When I bought iPad I was confused that it will not charge when connected to USB port in my desktop. Recently I found this software: ipad_charge. As it is said on github it will charge almost all portable apple devices. So I gave it a try and I found out that this software is doing it in the way that I wanted. All You need to install this software on Fedora 18 x86_64 is to compile it. I will show below all the steps to use this software.
First of all You need sources of ipod_charge:
wget https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge/archive/master.zip |
Now we need to unpack it:
unzip master.zip |
And compile it:
cd ipad_charge-master make sudo make install |
And that’s all. Now when You will connect iPad to Your desktop it will start to charge.
Of course You can turn off charging while connected to USB:
ipad_charge --off |
And enable charging again:
ipad_charge |
I also found out that You can access Your iPad’s (and other apple portable devices) data while charging. So it is very useful software.
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