Can anybody sync Nokia 6600 in OSX Tiger?

same problem here.....please help!!!

Sorry to post a 'me too' post but...

Me Too!!!

Looks like the new isync uploaded an isync agent to my 6600. From what I can gather it looks like the isync agent on the phone itself is crashing. I checked this by running the agent (get a nice isync logo on the phone). Just before isync crashes (well, stops syncing) on the mac I see the isync agent on the phone stop. Then I restart it, sync again and it stops again etc etc.

*sigh*

I *need* my phone to sync! I'm thinking of downgrading to Panther until this is fixed.

I found this:

http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/579322-1.html

Here's the interesting bit:
Posted by: td1

These steps helped me! I found this on version traker and it got my phone working!
Nokia 6600 iSync over Bluetooth stops working Strangepl

Maybe I could help with this as I had the same problem, I found that If I created an individually named port access through my firewall then it worked . If you are running OSX then:

1.Go to system preferences
2.Sharing
3.Click on 'Firewall'
4.Press New
5.On Port name Click the drop down box and choose 'Other'
6.On 'Port Number, Range or Series' type in "3004"
7.In description type anything you want i called mine "Nokia 6600"
8.Press 'OK'
9.In the port description box check that the new port name "Nokia 600 (3004)" is ticked
10.Re-start your phone and computer (IMPORTANT!)

Your phone and mac should talk nicely to each other. I hope this helps

I did precisely this. My firewall was off before so I turned it on. I tried without rebooting but no banana. I've just rebooted both my powerbook and phone and now it's syncing OK (40% through the uploading so far).

There appear to be two problems with the Nokia 660 and Tiger/iSync 2.0:

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[*]The Mac cannot connect to the phone
[*]iSync fails during the sync operation
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For the former, the method mferrare suggests might work, but only if it is caused by Tiger's built-in firewall. If you do not have the firewall turned on, this won't help. You might try doing slow, step-by-step re-pairing of the phone to the Mac after a deep re-set of th ephone, or somesuch.

Steffi, your problem looks like the latter. You may have to bide your time until an update comes about. The problem appears to be with either contacts in Address Book or events in iCal that the iSync agent on your phone does not like. One fellow with a P900 tracked the problem back to a single contact. I have tracked my problem back to an event in one of my calendars that is more than one month in the past (which is not helpful knowledge since the calendar goes back to December 2000). Basically, what you do is this:

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[*]Create a new user in Tiger and import copies of your address book and calendars, set up pairing and iSync, etc.
[*]Reset the phone and sync only your address book. If this works, then your contacts are OK. If not, you can try sync'ing sub-sets of your contacts (re-setting the phone for each attempt) until you find the one that's causing your problems.
[*]If the address book is OK, try sync'ing (again, resetting the phone each time) each of your calendars individually. If you find a calendar that causes iSync to fail, try sync'ing with only the most recent events. If your calendar is not very old or if the event is recent enough, you may be able to figure out which event causes the problems (some people seem to think it has to do with repeating events. This would not surprise me in the least).
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My own solution was to just omit the problem calendar for now in the hopes that the 10.4.1 update helps.

That being said, I suggest you watch these other threads for more info:

Apple Discussion forums
(the other threads in here have lots of upset Symbian phone users...useful info)
teezeh dot info Blog

Good luck!

Coss-posted form the Apple forums...

Ha! Success! I have not yet installed the 10.4.1 update, but I have fixed my iSync problems, and without a firmware update. As suggested by others in the forum, the iSync failure was due to certain old repeating items on my "Personal" calendar. I rooted way back and discovered that the root cause was one of the "birthday" events I had set way bac in the past to recurr annually, though I was unable to nail down which birthday it was. I cleared them all out (after noting them all on a pad of paper) and re-entered them from scratch, and iSync worked like a charm...mostly.

For these birthday entries, they'r eonly kind of in my phone, kind of not. They don't appear in the past, and they don't appear too far into the future...only the one's that are in the near future show up on the Nokia. Examples:

My aunt's birthday in March does not appear anywhere on the Nokia
My fiancee's birthday only appears in May 2005
My father's birthday in June and my mother's in July are there for 2005 only.
My birthday in December and another in September do not appear anywhere, past or future.

::shrug:: I'll take that over crashed syncs any day!

This is all very strange because I have some pretty old (2001-2002) events with complex repeats--basically my college classes that met random days during the week--and these did not cause any issues at all.

I guess if you want it to work, you have to figure out whether Address Book or iCal is causing the bug. if the former, figure out which contact is buggy. If the latter, figure out which calendar(s) are giving you fits, then which repeating events within the calendar are killing iSync.

Experienced the same problems.
I guess you all did a recent sync prior to the 10.4 install.
Well, take your phone.
Open 'Agenda'.
Open iCal on your laptop.
Sync by hand.
Yes I am serious: sync by hand.
Write down in iCal the few appointments you made after your last successful sync.
Then open iSync.
Choose >Reset all devices<
Yes... sounds real scary.
Do it any way.
Nokia 6600 'Agenda' is empty?
Good.
Then sync.
And everything was back.
After that syncing worked fine.

Does anyone know if the method works for nokia 6670? I have a Mac running on Panther, but somehow I just can't get the 2 to even connect! I've tried using both the bluetooth set-up wizard and bluetooth file manager direct but both didn't work..
any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.. thanks!

steffi wrote:It seems I cannot sync anything with my Nokia 6600 under OSX Tiger.

isync tries to initialize the phone and then I get

Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:44 PM
The connection was lost while talking to the device.
Device "Nokia 6600" synchronization failed

This is all after having installed the isync agent on the phone.

I can't even get this far...how did you install isync agent on the phone? I can't find it any where. I have an application called 'sync' but nothing called isync.

Thanks,
Brenda

I also received the same error message "The connection was lost..." when trying to synchronise between isync and my Nokia 6600 under MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger).

I could solve the problem by doing the following three steps:
1. Enable firewall on port 3004 (see mferrare's description in this thread)
2. Delete all contacts on my Nokia 6600
3. Sync

Of course, this will only work if you have copy of all your addresses in your address book application on your Mac.

Hope this helps!