iPhone World

After what seems like forever, it is finally here… Some of you have waited a very long time for an untethered jailbreak, and the wait is now over. Enter Spirit.

With Spirit, you can now jailbreak ALL devices (iPad is ‘beta’) on the latest firmware, in about as much time as it takes to read this, maybe less. Anyone currently using a tethered jailbreak is going to want to do a restore before running Spirit on it.

The beauty of Spirit is that it is a userland jailbreak. To you, this basically means you don’t have to mess around with putting your device into recovery or DFU mode. It’s as simple as plug it in, click, wait for it to reboot.

The timing for Spirit couldn’t have been better as a few hours ago my 3GS decided to freeze, and upon forcing a reboot, proceeded to no longer stay powered on for more than 10 seconds at a time, ending in a ‘fsck failed’ error.

The process is the fastest yet. From the time I clicked the Jailbreak button, to the time I was back at the springboard running Cydia, 2 minutes. That is to say, once I got past this..

At first I realized I had iTunes open, figuring that had to be the problem I closed it and tried again. Same thing. Running it as Administrator also did no good.

All is not lost, and the solution is quite simple. You just have to set the compatibility mode for Spirit to Windows 98. Once I figured that out, the rest was a piece of cake.

Spirit doesn’t have any fancy options, or rather, any options. You can’t set verbose booting, boot logos, installing icy or any packages, but what it does it does very well. And as long as you’ve got Cydia, the rest is just a matter of installing.

Check out the Spirit page for more information and download links for Windows and OSX.