iPhone and 10.4.8

[caglo]

So I reeallly don't want to upgrade to 10.4.10 (I'm running on an AMD)...and I'm going to have an iPhone in a couple days. Is it absolutely necessary to be running OS X 10.4.10 to sync up iPhone, or is there some sort of workaround?

 

Thanks,

caglo

[kernalzero]

bump, I'm on an intel system and I just haven't had time to upgrade from 10.4.8...

[minko]

I think it's more relevant witch iTunes you are using! A must have is 7.3, and I'm not sure, but somewhere I have read that 10.4.8 is ok.. Check out!

[kernalzero]

it's not just an iTunes thing...I plugged in the iphone last night with the latest itunes and an error window pops up stating...you must have 10.4.10 or later..annoying!!!

[cmdshft]

WinXP SP2 works, along with iTunes 7.3...

[kernalzero]

that was helpful hara...it works with vista too but that wasn't the topic...

[caglo]

a guy on the hackint0sh IRC channel said he watched his friend connect up the iphone to a 10.4.8 system with the latest itunes and it worked fine. good to hear, but we'll see saturday night when I have mine.

[drunknbass]

yea i tried updating to 10.4.10 when i got my iphone and it runed my system. so if theres a workaround id like to hear it too.

[macadoo]

I'm running 10.4.5 and had to edit the systemversion.plist file to trick it into thinking I had 10.4.10 installed. I found instructions somewhere before (I think it was this site) when I had to edit in order to install iLife 06. You can substitute the 10.4.4 below to 10.4.10. Also, my productbuildversion is set to 8G1454 (10.4.5 code?), but I don't know if that matters.

 

Here's the instructions (credit goes to whoever wrote these!):

 

Editing of SystemVersion.plist Instructions:

To enable all of the features of the iLife '06 suite (and probably other software from apple in the future), type the following command from a terminal (applications/utilities/terminal.app):

 

sudo pico /system/library/coreservices/systemversion.plist

 

enter your administrator password, then you should see a short xml file that you can edit.

 

change the "productbuildversion" string to 8G1165 and the "productuservisibleversion" and "productversion" strings to 10.4.4, as in the following example (in pico use the cursor keys to move around):

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>

<string>8G1165</string>

<key>ProductCopyright</key>

<string>1983-2005 Apple Computer, Inc.</string>

<key>ProductName</key>

<string>Mac OS X</string>

<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>

<string>10.4.4</string>

<key>ProductVersion</key>

<string>10.4.4</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

To save and exit from Pico, type:

 

ctrl-x ("exit")

y ("yes - save modified file")

enter ("choose default filename to overwrite")

 

choose file==>exit to quit terminal.

 

now check your "About this mac" apple menu to see that it thinks you're using 10.4.4. Try running imovie and you'll be able to use themes now. It really works. Apparently this hack helps with installing the latest java version too or something like that.

[caglo]

Worked!!!

 

For those wondering, use ProductBuildVersion 8R2208. Quit iTunes, reopen, and sync.

 

 

Thanks!

[drunknbass]

awesome! i can finally put some stuff on my iphone.. thx!!

[kernalzero]

strong work!! I managed to update to 4.10 but this is still impressive none-the-less. good work

[ComputerNap]

I would like to mention that with your system version changed to 10.4.10 iTunes doesn't accept keyboard shortcuts. When I changed it back, it worked right away. This indicates that Apple is likely doing something a little different that relies on something from 10.4.9 or .10

 

The only difference that would cause any trouble for the iPhone between .9 and .10 is the presence of some Yahoo! sync stuff that honestly, nobody would ever use.