m600 and iSync
Recently I’ve lost my Nokia 7610 and decided to buy a new phone. I bought a brand new Sony Ericsson m600i, mostly due to it’s nice look and my disappointment with the Nokia E61 which I wanted to buy first. Also as I’ve remembered from the past, Apple has every model of Sony Ericsson phones in it’s great application iSync. To my disappointment, iSync didn’t worked with this phone at the moment. So, that was the problem: i have 500+ contacts in the address book which have to be transferred to the m600i. First I’ve tried to save entire file as .vcf from address book (2.7mb!) and sent it to the phone. Phone said that “the file has a wrong format”. Ok, I’ve decided to install Parallels Desktop and to install bundled phone software for windows. Several hours later I’ve got the knowledge, that Parallels Desktop doesn’t work fine with the usb and bluetooth connections - actually it would be better to say it doesn’t work with usb and bluetooth. Internet forums, questions and answers didn’t helped. Then I’ve decided to try uploading several contacts directly from Address Book. To my surprise, I had a success with it, then I though that address book .vcf file was just too large for the phone. I’ve tried uploading ten, fifty and a hundred contacts at once and it did worked! After that sitting a little bit relaxed, I’ve selected entire address book contacts (command-a) and uploaded it to the phone through address book (card -> send these cards). I hope this solution will help someone lucky enough not to spend several hours trying.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Fantastic, Dmitry !
Used this “send card” tip with a Treo 650.
Thanks.
Larry
July 31st, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Great, Larry.
I just can’t understand, why all these phones can’t just get a VCF file
August 9th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Brilliant - thanks a lot, that’s saved me a lot of trouble!
This will do me now, until iSync is updated.
Thanks, you’ve definitely saved me several hours!
August 9th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Great tip man, thanks! So disappointing that it does not work with iSync yet. That’s why I got a Sony Ericsson in the first place…
August 15th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Hmmm…I guess I’ll have to use this method with my new P990i which is basically the same OS wise as the M600i.
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September 2nd, 2006 at 9:44 am
anybody tried it with the P990i yet?
September 7th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
September 18th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Good effort. Any similar work around with ical?
September 21st, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Thx Dimitri, it worked super for my contacts from apple to m600i. trying to do something similar with Calendar. Have you had any success there?
kind regards,
Michiel
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
This is a GREAT tip. Saved me hours.
September 27th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Thanks….. saved me bucket loads….
September 29th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
DId any one try e2sync. the developer says that we can sync p990i with mac using his module. Being the the m600 is similar to p990i, that should work too.
September 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
The person I sent my vCard to can’t import it into their address application
Some other address book applications don’t accept vCards in the default 3.0 format. Try exporting your vCard in 2.1 format and sending it again.
To change the vCard format:
Choose Address Book > Preferences and click vCard.
Select 2.1, and then choose a format from the pop-up menu.
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:49 am
Didn’t work for me, until I told Address Book (in preferences > vCard) to use the 2.1 format.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Great, thanks! Let’s hope mac support is added quickly to the m600
December 6th, 2006 at 1:08 am
In leopard, hopefully.
December 16th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Thanks! Im on travel for work and I’m waiting for my m600i…..i was worried obout syncing because it wasn’t on the “supported” list.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
thanks! made my life easier!
December 27th, 2006 at 4:27 am
do you need to connect the phone with a USB cable? or are you all using bluetooth? do i need to get my phone to show up on my desktop to make the transfer happen? any help is huge. thanks ahead of time
December 27th, 2006 at 5:48 am
i got it! pls disregard my earlier note.
and tons of thanks for the HUGE help and time saver!!!!
December 27th, 2006 at 5:54 am
I am glad that it helped, Stacy.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Grazie.
Tanks for m600i - iSync Istruction!!!!!!!!
Ciao
Stefan
January 17th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Thank you very many! I was really disappointed to find out I couldn iSync M600i and really wondered how to transfer the contact from my Nokia. With your insturctions it wasn’t a problem at all.
January 18th, 2007 at 5:39 am
If only I knew this a month ago then maybe I wouldn’t have lost my cool after trying for 9 hours to sync my contacts then in a rage I murdered my wife, I am now in State Pen where mobiles are not allowed, but I still get to go online once every two weeks to look at fatgirlsoncrack.com. Love you!
February 6th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Thanks, saved me a load of time
February 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Works for me on OS X 4.8 and M6001. Thanks a lot. Duich
March 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Hi,
Does anyonw know if you can use an M600i as a modem on OS X?
Thanks
Paul
April 7th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Hey - can someone guide me on how to transfer my contacts fromAddress Book to my SE M600i ?
cheers
June 7th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Thanks so much! This saved me a lot of time.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am
THANKS!!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Couldn’t (and wouldn’t) have done it without you - You’re a hero! Thanks! /Olle
August 10th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I just got an M600i and this is an great way of sending contactinfo. The preblem I have with this is that all dots, commas, etc in a vCard have a \ before it and the return is represented as ‘\n’. The M600i imports these backslashes as a backslash (so no conversion). So instead of the comma in Addressbook I get ‘\,’ on the M600i. And instead of a return I get a ‘\n’ on the M600i. How do you solve that?
August 27th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Is there eany update on the situation?
Maybe SE or Apple finaly gave up on arguing and relised some Isync plugin?
April 25th, 2008 at 9:47 am
you are a life SAVER! i was almost about to loose my mind just before i stumbled into helpful tip! my Sony Ericsson W910 loves you
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