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By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » iSync Loco?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » iSync Loco? — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:58:07 +0000

[...] es easily. I swear. I’ve only been waiting three years for it, right? I agree, iSync is one whacked out product, more temperamental than Jobs hiz-self! In Unw [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 22 May 2005 18:16:03 +0000

Lee

i know how you feel. it has been quite painful to keep the data synced between my devices, meanwhile my phone 6620 has died so i am going to get me a more compatible and easy to use phone

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 22 May 2005 17:54:19 +0000

Really Pissed off with Apple as I just went to sync my iPod and Sony phone for the first time since upgrading and noticed the sync menu no longer available, wasn’t able to switch it on because I don’t have a .mac account and they only seem to let you sync now if you do.
This stinks. Reminds me of when they brought out Quicktime pro and stopped the free quicktime from being able to play movies full screen.

By: kdog

kdog — Tue, 17 May 2005 12:33:26 +0000

iSync under Tiger works fine w/ my seT637 phone… one quirk I noticed is that it does not work if I choose sync from the menubar, only if I open up the iSync application and then choose ‘sync devices’ from there… seems like a little trick to encourage you to subscribe to .mac…

too bad there’s not a pref to fix this!

By: Blue Meanie

Blue Meanie — Wed, 11 May 2005 21:06:07 +0000

The first rule of computing:

Never, ever install a newly released operating system onto your primary computer.

Wait for the first service pack, or whatever Apple calls service packs. Let others find and fix the bugs.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:53:26 +0000

Leo,

I feel your pain. it is so frustrating to be dealing with this situation. i have even reset the phone a couple of times, to no avail. anyway hopefully i will be able to figure it out soon enough and then post the updates here

By: leo prieto

leo prieto — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:37:05 +0000

Same here. Haven’t been able to Sync my P900 since I upgraded to Tiger. Still trying to figure out what they changed.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 10 May 2005 23:16:00 +0000

I have jumped through the hoops already. I don’t have a Palm. What really is annoying is that it was working till last evening, before I went to sleep. Somehow it just went kaput. I have looked at the forums and there seems to be no answer. More questions. I have a feeling that Tiger got rushed to the market a bit prematurely

By: Leonard Lin

Leonard Lin — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:47:33 +0000

You might want to check Apple's iSync forums. Here's a discussion on Nokia 6600s and Tiger for example.

By: doubler

doubler — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:41:18 +0000

iSync no longer works without .mac. All syncs now go through your iDisc. Best I can figure, if you don’t have a .mac account, you’re out of luck. I’m very surprised that yours is the first blog Iv;e seen comment on this “feature”. One of the 200 Tiger features no doubt.

By: Ware Adams

Ware Adams — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:16:57 +0000

Are you trying to sync both the phone and a Palm with iSync? If so you might just be noticing a new “feature” in Tiger iSync.

In Tiger if you hit the Palm cradle button iSync will only sync the Palm device, not a phone. If you click the button on the iSync application (not the menubar) it will prompt you to press the cradle button. If you press the cradle button both the Palm and the phone will sync, if not it will time out and just the phone will sync.

This seems a real pain (especially b/c it’s not immediately obvious unless you read the KB article on it) at first, but the benefit is you don’t need to have everything plugged in to sync without an error message.

Of course if your not also using a Palm none of this applies.

Good luck.

By: Fine James

Fine James — Tue, 10 May 2005 20:09:49 +0000

Sue Steve Jobs

By: hobnob

hobnob — Tue, 10 May 2005 19:58:04 +0000

buy a pc