For users of the Sony Ericsson W880i mobile phone, this is a plugin that allows Mac OS X to add your new mobile device to Apple's iSync application - the application that manages your contacts, and synchronises your diary entries in iCal.
Download
Download the W880i mobile phone plugin.
Installation Instructions
To install, follow these instructions...
1. In the Finder, navigate to /Applications --> iSync and control (CTRL) -click the application
2. Select 'show package contents'
3. Navigate to Contents --> Plugins --> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice --> Contents --> Plugins
4. Move the folder extracted from the attached .zip file into the Plugins folder in Step 3 (above).
5. Relaunch iSync. Should work.
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todi
schimmel
Chris Semple
Works perfectly - thanks!
Dorian
I have downloaded your plugin but I have found no setup or install option. Could you please tell me how I can install the plugin to my apple laptop?
Thanks
Jonathan
Hi Dorian,
Apologies for no instructions. I have added instructions to the article. Hope that helps you.
Kind regards
Jonathan
anthony
Hi Jonathan,
Many thks!! I got the isync works for contact but not ical (well, it allows me to click the calender option, then it will have a pop up and say "you need to open ical first" but i already did. The box next to calender still remains uncheck. Any clue what happened?
chrs
hardy
Thanks Jonathan!
Much appreciated, works fine on my iMac5
Cheers
Farina
Great plugin Jonathon, thanks!
Like Anthony, I am also having iCal syncing issues allowing me to check the box and opens iCal but cannot get any further than that. Any thoughts?
Cheers
Ollie
Plugin works fine, thanks. Do you know where I can get a Mac version of the software that came with the phone from?
Jonathan
Hello Ollie,
Sorry, can't help you with that. I wonder if others have the software they could share with you?
Jonathan
Trav
Hi Johanthon,
will this plug in enable me to hook up the MP3 player to itunes? if not do you know how I can do this?
Jonathan
Hi Trav,
The plugin only allows you to use iSync with the phone. To transfer mp3 music to the phone, you will have to use the Bluetooth File Exchange application or plug in a USB cable and have the disk mounted on the desktop of your computer. Music can be dragged from your computer to the music folder on your phone.
Hope that helps
Jonathan
Dmitry
Hi Jonathan!
Thanks for your plugin.
Unfortunately I still have a problem to sync my AddressBook with w880i by bluetooth.
After some time of operating everything looks fine but eventualy syncronization fails due to communication interruption. Do you know this issue?
BRG
Dmitry
Jonathan
Hello Dmitry,
Thanks for your message on this site. I've not experienced this problem before. How big is your address book? I've had problems synchronising large address books.
Björn
Thx for the plugin the isync working where good the litle i have tested it. But it seems that if you have a image added to the contact follow over to the phone! Should i do that ?
Martin
Excellent. "It just works"... I'm becoming a mac convert.
Chris Huston
Thanks dude - worked a treat!
YayaPoweR
Your plugin just works fine for me! Thx a lot!
Toon ten Cate
Hi there,
Thanks for the instructions, but somehowe I don't get the EXTRACTED file you are refering to.
The only things I get are:
version.plist
Resources
Info.plist
com.sony-ericsson.W880.tiff
SyncEngine.plist
PhoneConduit.plist
MetaClasses.plist
Can you help me please.
Kind regards,
Toon ten Cate
CCCC
What idiots Sony Ericsson are not having software for Macs!
Adding Music to the W880i mobile phone
To put music on the W880i I do the following.
On the Mac (G5 Dual PPC) go to Preferences, Bluetooth and select 'show bluetooth status in Menu Bar'
Then turn ON bluetooth on the W880i.
Click on the little BLuetooth icon - top right of the screen on your Mac. Go to 'Browse Device' (I can't recall if i ever had to 'add' the W880i to some list of devices - I have a feeling i didn't need to) - choose the W880i and a window opens up showing you whats lurking inside your W880. Browse 'Memory Stick' and 'Music'. The music folder is where you create music folders.
Now do this:
Click the little 'new folder' icon along the bottom of the W880i browser window (this is on your Mac!) - it's the 3rd icon along from the left. Name this 1st folder in the following way (you have to do this for each playlist or album you are adding - pain - yes I know!!). Do this one at a time for each album you add.......
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Eminem - My music is rubbish
Bjork - Vespertine
etc etc
So after you create a folder - let's say it's the radiohead album you are adding to the W880 - the browser window is blank - that's the contents of this new folder you just created. Cool. Create ANOTHER new folder right there (inside the "Radiohead - In Rainbows" folder) and name it as follows:
Radiohead (basically name this folder with the artist name)
And inside THAT folder create ANOTHER !! folder called
In Rainbows (this folder is 'album' title)
And now you are looking at the blank contents of the folder called 'In Rainbows' - now open up the folder containing the tracks of this album (in your itunes music folder or wherever it may be on your Mac) - and simply select and drag all the tracks into the 'In Rainbows' (album title) folder. The transfer will begin.
This is a bit long winded I know but so far it's the only way I have found to add albums so they are nicely accessible in the W880's walkman menu. This method gives you albums listed by artist and album - which is quite good - and once you've done it a few times it becomes pretty straightforward.
