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iPhone 3.x Sync’ed in Linux (Full Gentoo Guide)

Published on January 9, 2010 in GTKPod, Gentoo, Media and iPhone. 0 Comments

Okay, so This is the third (and hopefully final) walkthrough for getting your iPhone to sync with Gentoo and now I am incorporating file transfer and music management. The process is actually very simple, but you should make sure to follow all of the steps. I encountered some problems along the way as well; I received an error from one of the commands that used in other walkthroughs “Couldn’t read xml sysinfo from uuid.” I simply fixed it by “READING” all of the steps properly and everything worked, so if you don’t read, you won’t get it!

Even though I have thanked him once before, thanks again to Marcan and his blog. His hard work has made this possible. I recommend reading his walkthrough to get a better understanding of everything. This walkthrough is a similar walkthrough to his, but targets Gentoo. As stated in all other walkthroughs, you do not need to jailbreak your phone, but I recommend it, makes everything easier. I nor any developer or provider is responsible for any damages that you cause by following our walkthroughs, so, if you brick, it is on you. Lastly, your iPhone should have already been plugged into iTunes and received a song at least once.

The way I did it might not be the way it SHOULD be done, but it did work. If you know of a better way, please bring it to light.

First, you will need the Rion overlay like I wrote in earlier posts.

# emerge -va layman
# layman -a rion
# layman -S
# echo `PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/rion"` >> /etc/make.conf
# env-update
# eix-update

Next, you will need to emerge a few needed packages. I found that the libgpod package in portage isn’t going to work, so will have to manually install that one from the sourceforge project page. In the mean time, I will try writing an ebuild for it so that it can be emerged. (I emerged it, an then built new one over it) Additionally, the versions that you have will also matter, but the 9999 versions mostly don’t work yet, so a couple of entries into your package.keywords and package.use will be necessary. Also, before emerging any of this, I would recommend adding “ipod” you your USE flags in your /etc/make.conf file.

# echo "dev-libs/libusb debug doc" >> /etc/portage/package.use
# echo "media-libs/libgpod gtk hal python test" >> /etc/portage/package.use
# echo "dev-util/gtk-doc debug doc" >> /etc/portage/package.use

# echo "=app-pda/libplist-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "=app-pda/libiphone-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "=app-pda/ifuse-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "dev-libs/libusb **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/ifuse **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/libplist **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/libiphone **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/usbmuxd **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

# emerge -va libusb libiphone ifuse libplist usbmuxd libgpod gtk-doc gtkpod dev-util/git

Next, you will need to build the custom version of libgpod. If everything is built right on your system, then you should be fine, but if you get any errors, of course you will need to fix them before you continue. You will need git in order to obtain this build from the sourceforge repository. Find a nice location on your drive, and as root, execute the following.

# git clone git://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/gtkpod/libgpod
# cd libgpod
# CFLAGS="-g -O0" sh autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
# make
# make install

Now, we have start testing everything out. We need to make sure that your phone is fully connected once you plug it in, and we need to make sure that usbmuxd is detecting your phone. We have to create the usbmux user so that usbmuxd will work properly. You will have to make sure that this user has access to usb and plugdev. I added wheel too, but it isn’t necessary.

# useradd -G usb,plugdev,wheel -s /bin/bash usbmux

Once everything is emerged successfully, you need to test out and make sure that your iphone is being registered when it connects. First you will have to modify the udev rules so that you can see the output. Increase the syslog debug level by editing “/lib/udev/rules.d/85-usbmuxd.rules” and adding “-v -v” flags to the end of both RUN statements. Now you can run the following and see if usbmuxd is seeing your iphone.

Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.359653] hub 2-0:1.0: state 7 ports 6 chg 0000 evt 0004
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.359663] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: GetStatus port 2 status 001403 POWER sig=k CSC CONNECT
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.359670] hub 2-0:1.0: port 2, status 0501, change 0001, 480 Mb/s
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.385242] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: GetStatus port 2 status 001002 POWER sig=se0 CSC
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.463060] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: GetStatus port 2 status 001803 POWER sig=j CSC CONNECT
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.567304] hub 2-0:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 200ms stable 100ms status 0x501
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.618227] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 2 high speed
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.618232] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: GetStatus port 2 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.669065] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.720353] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: port 2 high speed
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.720358] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: GetStatus port 2 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.785527] usb 2-2: skipped 3 descriptors after interface
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.785530] usb 2-2: skipped 2 descriptors after interface
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.785533] usb 2-2: skipped 1 descriptor after endpoint
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.785535] usb 2-2: skipped 1 descriptor after interface
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.788140] usb 2-2: default language 0x0409
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789388] usb 2-2: udev 14, busnum 2, minor = 141
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789391] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1292
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789393] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789395] usb 2-2: Product: iPhone
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789397] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789399] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 69a4294a91a56958927f3fafe0086bf90ccd2d2b
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789469] usb 2-2: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789486] usb 2-2: usb_probe_device
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.789489] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 4 choices
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791263] usb 2-2: adding 2-2:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791282] usb 2-2:1.0: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791351] drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '014'
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791371] hub 2-0:1.0: state 7 ports 6 chg 0000 evt 0004
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791385] usb 2-2: usb_disable_device nuking non-ep0 URBs
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791388] usb 2-2: unregistering interface 2-2:1.0
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.791434] usb 2-2:1.0: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.793892] usb 2-2: adding 2-2:4.0 (config #4, interface 0)
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.793929] usb 2-2:4.0: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.793989] usb 2-2: adding 2-2:4.1 (config #4, interface 1)
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.794005] usb 2-2:4.1: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.794035] usb 2-2: adding 2-2:4.2 (config #4, interface 2)
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.794053] usb 2-2:4.2: uevent
Jan  9 12:43:24 ghost kernel: [139025.811303] usb 2-2: uevent

Now it is time to mount the device, create some required folders, and get your UUID. Since you now have ifuse, you can easily mount your device, but in order to do this, it is required to be in a specific location. Additionally, if you want your users (not root) to also have ifuse privileges, you will need to edit the config files to do that.

# echo "user_allow_other" >> /etc/fuse.conf
# mkdir /mnt/ipod
# chmod 777 /mnt/ipod
# ifuse /mnt/ipod
# mkdir /mnt/ipod/iTunes_Control/Device

Now obtain your UUID either from the logs, or by running…

# lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial

Your UUID is a long hexadecimal string that is roughly 40 characters long. In the longs above, mine is 69a4294a91a56958927f3fafe0086bf90ccd2d2b. Now, lets generate the XML file for your phone, simply run…

ipod-read-sysinfo-extended YOUR_UUID /mnt/ipod

This will create the file iTunes_Control/Device/SysInfoExtended file. Make sure there is stuff in it, and it is not empty. It should be a large XML file with a bunch of info.

If there were no errors, then you are good to go. You can now sync up with linux and transfer music. In the future, when you plug your device in, you simply need to run…

$ ifuse /mnt/ipod

I have been using GTKPod to transfer my music over to the device, however, it should work with other applications like RhythmBox or Amarok. I haven’t tried them out yet, but I would be interested to see if anyone gets that working.

gtkpod gtkpod-xfer-status

iPhone 3G(s) 3.1.2 Sync’ed in Gentoo

Published on December 13, 2009 in Amarok, Gentoo, Jailbreak, Media, Rhythmbox and iPhone. 0 Comments

Yep, that’s right.  Sync’ed, finally.  It took a little work, and thanks to Marcan and his team of helpers, this can finally be done. The following guide is for gentoo users, but can be tailored to work for any linux OS. I successfully got Rhythmbox and Amarok to play all of the music from my iPhone.

Step 1: First, you need add the Rion overlay from layman.

# emerge -va layman
# layman -a rion
# layman -S
# echo `PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/rion"` >> /etc/make.conf
# env-update
# eix-update

(if you have a PORTDIR_OVERLAY line already, then just add it manually with your favorite editor)

Step 2: You will need to emerge a couple of packages, if you have them installed, it is best to remove them first, then emerge the new ones.

# emerge -C libusb usbmuxd libplist libiphone ifuse

You will need the following packages in order for this to work right. Note that the version DOES matter. If you have older versions, they need to go, but same or later versions are good.

