access pictures on my meschiphone over usb

hi folks!

i have had a little bit of time today, so i was experimenting with my iphone. i wanted to gain access to the pictures on it without jailbraking [1]. and, clear and brief, it works! here are the necessary steps [2,3] on a ubuntu system …

  • install libplist [4]
      
      getting the sources:
        git clone git://github.com/JonathanBeck/libplist.git
      
      installing necessary packages (on ubuntu/debian systems):
        apt-get install build-essential cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev \
                        python-dev swig
      
      to compile run:
        mkdir build
        cd build
        cmake ..
        make && make install
      
      linking the libplist:
        cd /usr/lib
        ln -s /usr/local/lib/libplist.so.0.0.10 .
        ln -s libplist.so.0.0.10 libplist.so.0
        ln -s libplist.so.0 libplist.so
      
  • install libiphone (first the old one [3], and then the new one [2,5])
      
      getting the sources of the old version (necessary for libiphone-initconf):
        git clone http://git.matt.colyer.name/2008/libiphone/
      
      installing necessary packages (on ubuntu/debian systems):
        apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool libgnutls-dev \
                        libusb-dev libfuse-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev \
                        libreadline5-dev
      
      to compile run:
        ./autogen.sh
        ./configure
        make && make install
      
      and now everything again with the new version (its the simpliest way):
        git clone git://github.com/MattColyer/libiphone.git
  • install ifuse [6]
      
      getting the sources:
        git clone git://github.com/MattColyer/ifuse.git
      
      installing necessary packages (on ubuntu/debian systems):
        apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf \
                        libfuse-dev libglib2.0-dev
      
      to compile run:
        ./autogen.sh
        ./configure
        make && make install
  • start libiphone-initconf [2,3]
      
      run their utility to generate keys for iphone communication as the user
      you want to connect later:
        libiphone-initconf
  • mount the iphone [2,3]
      
      mount the iphone’s root filesystem including the media partition:
        mount.fuse.ifuse -afc2 none /media/iPhone
      
      or mount the iphone’s media partition only:
        mount.fuse.ifuse none /media/iPhone

if you want it in a automatic way, do the following:

  • edit /etc/fstab
      
      add following line:
        none /media/iPhone fuse.mount.fuse.ifuse rw,nosuid,nodev,afc2,allow_other 0 0
  • edit /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/10-iphone.fdi
      
      write those lines into the file:
      
      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
      <deviceinfo version="0.2">
        <device> 
          <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="05ac">
            <match key="usb.product_id" int="1292">
              <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
            </match>
          </match>
        </device>
      </deviceinfo>

after those steps its very easy: plugin the usb-cable and for example nautilus will show you a “Apple, Inc. iPhone” device. if you want to see all the information i used to setup everything right, here are some links:

[1] ifuse main page
[2] easy installing
[3] older references
[4] github libplist
[5] github libiphone
[6] github ifuse

1 thought on “access pictures on my meschiphone over usb

  1. Yourtime

    Um Zugriff auf die Bilder zu haben ohne jailbreak brauchst du reintheroetisch nur iPhoto oder das iPhone nur anstecken. Danach glaubt( sofern windows) es sei eine Kamera und versucht dir die Bilder zu geben, die geschossen wurden.

    mfg Yourtime

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