Sony Ericsson W705 Bluetooth sync - 'Start remote control?'

This seems to be a 'new feature' of Snow Leopard with many Sony Ericsson phones. I haven't found a way to prevent it happening so I guess it is a bug in iSync or the Bluetooth system software. I am in the process of submitting it as a bug report to Apple.

I would be interested to know if you have been able to sync your W705 with iSync on Snow Leopard. I've been successfully syncing for a while now and then with Snow Leopard it does the remote control stunt that you describe and also when the phone is paired it says that iSync doesn't support the phone and won't let me add it to iSync as a device.

I have downloaded and installed the SE plug in - there doesn't appear to be an update for 10.6.

In addition the option of pairing to a "mobile phone" appears to have gone from SL.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

P1

I have the same problem only Im still using 10.5 and my phone is SE w810. While it asks about remote my mouse freezes.

OK today I found out the reason that the W705a was "not a supported phone" in iSync.

I had downloaded the Sony Ericsson plugins for iSync and installed them again after the upgrade to 10.6. This however did not fix the issue.

Today, somewhere random, I saw a mention of permissions on Library/Phone Plugins (or some similar location ;-))

I went there to find that I didn't have any permissions over the directory. I fixed that and restarted iSync and have successfully synced the SE phone.

Things to note. I repaired all permissions after installing 10.6 and the problem survived that and this worked fine under 10.5.8

Who knows? Anyway it worked.

Regards

Mike

Just like to say i get the same 'start remote control?' message. This happens not only when I use isync but, it seems, whenever i try to do anything with my phone and laptop over bluetooth. I'm sure this never happened with 10.5

It's really annoying.

I have a sony ericsson c510 and 10.6.1.

If you are watching, apple, please fix this.

Can you please provide a bit more steps on how do you set the permission on the directory? I'm new to use Apple.

Can you give the fixing code?

"I went there to find that I didn't have any permissions over the directory. I fixed that and restarted iSync and have successfully synced the SE phone."

Hi.

Just to say that the problem exists between Mac OS X 10.6.1 and a Sony Ericsson K810i (supported by modifying the iSync Plug-In for K800. Not sure that the problem arised with the Mac OS X 10.6 upgrade. Really annoying because it happens also when I send a SMS via emitSMS.

Best regards.

This also happens with 10.5.8. My phone is set up to ask whenever a bluetooth request comes in, so I just answer "no" when it asks me if I want the phone to be a remote control for the mac, and everything is fine. If your mouse freezes, you should find that you can actually operate the mouse pointer using the navigation buttons on the phone keypad.

I guess that there should be a way of either:

- stopping the mobile phone advertising itself as a "HID mouse and keyboard" (HID stands for Human Interface Device, I guess), or

- stopping the mac asking to be controlled by the phone when you connect using bluetooth.

I haven't found a way of doing either yet. In any case, the fact that this happens isn't a bug: some people may want to use their mobile phone as a remote control and welcome this new feature. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to stop it from happening in the bluetooth options though, and that definitely is something that Apple should fix.

I haven't found a way of doing either yet. In any case, the fact that this happens isn't a bug: some people may want to use their mobile phone as a remote control and welcome this new feature.

Using your phone as a remote control is not a new feature. My old Sony Ericsson T610 (released in 2003) had this feature and the screenshot below is from Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and it was there as an option:

!http://www.jools.me/isync/BTremote.png!

However, what has changed in Mac OS X 10.6, is that during the pairing process you no longer get those options to set up the phone - it just chooses them automatically, so you cannot choose to uncheck the use as a remote control feature, even if you wanted.

I've had confirmation from Apple that this is a known bug in Snow Leopard, and apparently they're working on a fix.

Yep,
I just ran into that thread and can confirm the conclusion. The "Remote Control" issue occurred with Leopard and a Nokia as well as with a Snow Leopard and a Sony Ericsson. I also went thru all configs but could not find any matching option to uncheck. Hence, I guess (and hope) this is a bug and hopefully get fixed soon. I would appreciate if anyone has any workaround for this ...(?)
Thx for any further info!

Been getting remote control question only recently (on OSX.5.8 and K770i). Now my sync has up and died. Only going from Mac to phone but not other way. Currently uninstalling my plug-in and trying to do a first-time sync.

If anyone has had similar issues I'd love to hear from you...

This is extremely annoying, looking fwd for a fix or perhaps some clever workaround by someone in the mean time.