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emBIOS on the 4G Nano

This is the wiki for the freemyipod project. Freemyipod is a project for reverse-engineering iPods with clickwheel and creating tools and documentation so that other people can port alternative firmwares to them such as rockbox.

Updates

• 2010-08-26 - iLoader, its installer and uninstaller all have been fully ported to emBIOS now. A beta release will be coming soon!
• 2010-08-13 - emBIOS is continually being improved and the next step is porting tools like iLoader to use it.
• 2010-08-06 - The wiki has now been moved to www.freemyipod.org
• 2010-08-05 - Recently we've been working on a hardware abstraction project called emBIOS. Follow development here
• 2010-08-03 - We can now access the Nano 4G accelerometer.
• 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]

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Project info Status Contact Contributing SVN Todo list Project summary Released Software iLoader iBugger emBIOS emBIOS Monitor Protocol Basic skills Working with binaries Dumping firmware Extracting firmware

Reverse engineering results Firmware Bootstrapping sequence Firmware decryption GUID table 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 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