iPod nano 6th generation

[Chosen One 41]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but at nanohack.me they found out how to put modified code into an iPod nano 6th generation and a few other things. They have a tutorial on how to do this at http://nanohack.me/?p=18. I guess this could be used as a "spring board", as they call it, to putting Rockbox on the iPod nano 6th generation. I don't know anything about hacking I just wanted to point this out.

[saratoga]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but at nanohack.me they found out how to put modified code into an iPod nano 6th generation and a few other things.

Neither of those links mentions running modified code on a 6G nano.  Do you have a link where they actually did this?

[Chosen One 41]

When I follow the 2nd link (http://nanohack.me/?p=18) I see this:

"This tutorial enables you to remove apps from the 6G iPod Nano Springboard and insert blank spaces into the springboard. The iPod Nano in this running the current 1.0 firmware and is Windows formated, have not yet tested this with a Mac formated one. Its fairly basic and simple, but shows that booting with a user modded file is possible and is a nice proof of concept and is the first small ‘hack’ as such for the new iPod Nano. Before doing this, read the iPod Nano hacking primer I wrote here: http://nanohack.me/?p=33"

and then it goes on to modifying some XML code in the iPod and running it

What are you seeing?

[[Saint]]

Running modified code, and slightly modifying the code that's already on there (in this case, just removing/breaking a chunk of it so that something fails and you get a blank space on your "desktop" (I know...right? ...wow ) are two very different things.



[St.]

[LambdaCalculus]

For what it's worth, the 6th generation nanos appear to be running a *very* scaled down iOS as its main operating system (basically cut down to bare essentials for music playback). But until a firmware update comes out or I get cash to buy one and rip it apart, we won't know for sure.

[haim]

Apple released a Software update for ipod nano 6 gen:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4531

[lionfury]

For what it's worth, the 6th generation nanos appear to be running a *very* scaled down iOS as its main operating system (basically cut down to bare essentials for music playback). But until a firmware update comes out or I get cash to buy one and rip it apart, we won't know for sure.

The nanos OS looks like iOS but it actually is a completely different OS.