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Rockbox Development => New Ports => Topic started by: GodEater on January 10, 2008, 01:22:09 PM

Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
Post by: GodEater on January 10, 2008, 01:22:09 PM
edit:

We now have wiki pages for each device:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IPodNano2GPort
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodNano3GPort
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodNano4GPort
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodClassic1G

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This is a bit of an irregular post here, given that to our knowledge no such port is underway. However, given the number of queries that we get on the subject, this post is to outline some of the challenges that face a port to these three targets, which may go some way to explaining :

1) Why there isn't one yet.
2) Why no-one in the current Rockbox team really fancies a crack at them.

Also - please note this is the SECOND TIME we've put this thread up. The original one disappeared in a puff of smoke. No amount of checking through logs shows any evidence of who deleted it - so we're assuming it was an act of Jobs^H^H^H^HGod. Maybe we should take the hint :)

This is what Bagder has to say on the matter. What he says here applies to all three models, despite him only mentioning the Classic directly.
Quote from: Bagder
Nobody has done any sufficient research or investigation on the iPod Classics for anyone to tell how feasable a Rockbox port is or not. But, based on the assumption that the firmware and design choices are similar to that of the Nano 2nd generation, it offers great challenges to any hacker wanting to go down this road.

Many many people confuse this matter with the recently discussed Apple adding a new checksum to the itunes database, and then the subsequent “crack” of that system. This will only allow Linux-users to use these ipods. It certainly does not in any way make it easier to run alternative firmwares on them.

I would rather say that you should all take this as an indication that Apple really doesn’t care one bit about Linux users. In fact, they only care for those who buy their whole package and that package is Windows with itunes or MacOS with itunes. If you’re not buying that concept, you should avoid Apple. Yes I really mean that.

To get Rockbox running on these models or any of the other newer ipod versions, we need fearless and skilled people to get players, rip them apart and do some actual hard-core research on how their internals work and how the firmware is stored and how firmware upgrades are made etc. The same old new-rockbox port drill.

Update: for the less brave, there are still things that can be done as first steps. They involve doing “fdisk -l” on the targets and if there’s a firmware partition present, make a dd dump and make that available for analysis. And any related stuff a little depending on how things look.

Shortly after Bagder posted this on his blog - someone decided to do the fdisk -l trick, and we learned to our dismay that Apple have gone one step further with the Classic, which is to say they've *completely* hidden where the firmware lives - it's not just a partition marked as empty - it's not exposed at all over UMS.

We've also downloaded a firmware update for the Classic from Apple's site, and having looked at it, our other fears were confirmed - which is that the entire image is encrypted. Without knowing how to decrypt it, we can't reverse engineer it - which we'd need to do - since the hardware in the new iPods - despite looking similar on the outside - is completely different on the inside. No existing Rockbox code will work on it. Without knowing how to re-encrypt it - it's not possible to run any third party code on these iPods at all - let alone a lovely firmware like Rockbox.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on February 06, 2008, 12:21:41 PM
I think you mean the Classic and Nanos right?  The Touch can be made to run 3rd party apps, and might be able to run rockbox-as-an-app someday.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on February 07, 2008, 02:56:20 AM
Correct.

When I wrote this post originally, I was unaware of the flexibility of the iPod Touch (and therefore I guess also the iPhone) - so that is a possible way forward for those targets.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: LambdaCalculus on February 22, 2008, 01:35:24 PM
Read GodEater's post above. He already mention attempting to read the firmware partition on the hard drive with no success.

Every iPod made has a firmware partition on its main storage. This has not changed from the 1st gen onward. You can verify this for yourself by doing a fdisk -l in Linux; two partitions will be shown. (NOTE: The Classic, and possibly the 3G nano, do not show a second "firmware" partition.)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: hdragun on February 24, 2008, 01:03:18 AM
There may still be a firmware partition on these ipods.
i did some experimentation on mine (ipod nano 3g) and i have found 3 partitions
They are:
1: 32kb (format unknown)
2: 475,072kb (format win95 fat32)
3: 3,325,732 (format unknown)
and a MBR

interestingly the main fat32 formated partition is only 463Mb as opposed to the ~3.7Gb it identifies as.

The below image shows the partition layout:

(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3127/ipodparttablesq2.jpg)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on February 24, 2008, 08:14:35 AM
This is quite interesting, since it's completely different to the fdisk -l output we once had (can someone post it again please?) for the iPod Classic.

Dumping the contents of the two smaller partitions and making them available for download somewhere would be a useful next step to take here.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: hdragun on February 24, 2008, 08:10:42 PM
Yes it is different from the fdisk -l
When i print the fdisk -l on my ipod i get only one partition although it too is interesting.
The following is what I get for fdisk -l for my ipod (/dev/sdb)

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Disk /dev/sdb: 3892 MB, 3892056064 bytes
38 heads, 42 sectors/track, 595 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1596 * 4096 = 6537216 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20202020

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         596     3800580    b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 22)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(59, 37, 42) logical=(595, 13, 42)

Note that this is not unique to my ipod. I have an identical ipod 3g nano (4Gb) that has a similar (if not identical) fdisk -l

Interestingly when I look at it  using gparted it either tells me that it cannot read the fat32 partition or that the whole drive is empty.