  • 1. dev-libs/libusb-1.0.5
  • virtual/libusb-1
  • 2. app-pda/ifuse-0.9.4
  • 3. app-pda/libplist-0.16
  • 4. app-pda/libiphone-0.9.4
  • 5. app-pda/usbmuxd-1.0.0_rc2

The 9999 packages of any of these really didn’t work for me, so I suggest masking them out.

# echo "=app-pda/libplist-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "=app-pda/libiphone-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "=app-pda/ifuse-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# echo "dev-libs/libusb **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/ifuse **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/libplist **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/libiphone **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# echo "app-pda/usbmuxd **" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -va libusb libiphone ifuse libplist usbmuxd libgpod

Additionally, I would make sure that amarok and/or rhythmbox are built with ipod support (USE=”ipod”). Just add the ‘ipod’ use flag to your USE line in /etc/make.conf.

Now, we have to create the usbmux user so that usbmuxd will work properly. You will have to make sure that this user has access to usb and plugdev. I added wheel too, but it isn’t necessary.

# useradd -G usb,plugdev,wheel -s /bin/bash usbmux

Once everything is emerged successfully, you need to test out and make sure that your iphone is being registered when it connects. First you will have to modify the udev rules so that you can see the output. Increase the syslog debug level by editing “/lib/udev/rules.d/85-usbmuxd.rules” and adding “-v -v” flags to the end of both RUN statements. Now you can run the following and see if usbmuxd is seeing your iphone.

# tail -f /var/log/messages
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899021] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1292
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899024] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899026] usb 2-4: Product: iPhone
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899028] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899030] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 69a4294a91a56958927f3fafe0086bf90ccd2d2b
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899134] usb 2-4: usb_probe_device
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.899137] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 4 choices
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.900385] usb 2-4: adding 2-4:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.900413] usb 2-4:1.0: uevent
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.900485] drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '012'
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.900505] hub 2-0:1.0: state 7 ports 6 chg 0000 evt 0010
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.905696] usb 2-4: usb_disable_device nuking non-ep0 URBs
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.905701] usb 2-4: unregistering interface 2-4:1.0
Dec 12 11:39:27 ghost kernel: [450381.905782] usb 2-4:1.0: uevent

If you are seeing your phone come up, then everything was done right. The last thing to do is mount the phone. simply use ifuse, and mount it to a specified mount point.

# ifuse /mnt/to/location

Again, you can now browse the entire filing system, and when you import the music, it should convert so that it isn’t in the hashed/encrypted form. Rhythmbox even got the album art.

I am working on how to copy music to the iphone now, so if anyone got that down, please let me know.

iPhone 3.x Firmware and Amarok ?!?

Published on November 12, 2009 in Amarok, Jailbreak, Media and iPhone. 0 Comments

There might be hope…

http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/10/iphone-syncing-on-linux/

It seems as if there is a project underway to help us linux users get the best out of our iPhones!

Xbox 360 Media UPnP Server with uShare

Published on August 27, 2009 in Media and Xbox 360. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

After a little work, I finally got my Xbox 360 to connect with my computer using uShare. uShare allows you to share music, movies and pictures to your Xbox via UPnP. For Gentoo/Funtoo users out there, it is a bit of a pain to get working. First, it isn’t in Gentoo’s official Portage, so you have to get the overlay, and add… for Funtoo users though, the version listed in Portage has problems with the init scripts, so it is better to get the Overlay anyway.

Overlay: http://bugs.gentoo.org/192561

Next, the config files; if you had an old version of uShare, ditch it, and all of it’s config files(/etc/ushare.conf).  I used the following config for /etc/conf.d/ushare … and make sure that you add ‘-c’ in front of the directories you plan on sharing, or uShare wont start up, and wont give you any proper error readout.

# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

# User to run ushare daemon (if none, root will be used)
USHARE_USER=""

# UPNP Friendly Name:
USHARE_NAME="reaper"

# The interface to bind to:
USHARE_IFACE="eth0"

# A List of directories to share, each precieded by '-c':
USHARE_DIRS="-c /home/roberts/media"

# Misc. options, like:
#  -p $port        Use specific port to listen ($port)
#  -x, --xbox        Use XboX 360 compliant profile
#  -d, --dlna        Use DLNA compliant profile (PlayStation3 needs this)
#  -w, --no-web        Disable the control web page (enabled by default)
#  -t, --no-telnet    Disable the telnet control (enabled by default)
USHARE_OPTS="-x -p 49152"

After this, you should be good. Start uShare with ‘/etc/init.d/ushare start’, point your browser to YOUR.IP:49152/web/ushare.html , and you can add more directories to share there.

Overall, the web interface is really bare and has no automatic refresh option, so every time you add files to the share directories, you have to restart the service, or click the refresh button on the web interface, however, it works. The only downfall is that it doesn’t perform transcoding, so you have to make sure you encode your videos in the right format. (I am working on that now, because I can see all of the directories, but the files are the “wrong format”)

Another tip, when trying to connect from the Xbox, make sure that you are in the “Video Library”, “Music Library”, or “Picture Library” and not in the Windows Media Center section. UPnP does not substitute WMC.

Ipod Touch Sync’ed to Amarok in Gentoo

Published on April 13, 2009 in Amarok, Media and iPhone. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , .

First, as always, I am not responsible for any damages done to your equipment, if you choose to jailbreak and modify your device, that is on you!!

Now, you will need to obtain a version of the 2.x firmware, and your device will need to be jailbroken. After you have jailbroken the device, you need to install ‘OpenSSH’ and ‘Mobile Terminal’ from Cydia or Installer. These allow the obvious, ssh access and a terminal on the device.

On your linux box, you will need Amarok 1.4.10 or before, sadly, Amarok 2.0 will not work yet. You will also need sshfs and fuse.

# echo "media-sound/amarok ipod" /etc/portage/package.use
# emerge sys-fs/fuse sshfs-fuse =media-sound/amarok-1.4.10-r2

Set a static ip address on the device to match your the network your linux box is on.

Now, ssh into the device, the root password is defaulted to alpine.

$ ssh root@192.168.1.110

Edit the /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the device, and add the following lines:

iTouch# nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

Next, you need to generate a ssh key for passwordless login into the device, and copy it to the device.

$ ssh-keygen
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@192.168.1.110

Now to make sure that your permissions are set right for passwordless login:

iTouch # cd ~
iTouch # cp .ssh/authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys2
iTouch # chmod 755 /var/root
iTouch # chmod 700 /var/root/.ssh
iTouch # chmod 644 /var/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
iTouch # reboot

After your device has rebooted, test your connection to make sure that you can log into your device without a password.

$ ssh root@192.168.1.110

If all is well, mount the device to your desired directory, or you can use ipod-touch-mount or iphone-mount in Ubuntu.

$ mkdir ~/itouch
$ sshfs root@192.168.1.110:/var/mobile/Media ~/itouch

Next, we have to get and set the Firewire GUID:

$ cd ~/itouch/iPod_Control/Device
$ su
# lsusb -v -d 05ac: | grep iSerial | awk '{print $3}' | cut -b1-16 | xargs printf "FirewireGuid: 0x%s\n" > SysInfo

Reboot the device. Now, before we can continue with syncing and adding music to the device, we have to modify the database version. This will allow libgpod to recognize and sync your device to Amarok. Sadly, I haven’t gotten this to work with RhythmBox or Exile.

We are going to log into the device, and edit the checkpoint.xml file…

$ ssh root@192.168.1.110
iTouch # nano /System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml

Search for the DBVersion Key, and change the value from 4 to 2.

iTouch # reboot

The last thing we have to do is add your device to Amarok so that it will populate your music and you can sync your device.

  • Launch Amarok, and go to Settings => Configure Amarok…
  • Click the ‘Media Devices’ botton at the bottom
  • Click ‘Add Device…’
  • Select ‘Apple iPod Media Device’
  • Name your Device
  • The mount point should be ‘/home/$USER/itouch’ (unless you are using ipod-touch-mount, then it is /media/ipod)
  • Click Ok, and your are all set. Once you are in Amarok, just go to the devices tab on the bottom left (printed sideways) and click the ‘Connect’ button on your device and your music will populate in that device window. You can drag and drop your music into that device from your Amarok music collection as well.