My Motorola W510 is not supported by iSync - anything I can do?

[NN84]

Hello. I just got Motorola W510, and I feel like I'm one of like three users of that phone and Mac OSX in the world. There are iSync plugins for a lot of other phone models, Nokia even creates them for their own phone models, but NOTHING on W510 - Google search for "motorola w510 isync" only gave me ONE relevant page, and it was a post on this forum (linked below).

I've tried everything I could to make it work (got an Address Book full with contacts from my previous phone), but I just couldn't succeed. iSync will always say, that the phone is not supported, when I try to add it.

I used Klaus's code (described in this post (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=41889&highlight=w510&page=4)), downloaded Pref Setter, tried to import the code, even tried to repair the xml in Dreamweaver, by comparing it to other Motorola's, but still couldn't get it right.

Can You PLEASE try to help me? If anyone had found a way to copy the Address Book from their Mac to Motorola W510, would You please let me know how you did it? Thank You.

Have a great day!
-Desperate guy from Slovenia, Europe

[Skybolt]

Have you looked at BitPim? Don't know if it supports your phone, but worth a try.

[Anti]

If another of the W-series phones are supported by iSync, you could possibly try this trick:

http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/0801.html

[Spongy]

I tried a couple of similar hacks as the one posted by Anti. Unfortunately, I could do nothing to get iSync working before my V3i was supported. I had to wait until support was built in by Apple in an update. Looks like you'll be waiting at least until 10.5 though...

[elliot2201]

Hi,
I hope it's not too late... I just got my W510 today.
Same problem with iSync, same check on google and I found your message.
I have tried the hack from the website proposed to you:
http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/0801.html
And IT WORKS!!!
What I did was to copy the protocol for the motorola V6, change all the V6 or RAZR-V6 occurences to W510 and that's all.
The first sync (with option to delete all the contacts from the phone before synchronisation) took a while and gave some error messages, but the next ones went perfectly fine...
And now, it works ;)
I hope that will be the case for you too...
Let me know if I was not clear or if I can be of any other help.
Good luck and enjoy :)
elliot

[Goups]

Hi
it works for me. I bought it from Fido. I found it in the forum. The only part that I need to change is the CGMI+CGMM part. It could be different from the provider you bought it. Use ZTerm to find the right CGMI+CGMM part.

It works only in USB mode.


<key>com.motorola.W510</key>
<dict>
<key>Identification</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm</key>
<array>
<string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","GSM850","MODEL=W510"</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
<array>
<string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","GSM850","MODEL=W510"</string>
</array>
</dict>
<key>InheritsFrom</key>
<array>
<string>com.motorola.switchable-usb-bt.0x22B8/0x4902</string>
</array>
<key>Services</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>ServiceName</key>
<string>com.apple.model</string>
<key>ServiceProperties</key>
<dict>
<key>ModelIcon</key>
<string>MOTE398B.tiff</string>
<key>ModelName</key>
<string>W510</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>

[flips]

Can you you tell me How i can use ZTERM ?
I downloaded DMG file, install it, plug the mobile phone on USB , start ZTERM and connect ZTERM to the W510 by USB.

A this point i'am ok.

But what can i do with the beautiful white windows ?

Any command to send ?

Thanks for you help.

[penter]

Hi,
I hope it's not too late... I just got my W510 today.
Same problem with iSync, same check on google and I found your message.
I have tried the hack from the website proposed to you:
http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/0801.html
And IT WORKS!!!
What I did was to copy the protocol for the motorola V6, change all the V6 or RAZR-V6 occurences to W510 and that's all.
The first sync (with option to delete all the contacts from the phone before synchronisation) took a while and gave some error messages, but the next ones went perfectly fine...
And now, it works ;)
I hope that will be the case for you too...
Let me know if I was not clear or if I can be of any other help.
Good luck and enjoy :)
elliot


Hello everyone!!

This is my first post in this forum community!
Anyway, i would like to know exactly the final code that ended up working for you (not the original and unedited v6 coding).
I got a Motorola W490, but i think that the w490 and w510's firmwares are probably really similar, so tweak it a little and make it into a w490 plugin.
If you could provide me with that code that would be awesome! :)
Thank you very much, in advance.

[rsaviolo]

Hi, I hack open the file as described on http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/0801.html (used TexShop) and edit the section with reference to the razorV6. Change all the occurences to W510 and that's all as elliot2201 did. Don't forget to confirm the Product and Vendor ID. The first sync took a lot of time but that's no problem:cool:.
If anyone got some doubt, please write to me by email.
cheers
saviolo

[Marilee]

Hello, I see these posts are a bit stale, but I just got my W510 yesterday. Is there a new solution, or is this it?

I've just read the bit about editing http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/0801.html
My problem is that I can't find the file that he's talking about to edit. I tried to Command +click on the isync application, but it didn't magically let me into the code.

So where do I find;

Contents / PlugIns / ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice / Contents / PlugIns / PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin / Contents / Resources / MetaClasses.plist

So I can hack into my W510 which I got yesterday...

Thanks so much. I know I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'm stuck.

[penter]

check this out:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=376362&highlight=w490

[azabache]

I got it to work in Leopard. See elsewhere on this thread to find out where to place it within the iSync application.

If someone can tell me how to put a zipped file of my hack, I'll do so. I'm new here.

Thanks to all who contributed.