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ShellShock · 09-21-2015, 01:18 PM

@LuCouto, that is a very interesting video, thanks for posting it. You are able to connect to Marvin (with IOS >= 8.3) when many others have failed.

I would be surprised if this a Mac vs Windows problem: Calibre and the IOSRA plugin are mainly Python (platform neutral); the libimobiledevice library that the IOSRA plugin uses has a little bit of platform specific code in it, but I don't think the difference is there. I think other Mac users have had problems connecting to Marvin since IOS 8.3 too (can any other MAC users confirm)?

As I said before, this may be a regional difference in IOS, e.g., LuCouto's IPad Mini is using the French language/culture. It would be interesting if anyone else can replicate this.

NB: pre-IOS 8.3 there was a problem for Windows users only trying to connect to Marvin, due to Apple changing the communication protocol; Unix users were OK because they had a updated version of the libimobiledevice library, whereas Windows users had a wait a few months for this updated version to be ported to Windows. Now however, AFAIK both Windows and Unix users are using essentially the same version of libimobiledevice.

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ShellShock Wizard Posts: 1,178 Karma: 2431850 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: IPad Mini 2 Retina	@LuCouto, that is a very interesting video, thanks for posting it. You are able to connect to Marvin (with IOS >= 8.3) when many others have failed. I would be surprised if this a Mac vs Windows problem: Calibre and the IOSRA plugin are mainly Python (platform neutral); the libimobiledevice library that the IOSRA plugin uses has a little bit of platform specific code in it, but I don't think the difference is there. I think other Mac users have had problems connecting to Marvin since IOS 8.3 too (can any other MAC users confirm)? As I said before, this may be a regional difference in IOS, e.g., LuCouto's IPad Mini is using the French language/culture. It would be interesting if anyone else can replicate this. NB: pre-IOS 8.3 there was a problem for Windows users only trying to connect to Marvin, due to Apple changing the communication protocol; Unix users were OK because they had a updated version of the libimobiledevice library, whereas Windows users had a wait a few months for this updated version to be ported to Windows. Now however, AFAIK both Windows and Unix users are using essentially the same version of libimobiledevice. Last edited by ShellShock; 09-21-2015 at 01:23 PM.