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Great work, thank you. Till today, I use the "unhackable" iPod Nano 7g. I collected a ton of information what would be needed to hack it, but unfortunately, I
by sandreas 3y ago
Great work, thank you.
Till today, I use the "unhackable" iPod Nano 7g. I collected a ton of information what would be needed to hack it, but unfortunately, I did not have the time.
In case you are interested in getting functional / non-functional devices to experiment, reach out on https://pilabor.com https://pilabor.com (I'm from Germany).
My plan was to desolder the 16GB flash chip (it's LGA60) and try to reprogram it with a device like this:
https://de.aliexpress.com/i/32951067630.html https://de.aliexpress.com/i/32951067630.html
Maybe soldering it back on the iPod with this in between to debug / reprogram faster:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32844952323.html https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32844952323.html
Old iPhones (I think the 5s has the same LGA60 Nand) can be reprogrammed with a JC Pro 1000S Programmer, but they don't have a setting for iPods AFAIK. So maybe with a lot of effort it would be possible to use it to reprogram a Nand Chip having an Apple Serial No.
There also was a project called Nand-AID (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/modder-is-resurrecting-dead-wii-u-consoles-with-the-free-nand-aid https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/modder-is-resurre...) providing a microSD-Card replacement for dead nands on the Wii U consoles. Sounded interesting to try on the iPod Nano 7G :-)
lemonjesus (https://github.com/lemonjesus/iPodBluetooth https://github.com/lemonjesus/iPodBluetooth) created a bootloader Hack for the iPod Nano 3g enabling him to use a bluetooth device. He also made a youtube video about it.
But I never got into it too far. I just found out that milling out the backplate of an iPod Nano 7g can fit an iPod Mini 600mah battery and make it "replaceable" without opening the device again - so as long as the Nand does not die, I'll keep using my iPods :-)
The next device I'm planning to buy is the HiBy M300. It's way bigger but runs Android 13 and is a real DAP.
- q3k 3y ago> Till today, I use the "unhackable" iPod Nano 7g. CUB3D recently got code execution on n6g/n7g via a freetype 1day (comex's star vuln/exploit, after using another bug which allowed disabling resource partition checks). https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun https://github.com/CUB3D/ipod_sun
- sandreas 3y agoThis is great news, thank you for pointing this out. I'll transfer that knowledge to the rockbox community, if they don't know. Maybe someone is willing / has time to do the work. I unfortunately can't (2 kids, 2 jobs...).