This is a beta release, please expect bugs. Read the following text carefully, it contains important information. Seriously.
USB Mass Storage protocol is widely supported by modern operation systems and consumer devices, USB thumb drives and photo cameras are good examples of devices which implement USB Mass Storage protocol. Since this device class is likely supported by your operation system you do not need any additional drivers or complex (read: any) setup, this makes information exchange much easier.
USB Drive let you create one or more virtual disks for use as USB Mass Storage volume, thus you can allocate some of your iPhone space to carry desktop files with you.
Current limitations (I hope some of them to be resolved in the future):
- Files and folders on virtual disks are not directly accessible for iPhone applications nor desktop OS can read or write iPhone files. Basically we have two worlds - desktop and iPhone and these worlds are isolated.
- Only 8 virtual volumes can be created at a time.
- USB Drive will automatically format new volumes using FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem only.
- USB Drive will disable Picture Transfer Protocol support when it active. Switching between USB Mass Storage and PTP requires a system restart.
- PTP protocol is being used to transfer pictures to the iPhoto or direct print on compatible printers.
- Application requires jailbroken iPhone and cannot be downloaded from AppStore.
Application was tested with iPhone 2G and iPod Touch 1G only at this time. While I almost sure it will work as is please if you aren't familar with iPhone internals and do not have ssh installed on your device do not attempt to install on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS until I get confirmation it works properly. Thanks.
- Install USB Drive from my Cydia repository.
- Launch USB Drive.
- Create some disk. It takes a while to allocate large amount of data
- Switch to the Mass Storage mode.
- Reboot
- Connect USB Cable
- Enjoy!
- Email me you results, what do you like or what do you dislike
UNINSTALLATION
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE APPLICATION WHEN IT IN USB MASS STORAGE MODE. FAILURE TO SWITCH TO PTP MODE BEFORE UNINSTALLING APPLICATION WILL MAKE YOU A LOT OF TROUBLES. ITUNES SYNC AND USB CHARGE WILL BE DISABLED.
YET ANOTHER TIME: BEFORE UNINSTALL YOU NEED TO SWITCH APPLICATION TO THE PTP MODE AND RESTART THE IPHONE.
In order to stop spreading outdated beta versions, this beta version expires 1 Oct 2009. Expired version will let you copy all your information from virtual disks using usb mass storage, but will not let create new disks or write data to the virtual volumes.
57 comments:
The app is working on iPhone 3GS. I've just tested it ;-)
The App is working fine on iPhone 2G (1st generation) on 3.0 firmware :D
-Somnius Macopoulos
evripidis, Macopoulos, thank you for the great news :)
3G: Mac - works
XP SP2 - works
XP SP3 - doesnt works, Windows stuck at boot, when iphone is plugged :(
And what happens after october???? it will be useless if a normal version isn't distributed...
ninoulito, I am going to release few update before 1st of October. These updates will extend beta period if needed.
Experience shows that there are a lot of people who install software from museum and ask me about problems which were fixed years ago. This beta version is expected to have number of problems and I want to avoid using it for years.
i can't say anythind :D you are the man . perfect job (Y)
Is there any problems to install USB Drivers in Windows 7 ?
Hello
I have installed your app on my iPhone 2G for testing purposes and It worked fine.
After uninstallation though, I cannot seem to be able to reclaim/restore the USB alocation space that was created (1GB).
Can you please help?....Is there a certain procedure I must follow?...
Problem occured on Windows 7 RTM. It just can't find a driver for USB Mass Storage. Tested on iPod Touch 1G. Worked great on XP SP2
Got it to work on Windows 7 after removing Apple Mobile Device Support. It seems it has some conflict with it.
Thank you, radionoise, this issue in my short list :)
dmp, thanks for you work! No need of iTunes on other computers as wished! Keep going! :)
This is the best app ever!
Some notes,cause I've been testing it thorougly:
1. It works so well, that you can even set the partition to active , and boot your pc using your iphone (e.g. with grub4dos and several ISOs or Windows 7/Vista/XP setup)
2. In every Windows system, if you have iTunes installed, in order for the USB Mass Storage to work properly, you need to go to Device Manager, select the Apple Mobile usb driver, choose update driver , manuall, select from list, and select the secondary available driver "usb mass storage". This will make iphone dissappear from iTunes. Do the same using the other driver to bring it back.
