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libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

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Post by jdmoreira » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 1:36 PM UTC

libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices
libimobiledevice.org

Re: libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

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Post by chris_wot » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

What I want to know is: can it get logs?

Re: libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

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Post by LukeB_UK » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

This is also used by Google's ios-webkit-debug-proxy: https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy

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Post by 0942v8653 » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #2

What I want to know is: can it get logs?

There is full FS access, and I imagine it'd be trivial to figure out the location of the logs.

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Post by hauget » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 3:21 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #2

What I want to know is: can it get logs?

Can you be more specific? You can use 'idevicesyslog' to view onscreen logs. You can also use commands like 'idevicediagnostics' to retrieve state information (e.g. power cycles of the battery) and 'idevicecrashreports' for crash data.

Re: libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

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Post by jackr9 » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 4:32 PM UTC

Unfortunately iOS 9's new 'rootless' feature is going to break a lot of stuff in this.

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Post by duckyflip » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 5:02 PM UTC

What I want to know is, does it support Ipod Nano 7th generation.

It's been years since that model was released and I've still not found a way to mount it under Linux and transfer songs.

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Post by leonatan » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

jackr9 wrote: post #6

Unfortunately iOS 9's new 'rootless' feature is going to break a lot of stuff in this.

As I understand it, this uses the same protocols iTunes uses (or can use even if currently doesn't), so unless Apple breaks iTunes, these should either continue to work as is, or with modifications that will require adaptation.

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Post by jackr9 » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC

leonatan wrote: post #8

jackr9 wrote: post #6

Unfortunately iOS 9's new 'rootless' feature is going to break a lot of stuff in this.

As I understand it, this uses the same protocols iTunes uses (or can use even if currently doesn't), so unless Apple breaks iTunes, these should either continue to work as is, or with modifications that will require adaptation.

Actually this lets you do more than what iTunes lets you. iOS 8.3 has already prevented tools like iFunBox (which also uses this IIRC) to access the app sandbox directory.

Re: libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices

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Post by leonatan » Sat, Jun 06, 2015, 5:16 PM UTC

jackr9 wrote: post #9

leonatan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understand it, this uses the same protocols iTunes uses (or can use even if currently doesn't), so unless Apple breaks iTunes, these should either continue to work as is, or with modifications that will require adaptation.

Actually this lets you do more than what iTunes lets you. iOS 8.3 has already prevented tools like iFunBox (which also uses this IIRC) to access the app sandbox directory.

Then it must have exploited some leftover, or Apple just moved stuff around. If backup is possible, then access to sandboxes is still allowed one way or another.