How to synchronize the Nokia N73 with iSync

Published on February 26th, 2007 in General

So I have recently bought myself a new cell phone, more precisely the N73 by Nokia. It’s been quite a while since I have bought my last Nokia handset, I started to hate their new designs, firmwares and other stuff. But I have to admit, I quickly fell in love with the N73. It has a gorgeous 2.4 inch screen and an unbelievable 3.2 megapixel camera. IMHO it’s one of the greatest smartphones I have ever used. One of the things I also like about non-Windows CE cell phones, is the fact that they normally synchronize with iSync. Well normally. iSync seems to have trouble though with newer handsets. And that’s exactly what happened with the N73. iSync successfully recognized it as N73, but complained about being unable to synchronize with it.

So searching the net I’ve found the following solution:

• In the Finder, control-click on the iSync application and choose Show Package Contents
• Then navigate into Contents -> Plugins -> ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice -> Contents -> Plugins ->
  PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin -> Contents -> Resources.
• In that folder, modify MetaClasses.plist (make a backup!) using the below code.

Here’s what you need to add to the file (add it right after the first <dict> tag):

This worked flawlessly for me. Had another expierence? Tell us about it in the comments…

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