As to dumping the two partitions, (1 and 2 on my previous post) i will try but don't get your hopes too high.
I have a dd dump of the entire drive (big at 3.9Gb) that i have done much of my testing on should any one have a big enough internet connection and an ftp server (note that it does have all my music on which makes me reluctant to share it) I will see if i can get an empty dump of the drive.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on February 24, 2008, 08:13:16 PM
Copy your music off, put a file on it thats all zeros that takes up your whole free disk space, and then dump it.  Should zip down to almost nothing.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: hdragun on February 24, 2008, 09:21:38 PM
the img compresses (gzip) to 2.7Gb i will try to extract the two smaller partitions though (can any one tell me how to mount a raw .img in ubuntu?)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: cool_walking_ on February 24, 2008, 09:58:12 PM
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mount -o loop /path/to/image.img /path/to/mountpoint should work if image.img is a single filesystem.  I don't know about ripping out single partitions from an image of multiple partitions though...
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: hdragun on February 24, 2008, 10:05:54 PM
thats the problem i'm having at the moment (multiple partitions)
Ill try extracting it with AcetoneISO2

One other thing i thought i should mention is what the linux file comand outputs when i use it on the the ipod image:

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$ file ipodnano.img
ipodnano.img: x86 boot sector, extended partition table (last)\011, code offset 0x58

x86 boot sector? does the arm chip use x86 partition tables? (i suppose it is formated using x86 machines)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on February 25, 2008, 03:30:31 AM
x86 boot sector is what the file command calls a partition table.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: mcuelenaere on February 28, 2008, 10:44:04 AM
You could of course use this (http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/) method, but still it would require a lot of work since you'll have to desolder the memory chip and solder it to another test board...
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: mcuelenaere on February 29, 2008, 11:13:15 AM
Doesn't that attack rely on getting to the memory within about a minute of power off though? You'd have to be bloody fast with that soldering iron :)
No, if (as I've understood) you can cool the RAM a lot (maybe -5, -10 °C) and then it will take minutes or more before it releases it's information. And if you keep cooling it down I presume that won't be a big problem.

But still, it isn't the best method and it's hard to do :)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Llorean on February 29, 2008, 12:16:26 PM
De-solder the RAM first, clearly, then come up with a way of connecting it in a quickly removable manner. Sheesh, do I have to think of everything for you people? :-P
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: RiotousMonk on March 27, 2008, 07:26:51 PM
Copy your music off, put a file on it thats all zeros that takes up your whole free disk space, and then dump it.  Should zip down to almost nothing.

Hi,  I have a nano 3g (8gb).  Do you have a dd command or something in mind to do this?

I get similar fdisk -l info:

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root@mauke:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 7952 MB, 7952142336 bytes
245 heads, 62 sectors/track, 127 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15190 * 4096 = 62218240 bytes

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
root@manuke:/#
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Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: cool_walking_ on March 27, 2008, 11:23:07 PM
Mount your iPod, delete everything on it, then
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cat /dev/zero > /mnt/sda2/newblankfileWait until it errors out with "cat: write error: No space left on device", and then
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dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > /someplace/with/free/space/nano3g.img.gz
@hdragun: Mounting an image with multiple partitions:
http://www.jefferyfernandez.id.au/2007/06/14/mounting-partitions-that-are-within-a-disk-image/
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on March 27, 2008, 11:55:56 PM
I'd just delete the music, but leave the system files and folders alone.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: RiotousMonk on March 28, 2008, 03:07:44 AM
Hi,

Previously my iPod Nano (3g, 8GB) had been configured on a Mac and had a bit of music on it.
I connected it to an XP machine and "restored" it.
Then connected it to my Ubuntu box and here's the new info, freshly restored with nothing added.

It times out @ 55% full on the partition(/dev/sda1) and kills the dd.   (See below.)  My file size limites (according to ulimit -a) are "unlimited".   Hmm.

