Brent Kearney

How to Sync a Nokia 6300 on OS X

Posted on: March 27th, 2007 @ 09:25

* * Update for Leopard * * (02/11/2007) I did a clean install of OS X 10.5 (Leopard) this week, and found that Apple still hasn’t added the Nokia 6300 to the list of supported phones! However, there is now a free plugin, which I tried and it works perfectly on Leopard.

Nokia 6300 Dissatisfied with the local selection of mobile handsets here in Canada, I bought a shiny new Nokia 6300 via EBay. Being a technology geek, I checked before buying to see if the device was compatible with my computer, and on the face of it, it appears that Mac OS X’s iSync does not natively support the Nokia 6300. However, a closer look revealed that several other Nokia phones that run the exact same operating system as the Nokia 6300 are supported in OS X, so therefore, the 6300 is actually supported, iSync just doesn’t know it yet.

So I ordered the phone, knowing that it is just a matter of time before it appears in the list of supported phones. I was excited to take my new toy out of the box, and I realized that it has been a long time since I actually bought a new technology gadget. My money has been going into outdoor sports equipment since I moved to the Rockies, four years ago. So it was a bit like Christmas morning, and I explored the new phone obsessively for the rest of the evening.

osxbox.png I quickly realized that I have quite a few contacts in my Address Book, many of whom have multiple numbers, e-mail addresses and IM identies, and adding them manually was going to take a lot more time than I was willing to put into it. Nor could I wait for Apple to catch up.

So I started Googling for other solutions, and discovered this German site, which sells an “iSync plugin” for bleeding edge phones that aren’t yet natively supported. It was tough navigating the site, which has a bunch of broken links and not much English. Babelfish helped, but the checkout screen has image files of words instead of words themselves, so the machine translation wouldn’t work.

I’m glad that the purchase didn’t workout, because I discovered this forum post, which describes how to add a phone to the list of models that iSync supports. It turns out that it’s fairly trivial to do:

Quit iSync if its running. Right-click (control-click, for you one-button mousers) on the iSync application in your /Applications folder, and select “Show Package Contents”. Navigate through the folders to Contents -> PlugIns -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> PlugIns -> PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin -> Contents -> Resources. Now, back-up the MetaClasses.plist file by clicking on it, and select File->Duplicate from the Finder menu.

** Update: for those who aren’t interested in carrying out the simple procedure outlined below, you can put this file into the Resources folder, and unzip it (by double-clicking it). Overwrite the existing file when prompted. Then continue reading below, starting at “Before you pair your Nokia 6300″…

Next, open MetaClasses.plist with a text editor.

What you need to do is find a phone in the list with the same operating system as your phone. The Nokia 6300 runs Series 40, 3rd edition, with Bluetooth and USB. The 6280 fits the bill, as indicated by the string “family.com.nokia.series40.3rdEd.bus.usb-bt”. So I made a copy of it’s XML entry, did a search & replace to change 6280 to 6300, and inserted the new entry below it. Here is my Nokia 6300 definition.

The next step is adding an icon for the phone. You’ll see the file name mentioned in the XML definition: NOK6300.tiff. The icons are 60×60 pixel tiff files with transparent back-grounds. Here is the icon file that I used for the 6300. Put it in the Resources folder, along with your MetaClasses.plist file.

Before you pair your Nokia 6300 using Bluetooth, you need to unpair your old phone, if you have one set up on your computer. Open the Bluetooth preferences panel in System Preferences, click the Devices tab, and delete other phones. Close System Preferences.

It should work now. 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 added. Enjoy!

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109 Comments:

  1. Bo on April 3rd, 2007 @ 12:26

    Great it works…i’m happy again. I was i little depressed when i took the phone out of the box and wanted to sync my contacts with isync, telling med it wasnt possible…thankyou for the great tip…strange that nokia is paying that little attention towards macusers…everybody knows we are the trendsetting types..

    Bo…Denmark

  2. Jiminy on April 4th, 2007 @ 13:57

    WOW! Was just about to pay some random German company 10 Euros when I stumbled on this. I KNEW it was unfair that other S40 3rd Ed phones were already supported in iSync… am so glad I stumbled on your article! It worked perfectly – Thanks very much.

    Jim.

  3. laben8 on April 5th, 2007 @ 22:42

    This is great. I also new there was just a simple workaround for iSync to work and again it’s not that worth 10 euros for that. Thanks a bunch. I also just got my nokia 6300 and spend the whole day the other day trying to get my contacts back on the phone. This one really helps. Again, thanks a lot.

  4. Nima on April 6th, 2007 @ 06:47

    Wow. This works great. Thanks alot!

    I just have one question:

    How can I make iSync sync the birthdays as well? The Nokia 6300 does have the entry birthdate in its addressbook therefor it should be possible to sync it, right?

  5. Jonny on April 6th, 2007 @ 10:04

    Yeh, the birthdays would be cool to sync.

  6. kerem on April 6th, 2007 @ 12:37

    Didn’t work for me.

  7. Nima on April 7th, 2007 @ 03:56

    Yeah, I’m trying to work it out. It should be possible, because both the MacOS and the Nokia addressbook have the birthdate entry…

    I’ll post my results here.

    @kerem: Did you exactly follow the instructions? It is relatively straight forward and should definetly work. You have to give a little more information than just “it didn’t work”.

  8. Romily on April 8th, 2007 @ 15:44

    Thank you! really clear and easy to follow instructions even for someone who is by no means a techy like me!

  9. Christine on April 9th, 2007 @ 07:11

    Hi,
    Thanks for posting this. I’ve already changed the metaclasses plist, but my mac still won’t sync with my 6300. Does it relate to the icon? I couldn’t copy the icon from your site and besides I can’t figure out where or how to change the icon. I would really appreciate it if you could explain it a bit to me! I really want this to work and also like learning a bit more about mac.
    Thanks.

  10. Brent Kearney on April 9th, 2007 @ 21:30

    Hi Christine,

    The icon is specified in the (edited) MetaClasses.plist file, here:


    ModelIcon
    NOK6300.tiff
    ModelName
    6300

    See where it says “NOK6300.tiff”? I would imagine that if you specify NOK6300.tiff in the plist file, but that file doesn’t exist, it might cause some problems.

    To copy the icon, click here, then select “Save As” from the File menu. Or if you’re using Safari, you can drag and drop it. Put the file into the folder with the other icons and the MetaClasses.plist file.

    Best,
    Brent

  11. Brent Kearney on April 9th, 2007 @ 21:40

    @Nima: that would be great if you work out the birthday syncing!

    I have found that images in vcards don’t copy over either…

  12. Christine on April 10th, 2007 @ 05:35

    Hi, I got it to sync (!!!!!), but what I found was that I had somehow accidentally added an extra “6300″ in the beginning of the metaclasses.plist file. I discovered this when I compared the copy to the one I changed, which of course underscores the importance of making a copy in the first place…
    Thanks so much for your help!
    Hurray! :-)

  13. Phil on April 10th, 2007 @ 13:46

    These are very clear instructions and I have now got it to work, however, it did take me a few goes.

    My main problem appears to be that I had an old phone setup to sync. I deleted this from iSync and also deleted the pairing from the Apple Bluetooth preferences. Then I added my new phone from the Apple Bluetooth preferences (“set up new device”) and followed the instructions. THEN it worked. I can’t say which of the above is vital, but this is what I needed to do.

  14. KK on April 14th, 2007 @ 07:32

    I can’t get syncing through USB working..
    Bluetooth works fine.. does this have something todo with my phone or my mac ?

    I was also wondering if it’s possible to charge with the USB cable..
    afaik it can’t :(

  15. Spot on April 14th, 2007 @ 09:05

    Great!
    Thanks a lot!

  16. Augusto on April 14th, 2007 @ 09:33

    You are great!!! I have just loaded all my contacts using iSynch and bluetooth… thx ;)

  17. Brent Kearney on April 14th, 2007 @ 22:36

    @KK: USB should work, if you used my Nokia 6300 definition file. It works for me. If you picked another profile and modified it, make sure it has “series40.3rdEd.bus.usb-bt” in it’s title — not all phones have USB.

    If you did all of that, it could be a faulty USB cable. Rare, but it happens. Or, a faulty USB port — do other USB devices work in that port? Is it a USB 2.0 port (try other ones)?

