Ubuntu – Mounting iPad (iOS 8) on Ubuntu 14.04 disaster

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So I have an iPad with iOS 8 installed and I wanted to connect it to my computer to transfer some music. Here's what happened (in excruciating detail):

I connected the iPad and tried to open it as a device with Clementine; gave me Unhandled Lockdown Error
I proceeded to install a bunch of packages around libimobiledevice (including libimobiledevice-utils, ifuse, some stuff these packages seemed to depend on)
Then I noticed that the iPad is asking whether or not to trust the computer and when I clicked yes, it connected (yay me); for some reason it wouldn't take the songs I tried to upload
I connected it again and it mounted twice as an iPad (giving an error for trying to mount the same device twice) and once as an iPhone (giving an unhandled lockdown error again); bonus points because the whole computer just froze when I tried to open the iPad in the file browser and I had to force-restart it
I went through the apt history log file and deleted as many of the packages I installed as possible (thinking they were conflicting in some way)
Still when I connect the iPad, I get two iPads and an iPhone, and to make me even happier, it freezes to the point of force-restart

Best Answer

You can share files to iPad via WiFi through an ipad app that handles the SMB protocol. I used FileBrowser app available in the App Store and works for me. I had the same problem so far is the only way I've found.

Using the terminal and gedit

First find the ID for your device from a terminal using lsusb when your device is connected (eg 0951:1692). Also you should to find what is the name of your device with lsblk. Let say the name is /dev/sdb1.

Create a new script, let say unmount.sh in /lib/udev with sudo -H gedit /lib/udev/unmount.sh and put next lines inside:

#!/bin/bash

udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1
udisks --detach /dev/sdb

Save the file, close it and make it executable with:

chmod +x /lib/udev/unmount.sh

Now, you must to make a new rule file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with sudo -H gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/100-unmount-iphone.rulesand put a new rule in there like this:

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0951", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1692", RUN+="/lib/udev/unmount.sh"

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To reload udev rules without restart, use next command:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

Using Cuttlefish

Or, another way is to install and use Cuttlefish Install comixcursors-lefthanded - a simple tool that realises reflexes on your computer.

Ubuntu – Mounting an iPad Documents folder in 15.04

Update: This now has a GUI, check it out here.

This worked for iOS 8.3 device:

1) According to this it needs new ifuse install that matches libimobiledevide. According to this the --documents command was added in 1.1.3 and the version in Ubuntu is 1.1.2. So, I downloaded the ifuse-1.1.3.tar.bz2 from the site.

2) Install fuse library or configure will complain: sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev build-essential

3) Run ./configure in the unzipped folder, then make and make install as described in the readme file.

4) Verify it upgraded by running ifuse --version (1.1.3)

5) Add yourself to fuse users:

sudo modprobe fuse
sudo adduser $USER fuse

and log out, log back in.

---- (The GUI linked above will run the steps below, much easier) ----

6) Create a folder to mount an app's documents, say, mkdir /tmp/vlctest/

7) To connect to the VLC app for example, run ifuse --documents org.videolan.vlc-ios /tmp/vlctest/

8) When done, unmount with fusermount -u /tmp/vlctest

Unfortunately the ideviceinstaller isn't compiling for me, even with libzip-dev installed. It apparently hasn't been updated for recent libimobiledevice in a loong time.

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