Will you still find dd of /dev/sda useful?


root@manuke:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 7952 MB, 7952142336 bytes
217 heads, 32 sectors/track, 279 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6944 * 4096 = 28442624 bytes

   Device Boot   Start   End   Blocks      Id   System
/dev/sda1      1   280   7765508      b   W95 FaT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
   phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 32)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
   phys=(120, 216, 32) logical=(279, 126, 32)

root@manuke:/#mount -rw /dev/sda1 /mnt

root@manuke:/#df -k
Filesystem   1K-blocks   Used   Available   Use%   Mounted on
...
/dev/sda1   7750228      20616   7729612      1%   /mnt

root@manuke:/#ls -la /mnt
drwxr-xr-x   7   root   root   4096   2008-03-28   14:16   .
drwxr-xr-x   22   root   root   1024   2008-03-28   14:13   ..
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Calendars
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Contacts
drwxr-xr-x   6   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   iPod_Control
-rwxr-xr-x           1   root   root   0           2000-07-31   08:57 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Notes
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Recordings

root@manuke:/#touch /mnt/newblankfile
root@manuke:/#ls -la /mnt
drwxr-xr-x   7   root   root   4096   2008-03-28   14:16   .
drwxr-xr-x   22   root   root   1024   2008-03-28   14:13   ..
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Calendars
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Contacts
drwxr-xr-x   6   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   iPod_Control
-rwxr-xr-x           1   root   root   0           2000-07-31   08:57.metadata_never_index
-rwxr-xr-x           1   root   root   0           2008-03-28   14:26   newblankfile
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Notes
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Recordings

root@manuke:/#cat /dev/zero > /mnt/newblankfile
File size limit exceeded
root@manuke:/#ls -la /mnt
root@manuke:/#ls -la /mnt
drwxr-xr-x   7   root   root   4096   2008-03-28   14:16   .
drwxr-xr-x   22   root   root   1024   2008-03-28   14:13   ..
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Calendars
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Contacts
drwxr-xr-x   6   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   iPod_Control
-rwxr-xr-x           1   root   root   0           2000-07-31   08:57.metadata_never_index
-rwxr-xr-x           1   root   root 4294967295   2008-03-28  15:43   newblankfile
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Notes
drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   2000-07-31   08:57   Recordings

root@manuke:/#df -k
Filesystem   1K-blocks   Used   Available   Use%   Mounted on
...
/dev/sda1   7750228      4214920   3535308      55%   /mnt


Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: cool_walking_ on March 28, 2008, 03:25:03 AM
Quote
File size limit exceeded
D'oh, of course... FAT - the largest possible filesize is 4GB or so.  Just do the "cat" command a few times with different filenames so you get a few 4GB empty files.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: RiotousMonk on March 28, 2008, 11:59:50 PM
Hi All,

I restored my nano-3g again on my macbook, and refilled it with a dd from /dev/zero, then took a dd of the entire device.  The final .gz file is 7.5 MB.

Please have a look at what I did below, and tell me if that is correct, and let me know should you be interested in the details of the file.

(some unrelated info removed to shorten the post)
Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ df -k
Filesystem              1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2            116884912 77445376 39183536    66%    /
/dev/disk1s2              7765472    41264  7724208     1%    /Volumes/Riot's iPod

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ $ df -h
Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2              111G    74G    37G    66%    /
/dev/disk1s2              7.4G    40M   7.4G     1%    /Volumes/Riot's iPod

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ $ disktool -l
***Disk Appeared ('disk1',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s1',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s2',Mountpoint = '/Volumes/Riot's iPod', fsType = 'hfs', volName = 'Riot's iPod')
***Disk Appeared ('disk0',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk0s1',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk0s2',Mountpoint = '/', fsType = 'hfs', volName = 'Macintosh HD')

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ $ pdisk /dev/disk1 -dump

Partition map (with 4096 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk1'
 #:                type name           length   base    ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map partition map      62 @ 1      
 2:           Apple_HFS disk          1941368 @ 64      (  7.4G)

Device block size=4096, Number of Blocks=1941441 (7.4G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ $ ls -la /Volumes/Riot\'s\ iPod/
total 96
drwxr-xr-x   11 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    476 Mar 28 16:47 .
drwxrwxrwt    8 root      admin       272 Mar 28 16:56 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk   6148 Mar 28 16:47 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    102 Mar 28 16:56 .Trashes
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk  29833 Mar 28 16:46 .VolumeIcon.icns
-rwxr-xr-x    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk      0 Jul 31  2000 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Calendars
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Contacts
drwxr-xr-x    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    102 Jul 31  2000 Notes
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Recordings
drwxr-xr-x    7 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    238 Mar 28 16:46 iPod_Control

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ touch /Volumes/Riot\'s\ iPod/newblankfile
Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ ls -la /Volumes/Riot\'s\ iPod/
total 96
drwxr-xr-x   12 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    510 Mar 28 17:06 .
drwxrwxrwt    8 root      admin       272 Mar 28 16:56 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk   6148 Mar 28 16:47 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    102 Mar 28 16:56 .Trashes
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk  29833 Mar 28 16:46 .VolumeIcon.icns
-rwxr-xr-x    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk      0 Jul 31  2000 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Calendars
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Contacts
drwxr-xr-x    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    102 Jul 31  2000 Notes
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk     68 Jul 31  2000 Recordings
drwxr-xr-x    7 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk    238 Mar 28 16:46 iPod_Control
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk      0 Mar 28 17:06 newblankfile

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ cat /dev/zero > /Volumes/Riot\'s\ iPod/newblankfile
cat: stdout: No space left on device

