This is a short presentation that shows you, what pieces you should buy for assembling an iPhone debugging cable, how much they cost and how you correctly assemble them.

1. Stefan Horst <stefan.horst@sektioneins.de>
iPhone Debugging Cable
do it yourself - or die trying
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2. Stefan Horst • Debug Cable • Juni 2013
What is needed?
• PodBreakout (12 EUR)
• for before v1.5 pinout is
switched top to bottom
• FTDI Cable (17 EUR)
• USB Cable (1 EUR)
• 470kΩ Resistor (0.05 EUR)
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3. Stefan Horst • Debug Cable • Juni 2013
Start with the FTDI cable
• solder the wires to this pins:
• RX -> pin 12
• TX -> pin 13
• GND -> pin 11
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RX(yellow)
TX(orange)
GND(black)

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USB Cable next
• USB Connections:
• GND -> pin 16
• Power -> pin 23
• Data - -> pin 25
• Data + -> pin 27
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GND(black)
Power(red)Data-(white)Data+(green)

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Resistor Connection
• 470kΩ Resistor connection:
• pin 1 -> pin 21
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Finished Product
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