The iPod Nano 6G was hacked and now, Steven Troughton-Smith discovered what may be DFU mode: hold down the restart buttons until you get a black screen (it reboots twice) on your iPod Nano 6G and iTunes recognises the iDevice and alerts you.







Afterwards, modified iRecovery to work with the iPod nano (had to add its DFU/Recovery USB ID) and allow it send files, and tested with some files I had extracted from the iPod Nano 6G firmware (using the extract2g tool from http://www.freemyipod.org/ ).




disk.fw and osos.fw work (one boots disk mode, the other boots to a homescreen). The other files make the nano boot to a white screen, but go no further.

We can send encrypted firmware files to the iPod Nano 6G, and have them execute, similar to what is used to jailbreak the iPhone. If iPod Nano 6G rejects the file (i.e. unsigned, invalid), it reboots.

So, will the iPod Nano 6G be able to make it to the Jailbreak family ?