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ df -h
Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2              111G    74G    37G    66%    /
/dev/disk1s2              7.4G   7.4G     0B   100%    /Volumes/Riot's iPod

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ ls -la /Volumes/Riot\'s\ iPod/
total 15448512
drwxr-xr-x   12 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk         510 Mar 28 17:06 .
drwxrwxrwt    8 root      admin            272 Mar 28 16:56 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk        6148 Mar 28 16:47 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk         102 Mar 28 16:56 .Trashes
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk       29833 Mar 28 16:46 .VolumeIcon.icns
-rwxr-xr-x    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk           0 Jul 31  2000 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk          68 Jul 31  2000 Calendars
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk          68 Jul 31  2000 Contacts
drwxr-xr-x    3 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk         102 Jul 31  2000 Notes
drwxr-xr-x    2 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk          68 Jul 31  2000 Recordings
drwxr-xr-x    7 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk         238 Mar 28 16:46 iPod_Control
-rw-r--r--    1 RiotousMonk  RiotousMonk  7909588992 Mar 28 17:19 newblankfile

Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$ dd if=/dev/disk1 | gzip > /Users/RiotousMonk/Desktop/nano3g.img.gz
15531528+0 records in
15531528+0 records out
7952142336 bytes transferred in 6662.713453 secs (1193529 bytes/sec)
Riot's Macbook:~ RiotousMonk$

Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: cool_walking_ on March 29, 2008, 03:34:52 AM
That looks fine. Just upload it somewhere. Don't attach it here on the forum, as space is very limited.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by Ubuntu not "recognising" your iPod when formatted on OS X, but if you mean you can't mount it, your kernel probably just doesn't have HFS+ support compiled in.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: zivan56 on March 29, 2008, 04:11:51 AM
Here is a dump from my Nano 3G 4GB:
http://www.iwdstudio.com/sansa_dev/nano3g.img.gz
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: RiotousMonk on March 29, 2008, 09:07:32 AM
Here is the image dump from my 8GB  nano-3g.

http://tokyo.moro.us/nano3g_8gb.img.gz

and some pics of the innards from some kind soul.
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod/iPod-Nano-3rd-Generation

same photos + ipod classic:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/10/a_peek_inside_apples_new_nano_and_classic_ipods_photos.html

cost analysis of the nano-3g, with vague references to makers and spec on some of the chips - maybe useful in trying to figure out which chip is what in the above linked photos (apple branded rather than off the shelf?) :  http://www.isuppli.com/news/default.asp?id=8490&m=9&y=2007


Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: jv823md on March 31, 2008, 08:33:23 AM
As an owner of an iPod Classic 80GB I could of course provide a HDD dump, but that won't help much as the firmware is clearly stored on a separate flash chip. Even if you wipe the entire hard drive, it still boots fine although it doesn't save the settings until you give it a nicely formatted FAT (or HFS) partition again, as the iTunes iPod repair program seems to do additionally to reflashing the firmware.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 16, 2008, 10:02:38 PM
I did a "fdisk -l" on my Classic, and it came up with this:

Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 159.8 GB, 159840301056 bytes
26 heads, 50 sectors/track, 30018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1300 * 4096 = 5324800 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20202020

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       30019   156093788    b  W95 FAT32

Could somebody please tell me what this actually means?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on April 16, 2008, 10:18:24 PM
I did a "fdisk -l" on my Classic, and it came up with this:

Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 159.8 GB, 159840301056 bytes
26 heads, 50 sectors/track, 30018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1300 * 4096 = 5324800 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20202020

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       30019   156093788    b  W95 FAT32

Could somebody please tell me what this actually means?

It means you've mounted it's hard disk in UMS mode.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: zajacattack on April 17, 2008, 06:02:47 PM
So, I realize the firmware encryption is a huge problem.

Is the firmware for these versions stored in a separate (perhaps hidden?) partition like the earlier iPods and the Sansas?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 17, 2008, 11:04:25 PM
My guess would be that from my "fdisk -l"...scan(?) there's only one partition on my Classic.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: pondlife on April 18, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
My guess would be that from my "fdisk -l"...scan(?) there's only one partition on my Classic.

No, it means that only one partition is exposed.  If you could open your iPod and connect the disk to a native controller you might get a different result (or you might not).

pondlife
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on April 18, 2008, 06:52:30 AM
No, it means that only one partition is exposed.  If you could open your iPod and connect the disk to a native controller you might get a different result (or you might not).

And unless someone does that, we don't know the answer to the question :

Quote from: zajacattack
Is the firmware for these versions stored in a separate (perhaps hidden?) partition like the earlier iPods and the Sansas?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 19, 2008, 12:36:22 AM
My guess would be that from my "fdisk -l"...scan(?) there's only one partition on my Classic.

No, it means that only one partition is exposed.  If you could open your iPod and connect the disk to a native controller you might get a different result (or you might not).

pondlife


The partition exposed is 159.8gb, which leaves ~204mb left for Apple's Firmware. I'm guessing that would be plenty of space, considering that Rockbox (for 5g/5.5g) is under 10mb.

