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iPhone Dock gives "This accessory is not made to work with iPhone" error

After a lot of googling i found this thread and managed to fix my iPhone, may thanks to all of you here :)

I personally couldn't get my head round all the SSH'ing and wireless stuff tho, so for anyone else struggling with this, here's a step by step guide to what i did, using a usb cable..

On a Mac running 10.5.6 with an iPhone running 2.2.1

1. Jailbreak iphone with quickpwn
2. Download the iCommander file browser from Cydia on the iPhone
3. Download and run the 'diskaid' program on the mac. (This allows navigation of the iphones file system via USB) (google for program)
4. Choose 'root folder' in the drop down menu bottom left of the diskaid program
5. Browse to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support
6. copy 'iapd' from the iphone to the mac.
7. Rename 'ipad' to 'iapd.bak' and copy back to the iphone into the same folder
8. Delete the original 'iapd' and replace with the patched 'iapd' file also called 'iapd'
9. Browse to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support via iCommander on the iphone
10. Reset the file permission of the new 'iapd' to 755 with the option in iCommander
11. Reboot the iphone
12. Problem solved!

Many thanks for all the help here in fixing my fave toy, and i hope a fix can be found for 3.0 when it comes out
 
Hi guys,

the solution provided by Suondmao worked well for me, as i no longer get the annoying message and the battery life has improved.
But i still cant get my iPhone to turn off!!!!
Anybody else still facing this issue??

Thanks
 
adrenaline said:
Hi guys,

the solution provided by Suondmao worked well for me, as i no longer get the annoying message and the battery life has improved.
But i still cant get my iPhone to turn off!!!!
Anybody else still facing this issue??

Thanks
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Facing the same issue, my iPhone hasn't turned off for a week...

top of that, the dreaded "accessory" message is back!!
 
fixed the shut down issue.... just put your phone on the iphone dock... and shut down from there.... that should fix it...

tell me if it works...
 
kashvii said:
fixed the shut down issue.... just put your phone on the iphone dock... and shut down from there.... that should fix it...

tell me if it works...
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Yes this did the trick for me. And now i can even switch it off without putting it on the doc.
Lets see if it keeps working and doesnt get bad again.

I guess from now on i will charge my iphone from the doc only.

Thanks mate.
 
Replacing the "iapd" file with the patched one as Suondmao said fixed the annoying message.

But my sound still doesn't work :(

How do I fix my sound?!
 
worked for me

Have Jailbroke Iphone 2.2.1

did exactly what post #176 said.
it fixed the stupid "this accessory" message.

but it would still not play sound throught the iphone speakers so...

then did what post #175 said and that fixed the speaker sound problem.

thanks everyone!
 
iphone fixed itself

i was getting the "this accessory is not made to work with iphone" message for a few months and suddengly it disappeared last week and the last time i sync my 1st gen iphone with itunes a message came up saying that my iphone had diagnostic information that needed to be sent to apple .....since then no more annoying messages coming up every few seconds and disabling the speakers!!!
 
Got a fix

I have spent months on this problem and I know all the causes. Thanks to a tech savvy friend I'm all fixed.

my phone
iphone 2g 2.2.1
water damage
(lite vapor going into the recharge port, in my case)

The problem
constantly getting "this accessory is not" pop-up with audio disabled in apps/ipod/skype/youtube

possible causes: water damage, iphone thinks headphones are pluged in, software glitch.

Problem one: your connectors are dirty, one of your pins is grounding or not making contact. solution: clean headphnone jack/USB sync port, NOT with water. blow air and use small amount of rubbing alcohol. try and recreate the setup/situation when the error started Example: go back into ipod and plug/unplug headphones trying to get the phone to recognize an accessory is no longer plugged in.

problem two: software glitch. Solution: restore phone

problem three: water damage. Solution: this one is a pain to fix. it requires your phone to be jail-broken and the file that is creating the error to be replaced, not deleted.

(See attached file)
replace with file: gutsur iapd.zip

replace location: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support


Good luck

Jack
 

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BTW i was able to get my speakers working by taking a paperclip and gently clearing some dust bunnies out from the ports.

