#101 Notify user to disable passcode before attempt to pair device with computer

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#101 ✓resolved

Notify user to disable passcode before attempt to pair device with computer

Reported by Martin S. | December 22nd, 2009 @ 09:00 AM | in 1.2.0 Release

As described in ticket #100, the creation of a new pair fails if the device has a passcode set.

In such a case the device answers the following for the Pair request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Error</key>
        <string>PasswordProtected</string>
        <key>Request</key>
        <string>Pair</string>
        <key>Result</key>
        <string>Failure</string>
</dict>
</plist>

In order to avoid some bugreports, it would be the best if we also spit out something along this line to the user: "Please disable the password on your mobile before attempting to pair the device with your computer"

Comments and changes to this ticket

Martin S. December 25th, 2009 @ 03:03 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
After some checks I think one solution might be to request the "PasswordProtected" key using the GetValue request from lockdown before starting a session and refuse to create the client in lockdownd_client_new() with the mentioned error message in that case.

Thus the user would have to disable the passcode and done. I am wondering how iTunes does it. Perhaps it does a SetValue request and disables the password protection on first pairing?
Martin S. January 14th, 2010 @ 03:34 PM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
(from [cec7e6b7591d018dd700c6fa6b5c85b29ec43b34]) Detect pairing failure for device having a password set

[#101 state:resolved]

The first pairing fails if a user has a password set on the device.
http://github.com/MattColyer/libiphone/commit/cec7e6b7591d018dd700c...

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100 libiphone pairing failure I am closing it now since there is a workaround. Preferab...
101 Notify user to disable passcode before attempt to pair device with computer [#101 state:resolved]

Libiphone libiphone → 1.2.0 Release