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I was asked a favor from my sister to sync her SE z710 mobile phone with her macbook. I’m a proud user of a Mac and iSync and would gladly teach her to sync, unfortunately.. Her phone are not supported.

And so it kills me to see why Apple wouldn’t support a fairly old model like z710 (like what? a year ago). So off I go and learn to make my own plugin. I’ve seen the iSync’s default phone plugin, how hard can that be?

Well, it’s not that easy either.. I’ve google for about 2 hours and found this and this which is my start of writing z710 plugin. Ok, let me wrap it up from those manuals and articles that I read. Here goes!

First, make a new folder called PhonePlugins on /Users/your_username/Library/ (note: your_username is, well.. your username. Anyway you can also place PhonePlugins in /Library/ but just to be save, let’s put it in the Users Library folder).

Second, copy the closest model you can get from default iSync phone plugin on /Applications/iSync/Contents/Plugins/ ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/Plugins/

For example, I need to make z710, the closest I can get is z530, so I copy that to /Library/your_username/PhonePlugin/ and rename it accordingly. I rename SonyEricsson-Z530.phoneplugin to SonyEricsson-Z710.phoneplugin.

Third, edit the MetaClasses.plist in that folder plugin (find it in Contents/Resources/) and change the name of the phone to your phone. Example, I change all the occurrences of Z530 to Z710.

Save it and you’re done! (Well, you should be :D)

Now all you have to do is pair your device and add it to iSync. Don’t know how? It’s easy, all you got to do is:

• Turn on your bluetooth
• Tell it to browse/send file(s) to device
• Your phone will want to confirm that your computer wishes to connect
• Click OK on the phone and enter the pairing phrase (just use 1 or any number, as long as you enter the same number on the phone and computer)
• And you’re done pairing!
• Next! Fire up your iSync, and choose Devices > Add Devices. If your homemade plugin worked, then your computer should be able detect the phone and add it

Ok, these process are not without flaw. First of all I haven’t change the device icon (still z530) and I wish to do so but it gives me error when I use my owh .tiff file that I save using Photoshop, so i’m still researching there.

Because of that no icon condition, I don’t want to distribute my code. Well.. since I only find and replace so I guess I’m not that proud either. So just make your own plugin or if you’re that lazy, buy it from this guy.

Hope it helps!

written by Kuy