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SE W580i iSync and Address Book plugin

by blogo on Jul.29, 2007, under Information, Tutorials

Update 20. Oct 2008: A more up to date plugin is located at http://www.mroach.com/

After recieving a Sony Ericsson W580i, I made a quick plugin to get it up and running with iSync and Address Book. The plug-in is in no way perfect but should get the job done. I haven’t tested calendar syncing yet.

Download the following file W580i_iSync_Plugins_v1.zip, put PhonePlugins in the /User/Library folder. From here on add the phone in bluetooth devices and open iSync.

To get the address book working, open /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/Resources/ Telephony.bundle/Contents/Resources/ABDeviceCommandSets.plist

Locate the following text:


ABDeviceModelStrings

P800

ABDial
ATD%@;

And add the following under it, before

ABAnswerPhone
ATA
ABAnswerWaiting
at+chld=2
ABDeclineWaiting
at+chld=0
ABDeviceModelStrings

W580

ABDial
ATD%@;
ABEnableCallWaiting
at+ccwa=1
ABEnableCallerID
at*eips=1,1
ABEnableCallerName
at*eips=2,1
ABEnableSMSReceive
at+CNMI=2,1
ABHangUpPhone
ATH
ABReleaseAndAnswer
at+chld=1
ABRequestClip
at+clip=1
ABSendSMS
AT+CMGS=%dBWACKRBWACKN

If you have another Sony Ericsson model without Address Book support you can try adding yourphonemodel after the W580 line.

Thanks to:
yesbutno.com
the.taoofmac.com

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18 comments for this entry:
  1. Nathan Gray

    FYI, calendar syncing does not appear to work with this plugin. Thanks anyway!

  2. Offroader

    I can’t find /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/Resources/ Telephony.bundle/Contents/Resources/ABDeviceCommandSets.plist

    Which application do I use to edit the file when I find it?

    HELP!!!!

  3. Markus

    Hey!

    The iSync thing works perfect!

    I´m using leopard and it seems that the adressbook is working without your modifications!

    Thanks!!!!!!!!

  4. John Spuler

    This doesn’t work in Leopard’s Addressbook ver 4.1

  5. Craig F.

    Does your Plug-in work with Leopard? I’m considering buying this phone soon, and need to sync my Address book contents to the the phone. Thanks!

  6. Tore

    I don’t actually own this phone, so I don’t know if it works in Leopard. Judging from the other comments it seems that for some this works perfectly.

  7. Andrew

    I can’t sync my second w580i. Will this plug-in sync multiple phones?

  8. blogo

    I don’t have two phones to test with and I’m not updating the plugin anymore, you can of course experiment with it yourself.

  9. bio873

    I cant find /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/Resources/ Telephony.bundle/Contents/Resources/ABDeviceCommandSets.plist

    Where will I find it and how do I process the txt?

    Thanks anyway

  10. blogo

    FInd the Address Book icon, right-click it and select “Show Package”.

  11. Jen-Jen

    Don’t forget to add “i” after “W580″:

    W580i

  12. Joni

    iSync seems working fine!!!

    Thank You sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

  13. arnold

    Does this transfer my phone contacts to Address Book.app or from Address Book.app to the w580i phone?? I think mine only works one way (address book to w580i) i am running isync after i made the changes to .plist as shown..

  14. chris

    thanks for the plug-in!

    I was actually able to sync iCal as well!

    p.s. I’m running Tiger, not Leopard.

  15. Walter

    I did right click on my brand new macbook (aluminum) and I cannot find the addy starting with ‘telephony…’ would love to sync my phone though. please help.

  16. Gavin

    This worked for my iCal events! Although, it will not allow syncing to my Google CalDAV calendar in iCal :(

  17. blogo

    Since you are syncing against google you could trry setting up http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html

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