What do you mean by "connect to a native controller"? Actually connect the hard drive to a PC?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: sexenox on April 19, 2008, 11:19:14 AM
The partition exposed is 159.8gb, which leaves ~204mb left for Apple's Firmware. I'm guessing that would be plenty of space, considering that Rockbox (for 5g/5.5g) is under 10mb.

I'm not quite sure if this difference in size is caused by the 1000\1024^3 Bytes calculating problem? Or would the values differ even more in this case?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 20, 2008, 12:29:27 AM
The partition exposed is 159.8gb, which leaves ~204mb left for Apple's Firmware. I'm guessing that would be plenty of space, considering that Rockbox (for 5g/5.5g) is under 10mb.

I'm not quite sure if this difference in size is caused by the 1000\1024^3 Bytes calculating problem? Or would the values differ even more in this case?


how would that make any difference?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on April 20, 2008, 01:15:50 AM
Instead of speculating, someone should check what the actual drive capacity is in bytes.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 20, 2008, 05:03:28 AM
Units = cylinders of 1300 * 4096 = 5324800 bytes

Done.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: sexenox on April 20, 2008, 05:14:14 AM
Quote

how would that make any difference?

Manufacturer says his HDD has 160GB; but calculated with 1000^3 Bytes = 1GB.

Program on computer calculates correctly with 1024^3 Bytes = 1GB
-> 160 GB [Manufacturer] ~ 149GB [Computer].

So forget about it. The difference is far beyond 204MB  ::)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: boxerorange on April 26, 2008, 12:18:44 AM
Why would Apple make it larger than 204MB? That's plenty of space for their firmware, what else could be stored here?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Llorean on April 26, 2008, 12:26:47 AM
Suspend image. At least that's one theory. Firstly, their firmware is quite large on the players we're familiar with, but the fact that the 64MB RAM players have a larger firmware partition than the 32MB RAM ones suggests that it's probably there so they can hibernate the RAM of the player to disk when it goes into deep sleep or such. It's also probably a good deal of reserved space for future ideas (for example, when the iPod+Nike came out, that installed a chunk of data to the hidden partition as a resource image for the Nike hardware).
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on April 29, 2008, 08:28:12 AM
Given that the iPod Touch is functionally almost identical to the iPhone (which I own and therefore feel somewhat qualified to speak about), I can say that on the Touch at least the "firmware" is actually a cut down version of OSX, which runs at a great deal more disk space than the firmwares from previous iPods.

I've read in a few places that the Classic is also running something similar to this cut down version of OSX (though unfortnately I can't cite the places I saw it as I forget, and it was pretty vague there anyway).

This would likely mean that the firmware partition will be significantly larger than in previous iterations of the iPod.

Certainly on the iPhone the "System" partition where most of the OS lives is around 300MB.
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: mirreke on May 17, 2008, 09:29:23 AM
Hi all,

I would like to help in unravelling the mysteries of the 3rd gen ipod, to make it possible to run rockbox on it. I'm not good with soldering irons, but could do some c programming :)

I investigated a bit on what is on my ipod (after I filled it with music using libgpod and gtkpod on debian linux).

Fdisk partition info has been posted before.

I find the different physical/logical partition beginnings/endings weird, but this may be caused by the device being solid state storage, and not a physical spinning disk with heads and cylinders and sectors.

I did a "find ." on the mounted partition, and found the same folders that were posted before. The "Calendars", "Contacts",  and "Recordings" folders are empty,  "Photos" just contains an empty subdirectory "Thumbs", and "Notes" contains a 14 byte file Instructions containing the string "<INSTRUCTIONS>" without line terminator.

The "iPod_Control" folder contains the data:

droef:/mnt/ipod# ls -l iPod_Control/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  2 mirjam mirjam 4096 2008-03-12 22:24 Artwork
drwxr-xr-x  2 mirjam mirjam 4096 2008-05-17 14:35 Device
drwxr-xr-x  3 mirjam mirjam 4096 2007-12-01 22:01 gamedata_RW
drwxr-xr-x  4 mirjam mirjam 4096 2007-11-29 21:34 Games_RO
drwxr-xr-x  3 mirjam mirjam 4096 2007-12-01 22:01 gamestats_WO
drwxr-xr-x  2 mirjam mirjam 4096 2008-05-10 15:49 iTunes
drwxr-xr-x 16 mirjam mirjam 4096 2007-11-29 21:33 Music
drwxr-xr-x  2 mirjam mirjam 4096 2000-02-22 01:30 Tones

iPod_Control/Music contains 13 subdirs, which contain .mp3 files.

