Iphone4S and Lubuntu Linux

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Iphone4S and Lubuntu Linux

Hello guys,

For just under a year I have an Iphone4s and sadly I obeyed the instructions that the **** device gave me and so I ended up with Ios7 something. I'm also running a laptop with Lubuntu Linux and I need to connect my phone to it.

-Just connecting doesn't work, I end up in the "trust this computer" loop bug and after a lot of searching (for like two months now!) I still can not find a way to get around that problem. Is there a trick to avoid this? I do not really want to jailbreak the phone and I'm also not sure if that would help.

-So I decided to try to roll back to IOS6.1.3. For this I hooked it up to my sisters Window$ PC, downloaded the 6.1.3 firmware and installed Itunes. Sadly enough that doesn't work because Itunes keeps giving error 3194 and the solution (edit the host file) which I found to avoid that does not work because it then gives error 3004. DFU mode didn't help either...

So at the moment I am stuck. We are in 2014 and still it is not possible to connect a bloody phone to a laptop? It feels like a bad joke. I'm just hoping that there is someone here that is actually able to tell me that it is possible to just use the phone with my laptop. I don't care if it is with older software or with a trick or whatever. But it just needs to work.

Like this the whole smartphone is unusable for me. I can make pictures but can not share them properly. I can't put music on it via my PC... I'm retty ****** off about it and I really regret deciding to go for an Apple last year. The reason I got this instead of an Android is because the menu's are more intuitive and because many people told me that apples do just work without problems. In the beginning I was happy to have choosen an Apple but if this are usual problems with apple devices then I will NEVER get an apple device again.

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jan 17, 2014 3:28 AM

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Answer 1

diesel vdub

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Jan 17, 2014 6:11 AM in response to open_it_up

Apple does not provide a way to rollback to a previous version of iOS on any iOS device.

Only Windows and OSX are supported OSes for iTunes.

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varjak paw

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Jan 17, 2014 7:06 AM in response to open_it_up

Apple has never supported any version of iTunes on Linux. If you have chosen to try to use Apple's products on an unsupported platform, then just as with any other product where you try to get it to work on an unsupported platform, you accept all responsibility for making it work along with the strong possibility that any workarounds or hacks that work with a given version of iTunes and its underlying components and drivers may fail when iTunes or the operating system is updated. If you want a product that is officially supported on Linux, then you will need to buy some other phone.

There's little if anything we can do to help you here. Perhaps you could find suggestions in a forum dedicated to your version of Linux.

Regadrs.

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open_it_up Author

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Jan 18, 2014 6:25 AM in response to varjak paw

Thanks for the replies to now.

The problem is not Itunes. There is an alternative for Itunes which in principle works fine with an ios 6 phone. Besides that, with ios6 you can just open the phone in file manager without problems.

However, somehow Apple blocked Linux completely in Ios 7. And there is where I end up with a problem that if I choose "trust this computer" on the phone, it just keeps giving the same message. I have googled a lot and found many people with that problem but I couldn't find if there is a way to tell the phone: "yes it's Linux but the computer is safe."

The drivers and everything else work for Ios 6, it's just that in Ios7 Linux is blocked completely, otherwise most likely it would have been working. And I'm just hoping that someone managed to get around that.

That a software rollback is not possible is a pity as well because that would have solved the problem.

Anyway, I'm thinking about getting me an Android phone, but with Android there are other things wrong if you ask me.

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KiltedTim

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Jan 18, 2014 6:30 AM in response to open_it_up

Apple did not "block" linux. You're using an unsupported operating system that hasn't kept up with whatever hacks they used to access the phone. Talk to the developers of the linux distro you're using. It's up to them to fix the problem, not Apple.

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open_it_up Author

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Jan 19, 2014 2:01 AM in response to KiltedTim

Ok, maybe there is another solution. Is there a way to get rid of the "trust this computer" thing completely? I don't need that "security feature" since I only use my own original charger and my own pc.

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diesel vdub

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Jan 19, 2014 5:23 AM in response to open_it_up

No, it is not possible to get rid of the feature. It is a part of iOS7.

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