More on iSync and the N73
October 1st, 2006 | Published in tech | 16 Comments
IGNORE EVERYTHING HERE AND UPDATE TO 10.4.9. SYNCS NATIVELY NOW, AND REMEMBER TO REMOVE THIS PLUGIN.
Since I’ve inadvertently become the first hit for “isync N73“, there is certain responsibility. Responsbility because: I began to use that phone even before it hit the markets worldwide, there was no information available on how to get it to work with iSync, so I did the most logical thing — edit the MetaClasses.plist, as a stop gap solution. I was fully intending to return to using Sony Ericsson phones after reviewing the Nokia N73, but well, let’s say I’ve surprised myself this time.
Now that this phone has gone on the market, and is proving rather popular, I am getting an influx of N73 users finding my little workaround hack through Google, and through the several Mac forums which had linked it. I don’t use it myself anymore, and here’s why: it frequently gave errors towards the end of syncing, did not update my Address Book properly, and all events created on the phone shows up in a different timezone in iCal, with no way of making it display correctly except manually. I knew it didn’t work well at the time, but I only needed to get my phone book into the new phone, at the time. As I began to use more of the calendaring, to-do and other features of the phone, the limitations of the workaround showed. I restored the original state of the MetaClasses.plist file, and set about to find something that worked better.
Through this site, I found a proper plugin which gave proper sync functionality to the phone. It’s in German, and the site is rather slow (I’ve never managed to get it to load fully), but the direct link to the download works fine. After downloading, drop the plugin into the folder alias (provided there for your convenience), and you’re all good to go. Remember to delete the lines I recommended adding from MetaClasses.plist, because if you don’t the next sync will create double copies of your contacts and events inside your phone.
*Updated: The plugin’s website works now. Here is a translation.
