10.4: Sync Motorola C975 with iSync via USB

Jul 27, '05 09:17:00AM

Contributed by: Mr Flavour

Tiger only hintI recently bought myself a cheap prepaid Motorola C975 3G phone in the hope that it would able to sync with iSync. It's not officially supported, but some minor modifications to a couple of files on your Mac will have it synchronized with the best.

The two files to edit need special permissions to do so. If you're comfortable with the Terminal, the fastest way to do this is sudo vi filename, replacing vi with your editor of choice, of course.

Add this text to /Applications -> iSync.app [control-click and Show Package Contents] -> Contents -> PlugIns -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> PlugIns -> PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin -> Contents -> Resources -> MetaClasses.plist. Add the text directly after the very first <dict> tag.

Now add the following text to /System -> Library -> SyncServices -> MotorolaConduit.bundle -> Contents -> Resources -> USBDevice.plist after the very first <dict> tag:

<key>C975</key>
<dict>
   <key>idProduct</key>
      <integer>12290</integer>
  <key>idVendor</key>
       <integer>8888</integer>
</dict>
Plug the phone cable in, run iSync, and "Add new device" (Command-N). With luck, the phone should show up for syncing. If not, reboot and try again. Now I just have to find a way to send Java apps to the phone by USB...

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