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A sane way to use your N70 with iSync

Update, 5 April 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.6 includes iSync 2.2, which supports the N70 out of the box, so you can ignore this if you've got it. You can happily remove the iSync Agent app, which also solves the N70-as-a-modem clash as a bonus!

There are two silly ways to make iSync work with your N70. One is free and usually involves hacking an iSync internal file, the other costs €10.

The sane way is to download my N70 iSync plugin, open the .dmg, and follow the instructions in the ReadMe.rtf file.

This has only been tested with iSync 2.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.5, and it WILL NOT WORK WITH 10.3.9 OR ANY PRIOR VERSION OF iSYNC. (There's no warranty, your computer may explode and eat the entire solar system, etc, etc.)

If you want to use your phone as a bluetooth modem, you need to read my last post. Using iSync on the N70 causes some easy-to-work-around problems, which I cover there.

Basically you have to copy the plugin bundle to either ~/Library/PhonePlugins/ or /Library/PhonePlugins, creating PhonePlugins if it's missing. Dead easy.

The silly options

I've tried both options, because the sync I got from my free solution wasn't perfect: not all my contacts sync over (and it seems to be a different missing contact each time).

For the second option visit novamedia.de. I tried this, to see if it would help with the modem problem, or if it would provide a better sync. It does neither. I've checked the files and it's doing Exactly the same thing as the hack. There's no point giving them money, and their phone icon is really crude. ( rasp )

I did a bit more poking and discovered that you could do the same thing as the hack without actually hacking anything! Yay! All you have to do is make a new iSync plugin, which can be very simple. I was following the method outlined at Tao of Mac.

About the plugin

The plugins have the same format that the internal iSync ones do, and I've seen the raw info for what info you need to do to hack those in several places (one of which has since put their version behind an eBay pay wall, which is kind of funny), but they all seem to ask you to hack the file by hand, which is kind of scary.

The N70 plugin is little more than a duplicate of the Nokia 6680 entry, with a new icon (which was the thing that required the most work).

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