Synchronizing Nokia 6086

I have a cranky old Nokia 6086. And I’m waiting for Android, just because of its open source license.

Love this phone(or more appropriately “used to love”), because it used to do task “rarest in its times”.

I could use any public WiFi hotspots (My Office and my home included) and route my calls through the internet, and costing me guess what – $0 (To be precise I paid $10 for TMobile@Home service.) So I could talk non-stop to all the hot chicks!! Lol!

However since yesterday it started to show signs of aging.

Long story short, I was searching for a synchronizer using bluetooth. Nokia only makes PC Suite. I have a Mac. And Mac has iSync which is not compatible with Nokia 6086.

Two Google searches later, here is the solution that worked for me. Here is what I did.

Edit the following file using any editor of your choice. I use Textmate (therefore mate), you can use Vi, Emac, nano, or “I’m still a fan of Charles Babbage” editor:

sudo mate /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/MetaClasses.plist

Add the following code right after 6021 entry.

<key>com.nokia.6086</key>
<dict>
        <key>Identification</key>
        <dict>
                <key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm</key>
                <string>Nokia+Nokia 6086</string>
                <key>com.apple.gmi+gmm</key>
                <string>Nokia+Nokia 6086</string>
        </dict>
        <key>InheritsFrom</key>
        <array>
                <string>family.com.nokia.series40.bus.bt</string>
        </array>
        <key>Services</key>
        <array>
                <dict>
                        <key>ServiceName</key>
                        <string>com.apple.model</string>
                        <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>ModelIcon</key>
                                <string>NOK6086.tiff</string>
                                <key>ModelName</key>
                                <string>6086</string>
                        </dict>
                </dict>
                <dict>
                        <key>ServiceName</key>
                        <string>com.apple.synchro</string>
                        <key>ServiceProperties</key>
                        <dict>
                                <key>MaxEMailLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                                <key>MaxNotesLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                                <key>MaxURLLength</key>
                                <integer>126</integer>
                        </dict>
                </dict>
        </array>
</dict>

Download this file and copy it into the following location using cp command.

sudo cp NOK6086.tiff    /Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/

Now bite your nails twice, touch the sacred Aluminum and pray to the chairman God.

WooHoo!! We are ready to synchronize our address book.

Once imported into Address Book, I created an archive of address book with date.

And then I gulped down a glass of milk and resumed watching the movie Amu…….