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I am a 64 yr. old caveman when it comes to recent tech. My computer is a Mac Mini, one of the first, i.e. non-intel. I recently updated my op system to Leopard, OS X. Is my system Bluetooth enabled? Would your above solution to contact transmission to my new LGTouch work?

Hope someone can help, even if just yes or no! THANKS!

Thanks for the question.

Since I don’t have exactly your setup, I cannot say for sure; however, I found no evidence that Bluetooth is any less capable on a PPC than on an Intel. I would say that there’s a good chance it will work.

As a suggestion, instead of creating the SendContacts group in Address Book as a normal group and drag a single contact to that group. Then try running the script to see if the technique works. If so, delete the normal group and replace it with the smart group I described and repeat the process.

If you try it out, please let me know how it goes!

— Evan

Is your Touch on Verizon? I jsut tried to upload my contact list and got

“Transfer failed
The target device claims it does not support the required Object-Push or File-Transfer protocols.”

Thanks!

Hmmm.. Yes, I have a Env Touch through Verizon, obtained this summer. Hardware version 1.0, Bluetooth version 2.1+EDR.

You didn’t mention which version of OS/X you’re running (I’m using 10.5.8).

I wonder if this a Bluetooth pairings or security-related issue.

If you haven’t already, go to System Preferences | Hardware | Bluetooth. Ensure Bluetooth is enabled and “Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar” is checked. Click on File Sharing Setup. Make sure “Bluetooth Sharing” is checked and that pairing is required for both receiving and sending items.

On the phone side, go to Settings & Tools | Bluetooth Menu and click Add New Device. Your Mac should say that an incoming pairing request is being made; accept it.

Your Mac and phone should now be paired and you should be able to transfer songs, pictures… and contacts, of course!

Please give that a shot and let me know if you have any luck.
— Evan

Dude you are the man!!!!!! worked great!! been freaking out over this for a week now! Thank you sooo much!!

Great! I’m really glad I could help. If you find any other tips ‘n tricks or have any other issues, just post here and we’ll see what we can do.
— Evan

Hi — I tried all of your steps. Ended up downloading the SendContacts automator workflow application created by C+C software factory from the apple website. But I keep getting the message “Not enough space erase some files” on my phone, even though I have a sandisk 2gb mini card in and my memory is nowhere near full. Also, I tried sending just one contact in the SendContacts group and got the same message. Interestingly, this has been a new message I’ve been getting; prior to that, I kept getting an exclamation point on my phone with a message that an email address or phone number was required — I have no idea what that meant. I’m so frustrated — I don’t even care about ongoing synching — I’d just like to do a one-time transfer of my contact list on my computer to this phone. I just got this phone mostly because I had a palm Z22 that died and I wanted to just consolidate everything — calendar, contacts, etc. – onto one device, i.e., my EnV touch. I managed to import my address book as vcards from the Palm desktop into my mac Address book and Entourage 2008. That was the first step and a big relief but I’ve spent virtually all morning trying to figure out how to get the contacts onto the phone. All I keep getting from various customer service techs and web blogs is that it is only possible to download from MS Outlook to LG phones — i.e., LGs do not support mac computers. Then I came upon your blog and was really psyched but again, seem to have hit a brick wall. Help! BTW I just got this brand new macbook for christmas with OS X operating system not using snow leopard yet.

Sharon,

Sorry to hear about your problems with syncing — I know how frustrating it can be. I don’t have a solution (yet) but there are a couple of things to try.

Keep in mind that the phone’s memory is divided into two “silos” – built-in memory and, optionally, a MicroSD card. These memories cannot be joined together so once one gets filled, additional data will not “spill” into the other.

First, on the phone, goto Settings & Tools | Memory | Phone Memory | Memory Usage. My understanding is that only sounds and pictures normally can go onto the SD card so it may be that contacts and other data are nearly filling your phone’s built-in memory. For instance, on my phone I have 113 of 136.4 MB available but you mave (much) less. If you have only a megabyte or so free that could explain the “memory full” message.