    You can only charge the phone using the proprietary charger from Nokia, unfortunately.

  18. Brent Kearney on April 14th, 2007 @ 22:39

    @Phil: it was probably the bluetooth pairing. I kept the settings from my old phone in iSync throughout the process, with no problems. My old phone didn’t have bluetooth though, so there was no pairing to remove.

    I’ll update the post to mention this — thanks!

  19. KK on April 15th, 2007 @ 05:27

    Well I removed iSync, restored a backup, edited the MetaClasses.plist file, entered your entry below the 6280 entry, and tried again, but no luck :(.

    Tried another cable, both of them work in removable storage mode.
    Maybe you have a different software version ?

    Mine is V 04.70 dating from 01-24-07 (RM-217).

    But I can live with this, because it can’t charge from USB, which is afaik the only con on this device, thanks for the info !

  20. Snorre on April 18th, 2007 @ 14:11

    Thanks, worked like a charm after deleting my old phone from isync! However, as others have mentioned some info in the icalandar was not transfered to the phone such as pictures, birthdays and jobtitles, all info that was transferred to my old Nokia E50. If you figure out how to this it would be great!

    Thanks again,

    Snorre, Denmark

  21. Vitor on April 20th, 2007 @ 08:20

    Mac 10.4.9 (iSinc)

    Where is plug-in for Nokia 6300

    Thanks

  22. Dash on April 22nd, 2007 @ 00:20

    Doesn’t seem to be working for me. I’ve tried the hack a couple of times, I’ve deleted my old phones, I bought the plugin from the German website, every time I just get an “unexpected” iSync error about halfway through syncing.

    Maybe my phone OS is out of date? It’s V 04.20, 05-12-06 RM-217.

  23. Falko on April 22nd, 2007 @ 11:41

    Hi,

    I don’t have the phone yet, but before I buy it, can you please answer some questions for me?

    1. Are all contact information fields synced except for the birthday?
    2. Are all informations from iCal synced? Notes, ToDo, numerous calenders?

    Thanks in advance!
    Falko

  24. Koos on May 25th, 2007 @ 04:02

    Wow man, you totally ripped off my blog post, word for word. Even stole the images and files. Now that is LAME.

  25. Brent Kearney on May 25th, 2007 @ 09:46

    Koos, you’re unbelievable! Several weeks after this post, you ripped my content and claimed it as your own. So I was a little pissed when I saw it, and left the comment that you just left above on your blog, which I see you’ve removed, and posted it here on mine.

    Of course either of us could have changed the dates on the posting to make it look like one was first, but as you can see right now, the first comment on my blog post (April 3rd) occurred after the publishing date (April 13th) of your post. Google cache could probably tell us the truth too.

    I wouldn’t care that you use the content — I do put a Creative Commons license at the bottom of my page for a reason. I’m open to other people using it as they see fit — but note that there are some rights reserved: all that I ask is that you give credit where it is due. A link back, for example.

    In my article, I linked to the sources of my information. I see that you left those out of your stolen version, claiming all knowledge as your own.

    Having said that, I’m the last guy that should bitch about copyright infringements. I didn’t create those images either. But if Nokia requested, I’d take it down in a flash — I don’t claim that they are my own, as you do with my article.

    The fact is, however, that I encourage the free use of what I write, with the expectation of credit where it is due. You improved my article by editing it. It is shorter, and to the point. You took the fluff out. I like it. I’ve learned from it. But it doesn’t change the fact that you’re an asshole, and apparently proud of that fact. I bet that most of the content on your site isn’t even yours.

  26. Koos on May 26th, 2007 @ 05:02

    Indeed, your right.
    I made a mistake, and i’ve editted the article.
    I’m pretty sure I did not used your files, because I’ve also added USB support, which your files didn’t have. I’m sorry, and i’m going to rewrite the article if I got time for it. Which is also the reason why I just copied your article before and made minimal changes to it.

  27. Marty on June 1st, 2007 @ 05:19

    Thanks a lot. It works well with my 6300.

    Cool tips!!

  28. Tristan on June 1st, 2007 @ 19:25

    Thank you sooooo much. I’m so glad it worked. Really appreciated your work!

