Charge iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

By Umair Monday, August 06, 2012




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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!

Umair

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