Excellent work!
dmp, I have made a full tutorial on how to make iphone a bootable usb disk to boot several OSs or ISO images. (like a multiboot flash, with grub4dos)
It might be useful for you and your tests. Please contact me if you need it. (let me know here and I'll email you)
Amazing work, been looking for exactly this thing since I got my iPhone.
Great work, limneos!
If you e-mail me a link to your tutorial and I will post it here.
How this appli works with OS X ??
I want to use the image file as a virtual drive with the "mount" unix command. The problem is in the File Systems, because the image is a Fat32 fs and the operative system "IPhone OS 3" dont supply any support to fat, msdos or fat32 file systems.
Does anyone know some tool to mount fat32 fs on Iphone Os?
Hi,
I've been testing your app.
When uninstalling it, my phone is still keeping the 1Gb in memory. Please advise.
Drive+iTunes doesn't work on iPod touch 2Gen 8G. Default and Drive only work.
Thank you very much ... works like a charm... brings smile to my face... tried on iPhone 3G, WinXP SP3
Hi,
i used the app to relocate all my free space which was 6.99 gb and tried mass storage mode only.
now the app wont open...
neither does cydia or anything else.
help...
please
I installed your app and allocated 1GB, at the end of the process it just quit and now it doesn't open. Where's my 1GB? How do I get it back?
Works Also on a PS3 just like Any USB Drive plug&Play
i just installed on my 2g, 3.0..wont boot up..wtf...i clicked on drive+itunes, and let it reboot, now when it comes to the apple sign, it just cuts off...
When using Drive Only mode, lose ability to pair with Bluetooth devices.
How to delete vurtual space taken by the volume ... I deleted the volume but still my space is not empty ... pls suggest
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Hmm... Unfortunately my iphone doesnt boot up anymmore... it stucks in the welcome screen with the apple logo ;-(
I just intalled Beta 3 and it works great.
But, is there a way to move my files from Volume to any other Folder without using a PC ?
DMYTRO OR ANYONE ELSE THAT CAN HELP.
I have noticed a lot of people have posted that they UNINSTALLED this and CAN NOT regain their virtual partition. DMYTRO, how do you regain this. How do you delete the virtual partition?
Thanks
I installed beta 3,create a volume then choose drive only ,reboot started ,after that unable to slide unlocked then reboot start again automatically in loop and still unable to slide unlocked.
Somebody can help , thks
if you have openssh installed you can remove USB Drive and restore changed files by executing the following commdand from the command prompt:
# dpkg -r me.dmytro.cardexport
DMP
After excuting the command :
# dpkg -r me.dmytro.cardexport
the following message appears :
cp: cannot stat `/var/UsbDrive/Backup/com.apple.usbptpd.plist': No such file or directory
What else can I do in order to unlock slide ?
Thks in advance.
Me also.
Delete the Volume via Edit-mode.
Still is 1 Gb in memory. How can we get this back?
Please an answer to this...
Regards
Tom
How do I view USB contents with ifile??
Hi I've installed this app and it works great, but when I have created two or more virtual disks and I plug the usb into my computer it only shows one. Is this normal or should it show all? This is in drive only mode.
Also, is there any way to increase the writing speed as it only writes at 2-3MB/s.
thanks
Working fine on my 3G with Mac. I also uninstalled and got the space back. Reinstalled again without problem.
Definitely worth paying for once the uninstall dangers are ironed out.
Good job.
I install USB Drive Beta 3 on my IPHONE 3Gs (3.1.2), was working fine. I create a virtual disk of 4Gs and put some file. Wow good stuff.
But I can't use anymore ssh or vnc via Itunnel.exe (use to work just fine before I install Usb Drive beta 3).
I test it on 3 mode and reboot each time iphone and my PC, still have the error in itunnel windows:
NETWORK error: Software cause connection abort.
I switch back to mode default as mention before uninstalling. Still same error. But when I connect it, I can see my photo and Itunes can see the device.
