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Apple Macintosh and Sony Ericsson issues |
Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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@sfaguy
Sorry, didn't notice you had a P900
Have you seen this for the P900? |
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sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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@JoolsG3,
I have seen the product that you pointed out to SFA and I do not think that is what he is looking for. It does not perform a phonebook or calendar sync which is what I think he is looking for. To date, I do not know of any applications other than iSync that will allow the synchronization between a Mac and the Symbian OS. If you will look at the links I provided, you will have a better understanding into this particular problem.
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sfaguy
Joined: Nov 06, 2002
Posts: 442
From: San Francisco, CA
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sapporobaby,
from what i have read so far, iSync seems to be the only way to go for Mac & P900.
however, people seem to have problem with the right FW vs. Mac OS version. a few people claim after they upgrade to R5Axx or R5Bxx, iSync can not discover the phone.
i only wish SE would come out with the Mac version of PC-Suite even though the Mac market, in my mind, is not big enough for them to justify it.
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sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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@sfaguy,
Actually the PC Suite is not needed if the reliability between iSync and P900 could be garanteed. For my usage of iSync, I get about 98% with the other 2% failing due to the BT module needing to be reset in the phone. All in all I would say that I get 100% reliability from iSync. if SE and Apple could get together and produce a common solution, the WIndoze guys would have mucho to be jealous of. 
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sfaguy
Joined: Nov 06, 2002
Posts: 442
From: San Francisco, CA
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sapporobaby,
i am happy to learn you get it 98% of the time. unfortunately my stupid powerbook G4 does not come with BT. i wonder if i can justify buying the BT adaptor for US$28 or just use PC-Suite on my roommate's laptop for the sync when he is not out of town
[ This Message was edited by: sfaguy on 2004-06-11 03:16 ] |
sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
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From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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@sfaguy,
I would take the chance. BT works fine all of the time with Mac and when I had a Windoze PC I was not happy at all with BT. I had to re-install the software many, many, times where as BT under Mac is very good and reliable.
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kobra_7k
Joined: Jun 15, 2004
Posts: 6
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I have a P800, and am trying to sync my addressbook using bluetooth, however, the pictures from my profiles aren't exporting!
Also I am unable to send SMS using the bluetooth eatures built in with Panther's address book. I noticed a thread on hte same issue, but no reply... can someone plese address any or both of these issues? |
bmsantillan
Joined: Dec 11, 2002
Posts: 55
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Hello all!
Have a problem here... I have an iBook G4 and a P900... This will be my first time to sync... I was a able to pair both devices successfully thru my BT dongle... My prob is when i open iSync and try to "ADD DEVICE".... No device is found... What could be the problem? I have already updated my Apple Bluetooth, iCal, Mac OS X etc... I need help!!! Would appreciate it if you just e-mail me at bmsantillan@tri-isys.com the soution to my problem.
Thanks in advance!
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d-frost
Joined: Jun 17, 2004
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I have a Siemens SL55 - at which I curse everytime I use it!
I am able to upgrade with orange at the end of the month & was going to go for the Nokia 6230, but no one at either nokia or orange can tell me if it's compatible with macs. So Micro Anvika said SE are the only ones compatible.
What I want to know is, the pictures you take with the phones, can you download them into iPhoto, upload MP3's from iTunes into the phone. From what you all seem to say iSync is going to be no problem with the addressbook app.
I have been told that Orange are not going to bother stocking the 630 & jump to the SE K700. since this is a video clip phone aswell, can you download into iMovie?
Can anyone help as to the compatibility of the k700 with my imac running 10.2.6 I don't have bluetooth enabled I don't think.
Many thanks.
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Jools
Joined: May 21, 2003
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Apple support for all existing SE phones has been excellent, especially with the T68, T610, T630, Z600 lines. There's no reason to think that K700 support will be anything less.
A few K700 owners on another forum have reported that iSync does work with it already, although no doubt Apple will soon officially support it.
Any pictures and videos you take with the phone can be transferred to the Mac and then used in any way you wish, iPhoto, QuickTime, iMovie etc. Although bear in mind that its relatively low resolution, especially for video.
MP3's (and presumably AAC files as the phone supports those too) can be uploaded to the phone using Bluetooth File Transfer and played back in the phone.