I have to do it every few days but it keeps the speakers working so I'm happy :)
 
Mini foam swap with 91% Isopropyl alcohol worked for me

I used a mini foam swap that I got from a hobby store. The swap is actually a tiny brush used to apply very tiny amount of paint. They come about 6 to a pack and cost 1-2 dollars.

I used 91% Isopropyl alcohol. Not rubbing alcohol with contains 30% water. Water is very bad.

I found some green stuff at the bottom of the connector and on the contact surface. I took a foam swap, dipped in the alcohol, and wiped the green stuff away.

The error message went away. That cleaning the contacts suggestion really worked for me.
 
Tazmik said:
I have spent months on this problem and I know all the causes. Thanks to a tech savvy friend I'm all fixed.

my phone
iphone 2g 2.2.1
water damage
(lite vapor going into the recharge port, in my case)

The problem
constantly getting "this accessory is not" pop-up with audio disabled in apps/ipod/skype/youtube

possible causes: water damage, iphone thinks headphones are pluged in, software glitch.

Problem one: your connectors are dirty, one of you pins is grounding or not making contact. solution: clean headphnone jack/USB sync port, NOT with water. blow air and use small amount of rubbing alcohol. try and recreate the setup/situation when the error started Example: go back into ipod and plug/unplug headphones trying to get the phone to recognize an accessory is no longer plugged in.

problem two: software glitch. Solution: restore phone

problem tree: water damage. Solution: this one is a pain to fix. it requires your phone to be jail-broken and the file that is creating the error to be replaced, not deleted.

(See attached file)
replace with file: gutsur iapd.zip

replace location: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support


Good luck

Jack
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Thanks this worked for me! However I still lose sound, the soundfix previously posted doesn't seem to work too well for me. Any ideas why I'm still losing sound?
 
I tried using the IAPD for 2.2.1 located at http://iszene.com/thread-33166.html

This worked as the other IPAD file but I still lose sound. My head phones still work and my battery no longer dies within hours due to the annoying message. Just the minor problem of losing speaking sound still.
 
Ok I havent lost sound in a few hours now. What I did was clean off the USB connection using a few techniques.

1. I used a tooth pick to gently get out any dust.
2. I then used a crisp dollar bill and went back and forth for about 30 seconds
3. I used a threading needle and gently cleaned out anything left over.
4. I connected and disconnected the USB wire several times.
5. Used a blow dryer to get any left behind debris out

I left the IAPD file in place (if it aint broke dont fix it) and have not lost sound since cleaning it. Hopefully this post doesnt jinx my success. :)
 
Message #175:
ecvbj said:
After days of searching I applied this fix and it just worked! This is awesome! Can't thank you enough!
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I had the deathly combination of the "This accessory is not made…" message appearing at very fast, random flashes, interrupting all process and wearing down the battery, as well as sound issues.

Message #176 fixed the "This accessory" message. The problem hasn't returned once in more than a week, compared to once every 5-20 seconds.

The sound issue appears to be some combination of hardware and software. I get ringtones and at least some phone audio. However, music, video, keyboard clicks and alarms are only intermittent, at best. Typically, I can listen to a song for somewhere between 1 second and 45 seconds, typically toward the shorter end of the spectrum. The sound them stops and within a second or two or three the "playing" indicator stops. If it's video, the audio portion will typically stop several seconds before the video stops. Doing any of a number of different things allows another short burst of audio, headset in or out, restarting the audio or video, restarting the program (mail), turning the phone off/on.

I've tried all the normal "fixes", cleaned the contacts, blown them out, soft-reset, hard-reset, complete backdown to factory specs.

I suspect that message #175 might help, but it is beyond my present skills, as I just did my first jailbreak to accommodate message #176 using QuickPwn.

Can anyone put #175 into a real step by step for Dummies? Or, tell me what "notebook" is and how it works? Or, and perhaps best, if QuickPwn and Notebook do the same things, re-write the directions in order to fit QuickPwn and a USB cable connection. My iPhone has iConnection, Installer and QuickPwn persently available.
 
glockfamilyman said:
Message #175:

I had the deathly combination of the "This accessory is not made…" message appearing at very fast, random flashes, interrupting all process and wearing down the battery, as well as sound issues.

