Motorola W490

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Motorola W490

Anyone have any news on when Apple might support the Moto W490? Any 3rd party solutions out there? I've tried the various plugin hacks the get iSync to recognize it, but no joy. There is a little app called GSM Remote ( http://www.traud.de/gsm/remote/) that sees the phone and will import and sync vCard format, so I was able to upload my contacts from Address Book, but I'd also like to get my iCal info in there...

Thanks!

-Frank

Powerbook G4 1.5GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Motorola W490

Posted on Nov 1, 2007 6:58 PM

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Answer 1

Frank Welte Author

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Nov 9, 2007 6:42 PM in response to Frank Welte

For anyone else who's interested, this thread over at Mac Rumors describes how to add Moto W490 support to iSync:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4431751

Remember to delete the phone from the Bluetooth device list, then make the changes to the plugin (within the iSync application):

iSync -> (show package contents) -> Contents -> Plugins -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> Plugins -> PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin -> Contents -> Resources -> MetaClasses.plist

Edit this with TextEdit and past in the following after the first <dict> statement:

<key>com.motorola.W490</key>
<dict>
<key>Identification</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.gmi+cgmm</key>
<array>
<string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+W490</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
<array>
<string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+W490</string>
</array>
</dict>
<key>InheritsFrom</key>
<array>
<string>com.motorola.usb-bt.0x22B8/0x4902</string>
</array>
<key>Services</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>ServiceName</key>
<string>com.apple.model</string>
<key>ServiceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>ModelName</key>
<string>W490</string>
<key>PhoneIcon</key>
<string>MOTW490.tiff</string>
</dict>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>ServiceName</key>
<string>com.apple.synchro</string>
<key>ServiceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>stringEncoding</key>
<string>UCS2</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>

If you want the right icon to display, you can get the TIFF file from the above thread and move it to the same directory as the MetaClasses.plist file resides in.

Add the Bluetooth phone via Set up Bluetooth Device and you should be go...

-Frank

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bhgl

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Nov 13, 2007 11:43 PM in response to Frank Welte

Frank,

I'm running 10.5 that ships with iSync 3.0.

I tried the following to get this to work:

1. Steps on MacRumors ( http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4431751) - No Joy
2. Steps pointed out by you - No Joy
3. iSync 3.0 comes with a special plugin for K1, and W490 is almost identical to it. I tried duplicating the plugin folder and search/replacing the "K1", "k1" with "W490" - No Joy

4. If you have development tools /Developer/Applications/Utilities/ISync Plug-in Maker.app allows to create a brand new driver. With this I'm able to detect the phone in iSync but I can't Sync.

5. I also tried taking the detection strings from #4 and trying with your steps - No Joy

Let me know if you would like to look at the plugin from #4 and I can send it over.

Cheers

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bhgl

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Nov 14, 2007 1:14 AM in response to Frank Welte

I've created a plugin for Motorola W490. It is able to sync contacts and calendar events on 10.5.

Feel free to download it from: W490.dmg ( http://idisk.mac.com/nbhogal-Public) - there is a screenshot uploaded as well.

* I haven't tested it with 10.4.x - if someone can give it a shot it would be great.

1. Unpair the phone from the Mac - Bluetooth Preferences
2. Delete the Mac from your phone Connection -> Bluetooth -> Devices
3. Install the plugin
4. Pair the phone
5. Sync
6. Joy

Cheers

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Answer 4

Nov 29, 2007 8:03 AM in response to bhgl

Unfortunately no joy with your plugin for me on 10.4.11. Frank's info above worked for contacts but does not for calendar items. Events will sync from my w490 phone to ical, but if they are updated in ical they will not propagate back to the phone.

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Nov 29, 2007 8:05 AM in response to Frank Welte

Has this solution worked for your iCal events? For me it does not--I get errors about iSync not being able to sync all my events. Contacts seem to work perfectly--no issues. Thanks.

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Nov 30, 2007 4:00 PM in response to bhgl

I have 10.5.1 and a W490, I followed your process and installed your plugin, I get:

"Motorola W490
This device is not supported by iSync."
.
.
.

How do I uninstall the plugin?

Message was edited by: Mark Hodges

Message was edited by: Mark Hodges

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Answer 7

Nov 30, 2007 4:29 PM in response to Mark Hodges

I followed the MacRumors process and it works fine.

To answer my question, the PhonePlugin directory is in /Library

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Answer 8

Dec 1, 2007 7:22 AM in response to Mark Hodges

Does your phone also sync ical events in 10.5.1 using the plugin? I was able to get contacts to sync perfectly, but events only go one way from phone to ical and are not synced or updated in reverse.

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bhgl

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Dec 1, 2007 3:11 PM in response to Christopher Goodman

I was able to sync calendar events with the plugin. My W490 did not come through a carrier and it returns a different GMM string than what you guys have.

The plugin I created uses the same string, its gives back

<string>"Motorola"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","GSM850","MODEL=W490"</string>

I'll post a version with the string mentioned by Frank.

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Answer 10

Dec 1, 2007 7:26 PM in response to bhgl

Sorry bhgl, I should have mentioned that I am using 10.4.11 and NOT 10.5.1 (yet) and iCal events are not syncing for me with Tiger. I created the phone plugin directory, but it seems that iSync 2.4 does not read that. It does appear to look internally (within the package contents) at additional plugin files there. I tried adding your plugin there but it says not supported. It may be the identification string.

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