iSync with Motorola a630 phone

[Jody]

Enclosed is a zip of my MetaClasses.plist file.

Note that you will also need an a630 graphic. I just duped one of the other tiffs in the same folder and renamed it: MOTA630.tiff but it means that in iSync, my a630 looks like a flip phone ('cause I didn't bother to find a similar model).

Does anyone have a nice a630 tiff they'd like to share?

FANTASTIC. It worked! Thanks so much.

 

[mkrishnan]

Can't you just resize something like this and save it as tiff?

 

[Toe]

Hm... actually I think this tiff will work just fine. Enjoy.

 

[Toe]

Can't you just resize something like this and save it as tiff?

Aw, man... that graphic was a lot better than the one I just uploaded. Well, OK, here's the file to use then.

And yeah, you can basically just save anything as tiff, assuming you make it 60x60 pixels, surrounded by transparency, and save the transparency and layer information.

 

[mkrishnan]

LOL, I thought they looked pretty much the same!

But anyway, nice! Now I just gotta get me one of those A630s....

 

[Toe]

Just to summarize, here is what to do to get your a630 working with iSync in Tiger:

1. Quit iSync if running
2. In the Finder, press command-shift-G to get the Go to Folder option.
3. In that go-to window, enter:

   /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/

4. In that folder, rename MetaClasses.plist so that you have a backup (you'll probably want to undo this process before you ever upgrade iSync)
5. Decompress the 2.4 file (or the 2.3 file or the 2.2 file or the 2.1.1 file or the 2.1 file or the 2.0 file) and place it in that folder.
6. Also place this file (decompressed) in the same folder so the phone has an icon.
7. On your a630, go to Go to Settings/Connection/Bluetooth Link/Setup/Find Me. You then have 60 seconds to find it with your Mac.
8. Launch iSync and press Command-N. It should take you through it from there.

P.S. And you can link to this particular post using this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=1581997#post1581997

 

[tommy3rd]

Just to summarize, here is what to do to get your a630 working with iSync...

just in case someone else happens to stumble upon this thread, FYI this hack is for OS X Tiger.

 

[senseibiz]

I have tried this over and over, does this only work with an usb cable.
I tried it with bluetooth and i get this.

 

[Toe]

I have tried this over and over, does this only work with an usb cable.
I tried it with bluetooth and i get this.

Nope, this is for BlueTooth.

Have you already run the iSync 2.1 update?

The file I reference in step 5 of the step-by-step is the edited file from iSync 2.0. So if you're already on 2.1, perhaps that's the problem.

What you can do is, instead of step 5, open your MetaClasses.plist in TextWrangler, and paste this code after the third line of text (ie, just before the "dict" on the fourth line):

<dict>
        <key>com.motorola.A630</key>
        <dict>
                <key>Identification</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm</key>
                        <array>
                                <string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","GSM850","MODEL=A630"</string>
                                <string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","MODEL=A630"</string>
                        </array>
                        <key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
                        <array>
                                <string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","GSM850","MODEL=A630"</string>
                                <string>"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+"GSM900","GSM1800","GSM1900","MODEL=A630"</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>A630</string>
                                        <key>PhoneIcon</key>
                                        <string>MOTA630.tiff</string>
                                </dict>
                        </dict>
                </array>
        </dict>

 

[senseibiz]

i have already updated it to 2.1
maybe that's the problem.
can i delete isink and copy the older version from My ibook to the g5.
and run this again.
thanks,

 

[Toe]

Here's the proper file to use for iSync 2.1.

I will edit the step-by-step instructions to link to this file.

 

[mkrishnan]

Nice work! You should put this up as a webpage somewhere, Toe! I bet a lot of people would appreciate it.

Sadly, T-Mobile so far has rebuffed my please for them to provide me with a reasonable way to get an A630 for less than $300.... Their best offer is a V330 for $100. How that is not a downgrade in every way from the phone I bought two years ago, I'm not entirely sure....

