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FOLLOW THIS LINK TO GET THE SNOW LEOPARD COMPATIBLE PLUGIN
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The Nokia 6300 do not appear in the list of supported phones for the iSync application in Mac OS X. Nokia has neither made a plug-in available yet, but it is possible relatively easy to make the iSync work. Here is at short guide to make it work:
- Make sure iSync is not running.
- Locate the iSync application in the Applications folder, and select Show Package Contents.
- Locate the MetaClasses.plist file at this path: Contents > PlugIns > ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice > Contents > PlugIns > PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin > Contents > Resources.
- Back-up the MetaClasses.plist file just to be safe.
- Open MetaClasses.plist with a ordinary text editor, e.g. TextMate.
- The trick is to find a phone in the XML list with the same operating system as the Nokia 6300 phone, which is the Nokia Series 40, 3rd edition, with Bluetooth and USB. The Nokia 6280 fits this requirement, and the below XML is a copy of the 6280 XML entry with changes to fit the 6300, which should be inserted below the 6280 entry.[ad code=1 align=left]
com.nokia.6300 Identification com.apple.cgmi+cgmm Nokia+Nokia 6300 com.apple.gmi+gmm Nokia+Nokia 6300 com.apple.usb.vendorid-modelid 0x0421/0x045A InheritsFrom family.com.nokia.series40.3rdEd.bus.usb-bt Services ServiceName com.apple.model ServiceProperties ModelIcon NOK6300.tiff ModelName 6300 ServiceName com.apple.synchro ServiceProperties MaxCityLength 50 MaxEMailLength 60 MaxEventLocationLength 150 MaxPhoneNumberLength 48 MaxPostalCodeLength 50 MaxStateLength 50 MaxStreetLength 50 MaxURLLength 60 Alternative: Copy the 6300 XML from this link
- Add this phone icon NOK6300.tiff in the same folder as the MetaClasses.plist file. It is important that the file name matches the one in the XML definition.
- Now it should work… Save and close the MetaClasses.plist file and start up iSync. Make sure that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone. Select Add Device… from the iSync Devices menu. iSync should find your Nokia 6300, and display the icon that you just added.
If the USB connection is to be used for the iSync with the Nokia 6300, e.g. if you do not have a bluetooth device on the computer, then change the com.apple.usb.vendorid-modelid XML setting from 0x0421/0x045A to 0x0421/0x04F9
Additional notes:
– When to the bluetooth connection is setup properly, it’s also easy to put music on the phone. Just select Browse Device… in the dropdown under the bluetooth icon in the menu bar, and browse to memory card and drop your music.
– If you are having trouble connecting to the internet via bluetooth using the phone, take a look at this post.
– Nokia has also posted some information about how to connect your Nokia phone to a Mac, and setup iSync. More here…
– The approach is tested and working with the Nokia 5300 with USB connection, view these comments here and here.
Just downloaded it and works very well. Thanks very much.
thanks a lot. it was perfect and very easy. :)
Thank you for such a comprehensive solution that was so simple to implement.
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Thanks for publishing this – still proving useful!
You can use this for Nokia 3110 classic in a similar way. Find instruction and an appropriate icon here:
http://knol.google.com/k/andreas-keller/how-to-use-isync-with-nokia-3110-classic/1u1xydutfk2vl/1#
Legend..! Thanks so much! I’ve just changed phones from a Sony Ericsson, and this made transferring my contacts a doddle. Thank you thank you thank you! :)
Ariadna – go to Menu > Contacts > Settings > Name Display > First Name First. Job done. :)
Amazing!
thanks so much!
What is the product ID for the Nokia 6263 and is it possible to sync it with a Powerbook G4?
Thanks! It’s working!
My Nokia 6300 connected to my Mac very well via isync but has been stolen and now replaced with a 6301. How do I sync my 640+ numbers and addresses now??
Hi,
many thanks. One related question:
– One can choose a group of adressbook and only the list gets synched towards the phone.
