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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. Freemyipod is a relaunch of Linux4nano

Installing Rockbox on iPod Classic

emCORE is DEPRECATED, please use the Rockbox bootloader in order to install and run Rockbox on iPod Classic.

Getting started with emCORE (DEPRECATED)

1. Check if your device is supported by the installer. Only iPod Nano 2G and iPod Classic 1G/2G/3G are supported at the moment.
2. Follow the installation instructions if your device is supported.
3. In case you encounter any bugs, please contact us in order to report them.

Updates

• 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 Toolchain SVN Todo list SVN Activity Project summary Released Software iBugger iLoader emCORE emCORE Installation emCORE Releases emCORE Monitor Protocol emCOREFS emCORE Uninstallation

Basic skills Working with binaries Dumping firmware Extracting firmware Firmware downgrading Troubleshooting Reverse engineering results Firmware Firmware decryption GUID table Nano 2G Nano2G clock gates‎ Nano2G LCD init Nano2G FTL Nano 4G Nano4G firmware upgrade process Other guides MPEG movies Modes

Hardware Hardware Nano 1G Nano 2G Nano2G HW analysis S5L8701 analysis Nano 3G Nano 4G Nano 5G Nano 6G Classic 1G Classic 2G Classic 3G Chronology S5L8700 datasheet Exploiting Pwnage 2.0 Notes vulnerability Address bruteforcing Nanotron 3000