 

[senseibiz]

Here's the proper file to use for iSync 2.1.

I will edit the step-by-step instructions to link to this file.

Thanks, Please let me know what I need to do step by step.
when you rename the plist, what do you name it.

Thank you for your help

 

[knowram]

bluetooth sync

i have done everything in this post but i am still getting the same error "isync can not connect to this device". is this because i am trying to connect with bluetooth. TOe have you been able to get isync working with bluetooth or are you using a usb cable?

 

[Toe]

knowram, this is with Bluetooth. Senseibiz, I just duplicate it and leave it the way the Finder names it (with copy in the file name).

Don't know what the trouble might be with y'all... it seems to be working just fine for me. Are you getting any errors when you try to copy the files over? Did you decompress the zip files?

Did you turn on BlueTooth Discovery on your a630? Go to Settings/Connection/Bluetooth Link/Setup/Find Me. You then have 60 seconds to find it with your Mac.

 

[knowram]

it seems that i am getting errors when i try to browse my phone now. i installed a program called blue phone elite. and now i can't seem to get the browsing to work. do you have any ideas?

 

[senseibiz]

knowram, this is with Bluetooth. Senseibiz, I just duplicate it and leave it the way the Finder names it (with copy in the file name).

Don't know what the trouble might be with y'all... it seems to be working just fine for me. Are you getting any errors when you try to copy the files over? Did you decompress the zip files?

Did you turn on BlueTooth Discovery on your a630? Go to Settings/Connection/Bluetooth Link/Setup/Find Me. You then have 60 seconds to find it with your Mac.

This is what I am doing, I download the zip file, it automatically decompress.
then I move the file to the folder. everything goes fine, I start isinc, I get error. bluetooth in on in the phone.

I duno.........

 

[Jody]

So anyone get this working with iSync 2.1 yet?

It seems like hte new version of iSync DOESNT have built in support AND breaks the hack ya'll came up with.



This sucks

 

[senseibiz]

Toe, I did it. but I did it for isinc 2.0. I copy it from my ibook to my G5.
then I copy the plist files and .tiff to the applications, ............

I re-started isinc and there it was.
finally. I will keep it this way until i find out a way with 2.1

Thanks again.
Sensei

 

[Istan]

A630

Can get the phone on Amazon for Free AR, need to sign up for new service though. Anyone figure this out on Pather?

 

[knowram]

well i was able to get it to work. i had to reinstall os 10.4 and copy the .plist file before running any updates. and it will work on this new partition i mad. now dose anyone know where the information is kept that says what devices you have added so that i can copy that form the partition that i got it to work on the my main one that i use?

 

[Toe]

well i was able to get it to work. i had to reinstall os 10.4 and copy the .plist file before running any updates. and it will work on this new partition i mad. now dose anyone know where the information is kept that says what devices you have added so that i can copy that form the partition that i got it to work on the my main one that i use?

In your user folder, in the Library, there is a folder called Phones.

In my case, I undid the change, ran both 10.4.2 and iSync 2.1 updates, did the change again, then re-found the phone. Just to see if it could be done. Worked great.

For anyone who has had trouble with this... the only thing I can guess is that the owner and permissions might be set wrong if you copy over my version of Metaclasses.plist. Get Info on that file and look under "Ownership & Permissions." Owner should be "system" and Group should be "admin," both with Read & Write.

 

[fujiapple]

Have you been able to sync names/numbers from the phone to the address book? It looks like it only works from the mac -> phone. Anyway, this is definitely a step ahead.

 

[Toe]

Have you been able to sync names/numbers from the phone to the address book?

Yes. To confirm, I just added a new contact to my a630, iSync'd, and then found that number in Address Book on my PowerBook.

 

[fujiapple]

Aha, I see that only the entries saved to the Phone's internal memory are sync'ed (rather than those on the SIM card).
This is really really really fantastic. Thanks to Toe and everyone else who contributed to this.