In their next move to control the flow of all information to and from everywhere, Google has released Google Sync for Mobile , a synchronization utility that will wirelessly keep the calendar application on your BlackBerry up to date with your Google Calendar.
All joking aside, this is a really cool application that many, myself included, have been waiting to come out since about the time GMail got BIS support. Download it …. No ability to synch any individual calendar one at a time. If I sign out I should have the option if I want all synchronized events deleted. All my events disappear? Would this occur if my phone needs to be reset? Are events deleted on both Blackberry and Google Calendar? For now GCalSynch is better for me. I got it.
I used it. I love it! Well done Google for integrating so well with the Blackberry. Google apps are one reason why the Blackberry rocks so much. The Blackberry is the best place to use Google apps. The Blackberry is the Google Phone! Check out googlemobile. One Click will automatically update all your Google Mobile software. I currently sync with my Outlook calender for work. Anyone know what will happen if I run this as well?
I sync with Outlook at work as well. I took the plunge and installed Google sync and now my calendar is syncronized between all three — Outlook, Blackberry, Google Calendar. I just got my first BB today and I am so excited! I got the Verizon edition of the Pearl How do I sync with Outlook Contacts on my laptop? The contacts actually reside on my hard drive so it should be simple. I like Google calendar anyway so maybe I will go to that if that is actually correct.
What I want is a Smartphone that will sync accurately my email and my contacts and my calendar. Do I have that???
Had to get the patch off the Blackberry site. No biggie. I even took the time to add phone numbers to all my contacts in Google and there are some that still get erased after the sync. I am done messing with this until someone can tell me or fix why my contacts are being duplicated and my phone numbers are missing in my phone when all my Google contacts have phone numbers now. Good Concept Needs more testing. BB Curve Verizon BIS 2.
BB OS4. I have not synced with anything else before. I did find out something nice about the errors I was having. I was getting the error where the numbers would get deleted from my BB and would get null pointer errors when going to my phone log. I did a hard restart, and the numbers came back, it was like the address book had to reboot to find them. I was able to sync, hard reset, and turn off syncing. Now my contacts are relativity in sync, at least more than they were before.
I still have issues of duplicates, and people listed with many addresses, but for now my phone is working without having to restore my BB contacts from my last backup. Glad I'm on an unlimited plan. Now I just have to hope I didn't lose too many phone numbers, though I have done a battery pull so perhaps that's not an issue. I keep getting a "Another sync client is So Google Sync will not sync these events" error.
I only have had Google Sync as my Sync program. Does anyone else have this problem? Running a tmo Might it have to due with downloading the App from the Google Mobile App not the m. Any help would make my day. November 21, at PM. Jonathan said I am experiencing the same issues as Matt. Some of my contacts are having their phone numbers stripped, and duplicate addresses added.
Correcting and re-syncing causes the problem to recur. For those who receive the "unsupported device" error. I switched all my languages back to English, I think changing the Google. I have a BBBold. I'm in sync! I'm having the same problem as matt and skisulli: stripped numbers and other info on the BB. Angelo said Oh man I bought the Storm today and am a Mac user. Almost threw it through the window when I realized pocketmac was a no go.
I had the same issue with field duplication work address in Gmail contacts on each new sync cycle. Trying to fix it through a clean install from my addressbook, but really, this app is not ready and cannot be trusted with valuable user data..
November 22, at AM. Gustavo Ramos said Same problem as Peter said. November 22, at PM. Kudos to google for the app. VERY disapointed that is does not work. I have a bold 4. WILL not download any contacts November 23, at AM. I want to be impressed, honest. I loved Google Sync before. But this upgrade has crippled my contacts twice now, and I'm afraid I have to turn off the contact sync until errors are fixed.
Nice try guys. Soon though, soon. Well, my problems outlined above have gone from bad to catastrophic. The first time, I had just hung up after checking my GrandCentral voicemail. Now, after a few resets, it was every time I hit send or tried to get into the phone or call log which I come to find, after bruising my thumb hitting OK, has been completely erased.
This community-driven open-source sleuthing loses effectiveness at a certain point. None of your Business said Well every time it syncs I am getting duplicate entries. It is duplicating in both directions. Danny Boggs said Here is what I tried because I really wanted to get this program to work. Deleted all contacts from google.
