Comments on: LG Env Touch + Mac – Contacts

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:58:03 +0000

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.

Make sure that Bluetooth is enabled and that your Mac is discoverable.
Make sure Bluetooth Sharing is enabled in System Preferences | Bluetooth | File Sharing Setup.
On the LG phone, select Contacts | Options | 2. Manage Contacts.
Mark the individual contacts you want to send or choose Options | 2. Mark All
Choose Send | 5. Via Bluetooth.
You should see your Mac in the SELECT DEVICE list. If not, try 1. Search New Device
Click OK to send.
You should see a message on the phone SENDING NAME CARD 1/NNN
A dialog box should appear on your Mac entitled Incoming File Transfer with the message LGVX1000 is sending a file.
Check the Accept All checkbox and press the Accept button
All the contacts will be saved to your Downloads folder as VCF files.
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 The

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:48:35 +0000

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.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:54:03 +0000

nice tip, james – thanks!

By: james

james — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:00:55 +0000

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

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:31:45 +0000

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!

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:29:30 +0000

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.

By: james

james — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:53:52 +0000

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/

By: Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:06:50 +0000

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

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:40:28 +0000

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

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:30:22 +0000

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