Comments on Geek with an attitude: Hacking the iPod Touch / iPhone - Part 3

Excellent guide. I am now motivated to do it mysel...

2011-06-26T08:55:32.785+05:30

Excellent guide. I am now motivated to do it myself. Will bookmark you and check back.

Thanks for the guide. I'm still not sure wheth...

2011-01-05T20:42:58.236+05:30

Thanks for the guide. I'm still not sure whether I want to hack my iPhone or not. Does it have any obvious drawbacks?

Thanks

Jake

I am almost there but the only choices for devices...

2008-10-26T18:45:00.000+05:30

I am almost there but the only choices for devices I have in GTKPod for Touch are Read Only and I get a null error on the selection of the 8GB (Black) Model A623. Mine is the iTouch Model A1213 and is nowhere in the list.

Plus when I connect the thing, my OpenSuSE 11 thinks its a camera device and only lists DigiKam or Gwenview. Yours and Dave's instructions together seemed to get the directory structure created. And I can view the SysInfo change when I run the FireWireGuid command using different IDs, but I cannot make it connect and talk.

Any thoughts? I am not above connecting it to Windows and formatting, if that will help. I was able to use my wife's Windows box to put stuff in it as she has an identical unit, but I am determined to use it with Linux, if there's any way.

Thanks again, you are good.

Or save yourself a lot of time and shun Apple prod...

2008-07-26T01:23:00.000+05:30

Or save yourself a lot of time and shun Apple products for the incompatible garbage that they are.

First thanks a million - you're the first to lay o...

2008-07-05T18:13:00.000+05:30

First thanks a million - you're the first to lay out the steps in a clean and WORKING way! I owe you!

But I found just a minor tweak in your instructions that was required for my case: sshfs wouldn't mount to "IP#:Media" so I had to qualify with the path on the iTouch as "IP#:/var/mobile/Media"

Took me a while to find where Apple hid that squirrel nut! (hahaha)

Everything worked well after that - if you know why "Media" wouldn't work I'd love to know. Thanks again!

For others out there: This fine gentleman has produced the first guide that actually WORKED for me! I'm using openSuSE 11, thinkpad T61, and iPod iTouch 16gb. All of the extra little programs you need to pull this off are available in the SuSE package manager provided you add PackMan to your repositories.

FYI SuSE 10.3 was a disaster - don't waste your time until you upgrade to the brand new release 11 !!! Shiny!!

2008-07-05T18:00:00.000+05:30

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Strange. What distro/kernel (uname -r) are you on?...

2008-03-18T12:19:00.000+05:30

Strange. What distro/kernel (uname -r) are you on?

Are you trying the command as root? See if you get anything for lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial

I can't seem to get my iPod recognized by lsusb, s...

2008-03-18T04:02:00.000+05:30

I can't seem to get my iPod recognized by lsusb, so I can't get the FirewireGUID (resulting in a corrupt database).

Helppp?

Many thanks for this guide!

Worked like a c...

2008-01-12T23:59:00.000+05:30

Many thanks for this guide!

Worked like a charm. A few minor tweaks were needed, so I thought I'd share in case other people are confused.

The line starting PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home//local/lib/pkgconfig is missing a 'user' bit for people to fill in between the double forward slashes.

And the line:

lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial | head -n 1 | sed -e "s/.\+3[ ]//"|cut -c1-16

Didn't work for me as the GUID wasn't in the first line matching the grep. This might work in more cases:

lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial | egrep '[a-f0-9]{16}' | head -n 1 | sed -e "s/.\+3[ ]//"|cut -c1-16

Thanks again.

I think you mean SFTP and not FTP. Yeah thats ok t...

2008-01-09T13:24:00.000+05:30

I think you mean SFTP and not FTP. Yeah thats ok to transfer files but wont work with tools like GTKPod which expects a local file system. So you need to mount over sshfs or samba.

Great Article. But i found an easier way to connec...

2008-01-09T07:30:00.000+05:30

Great Article. But i found an easier way to connect to your ipod with necessarily installing the SSH server on the iPod. Using any FTP client, just simply go to the address of your iPod with the username: root and pwd:alpine and now you can manage your iPod like an online FTP server.