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I too am looking for this information. I tried building a cable using the pinouts available in a link off resolve hax: iPhone serial port. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I'm not sure if it is due to a connection/component problem or if GetConsole (the app I was using) is truly not compatible with 3rd party cables like they state. I'd be interested in hearing success stories though.
not sure if how the getconsole app works but you'll need a jailbroken phone to use my cable, due to the requirement for an apple approved hardware compatibility chip, which it obviously doesn't have. if you are jailbroken, download and install terminal and minicom through cydia. if you can use minicom (the serial port is /dev/tty.iap) then the cable works hardware wise. the main problem people have had (myself included) is getting the pinouts right. the manual for the RS232/TTL converter chip should give a better idea of how to do that. check it yourself with a multimeter, when you type there should be a voltage spike on the tx line.
Thanks! I was able to get the cable I built working in Minicom! It still did not work for me in Get Console though.
I wonder if it is as simple as the Redpark cable being accessed on a different port than /dev/tty.iap? Can anyone with the Redpark cable confirm whether the port is different for the Redpark cable? If that is the case maybe a simple sym link would make it work. Besides that does anyone have other ideas on why it wouldn't work in GetConsole?
Thanks! I was able to get the cable I built working in Minicom! It still did not work for me in Get Console though.
I wonder if it is as simple as the Redpark cable being accessed on a different port than /dev/tty.iap? Can anyone with the Redpark cable confirm whether the port is different for the Redpark cable? If that is the case maybe a simple sym link would make it work. Besides that does anyone have other ideas on why it wouldn't work in GetConsole?
So .. I get that this is a year late but I just saw this now.
The problem (as I understand it) with a homemade cable & GetConsole is that signed apps are trying to activate an apple authentication chip that the official hardware manufacturers have to put in to enable the UART. You don't have that so it doesn't come up. It should still be trying to activate tty.iap but it'll be failing on the intermediate step. Probably nothing you can do about it I'm afraid, short of use Minicom or screen =]
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