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iBugger on the 4G Nano

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Updates

• 2010/08/02 - serpilliere managed to decrypt the NOR flash on the iPod nano (3rd generation).
• 2010/08/01 - serpilliere managed to access and dump the NOR flash on the iPod nano (3rd generation). This code could possibly work on the Classics.
• 2010/07/27 - The server got zapped by lightning but a new one was up and running within a day.
• 2010/02/23 - We can now execute code on everything besides the iPod nano (5th generation)! Minimalistic iBugger working on iPod nano (3rd generation)!
• 2009/11/01 - iBugger core v0.1 successfully running on iPod nano (4th generation)! [1]
• 2009/10/26 - USB now (somewhat) functional on iPod nano (4th generation) via iBugger! This will be used instead of UART to dump memories.
• 2009/10/07 - RB for iPod nano (2nd generation) is close to being stable. Working on UART for 4G - anyone have an iPT 2G+know about ARM7_go? Hop on #linux4nano-dev if you do
• 2009/09/16 - We now have code execution on the iPod nano (4th generation)! Also, *VERY* primitive Rockbox running on iPod nano (2nd generation).

iLoader needs beta-testers (iPod nano (2nd generation))!

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Project info Status Todo list Willing testers Project summary Released Software iLoader iLoader howto iLoader themes iLoader testing results iBugger Basic skills Working with binaries Dumping firmware Extracting firmware

Software efforts Firmware Bootstrapping sequence Firmware decryption Nano 2G Nano2G clock gates‎ Nano2G LCD init FTL Nano 4G Nano4G firmware upgrade process Exploiting Pwnage 2.0 Notes vulnerability Address bruteforcing Nanotron 3000

Hardware efforts Hardware iPod nano (1st generation) iPod nano (2nd generation) Nano2G HW analysis S5L8701 analysis iPod nano (3rd generation) iPod nano (4th generation) iPod nano (5th generation) iPod classic (6th generation) iPod classic (6th generation) iPod classic (6th generation) Chronology S5L8700 datasheet Other guides MPEG movies Modes