freemyipod / wInd3x

iPod Classic and Nano 3/4/5G bootrom exploit
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Nano 3G firmware payload gets incorrectly parsed, causing the restore process to fail #11

Open lemonjesus opened 11 months ago

lemonjesus commented 11 months ago

I haven't looked much into it, but something about processing the n3g's firmware as a MSE breaks it. I'm told that the n3g's firmware is, in fact, in the MSE format, but there must be something about it that breaks the current implementation of MSE parsing. The result is that wInd3x thinks the payload is larger than it actually is, and the iPod never restores correctly.

A work around can be seen here where I skip the MSE parsing when restoring an n3g, but this is probably not the correct thing to do. I'm going to keep using this workaround locally, but I'm making this issue so that I or someone else will remember to look into this later.