BTW: I able to connect via WIFI to vnc and ssh so the service work fine. Also my firewall was at off.
Any idea which file have been modify I can replace?
Thanks,
Starwolf
Erratum:
it's ssh client (putty) who say:
NETWORK error: Software caused connection abort.
not itunnel.exe...
Great software. This lets me do more with my iPhone. Thank you very much.
Hi,
I erroniously uninstalled USB Drive and tried resetting my iphone. in the process my itune is not identifying my iphone. I know I screwed it up after the warning message posted there. how do I fix this now please.
heyy, good job man,it works fine,but the problem is How do I view USB contents with ifile??
nd can i copy,delete,rename ??!!if its possible it'll be the top ten APP MAN....regards from KSA..we need the answer DEV
Hi I just reinstalled this app to my 3gs again (i had to restore for an unrelayed reason). Just wanted to say that this is a fantastic app!! Thanks very much, when you release it officially I'll definitely buy it.
Wow!
I just followed the instructions at:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-and-boot-ultimate-boot-cd-ubcd-from-a-usb-device/
I created a 300 MB partition, formatted it FAT32, and turned my iPhone into an ultimate boot cd (UBCD for USB)!
Works perfect on I phone 3g without ssh installed!
Email me at antonio09500@yahoo.com with subject help if you need any help with this or anything that you might want on your I phone (easy jailbreaks,free AppStore apps,download music or movies strait to iPod without pc,etc...)
thanks;
I'm not really sure if I've screwed something up, but I was using the USB Drive App (which worked AWESOME! and saved my life). When I was finished with it, I deleted the partition I had created, switched back to 'Default' mode and then uninstalled the app. Now, however, itunes doesn't recognize my iphone anymore and I can't seem to get it back. I've reinstalled the USB Drive App and tried changing to every mode (rebooting after each change) but still haven't been able to get sync to come back.. Any suggestions? Anyone?
Hi guys,
I downloaded and installed the USB drive. When I rebooted it locked up. I tried to reinstall blackra1n to fix it. The screen back lit with the Blackra1n installation picture and froze. How do I undo this? I don't have openssh installed on my phone.
Please help!
I having a problem with slow transfer rates. I'm only getting 844 KB/s sec transfering a 2 gig file to my windows 7 pc. Is this normal? It started out at 1.2MB but has slowed down.
Thank you
you can deletes the drive with ifiles
go to var, and look for volumes
you can deletes them and reboot it
should work , it did for me
good luck
seems that the beta version has run out, won't let me write anything to it...is another beta coming out or is the full version coming out and if so when and on what source?? thanks
really great app!!
i have been waiting for this since i got my iPod 2g in 2008 =D
i get very slow transfer speeds tho (~800 KB/s write and ~1.5 MB read on a 5 GB drive)
This is an awesome app just 1 question. I'm using ifile to locate my files where would they be stored in the iPhone?
Very Nice App. I have the same ifile question. It would be nice to be able to access the files on the partition from the phone (like in ifile) so you can email them or view them, etc. Is this possible?
first i created a 4gb partition and had 3 gb left.i deleted usb drive and using ifile accidently deleted the usb drive folder. when i reinstalled it had only 3 gb left when i should have had 7gb
i installed it. then i created a 256MB disk in drive only mode, i put a file in it.
i changed back to default mode, I checked in Itunes I lost my 256MB.It's fine.
Then, I changed to drive only mode and deleted the disk.
Back to default mode, in Itunes i got my 256MB back.
So, this apps I think is working.
I'll try to uninstall it, what will happen?
hi Dmytro im trying to run usb drive with both drive and itunes as i need them both to run heres the problem im trying to sort out an easy way for people to use their tranfer method if i run disk aid form the phone drive it will run but then i need disk aid to find the phone or i have to restart the phone in default mode but then the drive will not be there this way anyone could just make a small partition disk aid could auto run and find the drive hey presto hope you can help thx in advance
hello i cant get this on cydia
always tell me are not possible get the link why
any link of the ipa or deb direct download
anyways i look this form ages
good workkkkkkkkkkks ; )
thanks
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