How to Transfer Files to Your iPhone Using Fugu (Mac)
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Posted October 21, 2008 at 8:45pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to transfer files to your iPhone using Fugu. To follow this tutorial you need to have a jailbroken iPhone with SSH installed. You can find instructions on how to jailbreak your iPhone here.
Step One First we must obtain the IP Address of the iPhone. To do this press the Settings button on your Springboard.
Step Two Press to select Wi-Fi from the Settings Menu
Step Three Make sure you are connected to a wireless network then press the circular blue arrow button
Step Four Take note of your IP address from the Wi-Fi details screen
Step Five Make sure you are on the same wireless network as your iPhone and launch Fugu by clicking its icon in the dock or in your Applications folder. If you do not have Fugu installed you can download it from here
Step Six Once Fugu opens enter your iPhone's IP Address into the Connect to: field. Then enter root as your iPhone username and click the Connect button.
Step Seven You will be asked to input a password. Enter alpine as the password and click the Authenticate button.
Step Eight Fugu will then log you into your iPhone. You will be placed in the /private/var/root directory.
Step Nine To get to the root folder of the iPhone you can select / from the dropdown on the right side of the window. From here you can access all the folders on your iPhone for example the Applications folder.
Step Ten To transfer a file to the iPhone simply locate your local (on your computer) file using the left pane. Then navigate to the desired location in the right pane. Drag the file from the left pane to the right pane to copy the file to your iPhone.
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I create a Wifi network on my iMac (OS X 10.6.2)
I connect to the net via this wifi network my iPhone 3G (3.1.3, jailbreak).
I want to use FUGU to make some transfert from Mac to iPhone.
I wrote the IP address of iPhone, root as username and click connect.
appear and run but after short time the first window re-appear (IP address, username etc.) !
Where am I doing wrong ?
This is a fantastic article. I've spent two weeks messing around with ssh, dropcopy, and various other apps to try and send my ebook collection to my iPhone. With Fugu I can send multiple files at once and am currently sending my library of more than 2500 ebooks across - and its dead easy.
Thanks heaps for this advice and thanks especially to the creators of this great program.
I have used "DiskAid" and its the most user friendly Mac style interface ever. In combination with "Chronus" previous "TimeCapsule" y dont have to worry about upgrading loosing your contacts, calendar, notes etc.
Just back e/mail and go. Copy back the e/mailed backup and you are set, just drag and drop, simplistic is the way of the Zen Mac.........lol