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