Syncing iPhone 2+ firmware with Linux!
February 11th, 2009
Ever since Apple so kindly updated the iTunes database encryption key with the v2 firmware it’s been impossible to sync an iPhone with anything other than iTunes.
Yesterday I found a site describing an extremely simple hack that appears to re-enable syncing to older software simply by tricking the iPhone into reporting it’s still running an old database version. I’ve done it on mine (fw 2.2) and it appears to work brilliantly, I can now synch with gtkPod or Amarok in Ubuntu, and if I (have to) boot back into XP iTunes doesn’t seem to complain and I can still do backups and AppStore sync’s as normal.
Using Amarok and other iTunesDB compatible software with the iPhone 2.x @ Abort,Retry,Hack
Excellent, f**k you Apple (again)!
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