I would recommend upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3.4 and the latest iSync and Bluetooth software. You'll also need a USB Bluetooth adapter if your Mac doesn't have Bluetooth built-in.
Cheapest place I've seen in the UK for the D-Link USB Bluetooth Adapter that Apple officially supports (99% of others also work though) is EBuyer.
Hope that helps! |
bmsantillan
Joined: Dec 11, 2002
Posts: 55
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Hello again...
Just want to clarify something... Apple recommends MAC OS X 10.3.2 for symbian phones (P9/P8)... im running on 10.3.4. will the downgrade solve my problem? has anyone tried? iSync cannot add my P9 to the devices. Hope to hear from ya guys. TIA
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daanmac
Joined: Jun 25, 2004
Posts: 3
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help
i have a mac and want to use the cradle for the p900
does anybody have a driver for this???
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2manydjs
Joined: Jul 01, 2003
Posts: 138
From: Amsterdam
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How to rip a DVD and convert to mp4 (P900) or 3gp (P800, Philips Camcoder) (All for OS X):
First you need the following applications; 0Sex, BD4go, Diva (you won't need the 3ivx codec) and Quicktime Pro
(www.versiontracker.com, http://www.3ivx.com, http://www.apple.com, google.com)
Use 0Sex to "rip" the DVD to elementary streams (a MPEG2 movie file and a AC3 audio file).
Best way to go is to first deselect everything from the control menu and then select the vid, aud, tit and chapters you want to convert.
Choose elem. stream from the fmt menu.
Open the .m2v (MPEG2 Video) in Diva, select target file and press video compression.
Choose MPEG-4 Video, quality best, key frame every 45 sec. and a bit rate between 12 Kbit/s (long movie (like 150 min).) and 17 kbit/s (90 min. movie).
Of course you can choose your own bit rate if you want to, calculate which bitrate is best for your movie.
Under Image and credits you can crop and resize the movie, be sure its in a 16:9 ratio and not wider than 200 pixels.
Press start.
Open BD4go and select the .ac3 audio file, it will change it to a aiff.
When both files are done, open quicktime pro.
Open the .aiff file and chop off the last 20 sec.
This way you'll be sure it's not longer than the movie and you won't have any sync problems.
Select all the audio and copy it.
Open the movie file (dvd.mov) and add the copied audio to it (Under edit menu).
Press play to see if it's good and in sync.
If you want you can chop off the end titling to save space.
MP4:
Than export it to "Movie to MPEG4", under options choose "Video: pass through", "Audio : music".
Under audio choose: music, 24 kbit/s, mono, 22,050, best.
Press Ok and Save.
EDIT:
3GPP:
Than export it to "Movie to 3GPP", under options choose "Video: pass through", "Audio : speech".
Press Ok and Save.
This isn't the easiest way (something like P900 manager or even cleaner is probably easier) but it is in my opinion by far the best and fastest way to do it.
It takes about 4 hours for everything on my old 400 Mhz G3.
Good luck!
EDIT:
I've tested everything with simpsons episodes (20 min).
Now with whole movies, I've come to the conclusion it's better to chop the movie into 3 parts.
[ This Message was edited by: 2manydjs on 2004-06-27 11:28 ] |
sapporobaby
Joined: Sep 14, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Finland. Kuwait maybe :)
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@ Macheads,
1. if you are using only a Mac and no Windows pC, then throw the cradle away or put it in the draw. SE has said they will not suppor the cradle in Mac. Apple will not write a drives, so the PC Suite is a thing of the past for Mac users.
2. The phone book will not work with the PXXX series phone. Bottom line. The phone does not support the AT commands that is needed to make it work.
3. iSync is somewhat of a mystery. It sometimes works, and some times not. It is dependent upon if firewalls are running on the host Mac, if port 3004 is open, if Bluetooth upgrade 1.5 have been installed, etc.... The hits just keep on coming. Hopefully SE will fix their phone with a bit of help from Apple. Please not that points one and two above are written in stone as per SE. |
lam7r
Joined: Jun 26, 2004
Posts: 41
From: Manchester UK
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lo all
Thanks for the movie tips
New to the forums so just saying hi.
On subject. iSYNC is strange, i just got my K700 (used to havr T630). iSYNC worked fine with 630 but seems a little dodgy with K700. Apple will prolly fix this in next OSX update tho like they did for the T610 upon release
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Posted: 2004-06-10 08:13
