This simple tutorial will show you how to charge ipad, iTouch, iPhone (4s) in Ubuntu via USB port. There’s a project ipad_charge on github.com that provides charging control utility to enable/disable charging of an Apple device connected to USB port. Here are the supported devices:
- iPad
- iPad2
- iPad3
- iPod Touch 2G
- iPod Touch 3G
- iPod Touch 4G
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4S
Preparation:
Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to launch a terminal window, paste following command and press enter to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev git git-core
Install ipad_charge:
First execute this command to get the source:
git clone https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge.git
Navigate to the folder and install:
cd ./ipad_charge
make
make install
Now plug in your Apple device via USB port and it should start charging!
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