Update: An anonymous commentor clued me into the idea that I have to delete the pairing in the Bluetooth System Preferences pane after making the necessary modifications. I will try this when I get a chance, probably tomorrow, and I’ll let you all know how it works.

Thanks Mr. Anonymous Commentor!

Update: I’ve tried the suggestion from my anonymous commentor and it works! Well, sorta. Every string is being converted to hexadecimal. I’ll be looking through iSync to find out how to change the character encoding on upload. Fortunately, file browser works. If you’re out there Mr. Anonymous Commentor, any tips on how to get the phone to read an ASCII character as an ASCII character and not hex would be greatly appreciated. When it’s all said and done, I’ll be sure to post the solution here for all to enjoy.

Solution!

After a really awesome comment from Lee, I found a solution to the character encoding problem. For everyone who’s got a v557 and a Mac, here’s what you need to add to your MetaClasses.plist file.

	com.motorola.V557
	
		Identification
		
			com.apple.cgmi+cgmm
			"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+V557
			com.apple.gmi+gmm
			"Motorola CE, Copyright 2000"+V557
		
		InheritsFrom
		
			com.motorola.usb-bt.0x22B8/0x4902
		
		Services
		
			
				ServiceName
				com.apple.model
				ServiceProperties
				
					ModelName
					V557
					PhoneIcon
					MOTV551.tiff
				
			
			
				ServiceName
				com.apple.synchro
				ServiceProperties
				
					stringEncoding
					UCS2
				
			
		
	

If you’d like to download the plugin, click here. After you’ve got it unzipped, move the folder to /Users/yourusername/Library

Update: Apple released iSync 2.2 yesterday (April 3, 2006) and it solved this issue. Don’t bother fiddling with this Hack, just go to Software Update.