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10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!
Authored by: xth on Nov 08, '05 11:32:41AM

That was extremely helpful and worked as advertised for a 9500. Thanks a lot! Here's the same set of instructions in 'baby steps', for those who asked for it (sorry no French though ;-)

(0) you must do the following using an account with admin rights
(1) open Terminal - you'll find it in the Utilties folder inside Applications
(2) type "sudo -s" (without the ") and hit return
(3) type in your password when asked and hit return - now you are running as the 'root' user
(4) type "cd /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/" (again, without the ") and hit return [sorry about the page widening!]
(5) type "cp NOKNGAGE.tiff NOK9500.tiff" (again, without the ") and hit return - as thoth explained in the original post, you can type any other file name instead of NOKNGAGE, it doesn't really matter. And adapt NOK9500.tif to whatever phone you are trying this on.
(6) now you need to edit the MetaClasses.plist file. You can do this in a variety of ways.
(*) within Terminal, by using pico (an easy to use command line editor). Don't be scared - unlike scarier command line editors, pico shows you what all the keys do at the bottom of the screen (bear in mind that ^ means 'hit the ctrl key').
Just type "pico MetaClasses.plist" (without the ") and hit return
(*) with TextEdit. Type "open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app/ MetaClasses.plist" (without the ") and hit return
(7) once you got the file open, paste in this bit at the 5th line, right after the <plist version="1.0">. The formatting doesn't look too XML-like, but it still works. Alternatively, use the code from thoth's original post.
<dict>:

[code]
<key>com.nokia.9500</key>
<dict>
<key>Identification</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
<string>Nokia+Nokia 9500</string>
</dict>
<key>InheritsFrom</key>
<array>
<string>com.nokia.serie60v2.0</string>
</array>
<key>Services</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>ServiceName</key>
<string>com.apple.model</string>
<key>ServiceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>ModelName</key>
<string>9500</string>
<key>PhoneIcon</key>
<string>NOK9500.tiff</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
[/code]

Note that I've done this for a 9500, and I used NOK9500.tiff from before - it should be easy to adapt this to a different phone.
(8) Save the file.
(9) Delete any existing 9500 pairing from iSync, then quit iSync
(10) in System Preferences, Bluetooth, Devices, click on 'Set up new Device' and follow the steps again.
(11) Open isync, and run a sync; it will display an error asking you to upload the "AppleSyncAgent." click on OK.
(12) On the phone, go into Personal, Messaging - there should be a Bluetooth message (that would be the AppleSyncAgent)
(13) double click on it, and install it (don't save it). Ignore all the scary messages from the 9500
(14) run iSync - et voila' ! Bob's your uncle!

Once again, thanks to thoth for the original post!



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10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!
Authored by: MM1 on Nov 18, '05 04:24:26PM

As a complete UNIX novice thanks for the help on this I got all the way to step 8 and then when I tried to save the file as instructed I was confronted with questions that I couldn't answer -- I know it is a basic question but once I have amended the MetaClasses. plist file how do I save it ... pls assume that I know nothing ... thx MM1



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10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!
Authored by: xth on Nov 24, '05 02:48:50AM

What was the question?



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10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!
Authored by: jarihirvonen on Apr 05, '06 09:13:23AM

Seem so that this thing works after the recent upgrade (to v2.2). I just added the 9500 key to Metaclasses.plist and reinstalled the isync application. I removed the existing 9500 device and reinstalled it, and performed the merging sync.

No information lost. Couple of unnecessary changes, mostly regarding the picture of the contact.



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iSync and Nokia 7710? [10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!]
Authored by: Mårten on May 22, '06 01:14:21AM

Being a dork,

I duplicated the N-Gage image in Finder and changed the name to NOK7710.tiff before venturing to dupicate the plist file and opening it using Text Editor.

When pairing my phone the only Bluetooth option visible is using my phone as a modem.

What occured to me is that I might have screwed up the plist file by opening it with an application not mentioned in this thread. Any file properties or permissions that might have been corrupted by doing so? One indication that something is not wrong is that the Nokia 6630 I have previously synced now has a red exclamation mark in iSync, stating that there is no valid script for this phone.

So... What should I do? I tried to sva the file again, using the terminal and I tried both Your code and the code from the original post with no success. Also, how can I verify what string to use for the Nokia 7710 to be correctly identified? Could the string to use differ between different language versions or firmware revisions of the phone? Has anything changed since these posts were done? I'm running 10.4.6 on a Power Mac G4 MDD.

Thanks,

Mårten



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10.4: Add Nokia 9300 iSync support: Babysteps!
Authored by: kimbrly836 on Jun 05, '06 09:15:01PM

Ok here's my problem:

I took my G4 to the Genius Bar because I didn't want to be messing around with inserting code etc. The did it for me after batting my eyes at three of them :P...the problem is that iSync gives me a "no device activated."

But I am also not being promted to install Applesyncagent(60v22), which is where I think the problem is.....i never downloaded this application...I can't find it in any of my files...where do I get it?



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