– But new contacts created at the phone are not synched to a specific group in Adressbook. Is there a way to do this?
This is useful if you want just a selection of contacts on the phone.
Regards
Superb!! I almost bought another phone :-)
Thanks!
I have a Nokia 6300 and have downloaded your plug in. I also have isync but I am not sure where to go from here. When I locate isync as you say I can’t find the Show Package Contents – any advice – with thanks
it work’s perfect with nokia 3500c
Did anybody get the Nokia 3500c to work with the new iSync 3.0.2 on leopard?
Works!!!
Sir, I owe you a drink. Many many thanks.
dear klaus,
i feel young again. have never done anything of this kind before, am a digital infant, but i followed your instructions and it worked like magic. maybe you’re a genius or otherwise quite brilliant, in any case, i just wanted to say thank you,
luigi
Very cool, thanks
Perfect! Thanks a lot.
love u for the plugin, as my prewriters said, just awesome. just works – its not a trick its a mac :-)
i need unclock for 6500s
Worked for me in only 5 min.
Thanks!!
Sjoerd
jeg har lige hentet din kode og det virker fint bortset fraat jeg ikke får tlf. nr. med over med mindre de er opførst som privat, jeg kan heller ikke få kalender oplysningerne fra ical til entourage, kn du eller en anden hjælpe en ny mac. bruger
op forhånd tak
Thanks for this hint.
But one problem still remains: All day envents are not synced correctly to the phone.
On the phone these events have a start at 2pm and an end at 2pm the same day.
Any idea how to solve the problem?
thanks
Use the plugin instead, it supports all day events. Goto http://klauskjeldsen.dk/2007/06/08/free-nokia-6300-isync-plugin/
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amazing. many many thanks!
I am having trouble syncing my mac calendar to the 6300. The phone calendar only seems to accept events occurring in the next month.
Any ideas?
Brilliant Help!!! It works just perfect!!
Jeej!! Works great!! Just one thing, phone-icon is missing in action…
I LOVE YOU HAHAHA
WORKS SUPERBLY.
AMAZING FIX – even I managed to do it without prior knowledgel!! Thank you so much!! You clever people make the world go round!! x
Klaus, you saved my day!
The day’s of my 6300 are counted and the new Phone looks around the corner. So i had to save all my contacts and date’s to my mac. But, the hell, there’s no sync on Nokia or Apple.
Dude you made it.
Big THANK’S.
MJB
Thanks for this excellent help. I can get my old Nokia 6300 to sync, but having trouble with my new 6303. Do you know if there is something fundamentally different about the 6303 or should this solution still work?
Thanks!
Works a treat. Thanks so much for this. All contacts & diary fully synced to my 6300. Genius!
This didn’t work for me. I realize there are a myriad of possibilities, but I did everything as instructed and still my 6301 won’t sync with iSync. Any other suggestions?
Doesn’t seem to work with Snow Leopard. Picks plugin up but when i double click while setting it up, isync crashes.
I should have been more specific. When I double click the phone icon while “adding device” isync crashes. Any ideas people?
It appears my last comments were deleted. I don’t understand why? Anyhow to re-iterate. There is a problem with this method or either isync with Snow Leopard. I previously had it working with just Leopard with the downloadable plugin version on this site. I have subsequently tried the instructions above to manipulate the isync config to get my 6300 working but both the plugin and the config change cause the same issue. That is when trying to “add device” in isync, upon double clicking on the 6300 icon, isync crashes. Can someone please help. I realise most might not have Snow Leopard yet but surely someone has an early retail copy.
YES!!!!!!
This worked excellent for my new Nokia 5130 XpressMusic as well, I copied the XML entry for the 6110 and changed it all entries of 6110 to 5130c-2 and it worked. Then used isync for sync of calender and contacts. So happy!
has any one tried this with a nokia 2330 classic, i have try all of the above ideas and swapped the model number in the file but still does not work, any ideas??
