Baseband Device

From The Apple Wiki

the Baseband Device is the chipset that all iPhones and cellular models of the Apple Watch, iPad, iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad Pro use that manages all the functions which require a cellular antenna. It has its own RAM and Firmware in NOR flash, separate from the ARM core resources. The baseband is a resource to the OS. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are managed by the main CPU, although the baseband stores it's MAC addresses in its NVRAM.

See also: Baseband Commands and iOS Baseband Tools.

Device List


Seczone

This is the area in the baseband where the lock state is stored.

Layout

0x400--NCK token
0xA00--IMEI signature
0xB00--IMEI
0xC00--Locks table

Encryption

Many of the sections are encrypted using TEA based off the CHIPID and NORID. See NCK Brute Force for more info.

Exploits

PMB8876 S-Gold 2

PMB8878 X-Gold 608

XMM 6180 X-Gold 618

MDM6600

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MDM6610

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MDM9600

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MDM9615

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MDM9625

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MDM9635

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MDM9645

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PMB9943 X-Gold 736

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MDM9655

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PMB9948 X-Gold 748

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PMB9955 X-Gold 756

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PMB9960 X-Gold 766

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SDX55M

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SDX57M

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SDX60M

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SDX65M

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SDX70M

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Theoretical Attacks

Boot Chain

bootrom->bootloader->firmware