Made a backup using BlackBerry DM of the address book so I wouldn't loose anything if this didn't work 3. Checked google and everythnig looked ok. Looked at my blackberry address book. Also, the speed dial setting for those phone numbers were correct.
Did another google sync, cal and contacts. If failed, waited and re tried. Take note, not the cal sync, just at the time of contact sync did it fail. It also ran for while before it pooped out.
When it finally did go, it took a reaaaaalllly long time. I like to press my luck BRB even after cleaning up contacts on the google side, it still had issues. I dont know why. I figure if i just sync once in a while when I get a few new contacts it will be good enuogh without getting too annoying. November 23, at PM. I'm having issues with the duplicate entries as well.
It's really disappointing to tell the truth. I had a good intention when I went and manually edited each one of my GMail Google Apps Contacts so they looked consistent and clean before syncing, but then the mobile app came in and messed it all up. Not cool. That being said, I myself have had the misfortune of developing BlackBerry applications in the past, so I know what a pain it can be.
My heart goes to the developers who are surely having a hard time making it work. Looking forward to an upgraded version Each notation for the Same phone number , , gets its own entry.
Carlos said Same problem here with duplicating addresses, some times repeated. Also seems that Gmail Contacts always win over changes done in BB. November 24, at AM. For what its worth it seems to be chocking on adresses where just a home addy is entered and when there is nothing entered in the address 2 field on the berry for that home addy. Danny Boggs, you are right. And if you sync your Mac Agenda with Google Contacts you can see that fields inside addresses like city or postal code are wrong.
Not a big time-saver up front, but I'm hopeful it'll get worked out. I also had to re-install Goog Sync, as RIMM tech support said the other day that they didn't support it for the Bold yet, "but it was coming". November 24, at PM. Mike Driest said Then for about 10 or so contacts I lost their phone numbers on my BlackBerry but they were in Gmail.
Then I sync'd a 2nd time and there was no incremental sync it took a long time again. I'm sure there's a reason for this, but I wish Google Sync for Contacts would work just as well as Calendar Sync did when I first installed it.
The concept is great but my first experience was poor. Tim Felgate said The latest version of Google Sync for the Blackberry has a major bug. It causes my BlackBerry Curve to crash with the error message java. This happens whenever I try to access the call log from the BlackBerry home screen.
Turning off the contacts sync in Google Sync seems to solve the problem. However, I would really value the ability to sync contacts. Please help!! November 25, at AM. It triggered almost every time I tried to open my Call Log. I also saw the java null pointer exception everytime I tried to open my Call Log. I've started a new thread on the Google Mobile Help Discussions for Blackberry devices regarding my particular Sync issues stripping info from the BB contacts and replacing with Gmail contact info.
If you are having similar issues, please respond to that thread to draw Google Mobile's attention to it. I looked around the discussions there and didn't see anyone else with this problem or, at least, a problem described this way , so they may not have been alerted to it yet. CrystalCrazy said Ok, I just installed google sync and read all the comments about the problems I want to uninstall it and I see someone did, but can you tell me how?
November 25, at PM. Cary B. It's been a nightmare ever since I installed the updated sync. Screwed up not only my google contacts but my BB contacts as well. I have contacts with the same address a 5, 10, 15 times over, deletes numbers and gives me tons of duplicates in my BB. I delete a contact in my BB, it comes back, I try to delete the contact in gmail--it comes back. Lastly, and the most annoying is that I've been getting "Uncaught exception: java.
NullPointerException" error message contstantly--even a battery pull doesn't fix it. What gives? Something good just happened. Apparently someone s trying to fix these contact sync problems. My BB contacts just synced to my Gmail which is what I wanted it to do in the first place instead of deleting all my BB contacts from my phone and adding my very limited amount of Gmail contacts to my blackberry which was VERY annoying.
It definitely needs to be a two way sync or at least sync from BB to Gmail. Gmail just doesn't have a fantastic contacts section. ALSO I have been getting a lot of duplicates as well AND even more annoying I put my regular schedule on my google calendar and it hasn't been able to sync.