Second, regarding the “email address or phone number is required,” review that single contact you’re trying to send. Does it indeed have one of those fields? Perhaps try transferring one of your more “complete” contacts, one that has one or more phone numbers, an email address and more. Do you get the same message?

Give those ideas a shot and let us know if you make any headway. If not, we’ll see what we can do to find a solution.

Thanks for the input,
— Evan

Hi Evan,

Thanks for your help with this. I’m trying to merge my contacts for my father…

Once I run the SendContacts.app it gives me the error message

“The action “blueActionMove” could not be loaded because its executable is not loadable. Try reinstalling the action.”

Which I have done and still does not work. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
Michelle

I know one possible answer. When you download and mount the disk image for SendContacts there are our icons:

* Install First
* SendContacts
* Read Me
* C+C Software Factory

If you attempt to run SendContacts before Install First, the error you mention will appear.

Make sure you read the Read Me file, execute the Install First script and then copy SendContacts to the appropriate folder.

Let us know if that fixes the issue for ya!
— Evan

Michelle – I found another (worse) possible explanation. Are you by any chance using Snow Leopard? I’m now getting this same error. *sigh*

Let me know, please!
— Evan

Hi
I’m have the same problem as Michelle. What do you mean by; copy SendContacts to the “appropriate” folder? According to the reed me it can be placed anywhere on the HD. I run Leopard btw.
Thanks /n

I got the same error as Michelle. I believe it’s because snow leopard only supports Universal image. While leopard supports both old ppc and intel binary image.
The author of the automator’s bluetooth push object only released it in ppc binary image.

If somone can rebuilt his source code for intel, then we have a chance to get this working. I believe the source code can be obtained from:
http://automatorworld.com/archives/bluetooth-object-push/

Niklas – Sorry for the confusion. SendContacts is an Automator workflow saved as a standard application, so you can place it anywhere (perhaps Applications or Utilities would be a good choice).

If you’ve run Install First and you’re running 10.5.x and you’re still having trouble, I’m not sure what the issue is.

James – you hit it on the head. I did actually begin looking the code and it seems very doable. I’m just getting started with OS/X application development so I’m not yet ready to tackle this but I hope to in the future. Thanks!

another way to export your contact via bluetooth.

-export the group that has all your contacts into a single vcard file.
-Make sure that all your contacts are basic ones!! No profile pictures otherwise env touch doesn’t know how to interpret the vcard file.
- use bluetooth file exchange utility to send the vcard file to your phone

nice tip, james – thanks!

Are you aware of any way to do the inverse of this operation? I’m trying to get my contacts from my LG enV Touch onto my Mac. Thanks.

Vivek — sorry to take so long to reply (I’ve been in the middle of switching web providers).
Yes, I found there is a way to do what you want.

1. Make sure that Bluetooth is enabled and that your Mac is discoverable.
2. Make sure Bluetooth Sharing is enabled in System Preferences | Bluetooth | File Sharing Setup.
3. On the LG phone, select Contacts | Options | 2. Manage Contacts.
4. Mark the individual contacts you want to send or choose Options | 2. Mark All
5. Choose Send | 5. Via Bluetooth.
6. You should see your Mac in the SELECT DEVICE list. If not, try 1. Search New Device
7. Click OK to send.
8. You should see a message on the phone SENDING NAME CARD 1/NNN
9. A dialog box should appear on your Mac entitled Incoming File Transfer with the message LGVX1000 is sending a file.
10. Check the Accept All checkbox and press the Accept button
11. All the contacts will be saved to your Downloads folder as VCF files.
12. When all contacts have been transferred to you Mac, you can double-click them in the Finder to import them into Address Book.

Not the smoothest of processes, but I’ve tested it and it does work for me.

Hope this helps!
— Evan
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