  29. Brent Kearney on June 2nd, 2007 @ 07:01

    You’re welcome, I’m happy to help out :).

  30. Brent Kearney on June 5th, 2007 @ 11:02

    I would accept your apology, Koos, if you actually did edit your ripped article to include a link back to this post, admitting where you got the content from.

    I can see where you got the USB part of your content from as well. For all of you looking for USB support, it is available!

  31. Theodore on June 6th, 2007 @ 13:25

    I have a nokia e50, is there any phone with the same operating system?

  32. Brent Kearney on June 6th, 2007 @ 22:32

    I haven’t done much research, but a quick google search for nokia e50 same operating system shows that it runs the Symbian OS with an S60 interface.

    I thought I’d check the list of iSync supported phones, and it has a chart at the bottom showing that series 60 phones are fully supported.

    Another quick search (geez, this is looking like research) for a phone on the list, the e62, shows that it too runs Symbian. So I’d model the e62, if I were you, or maybe one of the other e-series. Google will help.

  33. Jack Pearce on June 8th, 2007 @ 14:55

    Just bought a 6300 yesterday and this has helped alot, thanks!

  34. Gaetanon on June 11th, 2007 @ 06:29

    Just bought a nokia 6300. Trying to modify the metaclasses playlist but i can’t find it on my mac! i’ve macOS 10.3.9

  35. jacob on June 13th, 2007 @ 11:43

    Brent, you make my life easier. Thanks.

  36. jacob on June 13th, 2007 @ 11:56

    Oh and I just found out, when you download the icon put the ‘nok’ in the filename in caps (ie NOK6300.tiff) or put the xml definition in lowercase (ie nok6300.tiff). In my case they had to be exactly the same in order to get it to show up.

  37. Brent Kearney on June 14th, 2007 @ 14:30

    Thanks Jacob! I renamed the file to uppercase.

  38. Dave on June 16th, 2007 @ 16:47

    Thanks Brent, Just bought a new Macbook (first time), and got a 6300 as well. your instructions were easy to follow, even for a Mac newbee like myself.

    Cheers
    Dave

  39. airborne on June 20th, 2007 @ 08:40

    Just as a matter of interest – when I was needing to sync my new 6300 I discovered this site which provides a very easy plugin folder and it worked perfectly.
    It saves the faint of heart from having to hack in to their machine to get the phone working.

    http://www.s60themes.co.uk

    Hope this helps.

  40. Jasper on June 20th, 2007 @ 14:31

    Brent, you are a good man indeed!!
    Thanx alot!!
    Cheers, Jasper

  41. Tom van Vreeland on June 20th, 2007 @ 18:19

    Dear,

    in holland the 6300 is just two weeks on the market. i’m not a computer wizz and i try to synchrnize. i fpllpwed your instruction and i’m almost ther but it’s not working.

    queations: still have message no support for 6300
    you end up with two files meta classes with the backup is that correct?
    i dropped the nokia 6300 dfinition and the icon just somewere in the lists. is that the correct way?

    tom

  42. Brent Kearney on June 20th, 2007 @ 21:16

    Hi Tom,

    Do you have a different phone already configured in Bluetooth? You must remove that before pairing your 6300.

    As for your questions: yes, you’ll have two meta class files, although with different names and different contents (the backup is before the changes).

    I don’t know if the order of the definitions matters, but I put mine right after model 6280.

  43. Brent Kearney on June 20th, 2007 @ 21:23

    airborne: thanks! The site you posted links to this Nokia site, which has iSync plug-ins for most of their phones:

    http://europe.nokia.com/A4299040

    Weird how they left out the 6300! Someone asked about the e50, and it’s there.

    Here is the direct link for a plug-in for iSync 2.4, which includes support for the 6300:

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.reamer/Dump/iSync-Plugins%202.4.zip

    *However* it doesn’t work for me. After installing it, when I started iSync, I got a message saying iSync wouldn’t start because of the following plugin: … the series 40 plugin. It’s easy to remove, so don’t be afraid to try it.

    Maybe it didn’t work because of the 10.4.10 OS X update that came out today… but I kinda doubt it. Or maybe, its because my system already supports the 6300? I doubt that too, though, since this plugin is for series 40 in general, and all OSX systems support some series 40 phones.

