Discovering iPod nano recovery mode
Steven Troughton-Smith writes on his personal weblog that he may have discovered a way to put his iPod nano into some kind of DFU-like recovery mode. By holding down the restart buttons through two reboots, iTunes will see the device and alert the user. Entering DFU/Recovery mode allows hackers to submit customized software to iOS devices and doing so with the nano offers the promise of adding modified software.
Troughton-Smith tells TUAW that he can now "can push firmware files to the device and have them execute." From there, he can boot disk mode or the OS using those firmware files.
Troughton-Smith also figured out how to mount the iPod nano's resource partion. He adds, that a commenter on his blogpost claims that they've reversed the image file format from the resource partition, which is an interesting step forward. "In theory, if we ever find a way to get the resource partition back onto the device," he told TUAW, "This could open up custom themes, etc..."
