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10.4: Add Motorola V710 Bluetooth support to iSync
Authored by: fortunatefool50 on Aug 20, '05 06:35:04PM

ahh yes...i am getting very frustrated.

consider me a mac newb. finding the metaclass.plist file isnt my problem. its all those tags...i dont know where to put them. im opening the .plist file via omnilook or whatever its called...should i be doing this?? everytime i change the motorola v710 file, it saves as a document which i dont think is helping my cause. i have tried the new hex codes b/c i do have the isync 2.1 update, but to no avail....

basically what im asking is how do i input the info into the computer so that it actually werks. also...the phone isnt connected to the computer via a cable while doing this, correct??



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10.4: Add Motorola V710 Bluetooth support to iSync
Authored by: sjshaw on Sep 10, '05 03:30:35PM

I followed the instructions dealing with the new changes to the plist file. I have the latest updates to Tiger. When I try to add the v710 as a device in iSync, it still reports, "this device is not compatible with iSync" or some nonsense. Also, in Bluetooth settings, everything is greyed out except "connect to Internet."

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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10.4: Add Motorola V710 Bluetooth support to iSync
Authored by: eponsworley on Sep 18, '05 01:48:56AM

Aaaarrggg... this seems to work for some, and not for others. I'm one of the others. I used Terminal and cd .. to the Applications directory, then cd to iSync.app: Contents: PlugIns: ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice: Contents: PlugIns: PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin: Contents: Resources: MetaClasses.plist. I used vi to edit the file and :wq to save it. I made sure the changes were exactly the same--no typos. Deleted the phone, re-added it, etc. but the iSync option is still greyed out and iSync still says "this device is not supported by iSync" when I re-add it. I do have the right firmware version. The only thing is, what about the USB-BT driver? Does that come with 10.4.2? Or do I have to get it somewhere. Otherwise, I don't know why it won't work for me.



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10.4: Add Motorola V710 Bluetooth support to iSync
Authored by: canoeberry on Oct 16, '05 03:13:45PM

Did you get this working yet? I am on 10.4.2 and I made the changes and it just worked.

There is just one line in that entire file you need to edit:

<string>com.motorola.usb.0x22B8/0x2A22</string>

becomes

<string>com.motorola.usb-bt.0x22B8/0x4902</string>

The ".usb" becomes ".usb-bt" and the "/0x2A22" becomes "/0x4902". This all happens on line 995 of the file.

The bluetooth assistent did NOT allow me to specify that I want to sync my contacts, but the iSync application allowed me to add that device. The first time I tried it on my wife's imac I had forgotten to edit the file and even iSync said that I couldn't not use bluetooth to sync the phone. After I edited the file and tried again it worked as advertised.

Both my computers upgraded just fine.

This osx hint is FANTASTIC! But I don't like to see people still suffering!



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