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Tiger Tip: Hack iSync to work with Motorola V551

Mac Geekery (not to be confused with Assorted Geekery) features an article describing how to get the Motorola V551 mobile phone to sync with iSync 2.0 in Tiger.

Tiger’s iSync 2.0 claims that it supports the Motorola V551 flip phone, but when I picked one up today, iSync refuses to deal with it. During Bluetooth device setup, the checkbox for iSync is grayed out. Suck, huh? Not so much, when you’re a Mac Geek.

Browsing around Apple Discussions and a few other sites, reports of the V551 working are mixed; it works for some, not for (many) others. As far as I could tell, not one user with the V551’s newest firmware (like me) reports that it works with iSync. And it just so happens that the latest firmware changed the phone’s identifier slightly. Aha…

If you own the Motorola V551 and have been having issues with it and iSync, be sure to give this a read.

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\Mac Geekery - Hacking Tiger’s iSync to work with Cingular’s Motorola V551



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