Nanotron 3000

Because of the immense amount of time it will take to brute force the 3G and the 4G, the Linux4nano team has hatched an ambitious idea. We have decided to build a brute forcing robot with LEGO Mindstorms. We can leave this bot running overnight and hopefully find out the correct addresses. If the LEGO idea is not feasible we can resort to using transistors like Sto used on the 2G. This would be more expensive but easier IMO.

Technical details for 4G

Time to hold down menu and center buttons to restart: exactly 5 seconds Time to reboot to main menu: 17.5 seconds Time to boot cold to main menu: ~25 seconds (shouldn't be needed) Time to reboot to disk mode: 2-3 seconds depending on how quick you can press it (this is like .25 seconds after Apple logo). I did see 10 seconds once so I guess there might be a last-minute check after the Apple logo

Using the times I've gathered, we can make a timeline of how our process will work, starting from disk mode:

1. Take off old note file, put in new one (half a second)
2. Hold down menu and play to reboot (5 seconds)
3. Wait for boot (17.5 seconds)
4. Find out what state the iPod is in and react accordingly (5 seconds if we have to force reboot)
5. Boot to disk mode and start from beginning (2.5 seconds)

So the amount of time to test one file would take roughly 30.5 seconds. With that time we can test about 2832 files a day. With a 16-byte step (might be better to use 8 bytes?) we could bust through a whopping 45312 bytes a day (0xB100)