About a week after the first successful modification to the new iPod Nano’s .plist file was made — whisking away one of the pre-installed icons from the home screen — dev Steven Troughton-Smith has brought the nano one step closer to jailbreaking: he’s figured out how to put his iPod nano into the equivalent of the iPhone or iPod Touch’s DFU recovery mode.
The feat is accomplished by holding down the restart buttons across two separate reboots, at which point iTunes will see the device and alert the user. Once accomplished, Troughton-Smith is apparently able to push firmware files to the device and execute them.
Pretty exciting stuff. For more information on what this means for the possibility of iPod Nano hacking, check out Erica Sadun’s informative post over at TUAW.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