  44. Victor on June 28th, 2007 @ 03:15

    @Brent: No, the current build of iSync doesn’t support the 6300. I made a reinstall of my system a couple of days ago, so naturally I tried to sync it out of the box. Didn’t work, so I had to modify the plist again. Thankfully this is a great work-around.

    Thanks again!

  45. Bas on July 6th, 2007 @ 14:00

    Yes! Yes! Yes! I got it to work after being EXTREMELY disappointed about Nokia not including the 6300 in their iSync listing. I had to redo the procedure a couple of times, mostly because I forgot to use a proper .plist extension, then use a cap C in Meta*C*lasses filename and then forgot to restart iSync etc. Removed all the files with the MetaClasses.plist and now it works. Damn, I’m proud of myself… following your instructions to the letter! Thanks, Brent. You da man!

  46. Olin on July 16th, 2007 @ 10:19

    Thanks a lot bro! Works excellent! Cheers Olin

  47. tony on July 26th, 2007 @ 06:24

    Tried a similar set of instructions, i’ll reset and try these if needed, but for some reason calender memos were being synced as appointments, whilst on my older nokia it didn’t. And if i create a memo on the phone and sync it stays as a memo in iCal but when it syncs back to the phone it converts into an appointment

    thanks

  48. Shan on August 9th, 2007 @ 06:23

    Great instructions!

    Works like a charm.

    One thing you may want to change, though:

    You say to delete old phones from the Bluetooth list — but you forgot to say to add your new phone in! If you miss that, of course, iSync won’t see anything…

  49. Lucien on August 15th, 2007 @ 00:36

    Thanks for this — it really worked perfectly, quickly and easily.

  50. Rums on August 19th, 2007 @ 17:10

    Sorry to hijack your thread here Brent, but for those of you looking to get your contact photos and birthdays syncing as well, please read my post here:

    http://www.dabgotra.com/?p=46

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  52. jonny jonk on August 21st, 2007 @ 04:58

    Great, works a treat. neat little phone to work with my mac.

    do you know if address book pic contacts will sync with one-another?

    many thanks

    j

  53. Felix Pring on August 29th, 2007 @ 19:24

    Many thanks for facilitating the population of the address book and calender of my pristine iMac G5 (via Rums above). I’m a complete Mac beginner. It was considerably easier and more elegant to get the data off the 6300 into the Mac, than it was to get it off my old Nokia 6100 into the 6300.

    I also found your articles on health and fitness very interesting.

    Very best wishes

    Felix Pring (London, UK)

  54. Lenka on September 11th, 2007 @ 09:25

    Thank you for posting this. I wasn’t sure about this phone since it doesn’t do as much as my previous Sony Erricson but now I’m glad I went for it.
    I have no problems syncing my phone with my macs now.

    Thanks a lot

    Lenka (London, UK)

  55. marti on September 25th, 2007 @ 08:33

    at first it didnt work out. then i deleted some old phones listed on my bluetooth pairing list…. then i tred to reconnect my 6300 to my mac using the bluetooth… then… it just worked! Thanks a lot… :P

  56. Rich D on September 27th, 2007 @ 07:36

    Good stuff. Been having trouble with other plug-ins. Deleted those, rebooted and put yours in and it worked. You’ve made my day, thanks a lot!

  57. serge on September 28th, 2007 @ 21:04

    thank you

  58. feddomw on October 20th, 2007 @ 12:38

    Works like a charm, many thanks.

    For the record: I did try to delete my old phone from iSync, but it is still there and I can sync both phones…. maybe there’s been an update to iSync since this was originally published?

    Anyway: i am thankful.

  59. becstarr on October 23rd, 2007 @ 17:11

    Thanks! Worked for me on a new MacBookPro, 10.4.10, using the quick “download this folder and drop the files into Resources” shortcut.

    Great work. :)

  60. Michel Pasotti on October 27th, 2007 @ 13:13

    I used your/this method to sync a Nokia 6120 to a PWB …

    with the help of http://www.phototropic.co.uk (Tom Bates)

    So far so good : it works perfectly !

    Many thanks !