iPod_Control/Device seems interesting:
droef:/mnt/ipod# ls -l iPod_Control/Device/
total 36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam     8 2008-04-28 22:42 alarms
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam    32 2000-02-22 01:30 clock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam    84 2007-12-14 19:47 PlayCounts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam  2952 2000-02-22 01:30 Preferences
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam    50 2008-03-30 14:37 SysInfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam 11081 2008-05-17 14:35 SysInfoExtended
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mirjam mirjam   107 2007-12-01 22:01 Users

droef:/mnt/ipod# file iPod_Control/Device/*
iPod_Control/Device/alarms:          shell archive or script for antique kernel text
iPod_Control/Device/clock:           data
iPod_Control/Device/PlayCounts:      data
iPod_Control/Device/Preferences:     data
iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo:         ASCII text
iPod_Control/Device/SysInfoExtended: XML
iPod_Control/Device/Users:           data

droef:/mnt/ipod# cat iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo
ModelNumStr: xA980
FirewireGuid: 000A27001A80AAE1

I put up the XML data file for download at:
http://koos.idefix.net/~mirjam/SysInfoExtended

Hope this helps....
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: atomikpunk on June 26, 2008, 08:07:28 AM
Well from what I've read, no one actually knows what's under the hood of the encrypted OF, so until someone somewhere is able to extract the internal ROM content, or otherwise crack the encryption, no one will be able to do anything...

Nonetheless, you can count me in too for I've a 3rd gen. nano. I'm good at software/hardware understanding/disassembling, embedded systems and software development... For those interested, here is a link (http://home.gna.org/linux4nano) to the linux4nano group who are putting efforts into breaking that encryption for another project (ipodlinux in fact). If you can contribute, please talk to them. If you can't, please don't bother them ;D
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on June 26, 2008, 08:53:40 AM
Well have *you* contacted them and got a dump of the ROM they extracted ?
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: atomikpunk on June 26, 2008, 10:52:39 AM
Hi again,

yes I have contacted them but what they have in the moment is a dump of the external flash, which is actually encrypted using the algorithm (almost certainly) present in the internal SoC ROM. I've got it here (the flash, not the internal ROM) and I can ask them if they mind me sharing it. But obviously, one can't do much with the encrypted firmware until someone somewhere finds the encryption key to be able to decrypt the firmware.

So if anyone here is an electronic expert that could help extract internal ROM content from a SoC, please, oh please get in touch with them :)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: atomikpunk on August 22, 2008, 12:59:15 PM
Well on the linux4nano site linuxstb is referring to, there are some documentation, mail archives and stuff. I've gone through most of it and apparently, RC4 was their first hypothesis but from what I understand, it was discarded after some encryption analysis... Have at look at this report (http://home.gna.org/linux4nano/download/crypto_synth-1.0.pdf) for more details.

It seems that until someone somewhere with enough knowledge (and talent) is able to tap himself on the processor chip and get the content of its internal ROM (JTAG, hardware programming protocol or something else), we are stuck...

Owh and by the way, why not stick with this thread (http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14871.0) instead of starting a new one every now and then ;)
Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: dandin1 on August 23, 2008, 09:41:42 PM
It's not much use at this point of development, but if things ever get going, I've made a scan of the iPod nano 3g 4gb.  Yes, I know there's one on ifixit (http://www.ifixit.com/Parts/stream/3/large/13-1.jpg), but parts seem to be different on this one! 
Product details: 4g, Model No. A1236, EMC No. 2174.

http://www.nastyprisms.com/rockbox/nano3g/logicboard_edit.jpg
http://www.nastyprisms.com/rockbox/nano3g/toshiba.jpg

Title: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: sexenox on September 27, 2008, 05:15:17 PM
As I am a member of the [linux4nano-dev] Mailing-List, I can say that they also plan a brute force attack on the ROM.
Quote
The 1G FLSHLOGO section only contained 0xFF's and has 9700 bytes.
The 2G FLSHLOGO has 9728 bytes (I stripped the section header).
This could be a good starting point. There's probably a key hidden in
those 28 bytes.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on December 02, 2008, 03:29:56 AM
I got my hands on a 3G Nano last week, and got an lsusb -v output from it :

