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Google Mobile Sync Updated to 0.5.9 - Adds Contact Sync!

by Adam Zeis on 19 Nov 2008 11:39 AM
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I'm a huge fan of Google Sync (as I'm sure many others are), but I was also seeking a way to sync my contacts from Gmail to my Curve since I don't use Outlook.  All the options I could find were either paid applications or just fell short in one way or another.  Well my prayers have been answered as Google quitely (and I mean quietly) slipped out a new version of Google Sync .  The updated version now allows users to sync contacts between Gmail and their device.  A simple checkbox in the options menu and you're good to go.  The application will sync the major contact fields (first name, last name, email, phone number etc.) and you're set.  

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To download the updated version, visit http://m.google.com/sync from your device.

For more discussion in the forums, check out this thread.

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Posted by srplummer Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Works awesome! I've been waiting a long time for this!

 
 
Posted by sdmilton Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Man I was waiting on this to come out!

Anyone know if it will render the contacts correctly? Or if it will only sync the ones I want? Not the ones that I sent an email to one time.

 
 
Posted by Adam Zeis Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Unfortunately at the moment it looks to be all or nothing. There is simply a checkbox to sync contacts - no options to exclude etc.

 
 
Posted by Striker317 Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Anyone else having this problem with Google mobile sync?

You have a multiple day all day event (example an all day event between november 23 to november 25) in your Google Calendar. When you sync it, there is only an all day event synced for the first day. the fact that it is an all day event spanning between november 23 to 25 (inclusive) is not reflected.

See here for more details and others that are experiencing it. http://preview.tinyurl.com/5o3alc Is it a Bold only issue?

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Works great, if define great as deleting all your contacts

 
 
Posted by RConcheiro Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

yeah wtf, it deleted most of my contacts too!!

 
 
Posted by vokrikuca Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

It worked fine for mine, but I went to my Google Apps account I've been using for sync and before upgrading Google Sync I've deleted all the contacts from gmail to start clean.

Then it synced fine, 158 contacts now on both sides, done some modifying on Google side, we'll see how it updates.

Only downhill, I've had to sync *4* (four!) times before it succesfully synced (meaning no errors in Google Sync app on BB), although all contacts looked fine on Gmail iface even after 1st sync. Go figure.

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Tried that, it deleted all my contact's phonenumbers on sync

 
 
Posted by vokrikuca Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Yeah you're not crazy... It has just wiped out my phone numbers on BB, on Gmail side though they're preserved. I've backed up contacts from Gmail to CSV file and now waiting to see what will morning bring (here is 2am :)).

 
 
Posted by Shed Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Now if they could actually get it to sync mail...

 
 
Posted by gibsonhtp Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

would be great if it worked, keeps saying "Sync Failed.
Server Problem. Please try again later.

 
 
Posted by sily12 Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

So does this actually sync BOTH contacts.. or its it overwriting the current contacts on the BB with the Google ones? Or will it actually add the BB contacts to Google and vice-versa?

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

neither, it either deletes your bb contacts or just deletes their phone numbers.

 
 
Posted by Robert Mills Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Seems quite a few people are having problems with the new version of sync. Check out this thread over at Google Help and give some information to help find a solution to the problem.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=60385181a...

 
 
Posted by robertmills Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Here is the url without being cut off

http://tinyurl.com/5k46qe

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Yahoo sync works fine for me.

 
 
Posted by sdmilton Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

the pearl is not supported? wtf?

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Completely changes the format of the numbers, so if ur a freak like me who likes his numbers to be in a certain format.... google sync won't do it...

 
 
Posted by Guy from SU Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

What format would that be?

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Actually its ok... but you MUST delete all the contacts in ur gmail account beforehand, if not it screws up the format of your phone #s.
for e.g
i had +1 (416) xxx-xxxx format and it changed to 416xxxxxxx and instead of a mobile it was at "pager"...

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 1281 days ago

Make sure you DELETE EVERY CONTACT ON YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT BEFORE DOING THIS, because it will ruin your contact and a good thing to do is to go to backup&restore/advanced and backup the addressbooks files just in case something funny happens

 
 
Posted by ddarvish Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1281 days ago

can i also suggest Kigoo which syncs gcal and contacts with outlook instantly. it is beta, and is free. now that is pretty much a complete and FREE OTA sync solution!

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1281 days ago

I tried but answer me device not admitted! I have a Curve v4.5.0.81.
?????

 
 
Posted by jgbrock Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1281 days ago

Normally I have a lot of respect for the Google people, but this is bad enough to qualify as malware.

It takes forever to sync and fails 80% of the time.

It randomly deletes information from the blackberry. Some contacts had all their info deleted, some just parts. Some entries are deleted entirely.

It duplicates entries if you are dumb enough to run this twice.

If any instructions exist for using this program, add the following as the first step "Back up your blackberry!!!". And, add as the last two instructions "Restore address book from backup" and "Delete sync program from handheld"

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1281 days ago

My thoughts exactly only no back up to my rescue because being a Google product thought it would have been thoroughly tested and released without problems =[

 
 
Posted by jimmytop Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 1281 days ago

awesome!

 
 
Posted by sneish Friday, Nov 21, 2008 1280 days ago

There is a major falw withg the synch process - the field mapping is all wrong. I synch my Bold to Outlook as a back up and was looking forward top be able top synch to my Gmail as well (I noramlly take an extract and upload from time to time to keep contacts synched across all 3).

What happened was once I had synched with Gmail and then re-sycnched with Outlook I had duplicate entries and data entries mapped into the wrong fields (eg zip/postcode in citr field, country in zip/postcode feel).

 
 
Posted by MrPixar Friday, Nov 21, 2008 1280 days ago

Worked fine for me ... and on the first shot too. All 193 contacts are intact on both ends and work fine.

 
 
Posted by safemodef8 Friday, Nov 21, 2008 1279 days ago

At first it did not work but now it works fine for me. Make sure you make a back-up before updating the GoogleSync app.

 
 
Posted by divathirteen Monday, Nov 24, 2008 1276 days ago

Dare I say its about time!
NOW I just have to figure out WHY I cant import a CSV from Yahoo to Google contacts....I keep getting, literally, "OOOPS" lol

 
 
Posted by yz80477 Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 1254 days ago

does any one know if this works on a HTC mogul by sprint?

 
 
Posted by eyecon82 Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 1229 days ago

My contact list synced correctly, but there are no fields for birthdays, etc. The fields seem very limited. They don't even have a PIN option for Blackberry users...wtf