  61. fra on October 30th, 2007 @ 00:45

    thanks!

  62. Michel FitzGerald on November 15th, 2007 @ 15:51

    With your fix I have iSync’ed my calendar info. As I will not subscribe to .Mac and it seems I cannot iSync my AddressBook without so doing is there an alternative way of at least backing up my Nokia 6300 contacts on to my MacBookPro?
    Thanks

  63. Parka on November 16th, 2007 @ 07:43

    Brilliant

  64. Brent Kearney on November 18th, 2007 @ 14:55

    Michel: you don’t need to be subscribed to .Mac to use iSync. I’m not. In iSync, I click on the icon of my phone, and then click the sync button…

    Cheers

  65. Andrea on November 26th, 2007 @ 05:00

    Excellent work! I can sync perfectly! Bravo!!

  66. steg g on December 27th, 2007 @ 16:30

    Superb. Worked a treat. Btw, just copy the files as per the instructions in italics. Easy as pie.

    Thanks again.

  67. Johannes on January 2nd, 2008 @ 06:44

    it worked for me with 10.4. but in 10.5. not. I did the whole procedure again. It does the sync, but than: Mittwoch, 02. Jänner 2008 14:43
    [Nokia 6300] Ein unerwarteter Fehler ist aufgetreten.
    Synchronisierung des Geräts „Nokia 6300“ fehlgeschlagen
    = something like:
    an unexpected error occured. sync failed.
    Does it work in 10.5.?

  68. Brent Kearney on January 2nd, 2008 @ 09:26

    At the very start of this article, there is “* * Update for Leopard * *” with a link to a new plugin for the Nokia 6300; I used that plugin after a clean install of Leopard, and it works perfectly for me.

  69. yve legler on January 2nd, 2008 @ 14:49

    A geek? I whish I could be one! Great, not only does it work, but it is also explained very clearly on a step by step basis, which is rare for a “geek” because they all talk so “geekish”, a language I dont speak :-(.
    That much for Geeks and Internet!!! Anyhow thanks a bunch.
    A great 2008!

    Yve

  70. Lennaert Weijers on January 4th, 2008 @ 06:30

    hey,
    Today i got my new Nokia 6300, Thanks for this manual, but I still have a little problem. He only syncs my Calander and not my Contacts! with mij nokia N70 I’d never had these problems…. Is There somebody witch a solution for me?

    thnx!

    Lennaert

  71. Brent Kearney on January 4th, 2008 @ 09:24

    Hi Lennaert,

    Is the Contacts checkbox selected in iSync? I create a group in Address Book called “Cell Phone”, and put the contacts that I want synced on my phone in that group. Then in the drop-down menu beside the Contacts checkbox, I select that group instead of All Contacts.

  72. Phil on January 9th, 2008 @ 14:43

    Look forward to trying this out as I’ve been thinking about buying a 6300 now it’s dirt cheap here. It seems to be the best handset Nokia have come up with in a while. They really went down in quality for a while.

    I had a problem previously with a Motorola K1 KRZR and iSync. This phone is supported by iSync, but not if you’ve got Vodafone (Ireland’s) proprietary version (they have modified the OS to give it a standard look across it’s entire phone range). I bought a SIM-free K1 to get around this. I was curious, if anyone knows, if this applies to Nokia phones, too? If I can get a definitive answer, I’d look forward to trying this out.

    Much thanks,

    Phil

  73. nat on January 16th, 2008 @ 09:31

    thanks, it worked!! :-)

  74. Alexander Drapkin on January 17th, 2008 @ 18:14

    Thank you so much. I was at my wits end, none of the other plugins seemed to work. I was just about to buy Phone Director.

    Thanks,

    Alex.

  75. tufty on January 18th, 2008 @ 03:01

    Thanks! It did take me a couple of attempts, being a bit of a computer spanner. But, I’m now proudly able to sync without having to muck about with cables. Cheers!

  76. Sachin Ahuja on January 20th, 2008 @ 13:14

    You are the MAN!!! …. this one worked like a charm! I just bought a new iPhone and needed to synch contacts from my nokia6300 – you definitely saved me $10 for the data cable and also a trip to the store. Thanks again!!

