Unable to synchronize the iPhone on Debian/Ubuntu

[alexarnaud]

Dear all,

I'm a blind users of the iPhone 5S with iOS 9.3 and I'm trying to synchronize musics, videos and photos on my GNU/Linux box. The iPhone is correctly detected but I cannot open it with caja. If I take only photo I can access to the phone storage (photo). The phone mounted with the gphoto protocol only, so it is not detected by Banshee or Rhythmbox. FYI, I have no music on the device.

How can I transfer musics, photos and videos? Do I have missed something ?

Environment :

• Debian Sid unstable / Ubuntu 16.04
• libimobiledevice 1.2.0 and tested from master

I obtain this error message in syslog, I don't know if it's important or not : "usbmuxd[4552]: [01:12:21.008][1] config_get_device_record: failed to read '/var/lib/lockdown/3907505e067475e769d903af0848e8f220755685.plist': No such file or directory"

Best regards.

[mexmer]

you need to pair device first to create pair record (which is stored in aforementioned .plist file after succesfull pairing)

[alexarnaud]

Le 20/07/2016 à 15:56, Josef Micka a écrit :

you need to pair device first to create pair record (which is stored in aforementioned .plist file after succesfull pairing)

So if I understand correctly, if I pair the device with a Windows machine, after that I will be able to sync with Rhytmbox or shotwell in bidirectional sync (from phone to computer or computer to phone) ?

Best regards.

Alex ARNAUD

[mexmer]

no you need to use idevicepair to pair it on ubuntu, then you can try sync, idk how rhythmbox works, and idk what you trying to sync.

[nikias]

Music sync doesn't work anymore. Apple changed the media sync process alot along time ago and there is currently no working implementation available.

[alexarnaud]

@nikias : do you know if the new protocol is documented somewhere ?

Best regards.

[nikias]

@alexarnaud unfortunately not, it also involves a proprietary hashing/crypto operation that is required to actually make the device accept the commands.

[alexarnaud]

Le 09/06/2017 à 14:28, Nikias Bassen a écrit :

@alexarnaud https://github.com/alexarnaud unfortunately not, it also involves a proprietary hashing/crypto operation that is required to actually make the device accept the commands.

So If I understand well there are no solutions to figure out this issue expect to try a reverse engineering ? What is your solution to synchronize your music from an iPhone from GNU/Linux ?

Best regards.

-- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

[alexarnaud]

@nikias Do you know if there are progresses on this since 2017?

Best regards.

[cyrialize]

Is it possible to sync music? This article implies that there is: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/howto/sync-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-in-ubuntu/.

I've gotten idevice pair to pair with my iphone and ideviceinfo shows my iphone. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get it to appear on Rhythmbox.

[Filbuntu]

Probably not: https://libimobiledevice.org/#faq Or did anyone find a solution?

[nikias]

No, this is only working with really old iOS versions.

[Filbuntu]

Thank you for the quick reply! It is a pity it does not work 😒, hopefully there will be again a workaround in the future!

[nikias]

I haven't looked into it recently nor in the past 5 years as you can tell from the above comments. It is possible, but there are some technical hurdles involved that require some reversing around that proprietary hashing, and I have not enough spare time to look into it...

[Filbuntu]

I understand that your time is limited. Maybe somebody else has the skills and likes a challenge 😊.