Hi there,
Just wondering if you will be generating a Snow Leopard version of the plugin (I’ve done all the other steps but iSync doesn’t like the Leopard plugin).
Thanks for your work.
BTW, I just noticed some other people asking about Snow Leopard…
I tried using iSync with all the changes excluding installation of the plugin and it seems to be working at this stage.
Many-many thanks, man! Yay! It works!
For me, the file pathway was there but the MetaClasses.plist file was just missing.
Any ideas why this is?
Thanks a lot Klaus, the plugin worked just fine until yesterday I installed Snow Leopard. Now there is a red sign with an exclamation mark next to the phone symbol on the iSync screen, and when I try to synchronize, it says that I have to install the plugin once more. But this doesn’t work either as it says I don’t have the required rights. Repairing rights didn’t help any.
Any solution in sight?
IT WORKED IMMEDIATELY! YOU ROCK
Amazing fix. Worked a treat. Thanks so much!
Brian,
I have the same problem.
With Snow Leopard after reinstalling this patch – isync crashes when double clicking on the Nokia 6300 icon after selecting add device.
Has anyone figured out how to solve this?
Thanks
I couldn’t save the PList file after I added the new XML code.. Can anyone help me out?
Brian, Charlie
I had the same problem as you with OSX 10.6.1 and it’s finally fixed now.
Anyway, you can see my post at the end of this link (rogermellie @ 09.10.2009 11:18 CEST).
http://kaspers.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/04/13/how-to-isync-a-nokia-6300.html
Use this for the Nokia 6303 classic:
(basically the some as for 6300, but change “6300” into “6303 classic”
Is there a plug in for the Nokia 3555?
Thanks!
Hi how do I update my nokia 6300 with the latest software with a mac??? Thanks
This plugin was posted in 2007 but it still works with the latest Mac OS (Snowleopard). Thanks to the author.
Hi there Klaus, I tried the xml manual way first but isync crashes after successfully detecting the 6300 devise. The Snow Leopard compatible plug in worked a perfectly (the xml update had to be reversed first though. The plug in worked a charm after that. Thanks a mil for the post and solution. Jon
I have just installed Snow Leopard, and Klaus’ method works perfect with Snow Leopard. Absolutely no problems. Thanks a lot!
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thanks!!!!!! it really works thanks again for taking the time of doing this
Or pay 9,95 Euro once and get our iSync plugins at novamedia.de without the need to change any metaclassed :-) The result is the same, though!
These plugins work with 370+ phones as well, btw
Kind regards,
Jan Fuellemann (nova media)
I have made a plug-in for the Nokia 2330 classic, which you can have for free, not because I particularly believe it should be free, but just because I can’t be bothered to charge for it. You can get it from:
http://www.atkinsfamily.ukonline.co.uk/nokia2330isyncplugin.html
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It works great!
Gramse
Thanks for this…worked a treat!
d.
PLEASE HELP !
Dear Klaus,
About one year ago I installed your iSync Plug-in as described in this article “How to iSync a Nokia 6300 on Mac OS X” and it was working perfectly ! Thanks for this. However, some days ago all of a sudden it the iMac seems unable to connect with the Nokia 6300 using iSync (although I can browse the Nokia 6300 via the iMac and send sms messages from the iMac via the Nokia 6300). When I startup iSync, it only mention “connecting” without any other action. I tried to re-install the Plug-In, but without positive result. So I’m really desperate, since it used to work perfectly and was very very useful. So, could anybody help ? Many thanks in advance !
Thank you very much you saved my day!!!
thx!!!!
Great. Thanks very much for posting this.
Will this plug-in also wok for the Nokia 6350? I’m not a programmer and would like to know before I get started on this project.
Klaus, thank you so much for posting this info. What is up with Nokia that they are not supplying a plug-in for iSync for all their phones???
Hi.
I found the XML on this page copied exactly as above crashed iSync. I believe there is an extra or misplaced tag somewhere in there.
