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emCORE r779 on Nano 2G, Nano 4G and Classic 2G

This is the wiki for the freemyipod project. Freemyipod is a project for reverse-engineering iPods with clickwheel (no iOS devices) and creating tools and documentation so that other people can port alternative firmwares to them such as rockbox or Linux. Freemyipod is a relaunch of Linux4nano.

Updates

• 2023-01-07 - A preliminary U-Boot port to the Nano 5G has been developed.
• 2022-01-04 - The bootrom of iPod Nano 5G was successfully dumped, and is in the process of being reverse-engineered!
• 2021-12-31 - An exploit named wInd3x, which exploits the latest vulnerability, is being prepared for Nano 4G and Nano 5G.
• 2021-12-27 - A new vulnerability was discovered in iPod Nano 4G and Nano 5G bootrom, which allows arbitrary code execution!
• 2018-08-25 - The website software has been updated to MediaWiki 1.31 after about 2 months of downtime.

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Project info Status Contact Contributing Project summary Released Software wInd3x U-Boot port Legacy: iBugger iLoader emCORE

Basic skills Working with binaries Dumping firmware Extracting firmware Firmware downgrading Troubleshooting Reverse engineering results Firmware Firmware decryption OSOS OSOS Options GUID table Nano 2G Nano2G clock gates‎ Nano2G LCD init Nano2G FTL Nano2G HW analysis S5L8701 analysis Nano 4G Nano4G firmware upgrade process Nano 5G General Other guides Modes

Hardware Hardware Nano 1G Nano 2G Nano 3G Nano 4G Nano 5G Nano 6G Classic 1G Classic 2G Classic 3G Chronology S5L8700 datasheet Exploiting wInd3x Pwnage 2.0 Notes vulnerability Address bruteforcing Nanotron 3000