Syncing M600i with Mac Address Book
I’ve been struggling with this for at least an hour now, and finally figured out how to get my contacts from my phone (the Sony Ericsson M600i, which doesn’t sync with Macs at present) into my Address Book on my Mac. Hooray! Here’s a step by step for the five of you who might also need this information.
Oh, I should mention, you might need to adapt this if you’ve got Bluetooth on your mac. I don’t, which was half the problem. I’m using the good old-fashioned USB cable.
1. Mac - Install Magnus Nordlander’s ‘SonyEricsson M600i USB File mode enabler‘, which means you can mount the phone’s memorycard on your desktop. This is good not only for the process I’m describing, but also for putting photos, music and video on your phone. Wowee!
2. M600i - Go to Contacts > More > Contact manager > Backup. Do it now. If it won’t let you do this, make sure your phone USB functionality is in Phone Mode (see number 3 if you don’t know how to do this).
3. M600i - Make sure your phone isn’t plugged in to your computer. Go to Control Panel > Connections > USB and change the ‘USB Functionality’ to ‘File Transfer’. Make sure to hit Save.
4. Mac - Plug the phone into the computer. The phone’s memory card should mount on your desktop. Look for other > Backup > Contacts > Contacts.vcf and import this file into your Address Book.
You win! Hooray! Thanks to Keith at newformula.org for pointing me in the right direction.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I’m assuming this will work backwards, for updating your phone with your Address Book contacts, using ‘Restore’ instead of ‘Backup’… I’ll try it later.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I think it is a really cool phone
The MP3 player has a lot of functionality
But I am totally baffled as to how to access GMAIL from the phone
John
from Doctors positions Australia
April 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hey John, I haven’t used GMail as yet, so I can’t help there unfortunately! I would imagine you can access it through the web browser tho..?