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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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