where is that cursed tool exactly?

i dont see it in my /Developer tree

is this leper only? i have tiger.

also, is there a chunk of doc that calls out all of the different chunks of sync-fu?

i have a LG VX 10000.

using the bluetooth info and the data that gets dumped into the console, i have managed to hx3r a MetaClasses.plist and an Info.plist enuf to get iSync to agree that the phone exists (i get a green dot now)

but i get a ‘is the phone turned on’ failure from iSync and an ’end of our sync plan’ message in the console.

Hi John,

For me iSync plug-in maker can be found in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/. I am running Leopard (10.5.2), so maybe this tool isn’t included in the Developer Tools that ship with Tiger - I don’t know.

I’m not sure I understand your question about the “chunk of doc” and sync-fu?

Works brilliantly for my E61i, thanks for the great work!

Adding to your instructions, if you’ve already added the phone to iSync, you’ll need to remove it, edit MetaClasses.plist, then add the phone again.

Man, you are the greatest! I’d been longing for this solution since I upgraded from an S60 v2 phone to the newer s60 v3. You just made my N95 feel so much better!

I’ve never been so grateful for a solution, as I am right now!

Thx!

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Not sure if you encountered this problem but when I change event times on my nokia n82, it appears as a new calendar event on my ical, did you ever encounter this?

Thank you so much for this guide. This worked in no-time to fix a problem I’ve been struggling with for ages.

Hi Ian, I just changed the ending time for an event today on my phone and synced to the Mac, and it worked correctly – no extra events and the end time was correctly changed.

[…] I have varying degrees of success when syncing Nokia phones to my Mac.  Usually, everything works well as long as you have a phone that’s been out for at least 2 months.  However, there was always one issue that wouldn’t go away: all-day events in iCal turned into 00:00-23:59 meetings in Nokia Calendar.  These are hardly the same thing.  Luckily I found Ali Rantakari’s blog post on just this subject. […]

Hey guys!

After applying this fix, my all day events went from 14:00 till 23:59, before they went from 0:00 till 23:59.

Think I modded the file the wrong way, would it be possible to mail me a valid plist to marcelswietza@web.de?

Thank you =)

Marcel Swietza

I tried this for my e51 but it didn’t work, any ideas? thanks.

Turns out I was making a mistake in editing. With help from Ali, I made the necessary corrections to the Nokia E51 plug-in and it worked out very well. Excellent information on this site. Thanks!!

I tried this on my Nokia E71 as well and it works perfectly too. The MetaClasses.plist was actually the same for both the E51 and the E71 and I saw that the references to the particular model were the only ones different between the two .plists. Thanks again!

Thanks for the tip. Worked flawlessly for my 6110 Navigator. Is it possible to make events appear as anniversaries, not as memos? I tried changing

<key>AllDayCategories</key> <array> <string>EVENT</string> <string>ANNIVERSARY</string> </array>

to

<key>AllDayCategories</key> <array> <string>EVENT</string> </array>

but that made no difference. All entries from birthday calendar are still “memos”.

Hi svintuss,

I’m not sure if that’s possible. I’m also not sure how this works in your phone, but I guess the preferred solution would be to simply not synchronize the birthdays calendar at all and let your phone remind you of people’s birthdays in whichever way it is implemented there – after all, the birthdays from your Mac address book should be synchronized to the phone’s address book.

Actually, all of the all-day events in my calendar are birthday reminders, so forcing all records to be “anniversaries” would be enough for me :-) On the other hand there is no difference in “memo” and “anniversary” except for icon.

Hi Leo!

Could you send me a working plist for the E71??? - I can’t get it to work…whenever I go in and - to the best of my knowledge - edit the plist, then try to re-add the E71, it isn’t recognized…what am I doing wrong? sobs I’ve been DYING for this fix ever since my E61i two years ago!

All the best, Johan

Hello Johan. It was actually by trial and error that I made it work, I had the same problems you had. Try to do this:

1. delete the E71 device from iSync

2. delete the E71 device from the bluetooth devices list in system preferences

3. delete the Nokia_E71_1v1.phoneplugin folder from the PhonePlugins folder under Macintosh HD/Library

4. download and reinstall the E71 phone plugin from the nokia website (this will return the Nokia_E71_1v1.phoneplugin folder you deleted prior)

5. open system preferences and add the E71 to your bluetooth devices, make sure to choose mobile phone under the choices and that the syncing of contacts is checked in the window prompt afterwards (iSync application will then open)

6. don’t add the device yet to iSync

7. copy the original MetaClasses.plist to your desktop via drag and drop so you have a copy of the original

8. write over the original MetaClasses.plist in the phoneplugins subfolder with this and save:

[snip snip! (MetaClasses.plist contents with wrong formatting removed by Ali)]

9. try to add your device to iSync, making sure to choose the option of resetting the device with the data in your computer only instead or merging

10. if that doesn’t work, do the whole process again from number 1 but add the device first to isync using the original MetaClasses.plist then after choosing the resetting option instead of merging but before starting the actual sync, replace the MetaClasses.plist with the corrected one above then sync.

