Re: Type of iPod
Re: Type of iPod
- Subject: Re: Type of iPod
- From: Bob Ippolito <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:30:04 -0400
On May 17, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Andrew Kazmierski wrote:
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I've been looking into IOKit and stuff, and I'm wondering, is there a
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way to tell what kind of iPod is plugged in? Finder does this, I
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believe. Also, I noticed there was a private iPod.framework. Anyone
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know anything about this?
The private iPod framework can tell you what revision the iPod is, but
it's non-obvious what that means. I have two different versions of
iPods that have different revision numbers, the newer one has a more
recent revision number, but I am not sure what revision number is the
first revision to use version 2 firmware, or which version number is an
iPod Mini. The information you can get from the device tree in IOKit
seems to be more like the revision of the protocol or kext that the
iPod uses, and does not seem to represent the model number of the
actual device.
In a more public fashion, if you can get the iPod mounted (which is
best done using the private iPod framework, as far as I can tell), then
you should be able to pull information out of a mime-ish file on the
device: iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo .. this file has more verbose
information, but is very different for a firmware 1.x iPod versus a
firmware 2.x iPod (experimentally).
For reference, my original 20gb iPod has this relevant information:
pszBoardHwName: iPod P97
buildID: 0x01408000 (1.4)
and my new 15gb iPod has this relevant information:
BoardHwName: iPod Q14
ModelNumStr: M9460
buildID: 0x02208000 (2.2)
visibleBuildID: 0x02208000 (2.2)
It would be awesome if people with other revisions of iPods could
donate the relevant information from their SysInfo file.. I'm
particularly interested in the iPod Mini, and other sizes of iPods..
-bob
[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
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