Code: [Select]
Bus 008 Device 015: ID 05ac:1262 Apple, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x05ac Apple, Inc.
  idProduct          0x1262
  bcdDevice            0.01
  iManufacturer           1 Apple Inc.
  iProduct                2 iPod
  iSerial                 3 000A27001AD79186
  bNumConfigurations      2
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           32
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0
    bmAttributes         0xc0
      Self Powered
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk (Zip)
      iInterface              0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
        bInterval               0
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength          149
    bNumInterfaces          3
    bConfigurationValue     2
    iConfiguration          4 iPod USB Interface
    bmAttributes         0xc0
      Self Powered
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass         1 Audio
      bInterfaceSubClass      1 Control Device
      bInterfaceProtocol      0
      iInterface              0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                 9
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      1 (HEADER)
        bcdADC               1.00
        wTotalLength           30
        bInCollection           1
        baInterfaceNr( 0)       1
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                12
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      2 (INPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID             1
        wTerminalType      0x0201 Microphone
        bAssocTerminal          2
        bNrChannels             2
        wChannelConfig     0x0003
          Left Front (L)
          Right Front (R)
        iChannelNames           0
        iTerminal               0
      AudioControl Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                 9
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL)
        bTerminalID             2
        wTerminalType      0x0101 USB Streaming
        bAssocTerminal          1
        bSourceID               1
        iTerminal               0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           0
      bInterfaceClass         1 Audio
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0
      iInterface              0
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       1
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         1 Audio
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Streaming
      bInterfaceProtocol      0
      iInterface              0
      AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      1 (AS_GENERAL)
        bTerminalLink           2
        bDelay                  1 frames
        wFormatTag              1 PCM
      AudioStreaming Interface Descriptor:
        bLength                35
        bDescriptorType        36
        bDescriptorSubtype      2 (FORMAT_TYPE)
        bFormatType             1 (FORMAT_TYPE_I)
        bNrChannels             2
        bSubframeSize           2
        bBitResolution         16
        bSamFreqType            9 Discrete
        tSamFreq[ 0]         8000
        tSamFreq[ 1]        11025
        tSamFreq[ 2]        12000
        tSamFreq[ 3]        16000
        tSamFreq[ 4]        22050
        tSamFreq[ 5]        24000
        tSamFreq[ 6]        32000
        tSamFreq[ 7]        44100
        tSamFreq[ 8]        48000
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 9
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            1
          Transfer Type            Isochronous
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x00c0  1x 192 bytes
        bInterval               4
        bRefresh                0
        bSynchAddress           0
        AudioControl Endpoint Descriptor:
          bLength                 7
          bDescriptorType        37
          bDescriptorSubtype      1 (EP_GENERAL)
          bmAttributes         0x01
            Sampling Frequency
          bLockDelayUnits         0 Undefined
          wLockDelay              0 Undefined
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        2
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         3 Human Interface Device
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 No Subclass
      bInterfaceProtocol      0 None
      iInterface              0
        HID Device Descriptor:
          bLength                 9
          bDescriptorType        33
          bcdHID               1.01
          bCountryCode            0 Not supported
          bNumDescriptors         1
          bDescriptorType        34 Report
          wDescriptorLength     208
         Report Descriptors:
           ** UNAVAILABLE **
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
        bInterval               1
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
  bLength                10
  bDescriptorType         6
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  bNumConfigurations      2
Device Status:     0x0000
  (Bus Powered)

Haven't done anything further with it yet.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: dreamlayers on February 01, 2009, 09:38:13 PM
The iPod Classic 1.0.1 firmware uses a "8702" file format which is similar to the "8900" file format used by the iPhone (http://wikee.iphwn.org/s5l8900:8900_format).  There's a similar DER-encoded certificate chain, and the encryption byte is 03, which probably also implies AES-128-CBC encryption.  There are two "8702" files after the FAT16 image.

I wonder if some methods used on the iPhone and iPod Touch apply.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Amarus on July 05, 2009, 03:46:03 PM
I don't know if mods will be annoyed that I'm posting in a really old thread, but with the breakthrough in the Nanos I thought that this thread should be revived for the sake of Classics.
I'm talking about this:
http://home.gna.org/linux4nano/tof_victory_message.txt
From over here:
http://home.gna.org/linux4nano/

Maybe someone could contact one of the team members and ask for details about the exploits.

My Classic is currently out of service (dead hard disk and no replacements in my country) so I'll try this as soon as it's fixed (if nobody did by then).
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: GodEater on July 06, 2009, 03:04:21 AM
The Rockbox developers who are interested in this are already well aware of this information. We've been in and out of the linux4nano guys' irc channel for the last 5 days or so. If something comes out of it (and it's still by no means certain that it will - no-one has managed to run more than a few bytes of code on these things yet) we'll be aware of it before you I imagine ;)
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: linuxstb on July 29, 2009, 05:25:21 AM
There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel regarding Rockbox on the Classic -  the same "Notes" exploit that has allowed us to start running code on the 2nd Gen Nano has been confirmed to also exist on the Classic.  i.e. the first third-party code has now been confirmed to run.

By attaching a serial cable to the dock connector, the boot ROM has been partially dumped (timing issues seem to exist which are preventing a full dump so far).  Once this succeeds, we should have enough information to decrypt and dump the contents of the NOR flash, which in turn gives us access to the diagnostics mode code which can be used to reverse-engineer drivers.

So at least it looks like a Rockbox port can be started soon...

The iPod Classic and Nano 3G also seem very similar hardware-wise (sharing the same S5L8702 CPU), so hopefully the notes exploit can be made to work on the Nano 3G as well.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: TheSeven on September 05, 2009, 01:56:42 PM
I've noticed there are some really cheap ($70) 6g oem boards on eBay, and the linux4nano guys do not seem to have one to brick, from what I see.