Hope this works!

Hello Johan, with my apologies to Ali. The format I posted turned out wrong. I didn’t think that the format would change if you post the MetaClasses.plist here. Please just post your email address and I will email it to you.

Hi Leo!

Alrighty, no harm no foul. :-) And please e-mail me the plist-file: johan at braindead dot dk - thanks! :-)

Your hack is working nicely with my N95 too :)

Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to figure this out for ages!! =D

So I changed it from:

AllDayCategories

EVENT ANNIVERSARY

to:

AllDayCategories

ANNIVERSARY

All all-day events now appear as anniversaries on my phone (E71). Do you know if it is possible to specify in the MetaClasses.plist to treat one iCal calendar a certain way? E.g. have all events in my birthday calendar treated as anniversaries, and all other all-day events from all other calendars as events?

Hi Henrik – no, I don’t know if that’s possible. See here for some documentation if you wish to research further: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/iSyncPluginMakerUserGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html

Thanks for the link (and for the plug-in mod in the first place)! I’ll see what I can figure out, if I come up with a solution I will post it here.

Hi, is there a way to sync notices with isync? I have a E71 and want to know if they were synced and where they will be stored on the mac under leopard?

Any ideas?

Chears,

Sebastian

Hej there! I’v the same problem as Marcel Swietza above: the all day events starts now at 14:00 and also end at this time. I’ve no idea what’s wrong with the code. Can you send me the modified file for using with E61i??? Thanks a lot, Matt

I’ve been trying this all day, but it’s my first and unsuccessful time. I’m on a e51, and i tried the instructions, but my all day events have realigned to 730pm - 730 am.

does the e51 require different configurations?

thanks alot.

Shaun.

after8ight@gmx.net

For my E51 I have done the modifications as listed above, but all-day events created in iCal are synched to the phone as events lasting from 13:00-13:00. :-/

Any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I’ve just added a link to the end of the post to the modified MetaClasses.plist file that I’m using – maybe that’ll help out some of you that have had problems.

You can use FileMerge (under /Developer/Applications/Utilities if you have the OS X Developer Tools installed from the OS discs that came with your Mac) to compare my MetaClasses.plist with yours and see all the differences.

Thanks Ali for posting the file for the N82! Unfortunately, the file is drastically different from the one I have for my E51 so a simple merge will probably suffice (tried it, not recognised).

BTW, is the iSync Plugin-Maker able to edit an existing plug-in and just change the all-day settings?

The new version from Nokia still doesn’t sync all-day events properly, unfotunately the fix doesn’t seem to do anything on it. I wished there was a solution… Johannes

Hi friend, Thank you so much for your help with syncing my N82 with iSync!! At first iSync displayed “not compatible” and so did many Nokia sites… I was about to go to the store when I found you. Nokia Eurpe website has saved many times, the best by far. Thanks so much.

Maurício from brazil

You’re the first one that I found, who has solved the problem. Unfortunately I have an e65 and your instructions don’t work here. The plist is not in the directory, where you said it would be.

Any idea??

Hi Manuel,

Instead of looking in /Library/PhonePlugins/Nokia_N82_1v1.phoneplugin/ (since you have an E65 and not a N82,) try looking for the folder that matces your phone’s model under /Library/PhonePlugins/.

Wow, that was a fast answer. Thanks!
I found the plist (in spotlight) and made all the changes as you instructed. Now my all-day-events are synced as appointements starting and ending at 13:00 (1pm). Same problem that Shaun Yong and Helge had. I’m thankfull for any further ideas!

(But this is at least better than before. Thank’s so far!)

I have also got the 1pm problem, hoping for a fix… These events should sync as memos, no? They aren’t. Is there a way to change that?

Hi!

I just tried your fixes for my E51 and they did not quite work. While Memos created on the phone are synced to my mac as all day events, all day events from my mac are still synced to the phone as meetings from 0:00 to 23:59. Also Anniversaries created on the Phone are synced as timed events from 0:00 to 0:00. In the other comments someone described some differences for e51 but unfortunatly the code was not posted. Could someone be so kind to repost that code or send it via email? mail is ulrich DOT strauss AT gmail DOT com

The exterior feels a bit cheap and a lot needs to be done to improve the navigation buttons. There is also no US 3G support. If these flaws don’t matter much to you and if you are looking for a phone that offers great multimedia experience, Nokia n82 is what you’ve been looking for.