THough if anyone comes up with anything better then please let us know!!
stuart
Hi there,
Still having problems actually dragging and dropping the files into the blank contents. Do I have to actually have to call the file the same as the itunes file ?
Cheers
iSpook
Nice work :)
iSpook
Sweet, works under Leopard too :)
Manuel
Thanx a lot for posting the plug in.
But i am still having some troubles with the phone's calendar, the events appears sometimes twice and in different times (on the phone), am i doing something wrong ????
thanx again.
PD: I'm using leopard, but it happened too in 10.4 .
PD2: Can't still believe that Apple ripped off the SMS function of the Address Book, that was awesome.
Mezz
Excellent Stuff! Worked a treat for me - no problems at all - Tiger 10.4.11
Thaks
Flemming Karlsen
Jonathan, you're the best. It works flawless on the Leopard.
Phil
excellent thx !!!!
Robin Hoekstra
Hey there - I Googled my problem regarding an inability to sync my new W880i with my G4 powerbook (10.5 Leopard) and found your blog - LIFESAVER! so easy and works unbelievably well - congrats and thanks so much for taking the time to assist fellow Mac and Ericsson users.
Paul
Hi Jonathan,
Thanks very much for making the download available - it worked perfectly on my G5 - really appreciate your skill and effort.
Cheers
Paul
Jonathan
Hi Paul
No worries, glad I could help.
J
Paul
Hi Jonathan,
I've just tried to upload your plug in onto my intel machine at work - nothing pops up. I'm guessing it only works with older macs?
Paul
Jonathan
Hi Paul,
I'm sorry I'm not able to help with this one. Can anyone else?
J
Sander
Hi Jonathan,
It does not work for me regretfully, iSync still shows 'This device is not supported by iSync'? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
S
Robin
HELP!! Upgraded to 10.5 Leopard on G4 Powerbook Mac - cannot get onto the internet using my Ericsson W880i anymore - was fine before - any ideas??
Craig
using an imac 2.4ghz intel core duo with leopard 10.5.1
plugin works perfectly
alex
Is there a way to make my W880i work on my iMac running 10.3.9?
I am having trouble just getting bluetooth to talk to my phone using 10.3.9
I bought a Belkin USB bluetooth adaptor, but still no joy.
isync does not acknowledge that I have my phone paired, and I cannot browse my phone, it just says "validating" and nothing happens.
silverSurfer
The iCal problem where synchronisation fails due to a communication error right at the end seems to be triggered by enabling the 'synchronise all-day events' checkbox. When you turn this off, it completes the sync. So I guess I'll have to go through my iCal and change all the all-day events to regular events.
Hope this helps you guys that were having this problem.
cheers
sS
silverSurfer
In the post above I'm referring to the way you select your phone in iSync, choose the 'more options' button and make the change as suggested
silverSurfer
In fact if you have any 'all day events' in ICal, whether you've enabled the button or not, it still fails.
So make sure all your events in your calendar are NOT all day events!!
chrisb
works like a charm! thanks ;)
Anton
Hi,
I can´t seem to drag the folder into pluginmodules?
Any sugestions?
Thanks
Stephen Heppell
lol - having crashed my phone (dead) and freshly installed Leopard - I found I needed this all over again - and it works fine of course. See you Saturday
PS Anton - probably you need to open the Downloads folder in Finder (should be buried in your Users folder) rather than trying to drag from the Downloading window itself...
Mark
I tried following the instructions but I only get the following info.plist, macOS, PKgInfo, resources, and version.plist from your download. In the 'contents' of isync folder after ctrl clicking on it there is no plugins folder what do I do now?
Regards
Mark
Nick
Works a dream, thank you very much!
Rob Umfreville
Magic worked perfectly. Thanks
Andy Larkin
Top banana - thanks a mill
K!ng
hi u all!
well i...loaded Mr. Jonathan Plugin on old-fashion imacg5, and top of the line macbook pro, both Leopard 10.5.2 works great! no issues at all, just follow the instructions, read-'em ...... lol!
Mr J, thanx.
message to the Community : having found this page on the net, using it ...... makes my life more easy, developing open source takes time and effort, so keep it in mind ... let's support it!
May be tomorrow we need something new, and we hope developers work on it or may be have it for us!
Thank you all!
Ruth McCarter
Brilliant. Got MAC 3 days ago. This is fabulous. No need for microsoft office now.
Alex
Hey great work,
Could you write a Plug in for the T650i and isync3 ?
Dan
looking at replacing my phone and just wondering will this work with a W890i???
j0k3r
Hello.
So, we couldn't sync contact pictures, yes? :(
Also, is there any difference between your plugin and http://www.davidforster.com/2007/02/26/w880_isync_plugin ?
François Roche
Works perfectly even with Leopard and iSync 3 :) thanks !!
ulises gama
leopard 10.5.2 works great!!!
thanks john
stevesaysthanks
Thanks Johnathan!
It's the more computer-literate among us that let other people (me) avoid the grief resulting from large tech companies being spiteful with each other and not having open platforms. why don't they just play nice?
Cheers
Simon... Australia
Thanks mate, I should have looked for this a long time ago, it's a bewty!!!
Cheers
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