  77. Stefano on January 28th, 2008 @ 09:42

    Hi,
    sorry but it’s not working with me… any further suggestion?

    Thx

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  79. dB on February 1st, 2008 @ 10:23

    Happy days – sorta. Bluetooth worked straight away but USB not at the moment. I’m pretty much a Mac geek too so will have a fiddle later, but big thanks for this – sent my 6300 off for a very minor repair and it came back wiped, luckily had iSync set up for previous handset (a Motorola) so got it back up. Cheers

  80. Emanuela on February 17th, 2008 @ 13:27

    Brent, I feel admired and frustrated at the same time. your instructions are so clear and most of your readers were succesful with th sync. I wasn’t. I see the icon, i connect it to my ibook but when I try to add the device with i-sync, it says that 6300 it is not supported. any idea?

  81. Brent on February 18th, 2008 @ 00:43

    Emanuela, did you install the plugin? It’s all that you need.

    I don’t understand your comment. When you say that you “see the icon”, do you mean that you see it in iSync? After doing what? Doesn’t that mean that you’ve already added the device to iSync?

    When you say that you “connect it to your iBook”, connect how? Using iSync? Using Bluetooth? How do you know it’s connected if iSync isn’t working for you? Do you mean you connect it with a USB cable?

    How could iSync say that 6300 isn’t supported? If it wasn’t supported, it wouldn’t recognize the device as a 6300…

  82. Scrapbook » Nokia 6300 & iSync on April 1st, 2008 @ 01:54

    [...] http://brent.kearneys.ca/technology/2007/how-to-sync-a-nokia-6300-on-osx/ [...]

  83. Gary on April 9th, 2008 @ 16:50

    Mate, thanks so much!!! A much simpler and cheaper solution than going for an iphone, which I didn’t want to do. Props and thanks again!

  84. Chris on April 12th, 2008 @ 10:41

    Thanks for this, everything is working great except one thing – all day appointments in iCal appear as starting and finishing at 13:00 on my phone. Have you any idea why or how I can fix this? Cheers.

  85. Gav on April 15th, 2008 @ 15:47

    Many thanks for sharing this information. Very easy to follow steps and works a treat. Thanks

  86. John on April 22nd, 2008 @ 05:51

    Hi guys,

    I checked out the link http://www.dabgotra.com/index.php/2007/nokia-6300-isync-and-contact-photos/ to perhaps fix the birthday issue.
    These infos didn’t help me at all though, and the iphone plugin provided on that page doesn’t seem to work with isync version 3 and leopard.

    But I did get the birthdays to work now!
    The following page is in german, but you should find your way around:
    http://www.macuser.de/forum/showthread.php?t=256320

    Go to the post from “idrops” on April 7 and add the birthday string as indicated after “SyncEngine-series40.plist”.

    This must be done in the following file:
    Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneFamilySync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/PhoneConduitv2-series40.plist

    It now syncs birthdays from Address Book to nokia 6300 and vice versa. (i.e. the birthday entry for an individual contact on the nokia is synched, and it appears in it’s calendar).

    Hope someone can use this… the pictures would be nice too, but that isn’t as important to me..

  87. John on April 22nd, 2008 @ 05:53

    oops, that was a mistake… I posted the wrong filename!

    the correct file is :
    SyncEngine-series40.plist
    NOT the phoneconduitv2-series-40 one.

  88. 4-Skin on April 24th, 2008 @ 20:03

    Worked great for me! Brand new 6300, plus recent upgrade to Leopard. Hope this works for everyone. Thanks for the fix!!!

  89. Harry on April 27th, 2008 @ 03:21

    This is great! Really useful, thanks. But I’m having the same problem as Chris with the all day appointments starting and finishing at 13.00. Anyone know a fix for this?

  90. Matt on April 29th, 2008 @ 23:41

    Thanks very much for this. Much appreciated and it works like a charm.

  91. mark on May 3rd, 2008 @ 08:47

    hey, I;m also trying to syn my nokia 6300, i’ve followed your early steps unitl it got to the command to back up the MetaClasses.plist file, this I couldn’t find in the folder only agents folder and loads of languages ‘dutch.Iproj’ , ‘germanIproj’ etc am i looking in the wrong place? I’m using leopard so it should be right…

  92. Juergen on May 31st, 2008 @ 02:00

    I have created an iconset for the Nokia 6300 black :-) Feel free to download from http://files.jheil.net/ and integrate into the plugin.

