iPhone 4 and usbmuxd, no go!?

Knaprigt · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject: iPhone 4 and usbmuxd, no go!?

Recently got my hands on a iPhone 4 (not jailbroken) and thought I'd get it connected to my Gentoo system.
So, I've recompiled my kernel including the "Apple iPhone USB Ethernet driver", emerged usbmuxd and libimobiledevice, but usbmuxd doesn't seem to like my new phone.

According to lsusb The device is detected when plugged in:

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

As far as I know it's not possible to communicate with a non-jailbroken iPhone in Linux, due to the encryption scheme used. All other iPod related devices will work, but not the iPhone.

Knaprigt · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:13 am Post subject:

spectre5 · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 10

Are you able to copy music on your iPhone?
To which version of udev/hal did you upgrade?

tel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 112

Knaprigt, I'd love to see a HOWTO on this topic.

Do you have any time to post a step-by-step procedure?

lyallp · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:23 am Post subject:

I also would like to see a howto on this, also, some indicator as to what you can actually do, such as load music, etc.
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altools · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Posts: 1

I saw this post while looking around on the internet having similar issues on ubuntu and thought I would post somethings that might help.

To be clear about what I was doing, I'm just trying to interface an un-jailbroken iphone 4 running 4.3.5, I'm working with libimobiledevice, usbmuxd, libusb.

The main problem that I was running into after installing libimobiledevice was that my iphone wasn't registering with libusb when I plugged it in, it was having a permissions issue and after reading around I looked at adding a rule in udev that would set the iphone's permissions when it was plugged in to global access.

This is the forum post that I read about that pointed me in the direction of adding a udev rule for my iphone
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=901891

with my rule looking like
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0dca" , SYSFS{idProduct}=="0027", MODE="0666"

I set the idVendor and idProduct to my iphone's vendor and product by typing 'lsusb' with my iphone plugged in and looking for anything that read out Apple and then unplugging and typing 'lsusb' and matching for what wasn't there

I then went around my file system looking in /etc/udev/ and poking around through the rules looking around to find out if there would be any conflicting rules and reading the READMEs in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and then went poking around to look at what I had in /lib/udev/ and /udev/rules.d/

Then I created a new udev rule for my iphone to set its permissions upon mount atleast to my understanding... and after doing so it looks like my libusb problems are all fixed up and here's the steps to follow this.

lsusb will give the list of my usb devices plugged in which I just unplug my iphone and re-type lsusb to locate the iphone

~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05ac:8205 Apple, Inc. Bluetooth HCI
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 05ac:8240 Apple, Inc. IR Receiver [built-in]
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05ac:021a Apple, Inc. Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ANSI)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 05ac:1297 Apple, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

then I created a new udev rule and named it 71-iphone-permissions.rule... incrementing the number based on the rules already in the directory

sudo pico /etc/udev/rules.d/71-iphone-permissions.rule

typed this into the file, using the device ID info from lsusb at the idvendor and idproduct

# USB device my apple iphone hopefully this sets any permissions that loads
# with the device when plugged in to globally accessible to libs apps

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac" , SYSFS{idProduct}=="1297", MODE="0666"

anyways, usbmuxd is still causing some problems at the moment but that'll be on the next to do list when I have time

Proksima · n00b Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 40

I have struggled with this issue of bringing my iphone to work on gentoo and quite surprisingly, the answer was really simple.

In kernel make sure you have support for HFS (I think it is written this way) the native filesystem of apple. I'm not sure if it is necessary but I have also the Macintosh partitioning scheme support in kernel.

And, the best step: