Comments on: iPhone syncing on Linux

By: Jerrod

Jerrod — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:01:27 +0000

Great stuff. marcansoft.com rocks.

By: jmchastain77

jmchastain77 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:26:39 +0000

I am new Linux, and have been trying to sync my Iphone since last year with Linux. I found this post – http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ipod-touch-3g-sync-over-usb-without-jailbraking-in-ubuntu-karmic.html and it worked the very first time. Good Luck.

By: faxm0dem.myopenid.com/

faxm0dem.myopenid.com/ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:36:03 +0000

marcan> Is this using SSH or AFC, and which way are you transferring the data?

I just did a simple test using ssh and cat:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M | ssh localhost -p2222 ‘cat >/dev/null’

By: marcan

marcan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:47:53 +0000

That sounds serious. Please tar up the iTunes directory and either e-mail it to me or upload it somewhere where I can get it. Also, it would be good if you could report the result of running tests/test-rebuild-db on the mountpoint, including all debug output, and whether that fixes the problem on the iPod/iPhone or it’s still broken. Also, let me know exactly what device/firmware you have and what Git revision of the repo you used.

By: rezoant.wordpress.com/

rezoant.wordpress.com/ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:22:46 +0000

Yes perhaps I am spamming your post but it’s for the good of mankind, friend. I tried some more realistic library editing (at first I just added a song, this time I was fixing broken id3 tags) and the sync appeared to go fine, but it appears the stack has corrupted the database (or something) as the Music app just hangs (at first it sat at Updating Library for a loooong time, after a huge wait I rebooted the iPod) now it shows the artists pane, lets me flick around for about 4 seconds before freezing. I would venture a guess that it has a lot to do with the database schema update.

By: r3v0ss

r3v0ss — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:16:40 +0000

First of all, great work. On firmware 2.2.1. I loved syncing my music under Ubuntu. As from firmware 3.0, I’ve had to go back to Windows, using iTunes. This is a step in the right direction towards bringing the iPhone back where it belongs.

Second, I had to use ‘./configure –prefix=/usr’ to configure libusb-1.0.3. Otherwise files couldn’t be found. Now, it shows up in my syslog.

By: 3aTi3

3aTi3 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:27:57 +0000

Hi, i also installed this on karmic (from repo), i am able to mount the root filesystem, but it says i have only 166 mb-s free, so i cant copy a big file to the device.

anyone else experiencing this? (i want to copy to /var/mobile/Library/Downloads)
thanks for your efforts anyway!

By: spailler

spailler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:18:28 +0000

It works for me (Ubuntu 9.10, iPhone V1 OS3.0 & iPhone 3GS OS3.1). Any ideas to make it mount automatically ?
Thanks for the great job ! Hope your will succeed with libgpod !

By: marcan

marcan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:40 +0000

@faxm0dem
Is this using SSH or AFC, and which way are you transferring the data?

@eugenevdm
The best way to donate would be to just help test everything and report bugs!

By: eugenevdm

eugenevdm — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:33:21 +0000

Wow finally someone who has taken on something that Apple apparently chooses to ignore.

I support this project wholeheartedly and would like to make a financial contribution (just a small donation). How do I go about doing that?