Message #176 fixed the "This accessory" message. The problem hasn't returned once in more than a week, compared to once every 5-20 seconds.

The sound issue appears to be some combination of hardware and software. I get ringtones and at least some phone audio. However, music, video, keyboard clicks and alarms are only intermittent, at best. Typically, I can listen to a song for somewhere between 1 second and 45 seconds, typically toward the shorter end of the spectrum. The sound them stops and within a second or two or three the "playing" indicator stops. If it's video, the audio portion will typically stop several seconds before the video stops. Doing any of a number of different things allows another short burst of audio, headset in or out, restarting the audio or video, restarting the program (mail), turning the phone off/on.

I've tried all the normal "fixes", cleaned the contacts, blown them out, soft-reset, hard-reset, complete backdown to factory specs.

I suspect that message #175 might help, but it is beyond my present skills, as I just did my first jailbreak to accommodate message #176 using QuickPwn.

Can anyone put #175 into a real step by step for Dummies? Or, tell me what "notebook" is and how it works? Or, and perhaps best, if QuickPwn and Notebook do the same things, re-write the directions in order to fit QuickPwn and a USB cable connection. My iPhone has iConnection, Installer and QuickPwn persently available.
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Do you mean notepad? I take it you arent using windows.... :p

notepad is just a standard text editor for windows... Use whatever Mac has as an equivalent.. as for the rest of the steps its very straight forward to follow already and if you have any questions its pretty easy to just type in your question into google.
 
Thanks, RomeoYankee for responding

Yes, I did mean "notepad." And yes, as you can see from the newly installed signature block, Macintosh. And, no, I don't know what the Mac equivalent to notepad is to create files, as suggested. What is notepad used for: Light word processing? Computer coding? Something else? And what kind of output does it produce? Will a WORD equivalent work? If I simply switch the tag?

For my only other dive inside the iPhone, the task was to simply replace one iapd file with another, which fully taxed my abilities but was eventually successful.
 
Hey,

don't know if anyone else posted this but I found that the message popped up when my cable was inserted in the dock or wall upside down.
 
so I'm pretty new to this thread. I had the same thing happen to my iphone that seems to have happened to most of the people in this thread. I put all the fixes into use and now i have a problem with my headphones. When i connect my headphones, they work for a few seconds or, at best, minutes and then don't work anymore. It seems as if the iphone stops recognizing the headphones. Can anyone help me out with this. They worked previous to me installing the iapd and soundfix scripts.
 
My iPhone was popping up the message three times a minute, i tried resetting and restoring it, but that was not the problem. The dock on the phone was dirty. I took a needle and cleaned it out, pulling out lent and other stuff messing it up. I did t a week ago and have not seen the message since.
 
How I fixed mine from the pop up message

My iPhone was popping up the message three times a minute, i tried resetting and restoring it, but that was not the problem. The dock on the phone was dirty. I took a needle and cleaned it out, pulling out lent and other stuff messing it up. I did t a week ago and have not seen the message since.
 
glockfamilyman said:
Yes, I did mean "notepad." And yes, as you can see from the newly installed signature block, Macintosh. And, no, I don't know what the Mac equivalent to notepad is to create files, as suggested. What is notepad used for: Light word processing? Computer coding? Something else? And what kind of output does it produce? Will a WORD equivalent work? If I simply switch the tag?

For my only other dive inside the iPhone, the task was to simply replace one iapd file with another, which fully taxed my abilities but was eventually successful.
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thought i responded to this so sorry that i havent...

notepad is just a basic standard text editor with no formatting. a word equivalent will probably work but you must save it in a plaintext format.
 
No use

I got a new one these days and see this annoying "This is not....."

I tried both the 2 patches, but all the icons became dead with this two patches respectively.

Why? My phone running on 2.0.1. Anyone can give me a thread?
 
can anyone attach the file for 2.0.2 here? I can not dowmload it from the link. Thnak you!
 
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