S700 and iSync

salling · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:00 pm Post subject: S700 and iSync

On popular demand, here's a recipe to make iSync work with S700i, S700a (US), and S700c (China):

Phase 1:

1. Quit iSync

2. In Terminal, type:
sudo pico /System/Library/SyncServices/BTConduit.bundle/Contents/Resources/BTConduit_phones.plist

3. Follow the existing pattern in the file, adding:
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1021051-BV</key>
<string>bttool</string>
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1021051-CN</key>
<string>bttool</string>
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1031051-BV</key>
<string>bttool</string>

4. Save the file (ctrl-O)

5. Quit (ctrl-X)

Phase 2:

6. Remove the pairing information from both your S700 and your Mac. I.e, remove the S700 from your Mac's list of paired devices (*not* from Favorites), and remove your Mac from the phone's list of Bluetooth devices.

7. Initiate pairing *from* your S700. After repeating the authentication key on your Mac, a service panel should pop up (on the Mac). Here, an iSync option should be available.

8. Now open iSync (it may take a minute for the new phone/S700 to show)

Sometimes, things will fail at step 7 (service dialog doesn't show). In that case, try repeating from step 6, possibly keeping iSync open at the same time.

This works for me. Of course, your mileage may vary. The S700 models are not officially supported by iSync, and I'm not responsible for any ensuing Address Book mayhem.

Best of luck.
--
Jonas

Advocate · Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

Thanks for this excellent tip Jonas. However I did read that syncing with the S700i would only come with Tiger due to the fact that SE had changed the method they used to sync?

salling · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

Well. That's not really true. As you know, it's possible to tweak iSync to make it work quite well.

- jonas

[quote="Advocate"]Thanks for this excellent tip Jonas. However I did read that syncing with the S700i would only come with Tiger due to the fact that SE had changed the method they used to sync?[/quote]

Advocate · Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

So what is all this baloney about needing Tiger to use iSync?

Hmmm let me see if I can find the post about it....nope can't see it anywhere.

I definitely read about there being two ways to sync and that the S700 was using the way that iSync doesn't support yet (they even mentioned the name of a new Apple employee specifically brought in to add this functionality)

C'est la vie

salling · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

I do not know of what baloney you speak. :-) A lot of people have misunderstood how iSync works.

- jonas

[quote="Advocate"]So what is all this baloney about needing Tiger to use iSync?

Hmmm let me see if I can find the post about it....nope can't see it anywhere.

I definitely read about there being two ways to sync and that the S700 was using the way that iSync doesn't support yet (they even mentioned the name of a new Apple employee specifically brought in to add this functionality)

C'est la vie[/quote]

Advocate · Newbie Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 16

Man, I've searched and searched for the original post/blog/whatever that I read about this and can't find it grrrr!

Honestly, I REALLY did read that iSync currently uses method X of syncing and that the S700i uses method Y and that this was to be introduced into iSync in Tiger.

I'm not going mad, it's the squirrels...
I'm not going mad, it's the squirrels...
I'm not going mad, it's the squirrels...
I'm not going mad, it's the squi....dweeble futz....brrrrrrrrr....ding!

OK I'm going back to my padded cell now :roll:

iNemo · Newbie Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 12 Location: In a Field.

Cheers Jonas.

Googled for an answer to getting S700 to sync and didn't turn anything up. Came on here to get the beta to get Clicker working and thought i'd search on the off chance there was a hack or tweak to get it working. How right I was.

salling · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:16 am Post subject:

I'm glad it worked out for you! Be careful with firmware updates for now, since some of the new firmwares cause iSync to crash, rendering the trick above useless.

- jonas

[quote="iNemo"]Cheers Jonas.

Googled for an answer to getting S700 to sync and didn't turn anything up. Came on here to get the beta to get Clicker working and thought i'd search on the off chance there was a hack or tweak to get it working. How right I was.[/quote]

furland · Newbie Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Denmark

Great tip, and it's still working.

I've been searching the web for a solution to synchronize the addresses in addressbook to a S700, not just the phonenumber and email, but I can't find a solutions.

Does anybody know if there is a solution?

metric152 · Newbie Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

just picked up the phone today and i used your information to get the phone into isync and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the info

addyboy · Newbie Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 9

The trick does not seem to work for an SE V802 :?:

royland · Newbie Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 1 Location: South Africa

Must I type the lines, as laid out, in terminal? In other words must sudo pico be followed by /System/Library etc? Must it then be followed immediately by
the steps in point 3? Do I give a return after entering? Excuse me, But I am not familiar enough with Terminal. Is it possible to email me the terminal text to paste in?javascript:emoticon(':oops:')

On popular demand, here's a recipe to make iSync work with S700i, S700a (US), and S700c (China):

Phase 1:

1. Quit iSync

2. In Terminal, type:
sudo pico /System/Library/SyncServices/BTConduit.bundle/Contents/Resources/BTConduit_phones.plist

3. Follow the existing pattern in the file, adding:
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1021051-BV</key>
<string>bttool</string>
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1021051-CN</key>
<string>bttool</string>
<key>Sony Ericsson--separator--AAB-1031051-BV</key>
<string>bttool</string>

4. Save the file (ctrl-O)

5. Quit (ctrl-X)

Phase 2:

6. Remove the pairing information from both your S700 and your Mac. I.e, remove the S700 from your Mac's list of paired devices (*not* from Favorites), and remove your Mac from the phone's list of Bluetooth devices.

7. Initiate pairing *from* your S700. After repeating the authentication key on your Mac, a service panel should pop up (on the Mac). Here, an iSync option should be available.

8. Now open iSync (it may take a minute for the new phone/S700 to show)

Sometimes, things will fail at step 7 (service dialog doesn't show). In that case, try repeating from step 6, possibly keeping iSync open at the same time.

This works for me. Of course, your mileage may vary. The S700 models are not officially supported by iSync, and I'm not responsible for any ensuing Address Book mayhem.

Best of luck.
--
Jonas[/quote] :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: