Nokia E70 married with OS X 10.4 Tiger

Finally I got Nokia E70. This model was delayed about 3 months and still there are bugs in it.
1. When using wifi with browser it reboots regularly.
2. Sometimes left keypad does not work when opened to qwerty mode.

BUT the main question was how to sync the phone with mac and how I can use the phone to dial 3G or GPRS?

With previous 6820 I used PhoneDirector from Macmedia but they dont have e70 in their lists. So then away in my summercottage with minimal GPRS coverage I googled with E70.

AND found few very useful guides about the subject.

Ross Barkman has a collection of dialing scripts for new phones. I got mine working with "Nokia GPRS scripts" and used "Nokia GPRS 57.6k CD1" and it works. Connection does not drop nor phone is not restarted (like with Ericsson t39 original script).

Ross had few external links and one of them pointed to site with syncronization instructions. Also to N70 instrcutions

In short, do this:
1) Edit your MetaClasses.plist file:
- Open a Finder window and press command+shift+g and paste in this line:
/Applications/iSync/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/ or use open command in terminal open -e /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/MetaClasses.plist
- You may want to make a backup of this file (just copy + paste it into the same folder)

2) Open the file in your favorite text editor, and add this info for the E70:
REMOVE ALL * from code, I had to put them in so that blogger.com would show the code :D


<*key>com.nokia.E70<*/key>
<*dict>
<*key>Identification<*/key>
<*dict>
<*key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm<*/key>
<*string>Nokia+Nokia E70-1<*/string>
<*key>com.apple.gmi+gmm<*/key>
<*string>Nokia+Nokia E70-1<*/string>
<*/dict>
<*key>InheritsFrom<*/key>
<*array>
<*string>family.com.nokia.serie60v2.3<*/string>
<*/array>
<*key>Services<*/key>
<*array>
<*dict>
<*key>ServiceName<*/key>
<*string>com.apple.model<*/string>
<*key>ServiceProperties<*/key>
<*dict>
<*key>ModelIcon<*/key>
<*string>NOKE70.tiff<*/string>
<*key>ModelName<*/key>
<*string>E70<*/string>
<*/dict>
<*/dict>
<*/array>
<*/dict>


NOTE: I copied the icon for one of the other phones and renamed it to “NOKE70.tiff", but you don’t need to do this if you don’t want to, just pick one of the existing tiff files in the same folder as the .plist file.

3) Save the .plist file and restart iSync.

4) Add a device, it should find your E70 and allow you to sync using the built in sync software on the phone!

UPDATE: I noticed that this wasn’t adding the alarms for my meetings at the right time - they were all set without the timezone offset they should have had, so with some further digging, I figured out how to fix this:

1) Open Finder, hit command+shift+g and paste in this path:
/Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneFamilySync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/ or in terminal open -e /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneFamilySync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/PhoneConduitv2-serie60-SyncML.plist

2) Open the file (not the backup copy) in your favorite text editor, and search for this node:

<*key>hasTimeZone<*/key>
<*false/>

and change the ‘false’ to ‘true’ so it should look like this:

<*key>hasTimeZone<*/key>
<*true/>

Save the file and relaunch iSync, and all your meeting alarms should now be the correct time. Since I had already synced, it wouldn’t resync all the events I already had, so you may need to remove the meetings from the phone and resync, but be careful, as removing the events from the phone will remove them from your calendar next time you sync! (I’m not sure of a good way to get around this, so if anyone has ideas, lets hear them)

Notes:
- This only seems to work when syncing from the computer to the phone. If I choose sync in the phone, it tries to connect but then just disconnects without syncing or a warning.
- AddressBook contact pictures are also synced to the phone.
- If all of this is too much for you, or you can’t figure it out, you can always just buy this plugin from NovaMedia for €10

NB OSX 10.4.7 update removes all your modifications, so you need to do them again after upgrade.