Actually, we don't even need one to brick (we've already passed that stage without bricking one :-) ), we just need testers for our code, if possible with some development skills in order to track down issues. So if any donation, we would need just a working 6G for one of the devs interested in it.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: washedaway on September 17, 2009, 10:28:01 AM
Actually, we don't even need one to brick (we've already passed that stage without bricking one :-) ), we just need testers for our code, if possible with some development skills in order to track down issues. So if any donation, we would need just a working 6G for one of the devs interested in it.

All of this is completely above my head.  I have an 80gb Classic I can donate to a developer (with avatar).  If interested, please contact me through a pm.


Edit:  I suppose limiting this potential donation to just a dev w/ avatar limits the possibilities... if I could simply find someone who I can verify contributes to the Rockbox project via posts/postcount or possibly a recomendation from a notated dev, that would suffice. 

This is my second day to be aware of Rockbox, but a certain amount of trust can be gained by the fact that this is a prolific open source project.  I admire the effort by everyone involved. 
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: zivan56 on November 03, 2009, 01:40:01 AM
IBugger is running on the iPod Nano 4G.  Along with primitive drivers for: USB, I2C, Backlight, and LCD.  So development can start on the Nano 4G if anybody is interested.
Source: http://l4n.clustur.com/index.php/Main_Page
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Jon8RFC on April 23, 2010, 09:26:25 PM
Can someone post the latest news on ipod classic support?

What can I do to contribute?  I don't know any of the low-level programming needed to rip firmware, but I can follow instructions to test things out.

Are the ipod classic 80/160, 120, and 160 all three entirely different generations within themselves, or will one rockbox edition work across all three?  I'm asking because would I need to donate just an 80gig, or an 80 and a 120?  As far as I know, the 160 (most recent) just takes advantage of increased platter density, unless I'm wrong.  I read that you're past the point of potentially bricking an ipod, but would a donation be of any use, or are y'all not equipped to rip and decrypt the firmware?

Would cyanogen (android custom rom creator...but I can't recall if he was involved in getting root from Android) be of any assistance in this, since it's linux-based?  Would shipping the ipod to a professional data recovery center, such as http://www.eprovided.com/ be useful?  They charge an arm and a leg for tearing apart a hard drive for low-level recovery (or soldering a chip to a diagnostic board for the raw data), but is there any reason to do such a thing at this point, or is just cracking the encryption where the project is stuck?

Whatever the case, please post the latest news and what you need from us, the appreciative users =]
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Llorean on April 23, 2010, 09:37:46 PM
The lack of posts is the latest news. There's information on the wiki, but if it doesn't change that generally means the situation hasn't changed.

As well, Rockbox is not Linux based.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: saratoga on April 24, 2010, 10:23:58 AM
Can someone post the latest news on ipod classic support?

AFAIK the wiki is up to date.  Take a look at it.

What can I do to contribute?  I don't know any of the low-level programming needed to rip firmware, but I can follow instructions to test things out.

Other then programming theres not much else to do.

I read that you're past the point of potentially bricking an ipod, but would a donation be of any use, or are y'all not equipped to rip and decrypt the firmware?

The main issue is that no one is working on a port to the classic.  Donating might help if you got someone interested in working on it.
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G
Post by: Jon8RFC on April 24, 2010, 10:19:48 PM
Thanks.  Donated from jon8rfc@yahoo.com!

What about an ipod classic donation?
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
Post by: funman on September 04, 2010, 03:40:32 PM
A useful link (http://www.freemyipod.org/wiki/Status)
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
Post by: LambdaCalculus on January 14, 2011, 01:02:53 PM
There's been a furious amount of activity on the iPod Classic in the past couple of months, and thanks to the valiant efforts of the freemyipod guys and our own lovely team, we have a port of Rockbox running on the iPod Classic!

The news is here: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/01/04/rockbox-seen-on-ipod-classic/

Please note, however, that a lot of things aren't implemented yet, and the install method is still rather complicated for everyday users. While the port has plugins and audio playback, there's no YUV blitting for the LCD, so Mpegplayer crashes. So please have patience and look out for announcements.

(ninja edit!)
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
Post by: sinless on December 05, 2011, 10:17:12 PM
Anybody meet the HDD problem? After a long term use,my classic can't get connected to the computer,the only way to solve is reformat the device...maybe there is something wrong with the HDD driver,OF works fine.
I'm using a SSD instead,and in very early rockbox build it works great,but nowadays it boot very slowly,it seems that the disk spinup time is very high....
Title: Re: iPod Classic and iPod Nano 3G, 4G
Post by: wintermute23 on November 21, 2014, 09:52:56 AM
I have an iPod Classic that was previously running a build from April. I just upgraded to 19f4e39-141118, and the hold switch doesn't seem to be working the same way it used to.

It still locks out the button, and still triggers a power-on, so I'm not too concerned, but it no longer turns the screen back on, or changes the hold switch icon on my WPS. Is there something I can do to restore the previous behaviour?