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Plugin page has moved, visit: new Nokia 6500 Classic iSync plugin page.
This plugin is only tested through trial-and-error so use it at your own risk. Only Bluetooth is supported. Please write a comment if you find any bugs or want to request any features.
READ THIS BEFORE DOWNLOADING:
Always double check what iSync wants to change/add/delete! As a couple of people have pointed out there are a nasty bug regarding syncing contacts. I have yet been able to fix this issue as it appears to be very random. If iSync tells you that it wants to change more than 5% of the contacts on your computer and wants to delete a couple of contacts even though you haven’t deleted any in your phone; DO NOT SYNC. You will erase a majority your contacts and your phone contacts will get erased in next sync and if you haven’t backed it all up somewhere they will be gone forever.
Installation Instructions
- Download the latest version of the iSync plugin from below.
- Decompress and move Nokia-6500.phoneplugin to ~/Library/PhonePlugins (create this folder if it doesn’t exist)
- Start iSync and find your phone.
- Follow instructions above and overwrite the old Nokia-6500.phoneplugin
- Before syncing, make sure to back up all your contacts and iCal events on the computer. You also might want to reset all contacts and events in phone or else there’s a chance you will have contact and events duplicates after sync.
Changelog & Download
- v. 0.4 – Email (multiple) and URL support.
- v. 0.3b1 – Beta release with Tasks support. Needs more testing before final release. See issues below.
- v. 0.2 – Added icons with correct resolutions.
- v. 0.1 – Tested in iSync 3.0 on Leopard only.
Known Issues
- If iSync hangs and then asks to check data connection; visit this Apple support page for solution:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627?viewlocale=en_US - If you get this error message: “There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been canceled on the phone.
Device “Nokia 6500c” synchronization failed.”. Restart iSync and restart bluetooth in your phone. Be sure to not have any dialogs open in your phone while syncing. - Isync cannot reset device (remove all contacts and events/notes/tasks in phone) for doing a fresh sync. If the sync for some reason gets cancelled; in some cases you will need to manually remove all contacts and events/notes/tasks in your phone and then reset the device from within iSync. Devices -> Reset All Devices. Make sure that you close all dialogs in phone before syncing as this will trigger this bug.
- Marking a Task as ‘Completed’ in phone will remove the task from the To Do Items list in iCal instead of just checking it.
- Tasks added in phone might display wrong due date (-1 day) and alarm time (00:00) in iCal.
- Tasks added in iCal will display a due time +1 hour in phone. I think it has something to do with daylight saving time and might not be a bug.
Just got my Nokia 6500c (bronze version) back today in an updated version and so I tried to reinstall your plu-in which I have used with great succes in the past. I ran the bluetooth set-up assisstant and succesfully connected the phone and my MacBook Pro running leopard. My problem is that iSyns can’t connect to it when I try to add the phone in order to configure and sync it. I can’t finde the error – I have already unzipped and copied the folder to PhonePlugins and like I said – it sed to work. Also I have manually deleted the other phones installed (none of which I use). What am I doing wrong, please help??
Thx
M
Got it to sync finally after 1,5 hours, but the connection seem very unstable. any thoughts?
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Help, I have used this in the past but my old mac had to be completely refurbed and lots of apps were lost. I cant link to the plug in here, a couple of updates but I cant download the plug in. It worked brilliantly before but cant get it now.
Hey guys..
I’m lost.. I can’t sync my nokia 6500 classisc with Isync!
It seems as if Michael’s pugin can help me, but I really don’t know how to make it work.. How do I install it?
Hi. I’m using macosx 10.5.5 Leopard, and isync 3.0.2. I’ve been trying to sync my 5220 XpressMusic with my mac. So, I downloaded your script, (and replace every “6500 classic” to “5220 XpressMusic” with the same kind of writing, so if there’s no spaces, i use no spaces, and such). I also tried to put the phone plug-in at the .>user>library>phoneplugin folder, or in the isync.app i right clicked>show package content>contents>plug-in>and so forth. But still i couldnt sync it,….it’s driving me mad. I still haven’t had contact list on my phone til now, and to think i have to input it manually, or copy from my sim card,..arrrggghh. Help please, anyone?
this is awesome! thank you!!!
Hi!
Thanks a lot for a plugin!
I’ve synced my Nokia 6500 with Mac OS X (iSync 2.4) once – and it worked. But when I’ve tried to sync it another time – it doesn’t work. This massage emerges: “There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone. Device “Yu” synchronization failed”. Restarting Bluetooth and iSync don’t help.
What can be wrong this time?
Hey,
I synchronised, and it worked! But the 2nd time, it just synched 138 contacts out of 160… don’t know why. And same problem and dialogue box of the failure…
I tried restarting bt, even the phone. but nothing….
too much data? don’t know
Great Work, thank you for doing this for everyone.
One tiny addition to the instructions:
make sure you move Nokia-6500-0.4.ppdoc to Library as well as the .phoneplugin file
cheers
Jack
Great work!
Can i save messeges via isync? and how to do that???
thanks
Hi,
Thanks for the great plugin.
Yet I have one slight problem already posted by some users (Baptiste on the 29th of August and Kate on the 23rd of August 2008). All my adresses go from my mac to the phone but phone adresses don’t show in the mac adress book.
I could not see the answer in the thread…
Thanks for your help,
Ulrich
Hi. I’ve tried everything to sync my Nokia 6500c using your plug in, to no avail. I’m running OS 10.5.6 and iSync 3.0.2. Any ideas?? Many thanks.
Hi Neo&Yulia
I got the same message: “There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been canceled on the phone. Device “Nokia 6500c” synchronization failed.”
I ended up deleting all calender events on my phone (turned off and on bluetooth as described in the beginning) and then it worked – a bit irritating though :(
Has anyone found a solution to copying birthdays onto the Nokia 6500c? I’ve seen questions but no answers
Thanks
Mark
sorry lads
probably due to my lack of mac experience i am not too sure where to put the plugin file, “.phoneplugin to ~/Library/PhonePlugins” . but where is that
Cheers
Jm
The error with the synchronization is due to an error hwen placing the Nokia-6500.PhonePlugin in the wrong Library. A friend of mine had problems syncing when placing in an erroneous Library. Remembering that ~ means your homedirectory removes the problem…
I am trying to sync my Nokia 6500 classic with my mac (leopard & ISync),Isync recornises my phone and has even synchronised a little bit (calender). Nut now it has stopped working and I get the message: “There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been canceled on the phone.
Device “Nokia 6500c” synchronization failed.”.
I have tried the solution mentioned above: “Restart iSync and restart bluetooth in your phone. Be sure to not have any dialogs open in your phone while syncing.” But this doesn’t work. Is there someone with a smart solution?
Thanks, Jorrit
Good work fella. Works for me. Any chance of adding sync for the ‘Note’ field as well?
How come when I sync, everything gets doubled? Weird.
thanks for this plugin. however, i’ve got problems with it. i was able to successfully install the plugin but when i synchronize my phone with my macbook (leopard), it stops at 132 over my 583 contacts. I’ve tried all the versions beginning at version 2 up to the latest, still to no avail. I always got the same problem with the message “data transfer not possible. check data connection.” help, anybody pls
Pls. see my earlier post, I still have the same problem. If I place the file in the phoneplugin folder, do I have to place it in a specific subfolder or is it just ok to place the Nokia-6500.phoneplugin folder in ‘phoneplugin’ folder?
I just don’t understand some have these problems and some don’t have them?
Hope to get some help to solve this.
Thanks!
J.
Works great…!