Yesterday I decided to check if a new firmware update was available for my phone since a techie at Sony Ericsson had told me that with the new firmware the iSync plugin would now finally work with Trade Netherlands branded P990i’s.
Having upgraded to Leopard recently I didn’t really expect the plugin to still work.
Turns out, the plugin still works and it now finally works with my phone too.
Check if you have at least the following firmware version, otherwise, use SonyEricsson Update Services to update your phone (back-up all the data first as it will be wiped clean).
Go into the Main Menu, select the drop down on top and then System Information:
- Phone: R9G007
- Bluetooth: R5A01
- Organizer: R6D23
- CDA: R9A01
So here are the steps:
- Enable bluetooth and Visibility/Discoverable on your Mac and P990i
- Pair the Mac and the phone ( if you don’t know how, you shouldn’t be reading this post in the first place)
- Download and install the iSync v1.07 plugin from the SonyEricsson P990i support pages
- Open iSync and select Devices > Add Device and double-click on your phone to add it
- Now we’re done and both the Mac and the P990i can be set to invisible: disable visibility on the P990i and remove the tick in front of Discoverable by clicking on it in the Mac’s Bluetooth menu
If you use Mac OS Leopard and you want to use your phone as a bluetooth modem the default settings and scripts are fine, for Tiger, Google for SonyEricsson modem scripts
Now in iSync you should have a P990i icon with the name of your phone beneath it, click on it, set it up as you like and hit Sync Devices.
If you have Enable power saving enabled on your P990i the sync will fail, you’ll see a Kernel Exception on your phone and then the phone will reboot, if you disable this function the sync will go without a hitch and you can re-enable Enable power saving after the sync is completed.
Thank you for the hints,
) then the updateapp tells me, that I allready have the latest version installed. So it seems to me that the telefon-company (O2) will not release newer updates… so if there’s any chance to get syncing working, I really would be happy :-/
my firmware versions are different to the ones above, but when I try updateing with seus (and windows
The problem in this case is that you probably have an O2 branded phone, which means that once the firmware gets release it takes another month or so in order for O2 to produce a branded version, just be patient.
Just updated my P990i yesterday via Sonyericsson Update Service (windows).
Since the update is coming directly form sonyericsson, it must be the newest one available, i reckon. But the Sync with iSync still doesn’t work. Not with Leopard, neither with Tiger (SE iSync plug-in installed).
I know you’re not giving technical support, it still would be cool if you had another hint for me. I’ve been trying to sync the phone with my mac for a long time, Apple doesn’t really push the development of iSync that hard anymore, It really works neatly on Windows!
my versions on the phone are as following (i don’t really see if the phone version is new or older on mine) :
Telefon: CXC 162037 R9GA001
Bluetooth: CXC 162058 R5A01
Organiser: CSC 162036 R6E28
CDA: CDA 162007/3 R6E28
I’m hearing a lot of sounds from people all over having trouble with the iSync plugin and I know from experience the SE helpdesk is absolutely useless.
Unfortunately I have no clue what is causing the problem.
I know that for it to work the Organiser needs to be at least version R6D23 but since you seem to have an even higher version that shouldn’t be an issue.
The only thing that concerns me is your CDA seeing as that is identical to your Organiser, it doesn’t feel quite right.
I do have a question for you though, is it a branded phone, like a Vodafone or T-Mobile or Orange or whatever as that can very well be the source of the problem.
My P990i doesn’t seem to be a branded phone, since it’s possible to use a SIM-card from a different operator.
When i try to syncronize, I see this symbol besides the bluetooh-logo which means the phone is connected to another device. But shortly before i get the error message in iSync, one bracket dissapears and i only see this < which means bluetooth is on but isn’t connected to any device. In two cases I even got an error message on the phone which said that the application !Sync ML Sync Agent has quit.
So it might be a bluetooth issue! On Windows I only used the USB-calbe, but iSync doesen’t support USB-connection to SE-phones.
The fact that you can use it with different SIM-cards doesn’t mean it is not branded.
Each SE phone is branded depending on the country or region it is going to be sold. My phone wasn’t provider branded but it was Europe/The Netherlands branded by SE and depending on the branding you might need to wait for a different firmware release or update.
By now all the P990i should be syncing like a charm with Tiger, don’t know about Leopard but I doubt that will make any difference.
I have the latest versions of all firmware and software available, have tried everything but still no luck! The problem is exacly as described by benjamin (5). My P990i is NOT branded and as I said, updated with the latest firmware from SEUS. Energysaving off and ALL OTHER INSTRUCTIONS have been followed and tested. I have done this with all upgrades of firmware along the line with both OS X Tiger and Leopard.
That, my friend, is seriously strange.
I’ve tested their plug-in on 3 different Mac’s with 2 different P990i bought in the Netherlands and they work as expected.
I have no clue what could be causing your issue.
Do you happen to have a logfile which could tell us something as to why it fails?
I have updated my fone it does not sync and I have diff system numbers.
Phone
R9F011
BT
R5A01
Organiser
R5A17
CDA
R7A01
To be honest, I don’t know what is causing the problem and without a logfile or something like that I can’t really say what could be causing the problem.
One thing you might want to do is download the plugin from the SE website of your country and not take the global one, there might be a difference in there though I doubt it.
Otherwise I’d suggest calling / mailing the SonyEricsson helpdesk, they’re usually quite friendly and helpful.