iPhone Techie

I read your comment before I bought the camera connection kit and have tried this, am now ready to take this any where . Thanks. How do I get free modern ebooks to download to my ipad.

I’m very disappointed as this does not work for me.

On the comment made earlier regarding connecting a USB memory stick to the ipad via the camara connection kit, it was mentioned that it works using the ifile application. Is the ifile application something that can be downloaded to the ipad from the internet? If so, is there a particular website where it can be found?

Now open iFile and navigate to this directory var/mnt/mount1 / you should now be able to view and save all the contents of your USB drive, including audio, photos, text and video files directly on your iPad!

Followed everything and the advice but cannot “navigate to this directory var/mnt/mount1″

where is that?
what is that? and how do you do that on ifile?

thanks

garry

As Garry said I have downloaded the ifile and followed everything through but am unable to access/find the var/mnt/mount1/ file.
I have :Sidebar,Dashboard/Home/Search for boxes. When I put the (var..) file in search nothing happens. I would be really overjoyed if you could send me a quick email saying how to do so. Sorry to bother you, but your walkthrough was so clear till that part that maybe I am doing something wrong.
Hoping for a response,
All the best,
Ornella

I only see the add a service box when I hit the button in the top left corner. What are we missing? Does this require the iPad to be jail broken?

i can only speak for myself, but my ipad is using 3.2.1 FW, it is jailbroken

you need cydia, then search within that for ifile, which is small download which gets installed to your ipad, on my ipad, using a sony micro vault usb drive, i dont get the popup regarding incompatibility, and in ifile, i actually get the flash drive showing as a device, under disk with a little eject symbol to the right

the flash drive needs to be formatted as FAT32, i created a folder called DCIM in, as well, which allows for automatic photo import. but in ifile, i was able to create folders directly on the flash drive, move movies, .ipa’s and all sorts to and from the flash drive

am interested in creating some symbolic links, to therefore extend the capacity of my pwntunes app, thus giving me a bigger ipod facility coupled with a largish flash drive.

damn shame this ipad connection kit doesnt work on the iphone 4 directly, maybe there will be some kind of workaround for this in the future, i am trying all sorts in this regard…

hi, does your ipad has to be jailbroken? Or is it gonna work without jailbraking. Thanks for the answer:-)

@Pete

Yes you have to jailbreak your iPad. There is no way you could get this to work without it.

Has anyone gotten this to work on jailbroken iPad on iOS 4.2.1? My iPad now says my flash drive uses too much power and iFile doesnt see it!

Seems, not only me face this problem with iPad iOS 4.2.1. Any solution? Thanks in advance

please¡¡¡ any solution ¡¡¡…

Can you take pictures from iPad to the USB key?

Thank you so much. You simplified this problem and made a soultion. I wish mac would think of these things b4 hand. Needless to say it would be nice to have Osx running on the pad.

this won’t work in iOS 4.2 because the new version reduces the amount of power available to the connector. This effectively kills all the functions of the camera connection kit. If you have the older OS, you can use the SD card reader that comes with the camera connection kit to do the same thing. It works like a charm. m4v movies can be streamed right off the card to the videos application without copying them to the ipad.

Would this work in an iPod touch 3G?

my experienced, it works only for old gen usb flash, i have 3 usb flash – 1gb, 2gb and 4 g b – and only the 1gb – the older gen, works with iFile. The other ones show a message “flash drive uses too much power”
Note: my iOS 4.2.1

@JB
See my comment below, hote it helps

how do you jailbreak your iPad ?

Try using a powered USB hub with the newer ios

I checked in the app store for iFile and it doesn’t come up. Is there any chance that it’s under a different name?

Rob

I bought an IPad connection kit (5 in one) but could not use it. My iPad version 4.2.1 (8C148). Please help me! How to use it?

Without jailbreaking an Ipad2, can Ipad2 read jpg files from a flash drive and display them onto the screen as slide shows?

Apple’s iPad is a wonderful device. But it is limited in it’s connectivity.

Using Apple’s Camera Connection Kit it is possible to read generic USB flash drives and hard disks. Jail-breaking is not required. The iPad can only read compatible image and movie files.

1. Format your USB flash drive in FAT32 using the Disk Utility, Partition, “MSDOS (FAT)”.

2. Create a folder called “DCIM” in the root directory of the flash drive. Put your images and movies in there.

3. When connected, the iPad thinks it’s attached to a digital camera and can read image and movie files in the “DCIM” folder. An app opens which enables you to copy images and movies on to your iPad.

NOTES: he ipad will download almost any file… whether it can use it or not is a different matter.

BUT the trick is the file name must be 8 characters (not counting the extension). if it contains more or less characters it will not be seen.

Could you plug in an iPod nano (the watch kind) into the camera connection kit plugged into my ipad 2 and be able to import the music in it? It has music in it that aren’t in my iTunes account. Does this mean there’s no need for the iPads with more gigabytes?:)