I think it tried once and it was all crazy and NOT my schedule. I'm up for getting through the growing pains but I hope they are over quickly. November 26, at AM. It is awesome until some of your contact data is erased and only e-mails are left. On all contacts that had e-mail addresses, google sync erased name and phone leaving onl the e-mail.
I lost 1 hour having to reload all contacts from my backup files. Fix it please! November 26, at PM. But, I cant even find where to edit my contacts on google.
Has google seen all the complaints and problems and taken it off for fixing or what?? All i seem to be able to do is sync my BB contacts to google contacts that is located somewhere where i cant find. If anybody has any ideas or can help that would be greatly apprecaited. Nate: you've got to log into gmail to get to your contacts. Click on one of the contacts and you'll see their information to the right of the list, with a button at the top that says "Edit" or "Edit Contact" hope that helps!
November 27, at AM. But I tested in Windows set, but got an error after installation. There's some work which is on my to do list to do to finish this app. So in this post, i wanna say to Marcus Foster, Product Manager, Google Mobile that it will be very nice if i get some support to finish my ongoing project.
Marlon Guerios said November 28, at AM. November 28, at PM. I gave it a shot Here is what i did and what happened I did not have to do a reset to see phone numbers again. Addresses on google and berry were not duplicated. I am not really all that smart about computers or blackberrys. I am a fairly new berry user. I dont understand why some people have issues and others do not I am running an Curve from verizon on BIS. One thing i did notice is that sync took a really really long time and failed several times before it worked.
I did it a few more times. I looked at contacts on google and berry and they look ok to me. I will ponder them some more later and see if I can find something amiss. I am going to leave it to sync automatically and see how it affects things. Thank You Google guys and galls! I found something. There doesn't seem to be any issue on the google contact side I have let google sync run over night both cal and contacts and there appears to be no issues at this point that I can find on either the berry or gooogle side.
I added a test entry to the berry addy book this morning consisting of a name, a few phone numbers an email and a home addy. I let it sync on its own and check it later. The phone number and email addy for the newly added contact dissapeared but after a hard reset, came back on the berry.
Everything was ok on the google side with the entry. I deleted it from my berry and it deleted fine from the google side. Google sync seems to be working for me well. Only the initial sync and newly added addy to the berry side have any issue at all. November 29, at AM. Some more observations.
Contacts with just and address the adress was duplicated on the berry. After delete and re sync it went away. Adding and deleting adresses from either side works fine. Whenever I update a contact ie add a phone number all phone numbers disapear after sync but come back after reset.
I've installed the update and the same problems are occurring as before: stripping of all non-email information from some contacts. I'm not sure yet what the pattern is for which contacts get stripped and which don't, but I'm sure that there must be some consistency If you have yet to download and install the new Sync application, I'd suggest waiting until the bugs are worked out.
If you like living on the edge, at least be smart and back up all your contacts from both the BB and Gmail before diving in. Added a beerper number on the berry side. After each sync it keeps saying one contact updated and have to reset to get those numbers back for that one contact.
So close. Matt McLean said Basically i want to use my Blackberry Address Book for work contacts and use my Google "Contacts" for personal contacts. Somehow keep Blackberry Address book separate from Google Contacs. December 1, at AM. I have not seen such a bad product launched by Google before.
I keep loosing contacts information during the sync process. Luckily, I had backups. I am frustrated. The new sync tool even the very latest version, which I just downloaded has created multiple duplicates as many as eight for a certain subset of my contacts.
These tend to be, but aren't limited to, company listings. I go through and delete the duplicates--both on my blackberry and in my gmail contacts. But they keep popping up again and again.
I've disabled contact sync, but somehow they continue to duplicate. This is VERY frustrating. December 1, at PM. Photos, videos and documents can easily be synced with selected folders too.
BlackBerry Link is easy to set up, and you'll be prompted to download the software when you first connect your BlackBerry 10 device to your computer. Once installed you'll enjoy fast and seamless access to your media and documents. Your desktop library is presented in the same way as your device content, so you can always find what you want.
Just drag and drop collections or individual items to sync to your device. Your device data can be securely backed-up with BlackBerry Link. Then, if needed, your content can be restored in just a few simple steps. It's also easier than ever to check for and install device software updates — BlackBerry Link will alert you when software updates are available. If you have a BlackBerry smartphone that runs on BlackBerry 5.
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