In any case I just copied the XML from MetaClasses.plist for the 6280, replaced with 6300, and I’m off and running. So despite my minor troubles, many many thanks for the instructions. Without them I never would have found that file, or known the right phone to duplicate.
Just confirmed, in the txt file the XML begins: com.nokia.6300
Identification
In the copy on this page:
com.nokia.6303
Identification
That extra tanked me. No worries though.
Shoot…the XML got wiped out. Anyway…
Many thanks – I have a Nokia X3 which is also a Series 40 phone. I followed your advice and changed the XML to add a section for: Nokia X3-00
It works like a champ! (using iSync 3.0.2 and Leopard)
Great post – thanks a lot mate
I followed exactly instructions to iSync my Nokia 6303 classic it keeps sayng “device is nor supported by Isync”
Im confused if to put in the xml just Nokia 6303, or Nokia 6303 classic?
Thats absolutely Brilliant, thanks so much
James
Thanks a lot. It worked… amazing…
Hi.
It worked perfectly on 6300. Doesn’t work on 6303. Florian #46 I tried but it didn’t work. Any one has any suggestions?
Thanks
It didnt work. I have Mac os X Tiger and in MetaClasses.plist, I replaced the 6280 XML portion with the 6300 and copied the Nokia.tiff to the folder as well. When I start iSync, it detects the Nokia 6300 during scan and shows the Nokia photo as well. But when I double-ckick on my phone, iSync shows it as “unknown (!)” on its sync-bar and doesnt sync at all. What have i done wrong? Thanks a lot
thx a lot klaus
works perfectly for nokia 6300
Klaus, many many thanks!!!!!
I don’t know WHY Apple doesn’t insert the supporting of more device in their iSync… because iSync is nice, easy, powerfull but… I cannot belive WHICH is the reason to don’t support more device…
By other side, this trick is really funny: insert code, concentrate to don’t make “sh*t, hehe!
Thanks a buch!
Ian wrote: Many thanks – I have a Nokia X3 which is also a
Series 40 phone. I followed your advice and changed the XML to add
a section for: Nokia X3-00 It works like a champ! (using iSync
3.0.2 and Leopard) —— Ian can you post your configuration? I’ve
been trying to get my X3-00 working on Snow with out any luck. Or
email it to witscher@gmail.com Thanks
Works nicely with the Nokia 6300 and OS X 10.5.8.
Tak.
oh man…sweet as!!…works awesome. thank you so much..:-)
Does not immediately work on Snow Leopard 10.6.6… to make it work you’ll need to move the phone plugin folder to the Plugins folder in the iSync package. You’ll see other phone plugins listed there as well. I named the folder “Nokia-6300.phoneplugin” and moved the content folder from the plugin to this folder. You can then delete the plugin from it’s previous location. Start iSync and it should work.
wonderful, thanks a lot
I got this to work with a Nokia 6350 from AT&T. I’m running OS X 10.6.6. Instead of XML and a text editor to modify the MetaClasses.plist file, I opened it with Property List Editor (one of the tools in Apple’s free XCode developer’s download). I copied the Nokia 6280 entry, pasted it, renamed it to 6350, changed every 6280 item to 6350, and saved the modified plist file. I downloaded the NOK6300.tiff file, renamed it NOK6350.tiff, and added it to the already open Resources folder. I closed the iSync package, launched it, and it recognized the 6350 and synchronized it with my Address Book. Yeah!
Note: Initially I could not save the changed MetaClasses.plist file. I had to open the iSync package, select the Contents folder, Get Info on it, add my admin account to Sharing & Permissions and give it Read & Write privileges, and then select the option to Apply to enclosed items.
Hi, when i had problem with my new Nokia X3 i tryied http://www.phonecopy.com which synchronize contacts via GSM network to cloud and i downloaded free App for my Mac to access it. Works great.
You Rock Man!
Thanks
Rigtig mange tak !:-)