How to sync your iphone 3g on linux (not wirelessly)
August 17th, 2008 Eric
Recently I bought an iPhone 3g. I was under the impression that I could wireless sync it over ssh in linux, turns out it Apple changed the hash they use to encrypt the data, this means ipod-convenience doesn’t work for the iphone 3g. You will sync your music, amarok, or rhythmbox or gtkpod will see it, will copy over, but when you load your iPod on your 3g it says there is no music. Tutorials say this is because the GUID is wrong. I have created the proper GUID several times, each time I had to restore my iphone to see the music. On a side note, the directory ipod-convenience makes “Device/SysInfo” doesn’t exist on the 3g until you install ipod-convenience. Anyway that aside, be warned if you try this way of syncing with linux, it won’t work. You will corrupt your database.
VMware Work Station 6.5b < -- Beta
(Note the player, which can come seperatly also works.)
Download the software. You will download the beta version, which is basically a 300+ mb shell script. Registration is required.
chmod +x “vmware-package-you-downloaded.bundle”
then
sudo ./vmware-package-you-downloaded.bundle
or
su -c ./vmware-package-you-downloaded.bundle
It will walk you through the rest, *note* that you will have to enter a trial key if you get the workstation. I don’t think it expires with beta, but I could be wrong. The trial key will be at the top of the download page.
After it installs, go to the menu Help –> Enter serial number.
Now install your Setup the paramaters on your Windows VM, insert the disk, or choose your image, and setup windows, download iTunes, install it. Then plug in your iPhone. I’m syncing mine at the moment, and it seems to be working beautifully.
Hopefully iFuse will be finished soon, or the libgpod team will figure out what the new hashes are, so we don’t have to use windows to do this.
- Update - Although you can sync your contacts, music, videos, podcasts, and apps. If you need to restore your iPhone, it won’t work, because it has to disconnect your iphone, and even if it automatically reconnects for some reason it won’t work, it will fail.
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