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Creating your own iSync Phone Plug-in for OS X 10.4.9 iSync 2.4
Authored by: Accolade on Apr 12, '07 02:30:11AM

As some other posts have mentioned elsewhere on the site, the latest OS X/iSync updates break the functioning of this hint with some phone models (in my case the Nokia 6233). Some sites offering updated plug-ins are either unreachable or require you to buy a product.

I managed to hack the new iSync preferences for the Nokia 6233 as follows (don't know if this will work for other phones):

  1. As above go to /Applications -> iSync.app -> Contents -> PlugIns -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> PlugIns (This is where the above hint breaks down now...apparently there is no longer a PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin)
  2. Select the phone plug-in folder of the phone model that most closely matches yours (I used Nokia-6103.phoneplugin because the 6103 is a Series40 phone like the 6233) and make a copy of it.
  3. Rename the copied folder to match the name of your phone (in my case: Nokia-6233.phoneplugin)
  4. Open your new folder. Open the Contents folder.
  5. Now you should see: Resources folder, info.plist, version.plist
  6. Open info.plist in a text editor and search and replace all instances of the phone model number (in my case: 6103) with your own phone model number (in my case: 6233). Don't worry about making changes to these files...after all, you just copied the whole folder!
  7. Open the Resources folder. Now do the same string search and replace for the phone model number in the MetaClasses.plist file.
  8. If you want, replace the .tiff file of the old phone with a 60x60 pixel tiff file of the Nokia 6233 (I was able to find an 80x80 file on the net and resize it). For best results, make sure the .tiff background is transparent. Remember to rename the .tiff file by changing the phone model name/number to match the new name/number!

That's it! You're done. Now remember to backup all your address book, ical data (and the contacts, calendar data on your phone as well) before going any further. Then open up iSync, get rid of any old pairings, and then pair new device. It should work from there! If you changed the .tiff file, you might need to restart iSync after creating your new pairing for the image to update.

Hope this helps!



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Creating your own iSync Phone Plug-in for OS X 10.4.9 iSync 2.4
Authored by: Accolade on Apr 12, '07 02:38:59AM

I must be going blind in my old age. X-}

I'd followed the above hint last year when I got my 6233 and it worked. The recent updates did, however, break the hack. There is still a PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin folder and for some reason I completely missed it while I was making my changes this morning!

Still, the solution I outlined above is working well for me so, if anyone is having trouble getting their phone working with iSync, it's worth a try. :-D



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Creating your own iSync Phone Plug-in for OS X 10.4.9 iSync 2.4
Authored by: Trismegister on May 16, '07 12:58:48PM

This is tremendously helpul advice.
<p>Works fine for my Moto V560 which is <i>obviously</i> like a V550 so editing just a doddle.<p>Now I'm moving to a Motorola A910 Linux Java phone .... what the heck's close to that that I can edit?<p>Any ideas?



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