{"id":2398,"date":"2011-10-25T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2011-10-25T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:12:14","slug":"%e2%80%9csemitether%e2%80%9d-makes-jailbreaking-ios-5-a-little-more-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153SemiTether\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Makes Jailbreaking iOS 5 a Little More Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been jailbreaking iOS 5 since Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest mobile operating system went live on October 13. The biggest challenge developers have been facing? Coding an untethered jailbreak.<\/p>\n<p>For now, most iPhone enthusiasts are stuck using a tethered jailbreak, which requires users to connect their handset or slate to a computer and run either Redsn0w or Ultrasn0w after each reboot.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a toll that can help. SemiTether, a tweak currently in beta, is available from the Cydia Store, a third party market built specifically for jailbroken iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>SemiTether allows users to reboot their\u00c2\u00a0 jailbroken device without being completely shut out from their device. While users cannot access most apps after a reboot, including Safari and Mail, they should be able to make calls and send text messages.<\/p>\n<p>While hackers search for a way to perform an untethered jailbreak on iOS 5, SemiTether is probably the next best thing.<\/p>\n<p>SemiTether is incompatible with the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, as there is no way to currently jailbreak either device while running iOS 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been jailbreaking iOS 5 since Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest mobile operating system went live on October 13. The biggest challenge developers have been facing? Coding an untethered jailbreak. For now, most iPhone enthusiasts are stuck using a tethered jailbreak, which requires users to connect their handset or slate to a computer and run either Redsn0w [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}