[by Silvarios] [from Hacking iSync to work with my Nokia 6086]

My new phone saga continues. I couldn’t figure out how to send my Address Book contacts to and from my Nokia 6086 and my MacBook. When I first configure the Bluetooth connection between the Nokia and my Mac I’m given two options:
1. Address Book
2. Internet Connection

The second options works great, but I never was able to grok the whole share Address Book info. Maybe I’m just dense. I can browse most of the directories on my phone from my Mac except for a few crucial spots, such as the Nokia’s Address Book. Big postitive note, just copied an episode of the Tech Night Owl Live to my phone’s new 2GB MicroSD card and it works great, well the process of copying the file went smoothly, but the Nokia’s media player is a bit lacking. I can’t seem to resume playback from the same spot after I answer a call and then hang up, fine for plenty of musical tracks, not so great when I’m somewhere in the middle of a two hour podcast.

Back to the Address Book syncing. iSync is not natively compatible with my Nokia 6086 cell phone, at least as of Mac OS 10.4.11, but when there’s the internet, there’s a way. Found three links right off the bat (thanks Google):
1. A somewhat lackluster review of the Nokia 6086 on some random person’s blog
2. Which linked me to a HowardForums post on how to hack my copy of iSync.
3. And finally this page which linked to a slightly different tactic in attaining iSync compatibility as option two did.

Sure, my phone graphic in iSync is wrong as I’m using some random Nokia phone graphic already included with iSync, but option three contains an image which will work fine once converted to tiff.

Nathan

Edit: I lost the actual link for my first “link three” and so you get the fourth way I found instead. Oops, then I forgot to add/fix links for number 3 and now that as well is fixed.

If you’re getting The message … could not be moved to the mailbox … in Leopard’s Mail.app 3.0 or 3.1, you might want to uncheck “Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox” in Preferences >Accounts > (account) > Mailbox Behaviors.

Thanks to James in this thread.

Hang in there gang. Together we can work out the bugs in the Mail.app 2 to 3 transition.

The more I look for an answer to my Smartphone/Tmobile network/non-Windows Mobile/iSync-capable phone needs, the more I find that a hacked iPhone is the answer.

Read about my thought process (and good input on using a Blackberry with a Mac) here
I need a phone. But which? And where to shop?

I used Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my MacBook’s drive before installing OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Instead of storing the data on my ocassionally flaky “Coolmax” 3.5″ enclosure (with non-flaky 500GB Maxtor drive), I chose to put the drive in my PowerMac G5 and clone in a machine-to-machine fashion using Firewire.

This is not a step-by-step, but rather just some thoughts I thought I’d pass on to those who may run into the same bumps I did with Carbon Copy Cloner:

On Mac OS

• enable Remote Login on the target machine
• mount the target machine’s volume

On CCC

• Target Disk -> Select a Target -> Remote Macintosh… here you must use a “.local” extension on your target machine’s name, for instance “G5.local”. “G5″ did not work for me.
• CCC creates an authentication certificate that you must install on both machines

Hope this helps!

What does it do?

• AirPort

  Allows password-protected accounts on AirPort Disks to show up on in the Finder’s Shared Sidebar.
  Resolves an issue with saved passwords for wireless networks.

• Back to My Mac

  Improves the reliability of Back to My Mac-enabled Macs appearing in the Finder’s Shared Sidebar.
  Improves compatibility with D-Link NAT gateways.

• Disk utilities

  Restores the functionality of the progress bar during permission repairs in Disk Utility.
  Addresses an issue that could produce an alert when creating disk images using Disk Utility or Terminal.
  Improves disk partitioning when multiple RAID sets are created on the same disk.

• iCal

  iCal alarms are now more reliably delivered via email.
  Resolves an issue when inviting attendees via a CalDAV account.

• Mail

  Improves stability when resizing columns in the message viewer or switching between Stationery templates in email messages.
  Addresses an issue in which attachments enclosed inside an HTML link may not be clickable in email messages.
  Fixes an issue with email accounts added using the “Simple Setup” feature in which messages cannot be sent due to an SMTP connection failure.
  Improves Smart Mailboxes compatibility with .Mac Sync, and addresses an issue with To Do’s disappearing when using Smart Mailboxes.
  Resolves an issue with syncing Mail accounts with .Mac in which multiple On My Mac folders appear in the Mailbox pane.

• Networking

  Addresses an issue in which Microsoft Windows shared folders may be read-only when connected via SMB.

• Printing

  Resolves an issue in which user-selected values on Paper Feed PDE are reset to default while saving a custom preset.

• Security, Firewall

  Addresses a code signing issue; third-party applications can now run when included in the Application Firewall or when whitelisted in Parental Controls.
  In Security preferences’ Firewall tab, the “Block All” option is now called “Allow Only essential services”
  Includes recent Apple security updates.

• System and Finder

  Addresses a potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder.
  Resolves an issue with login after turning off FileVault for a specific user account.
  Improves compatibility with Adobe Flash-based uploaders used by .Mac Web Gallery and certain other websites and applications.
  Resolves a potential text drawing issue with certain Adobe Flash-based websites and applications.

• Time Machine

  Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine (specifically, single-partition MBR drives greater than 512 GB in size as well as NTFS drives of any size and partition scheme).
  Resolves an issue in which files restored in Time Machine may be restored to the backup hierarchy rather than the folders to which they belong.