  93. Sue on August 4th, 2008 @ 08:22

    Thank you so much – your instructions are so easy and it works! I spent several hours trying to solve this including finding a similar fix on another site but couldn’t get it to work for me. However, I too am finding a slight glitch with all-day-events. Some are timed as 01:00-01:00 and some as 13:00-13:00, but it is a small price to pay to being able to sync my lovely phone.

  94. Pedro on August 17th, 2008 @ 17:18

    Having some trouble with the iSync and Nokia 6300. Message from iSync after trying a synchronization: “Device is not available or synchronization was cancelled. Close dialogs and applications on the phone and try again. Device synchronization failed.”
    I don´t get it. Any help available??
    Thanks

  95. Sandor on October 7th, 2008 @ 05:19

    Thank you very much for your generosity in sharing this. Worked a treat :)

  96. Olsen on October 14th, 2008 @ 09:50

    Great…!!!
    What would have taken me half a day (116 contacts), was now done in less than 20 min. I owe you bigtime – Thanks.

  97. alison on October 31st, 2008 @ 16:58

    hi ya brent….in the process of shuffling things from PC to mac… thanks for the help with the 6300 sync …. contacts sync works fine but all calandar info sucked off phone onto computer….. argh!!…. put them all back in manually!!…. not game to try again!!… any clues??… cheers
    (didn’t see ‘plug in’ in my 1st read of your info so did it manually…. have tried removing changes and trying the plug but can’t get it to work…. redid it manually but only game to sync addresses!!)

  98. thijs on January 2nd, 2009 @ 14:03

    thx a lot, this works!!

  99. Jeff Palmer Lokanata on January 11th, 2009 @ 02:28

    THANK YOU!

    it’s work!

    from your Indonesian Pals

  100. ton on February 25th, 2009 @ 03:01

    Me too does’t work.
    iSync sees the phone but when trying to sync I get this message.
    “Device is not available or synchronization was cancelled. Close dialogs and applications on the phone and try again. Device synchronization failed.”

    Anyone has a sollution?

  101. Petee on March 11th, 2009 @ 07:53

    It works! Thank you very much! thought, it wasn’t possible without a plugin..

  102. ton on March 11th, 2009 @ 08:01

    @ Petee.

    How did you got it working?

  103. Sahil Bhatia on April 19th, 2009 @ 18:47

    Thank you so much.. :)

  104. marnix on June 16th, 2009 @ 06:19

    Hey Brent,
    Cool to read all those comments. I got here because I am looking for a way to sync birthdays. [Normal syncing works fine, due to a plugin I had found somewhere long time ago.]

    Is there a thing for this as yet? I have 6300 pwbG4 OsX10.4.11.
    With Leopard all works fine, including birthdays?

    Thanks.
    M

  105. Brent on June 16th, 2009 @ 17:12

    Hi Marnix;

    I switched to iPhone last year, but according to John’s comment above, on April 22nd, 2008, there is a way to get birthday syncing working.

    Good luck!

  106. tombo on June 17th, 2009 @ 03:21

    THANK YOU!
    went through a few things before I realised I hadn’t set phone to sync, entered password etc, this has saved me a lot of time, well done for helping people out, nice one

    T

  107. marnix on June 23rd, 2009 @ 06:14

    Hi Brent,

    Many thanks. I must have overlooked John’s comment. I implemented iDrops’ code, as John recommends. But after some testing and changing, I’ve ONLY changed the SyncEngine.plist. Now it seems to be working just fine. Yiha. Please bear in mind that some pictures may cause some problems. Since I am not using pictures, I’ve removed all and that’s it.

    Thanks again.
    Marnix

  108. G Evans on October 10th, 2009 @ 17:10

    Thanks for your help. Your tutorial worked brilliantly!
    I can now sync my phone to my Macbook. Thank you!! :)

  109. Heiko on October 11th, 2009 @ 07:29

    I changed to snow leopard and can´t find the metaclasses.plist file. Do you know how it works? Greetings




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