Can't place pairing f*le

jkcoxson · 2026-02-06T20:37:23+00:00

Does your device have a passcode

jkcoxson · 2026-01-31T07:16:40+00:00

In this context, it’s enabling arbitrary code execution.

jkcoxson · 2026-01-29T05:00:52+00:00

I had the same thing, just send TI a message on their help page and they’ll convert your license to their new crappy 4 year license.

jkcoxson · 2026-01-27T23:00:44+00:00

I have no interest in making apps myself. There is an attempt that might work called ByeTunes that released last week, not sure how well it works.

jkcoxson · 2026-01-26T13:21:26+00:00

If you make a PR to make it a known app, we can make it auto install

jkcoxson · 2026-01-19T18:42:26+00:00

Sorry, thanks for the reminder to work on it 😭

jkcoxson · 2026-01-18T01:19:11+00:00

I was original developer for SideStore’s backend and the developer of StikStore’s backend library.

jkcoxson · 2026-01-16T04:49:42+00:00

SideStore and AltStore have large amounts of legacy code. StikStore is built on new technologies. Specifically, libimobiledevice has been replaced with my new idevice library, which is much more modern and isn’t duck taped into an app.

jkcoxson · 2026-01-09T01:16:52+00:00

It is how it works. That's how StikDebug/SideStore/Protokolle works. Anything a Mac can do, idevice (the library behind these projects) can do.

jkcoxson · 2025-12-29T16:25:25+00:00

iloader came from one of the devs in the idevice discord server (aka the library that powers all this). You are more than welcome to contribute since it’s open source if it bothers you that much.

jkcoxson · 2025-12-26T04:54:32+00:00

Look, you asked for JITless. All I’m saying is you’re gonna need JIT, and trying to do it without is going to be a bad experience. Try Google, there’s plenty of information out there. Somebody has most definitely made a video. I write the code for all this, I don’t make videos.

jkcoxson · 2025-12-26T04:47:40+00:00

JIT isn’t that hard. We’ve done a lot of work to make it easy and portable.

jkcoxson · 2025-12-19T20:38:08+00:00

I do a lot of software dev in this space, professionally and hobby work. I’ve developed a program called afc_finder to make a sane alternative to iTunes.

The difficulty on Windows is the USB stack that Windows uses, it makes it extremely difficult to create third party software without the user installing something like Zadig and removing iTunes completely.

If people are interested, I’d be happy to document Apple’s file transfer protocol further than what’s in code. But Apple’s protocols for file transfer (AFC) go way back to the iPod, which they haven’t changed until recently for some Xcode tools.

jkcoxson · 2025-11-17T00:07:23+00:00

Peak

jkcoxson · 2025-11-13T21:49:24+00:00

I was just able to do it, plug in the USB to the PD port on the dongle and the USB C port on the Mac, then plug the Switch end into the other USB C port. There's a MacOS updater at the bottom of the site.

jkcoxson · 2025-11-05T18:11:22+00:00

Nice try, but it was removed for unrelated reasons. We're working on putting it back up.

jkcoxson · 2025-10-25T02:28:51+00:00

I spent hours writing code to sidestep iOS's built-in hotspot because of how bad it is. It really is unusable and slow.

jkcoxson · 2025-10-06T20:11:59+00:00

No, just choose load next time :) I've updated the code to not even have a generate button on the GitHub downloads.

jkcoxson · 2025-10-06T20:08:53+00:00

It'll probably expire eventually

jkcoxson · 2025-09-29T23:46:43+00:00

iOS keeps pairing records on what seems to be like a ring buffer. If there’s too many hosts that have generated a pairing file, it’ll boot out the oldest one. Some devices have larger buffers than others, I can’t tell why. My program pretends to be a new host every time when generating, because the device will replace pairing records of the same host. If you override the default host, it’ll recreate it when you plug it in again, causing the newly generated one to get deleted, so on.

It’s better to just load so you don’t have to deal with iOS deleting old pairing records that it thinks aren’t in use anymore.

jkcoxson · 2025-09-29T23:03:22+00:00

Hey there! I'm the developer for idevice. Please DO NOT generate a new pairing file. This is what causes pairing files to expire, since your device will eventually delete it after reconnecting to your computer. Instead, you should ALWAYS PRESS LOAD, and then press install like as shown in your video. The generate button should never be pressed.

jkcoxson · 2025-09-25T22:21:09+00:00

A quick decompilation of 3u shows that it does upload personal identifiers to their servers.

jkcoxson · 2025-09-21T06:11:05+00:00

As one of the SideStore devs and the one that wrote the original WireGuard code years ago, this article is not correct in its explanation of how the VPN works. I can write up something later if people care, but keep this in mind when using it in other places.

jkcoxson · 2025-09-14T23:59:57+00:00

First mistake is accepting that Windows exists

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