • http://iclickmate.blogspot.com/ Wayne Meyer

    i was eagerly waiting for the jailbreak until i realised its the worst jailbreak till date, we really need GEOHOTZ.

    here is my issue, i have my mobile web app in development, safari  is now not rendering the app as it was before the jailbreak, CSS3 and HTML 5 elements are missing. the whole app is not working or looking as it should. i used a non jailbroken iphone and it worked fine. i then did a debug in safari and found 7 bugs.

    i was wondering if there is any fix in cydia? anyone else with this problem

    iphone 4s 32gb, windows 7 Absinthe jailbreak.

  • http://www.facebook.com/shannon.yeh Shannon Yeh

    hi I did everythinng from this page and tried so many times yesterday to jailbreak but it just keeps crashing every time even when i run from terminal. do you know how to fix?????? Thank you!

    • http://cydiablog.com Mike Webb

      What error you r getting…Please share the details – Device, firmware and OS platform on which you are trying…

      • http://www.facebook.com/shannon.yeh Shannon Yeh

        Iphone 4s, firmware 5.0.1 and the os platform is Mac os Lion. 

        • http://cydiablog.com Mike Webb

          DO a clean restore to iOS 5.0.1 (not backup Restore)..

          Follow the steps again…it should work!

  • http://cydiablog.com Mike Webb

    Hope you have removed the passcode before running Absinthe..

  • 8ball27

    i tried everything you guys said to do to fix the problem to jailbreak the 4s. Nothing worked. I keep getting a quit unexpected screen. This is the screen I get. The jailbreak worked fine on the iPad 2 though.

  • Anonymous

    I have also tried the various workaround; however, as of yet, nothing has worked. Running from the Terminal provides the same outcome as opening the application normally. If you need it, I can post the logs here.

    • Anonymous

      The Terminal shows “Bus Error: 10″, as well as “*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break”. 

  • Captflashheart

    Hello. I jail broke successfully but noticed there were some issues with playback of music tracks. When I attempted to remove the tracks from the iPhone using iTunes the tracks remained on the phone. Thereafter the springboard kept going into safe mode something it had not done before. I then went to settings on the phone and attempted to reset all settings without deleting data. This did not resolve the issue. I the. Attempted to restore the phone to factory setting using iTunes but got error 1600. I then attempted to use TinyUmbrella to restore shsh but despite saving the phone’s SH as advised prior to the jailbreak I saw no file listed on the screen under ‘saved SH ‘. I left the phone attached to the laptop with the TSS server running but nothing happened after 20 mins . Please advise. Please note I am not tech savvy so please bear this in mind. Thank you very much!

  • Fretard Michel

    I tried several times with terminal.app I get always the same message after a while. IT ends by a crash of absinthe.app
    Please find the beginning of terminal app log.
    I could add that I get the latest iTunes and Mac Lion OS but in french.

    Macintosh-10:absinthe micmac$ ./Absinthe.app/Contents/MacOS/Absinthesetting working directory to ./Absinthe.app/Contents/MacOSobjc[2141]: Object 0x7b7ffa0 of class NSConcreteAttributedString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking – break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debugobjc[2141]: Object 0x7e78b40 of class NSConcreteMapTable autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking – break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debugdevice event 1: d80046aeba2845583fbad3d920ea24eb68903472ITK:initobjc[2141]: Object 0x7e76c30 of class NSConcreteAttributedString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking – break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debugOpening connection to deviceFound libcopyfile.dylib address in database of 0x37bfc000objc[2141]: Object 0x7b966f0 of class NSConcreteAttributedString autoreleased with no pool in place – just leaking – break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debugcom.apple.afc2 failed to start!Started com.apple.afc successfully on port 49250!moving dirs aside…Backup directory is “nirvana”Started “com.apple.mobilebackup2″ service on port 49257.Negotiated Protocol Version 2,1Starting backup…Requesting backup from device…Full backup mode.ERROR: mb2_handle_receive_files: too long device filename (16777216)!Discarding current data hunk.Device is not ready yet. Going to try again in 2 seconds…Device is not ready yet. Going to try again in 2 seconds…Device is not ready yet. Going to try again in 2 seconds…Device is not ready yet. Going to try again in 2 seconds…

    • Sri5

      hi
      I ve same problem for my ipad 2 A405.I tried several times on snow leopard 10.6.8,It quits unexpectedly with device is not ready,
      If you find solution let me know please.

  • Palk

    tried running from the terminal. still get same error message “Absinthe quit unexpectedly”…

    tried on mac 10.5.8

    will try on brother’s air on 10.6.8

    • http://cydiablog.com Mike Webb

      You need Snow Leopard or Lion for Absinthe to Work. You need to update to newer OS.

      • Joensarah

        iv tried snow leopard and it quits

  • Meetkunchok

    still Absinthe doesn’t recognize my device…