I´ve bought a new phone – the LG KU990 Viewty

Very early on, I realised I had a problem – syncing it with iCal was not easy. After a few hours of browsing the web, I´ve found a solution. I am sharing it here:

Simply put, I installed a small program I found here: http://ical2viewty.blogspot.com/

You can find fairly detailed instructions on the page, but I ran in to a few problems, so I´m posting full install instructions here. Please notice that I have nothing to do with the development of this script – I am only a very thankful user – all credit goes to Pat from Basel

iCal2Viewty is a great little program, but there are a few issues.

First off – it is not a two-way sync, it simply exports your iCal entries to the phone. Also, you will have to delete your entire phone calender before you export (every time).

Main

1) First you need to make sure your LG Viewty is paired with your Mac with Bluetooth. If you need help with this try the apple site: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34744

2) Download the 0.2 version if you are running OS X 10.4, and 0.3 version if you are running OS X 10.5

3) Clear the phone memory before running the program or you will end up with duplicate entries:

Organiser > Settings > Clear all > Yes

4) Run the program, which will end with the running of “Bluetooth File Exchange” to transfer to the phone.

Advanced Config

The calender in the KU990 has a limitation of 100 entries. If your calender has more entries, you will get an incomplete transfer. By default the program only add events from the last 2 months and into the next 3, ie, 4 months in total. To limit how many entries are transferred to your phone, you can change the timespan by creating a file called ical2viewty.config

Open TextEdit and create a new document

The ical2viewty.config file should contain only the following 4 lines :

<?
$months_history = 1;
$months_future = 3;
?>

I changed the setting to history = 0, and future = 1 in order to get the number of entries under 100.

Save the file as ical2viewty.config TextEdit automatically adds the .rtf – so locate the file, mark it and press option+i and change delete the .rtf ending, so the file i only named ical2viewty.config.

Now you need to place the config file in the tmp folder. The folder is located under the root (your harddrive root folder). The folder is hidden, so in order to see it, you must show all hidden files.

Open Terminal (located in programs -> tools),

Type in:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

and press Enter.

To make the command take effect, you need to restart the Finder. One way to do this is to hold down the Option key, then click and hold on the Finder icon in the Dock. When the contextual menu appears, select Relaunch and the Finder will restart.

Now you can see your tmp folder, under the root. Move ical2viewty.config in to the tmp folder, and run the program. It will display how many entries (Events) that are created. The script automatically generates the files vCalender_export_from_iCal.vcs, also located in the tmp folder – and sends it via bluetooth filesharing to your KU990.

You can open ical2viewty.config in TextEdit, and change the month settings at any time.

Now it´s time to hide the hidden files again.

Open Terminal (located in programs -> tools),

Type in:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

and press Enter.

To make the command take effect, you need to restart the Finder. One way to do this is to hold down the Option key, then click and hold on the Finder icon in the Dock. When the contextual menu appears, select Relaunch and the Finder will restart.

That´s it – enjoy your phone!

If you have any tips about this  – please comment below. I will make changes to this entry, if something is unclear.

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