Many people out there with iDevices running iOS 5 are eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak for their iOS devices. Jailbreaks were released in the past for iOS 5, but one would always have to connect their device to a laptop or a PC to get it booted up. A French hacker, Pod2g has just shown off what maybe the world’s first untethered jailbreak for a device running iOS 5.

Pod2g has started a blog to record work on the iOS 5 untethered jailbreak.

Here’s his first post:

Today I succeed in jailbreaking my iPod 3G. The exploit is user-land, rely on a user ROP payload and a kernel write anywhere exploit.

I can’t give much details right now, but here are the next steps :

• upgrade the iPod 3G to iOS 5.0.1
• do the same on iPhone 4 / iOS 5.0.1
• then iPad 1 & iPod 4G

At every step, the exploit code needs certainly to be reworked, but I really don’t know right now. Next, I’ll return to the research for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. I don’t know if I gonna release first for other devices or not. I’ve to think about it. Feel free to give your opinion.

Through his Twitter ache confirmed that the jailbreak will work on iOS 5.0.1 as well. The first hint he gave that he could possibly have an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 was when he tweeted iarly November by saying that he had found a bug that could untether iOS 5. He said that one should not expect a release soon, but that he will be working hard on it.

Since he has put up a video of an iDevice running the jailbreak smoothly, one should not have to wait too long to expect a release.