The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a new status report of the new Apple iPod touch online with some answers on your questions.

iPhuc. Recompiled and working. I’ve created a hacker version that I’m using to send requests. So we’ve moved a little closer. Now I’m getting “unrecognized request” messages in GRestore mode instead of request not founds.

Recovery mode. Achieved both by hand and by software. The old restore commands do not work. iTouch uses a new restore protocol. Instead of pushing data from iTunes, the iTouch pulls data via request. It used to be that iTunes sent a request, and the iPhone returned results. Now iTunes starts a restore mode and waits for requests from the iTouch and serves the requested data.

RAM disk decryption. Not yet. No luck yet on finding the key, which may be getting served from Apple.

GRestore. Partial success.

Shell mode. Maybe.

File read/write from disk. Achieved. Pretty much all the normal inside-jail stuff works.

File system mount. Not there yet.

Normal mode debug access working

Recovery mode. Achieved both by hand and by software. The old restore commands do not work. iTouch uses a new restore protocol. Instead of pushing data from iTunes, the iTouch pulls data via request. It used to be that iTunes sent a request, and the iPhone returned results. Now iTunes starts a restore mode and waits for requests from the iTouch and serves the requested data.