Contact Sync between your Mac and your EnV2
19 06 2008Yesterday, I posted a tutorial to help you sync your pictures, videos, and sounds with your EnV2 from your Mac using bluetooth. That article is posted here.Many of you asked if I could also post a tutorial to sync contacts, calendar, and music, and here is the first one: contacts. Although this phone is not yet supported by BitPim, the popular cross-platform application to sync information such as your phonebook, calendar, and contacts to your phone, there is a simple process you can execute until that support is provided. Using the built in bluetooth on your Mac and the bluetooth on your EnV2, you can manually send contacts to and from you phone.
To send contacts from your phone to your Mac, first turn on bluetooth on your phone if you have not done so already by pressing OK > 9 > 3 >left soft key. Now that bluetooth is turned on, follow the instructions here if you have not already done so to pair your Mac and your phone. Great! Now that your phone and your Mac are paired, to send from your phone to your Mac first set up a few preferences. On your Mac, go to System Preferences > Sharing. Click on Bluetooth Sharing and change it to these options. Change the top to Accept and Save, Require Pairing. Then change the folder to lace the received files to. I do not recommend using your desktop but instead create a folder either in your home directory or your desktop named something like “Bluetooth Files.” Choose this folder as the folder for accepted items on the blutooth sharing preferences. Now on your phone, go to the bluetooth menu by pressing OK > 9 > 3, and scrolling down to your Mac’s computer name. Press the right soft key for options, then scroll or press 6 for Send Name Card. The first time you do this, press options, Mark All to send all of them to your computer. Then after when you update a certain contact or add a new one, just select that specific contact. Press done, to send the selected contacts to your computer into the folder that you designated. To add these contacts to your Address Book, simple click and drag them onto the window and it will ask you if you want to import.
If you were to update or add new contacts on your computer, you would want to send them to your phone for mobile access. Here are the instructions. Open Address Book, located in your applications folder or at the bottom of your screen in the dock. Select all of your contacts to export to your phone, then go up to File > Export > Export vCard. Choose your desktop for easy access. This exports them as all one file, but separate contacts. On your desktop, right click, or option click on the vCards file and go down to “more.” Select “send vcards to” and then select your phone, usually LG VX9100. This will send the vCard with all of your contacts to your phone.
The methods listed above will suffice until full support of BitPim is provided. Anyways, why would you need to sync contacts, you usually only have to send one way in the event of an update or a new contact. It is very rare that you update the same contacts differently on each platform. Hope this tutorial helps, and I will post syncing music and calendar at another time. Enjoy!
EDIT: Many people are stating that this does not work for them. It worked for me and I decided to post it to help other people trying to achieve the same thing. Bitpim has been update to version test-1.0.6 and you can find more information here.. Also, exporting vCards, must have at least one phone number included and sometimes when exporting multiple, only the first one gets sent to the phone. Sorry for all of the confusion, if it works for you, great, if it doesn’t, i’ll post another guide when bitpim rolls out full support for contact sync.
To sync pictures, videos, and sounds to your phone visit here.
To sync music to your phone, visit here.
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This doesn’t work. I get a “file transfer failed… internal error” message. Man, I wish it would though. Thanks for trying.
The “file transfer failed” error occurs after you right-click the vcf and choose “more” –> “send to LG vx9100.” It tries, thinks, and then reports the error.
If I change the file type to .jpg then it works, but of course it’s not recognized as a vcf file, and there’s no way to rename it on the phone. Apparently it’s blocking the transfer based on the filename extension.
Anybody wanna take bets that Vzon updated the firmware to get around this capability so they can sell us the Windows software they claim is “necessary.”
My phone software version is VX910v03, hardware revision 1.1, bluetooth version 1.2. Are your versions the same?
My phone software is VX910V03 hardware revision 1.1 and bt version 1.2, the same as yours.
Have you tried to unpair and repair your Mac with the phone to see if it was one of the settings you chose? I’m working on trying to find the source of the problem. I also edited my article since it seems to be a 50/50 it works or it doesn’t. The next Bitpim release should include full support for contacts.
That worked!!! try the bitpim yet?
Selected name in Addressbook, rightclick, export vCard…, saved in BlueTooth folder I made (per your instructions), made sure extension was not hidden, repeat. Then, after all the vcf files of contacts were done, selected all and rightclick, More…send to LG VX9100…Done! Thanks again!
“Failed to Establish Connection to the device”
When, oh when is MS and Apple going to make this as easy as they say it is.
Thx all to anyone who can help.
Fred
This saved my life. Verizon is claiming water damage to my phone that only has a non functioning screen, everything else in the phone works flawlessly. Somehow I managed to get through all the steps blindly and saved my contacts and photos. Now if you can just get me a tutorial to bring my env2 screen back from the dead…
Long story short, if you don’t mind some Carpal Tunnel, export each vCard individually (drag ‘n drop is fastest). Then highlight said vCards, and then do the suggested method of sending file to the bluetooth device.