Re: [Bug-gnupod] Does GnuPod work with the 3G iPhone?

[H. Langos]

Hi David,


Check out http://bluwiki.com/go/Ipodhash


> With iPhone firmware upgrade 2.0, (or iPod touch 2.0 or iPhone 3G), 
> Apple changed the hashing scheme. And here we are to reverse it
> yet again.


Apple does it again ... :-(

cheers
-henrik


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:34:56AM -0700, David Wake wrote:
> I have a 3G iPhone with 2.0.1 firmware.  I wasn't sure whether GnuPod
> would work with this device.  I'd always liked using GnuPod with my
> old iPod 2nd generation iPod Nano, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
> 
> I installed OpenSSH on the iPhone, as described at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone.  The
> iphone-mount and iphone-umount scripts work fine.  I can SSH into my
> iPhone with no problems.
> 
> I then tried to run gnupod the way it always used to work on my iPod:
> > gnupod_INIT.pl
> > gnupod_addsong.pl mysong.mp3
> > mktunes.pl
> 
> The commands appeared to run fine.
> 
> I then pressed the "iPod" button on my iPhone, hoping to see
> "mysong.mp3" available.  Instead I saw a depressing notice saying "No
> Music: You can download music from iTunes".  I've now gotten pretty
> familiar with this screen.
> 
> I tried rebooting the iPhone and going to the iPod application again.
> No luck.
> 
> I then found about the FirewireGUID issue.  Using the method described
> at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone#Retrieving%20and%20setting%20the%20Firewire%20GUID%20(FirewireGuid),
> I wrote the GUID to /var/mobile/Media/iPod_Control/SysInfo.  This file now
> looks like this:
> 
>   FirewireGuid: 0x0987654309876543
> 
> I rebooted my iPhone, reran everything, rebooted again.  But still no
> music.
> 
> I also tried running mktunes.pl with the "-g" flag to specify the GUID
> manually:
> 
> > mktunes.pl -g 0x0987654309876543
> 
> rebooted the iPhone, etc. etc.  Still nothing.
> 
> At this point I'm pretty much out of ideas.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions?  Is GnuPod known to work with the iPhone 3G?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> 
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