iPod nano has to be one of the most versatile, lightweight and practical music player in the market today and it has attracted a huge number of buyers, and hackers as well. Yes hackers! The iPod nano has now been hacked by developed and hacker James Whelton, who has managed to bypass the device’s cache comparison and install a rather simple Springboard hack while allows for blank space creation, something which is usually done on jailbroken iPhones and iPads. James Whelton has said that this is a very simple hack, using which many other developers can tweak with the iPod nano and also install bootloaders on it.
James Whelton says:
The springboard hack is just the removal of a app and creation of a blank space. Not that amazing, but whats important is the bypass of Nano’s cache comparison, which compares any modded SB file and reverts it if it doesn’t like it, this opens up the possibility of hacking and modding, while not adding bootloaders or any of that fun stuff.
Next is the discovery in some of the device’s plists of reference to support of Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Games, vCards, Calender events and so on, with a few other cool things like a passcode lock. With the bypass I figured out, I hope to enable these pretty soon. It seems like the OS is a rehashed version of the previous Nano’s OS.
While details on how to pass the nano’s OS will be posted in a couple of days, it can be said for sure that Apple would not be allowing third party apps on the iPod nano anytime soon, however it is indeed quite intriguing to see what the hacker community can come up with for the iPod nano.
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Via Macstories