iPod Touch recognised by iTunes unless in recovery mode

[Tom]

i am using the latest VBox, on Ubuntu 7.10 and am trying to sync my iPod touch.

i would love to be able to actually sync my ipod, but it is only recognised by itunes in recovery mode. i have attached some screenshots of the problem in action.

[Tom]

itunes with AppleMobileDevice service stopped

[Tom]

showing detection in recovery mode

[Tom]

unknown error & iphone msg? 0xE8000001

[Iván Rivera]

I am also experiencing the same problem: Ubuntu 8.04, VirtualBox 1.6.0. Would be nice to be able to sync my iPod touch using VirtualBox, as I no longer have any Windows computer at home.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Did you enable the USB 2 controller in VBox? If not, turn it on and try again.

[Tom]

yes i did enable it, i have tried over and over with it on and off etc.

[Iván Rivera]

Log including two attachments & disconnects of an iPod touch.

[Iván Rivera]

I have attached a session log with two connections/disconnections of an iPod touch. Here are the relevant lines:

00:02:21.429 VUSB: attached '08ec0c20[proxy 05ac:1291]' to port 1 00:02:21.434 EHCI: USB Operational 00:04:33.206 RTC: period=0x200 (512) 64 Hz 00:04:37.498 EHCI: USB Suspended 00:04:37.972 EHCI: USB Operational 00:04:39.004 EHCI: USB Suspended 00:04:55.437 VUSB: attached '08ef9268[proxy 05ac:1291]' to port 1 00:04:55.454 EHCI: USB Operational 00:06:54.975 RTC: period=0x20 (32) 1024 Hz 00:08:20.760 RTC: period=0x200 (512) 64 Hz 00:08:41.353 EHCI: USB Suspended 00:08:41.839 EHCI: USB Operational 00:08:42.905 EHCI: USB Suspended

Please tell me if I can be of any help resolving this issue.

[Iván Rivera]

Sorry: incorrect formatting.

00:02:21.429 VUSB: attached '08ec0c20[proxy 05ac:1291]' to port 1
00:02:21.434 EHCI: USB Operational
00:04:33.206 RTC: period=0x200 (512) 64 Hz
00:04:37.498 EHCI: USB Suspended
00:04:37.972 EHCI: USB Operational
00:04:39.004 EHCI: USB Suspended
00:04:55.437 VUSB: attached '08ef9268[proxy 05ac:1291]' to port 1
00:04:55.454 EHCI: USB Operational
00:06:54.975 RTC: period=0x20 (32) 1024 Hz
00:08:20.760 RTC: period=0x200 (512) 64 Hz
00:08:41.353 EHCI: USB Suspended
00:08:41.839 EHCI: USB Operational
00:08:42.905 EHCI: USB Suspended

[Maciej]

I can confirm that bug exists for me too. Also, I noticed that some time ago VMware team managed to fix similiar bug in their VM:

​http://communities.vmware.com/thread/91715?tstart=0&start=135 (last 3 post on the page).

So it's doable :).

[Iván Rivera]

FYI: I re-tested against last released version (1.6.2) and the bug still exists. Thank you for your attention.

[Omry Yadan]

having similar issues with 1.6.2 on Debian lenny and a Windows XP guest. USB generally work, but not for iPod touch. I saw Windows detect it once or twice, but it never got recognized by iTunes.

[Omry Yadan]

please add me to the cc list of this ticket.

[Scott Wallace]

Replying to frank: I think you mean "iPod Touch not recognised by iTunes unless in recovery mode."

[vevmesteren]

hoping to synch my touch in ubuntu 8.04 as well. How do I get to selecting the recovery driver to start with?

thanks

V

[Mike Ferrier]

This is probably the same issue as #1838

[Richard]

Newest Itunes 8.2.1 and latest virtualbox 3.0.2 doesn't allow for syncing/restore with ipod touch in recovery mode

[gabriel]

I'm using virtualbox 3.0.4 and latest itunes and I get the same error (can't sync my ipod touch in recovery mode).

[Daniel P. Clark]

I'm having the same issue. iPod Touch works with iTunes 9.02 to sync and backup unless it's in recovery mode. I tried upgrading to the latest iTouch firmware and can't because I can't get the USB device recognized (since it needs to use recovery mode for upgrades.)

Crunchbang Linux (Juanty debian) VirtualBox 3.1.6 r59338 Windows XP Home SP3 iTunes 9.02 (Since no version after 9.02 works in VirtualBox)

[Daniel P. Clark]

I found a fix. I got it working I followed instruction 2 & 3 from ​http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=970628&highlight=iphone

2. Configure Ubuntu for VirtualBox-2.0

Add yourself to the vboxusers group

  Code:
    sudo gpasswd -a `whoami` vboxusers

Startup vboxdrv module on boot by appending it to /etc/modules

  Code:
    echo "vboxdrv" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

3. Usb Filesystem fix

Get the vboxusers group id

  Code:
    cat /etc/group | grep vboxusers

Quote:
    vboxusers:x:128:spirit

Edit /etc/fstab to add these two lines and replace the devgid with the vboxusers group id

  Code:
    #usbfs for virtualbox
    none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=128,devmode=664 0 0