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iSync doesn't support my phone!

slughead

slughead

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I just got a Motorola W315 to replace my [much better] monochrome phone that met its terrible demise after a date with a rain storm.

The W315 is apparently a cheap version of the PEBL.

I noticed that this little bugger has a USB port on the side of it so I plugged it into my mac.

The thing is detected in Windows, but iSync pretends it's not even plugged in.

This is lame.

I suppose it's not a big deal because I bought this phone because it was the cheapest one at the Verizon store and therefore shouldn't expect anything more than for it to make calls, but still!

My question is: When does Apple usually update iSync to include other phones? Anyone think my poor little POS phone will ever be supported?
 
iSync doesn't support my phone (k800i) but I found a patch that made it work.
 
It would be nice if Apple modified iSync to let the program individually connect with an Apple server or something and get new profiles, so that new profiles for it could continually be rolled out. I have always been able to get the phone I already wanted and have it work, but it seems to me that Apple could do better about adding support for major models. What they've done in the past is intermittently add them in dot upgrades to OS X (e.g. 10.4.9), occasionally iSync updates, and of course the major revisions (e.g. 10.5). But it tends to be in spurts and falls out of sync with the latest phones rather frequently....
 
Yeah, welcome to the club. Apple has a list on their website that shows what phones sync with iSync. Not many when you think about how many phones are out there.

slughead said:
I just got a Motorola W315 to replace my [much better] monochrome phone that met its terrible demise after a date with a rain storm.

The W315 is apparently a cheap version of the PEBL.

I noticed that this little bugger has a USB port on the side of it so I plugged it into my mac.

The thing is detected in Windows, but iSync pretends it's not even plugged in.

This is lame.

I suppose it's not a big deal because I bought this phone because it was the cheapest one at the Verizon store and therefore shouldn't expect anything more than for it to make calls, but still!

My question is: When does Apple usually update iSync to include other phones? Anyone think my poor little POS phone will ever be supported?
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Incredible to me that the LG KG800 Chocolate is still not supported. There are so many of them out there, but Apple is still sleeping on this one. Hoping it makes the 10.4.9 patch.

In my experience, Apple's support of phones has historically been really shoddy.
 
sunfast said:
Just using google! I've done the same for your phone and found this. Hope it helps :)
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Thanks, I tried Google, but that didn't come up.

I jumped the gun a bit. I checked the Apple website and it did not list my phone as supported. When I posted I had just plugged it in for the 8 hours before first use that was recommended.

Now I have the phone working, It seems it is supported as it connected without problem, it even lets me use the phone as a remote control for my Mac or as a modem. Not that I am planning on either (I haven't been using the remote that came with my iMac anyway).
 
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