Using iSync to Connect to a Nokia 3120 Classic

I lost my phone a couple of weeks ago, so I went out and bought a new one. I plumped for a Nokia 3120, because it had what I wanted - a basic camera, bluetooth, and a memory slot - and was cheap.

As with all Nokia’s connecting it to your PC is achieved by using Nokia’s PC Suite, however, connecting it to my Mac via iSync didn’t seem to be possible. I could browse the device via Bluetooth, but iSync would report that it could not use the device.

Thanks to James Lloyd, I was eventually able to get it working. James has a great post about using iSync to connect to Nokia’s Series 40 phones, and helpfully provides plugin’s for nearly 40 models.

While the 3120 classic is not listed, I was able to modify one of the plugins to get it to work. You can grab the 3120 iSync plugin here. Just follow James’ instructions and iSync will happily connect to your 3120.

Edit: The original instructions on James’ blog have disappeared, so you can now find the installation instructions here.

  • Right click iSync from the with applications in the finder and “show package contents”
  • Navigate to: Contents\Plugins\ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice\Contents\Plugins\Nokia-6131.phoneplugin\Contents\Resources

!!! make a backup of MetaClasses.plist !!!

  • replace contents of MetaClasses.plist with the iSync plugin (text file downloaded from here) for your nokia mobile!

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16 Comments

  1. Ben AUSTRALIA Mac OS X Safari 525.20.1
    Posted Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 at 06:08 | Permalink

    Worked a treat. Thanks!

  2. Paul IRELAND Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
    Posted Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 at 07:56 | Permalink

    Thanks Ben!

  3. Pete NEW ZEALAND Mac OS X Safari 528.1
    Posted Sunday, 5th October, 2008 at 06:21 | Permalink

    Works great. Cheers.

  4. stefano ITALY Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Wednesday, 8th October, 2008 at 14:05 | Permalink

    hi,
    how can i use the file txt?

    thanks

  5. Paul IRELAND Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Thursday, 9th October, 2008 at 10:44 | Permalink

    Stefano, follow the instructions on James’ site:

    http://www.james-lloyd.com/scripts/nokia-series-40-isync-plugin/

  6. James UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Sunday, 12th October, 2008 at 10:50 | Permalink

    Hi, just linked to this page for the 3120 plugin, so you should see some more traffic coming your way!

    James

  7. Paul IRELAND Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Sunday, 12th October, 2008 at 13:26 | Permalink

    Thanks James!

  8. Gasparrisoft ITALY Mac OS X Safari 525.22
    Posted Monday, 10th November, 2008 at 14:40 | Permalink

    Good, fast and simple trick. Thanks

  9. aliasflorence UNITED KINGDOM Mac OS X Safari 525.20.1
    Posted Monday, 10th November, 2008 at 23:02 | Permalink

    Wow! Bummer. Sync failed. Ended up with a hundred copies of the same half dozen names. Crap!

  10. Roland GUAM Mac OS X Safari 525.22
    Posted Tuesday, 11th November, 2008 at 13:08 | Permalink

    Paul, you win the award for best isync hack for the Nokia! Worked great! Thanks!

  11. Paul IRELAND Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Tuesday, 11th November, 2008 at 16:49 | Permalink

    @aliasflorence: Sorry it didn’t work for you, but it’s been working for me without any issues.

    @Roland: Thanks! I’d love to be able to take the credit, but all the credit is due to James Lloyd. He’s the man who created the scripts that I merely edited! Delighted to hear that it works for you! :)

  12. spacec0w SPAIN Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0
    Posted Saturday, 13th December, 2008 at 17:55 | Permalink

    Hi, thanks a million for this! I recommend changin this key value:

    MaxURLLength
    60

    from 60 to 200 or something. Or is there a reason not to do this?

  13. spacec0w SPAIN Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0
    Posted Saturday, 13th December, 2008 at 18:16 | Permalink

    Nevermind, well, it seems like the limit is around 125, like 4 characters short of the addresses I want to put in. I’m tring to set this: http://www.aldeaglobal.net/callserver/ up. Any idea of how this could be fixed?

  14. Paul IRELAND Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Saturday, 13th December, 2008 at 22:04 | Permalink

    Could be a limit in the browser. Try using a different browser. Opera have a mobile edition, but I’ve no idea if this will work on your phone.

    http://www.operamini.com/download/

  15. Spacec0w SPAIN Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0
    Posted Sunday, 14th December, 2008 at 17:28 | Permalink

    Thanks Paul. Well, for the moment I’ve been using the “URL” field in Address book to copy over these links, and I see that in the phone itself is where the limit is. I’d much prefer to use that as I can just click “details” then make a call, and I’ve found TinyURL to be an acceptable solution for now.

  16. Paul IRELAND Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
    Posted Sunday, 14th December, 2008 at 19:08 | Permalink

    Good idea to use Tiny URL. I must remember that one!

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