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11-19-2008, 07:04 AM
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| |  Official Google/Gmail Contacts Sync for BB Now Available?
I just downloaded the Google Sync for Mobile application for my BB Curve this morning, and there is now also an option to sync contacts under the options menu. Unfortunately, I will not be able to test this feature just yet, as my BB Contacts are quite different from Gmail -- the latter with mainly just email address information. I won't have time to do any edits after a test sync, in case some of the fields do not map properly, so I'm holding off on it for now.
Anyone else tried it? Thanks!
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11-19-2008, 07:31 AM
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Yes, version 0.59 is now available and it sync gmail contacts as well.
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11-19-2008, 08:27 AM
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I just tried it; it seems to work very well. Didn't check all contacts; however, contacts that were in the phone were updated in gmail. Very happy about.
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11-19-2008, 09:06 AM
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Awesome! I've been waiting for this app.  |
11-19-2008, 09:53 AM
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Works Great! Gotta love Google.
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11-19-2008, 10:29 AM
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Great find...I have downloaded and am syncing now. The first sync failed so cross your fingers and hope for the best. BTW, it is probably my fault as I have over 800 contacts in my BB.
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11-19-2008, 10:38 AM
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downloading and rebooting as we speak. i'll post my experience in a minute. awesome find!
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11-19-2008, 11:10 AM
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Cool! I just updated the program and it worked great! I didn't have any contacts in GMail, but I had a ton on my phone. Since I use Thunderbird for email, getting contacts synced between my email contacts and my phone has been a real pain. I'll still need to update both my phone and Thunderbird when I add a new contact until someone develops a working method of syncing reliably (there are some beta add-ons right now but I haven't been able to get them to work), but at least now I have a way of backing up my phone. Hope it works for those of you with lots of contacts in both places!
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11-19-2008, 11:11 AM
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got it downloaded and but sync keeps failing.
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11-19-2008, 12:09 PM
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So does it sync both ways or just up to Gmail? If it's up to Gmail great! The ONE thing I don't like about Gmail is that it automatically adds every email address that's used on the account....and I don't want ALL those on my BB.
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11-19-2008, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Navan  So does it sync both ways or just up to Gmail? If it's up to Gmail great! The ONE thing I don't like about Gmail is that it automatically adds every email address that's used on the account....and I don't want ALL those on my BB. | Both ways however, there is no way to either or which I kinda don't like. my BB is my main source of contacts so I'd much prefer to just go BB-->Gmail, but hey, I can learn to live with it.
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11-19-2008, 01:56 PM
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I okay, gang, I need your help. With each sync attempt, my calendar does fine. No problems there. However, when it gets to my contacts, it gets 2/3 the way finish and I get,
"Sync failed Please try again later, if the problem persists try signing out of sync and signing in again."
Dismiss that message and then I get, Last Sync Failed...same message, yada yada yada. Any advice?
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11-19-2008, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mscooley I okay, gang, I need your help. With each sync attempt, my calendar does fine. No problems there. However, when it gets to my contacts, it gets 2/3 the way finish and I get,
"Sync failed Please try again later, if the problem persists try signing out of sync and signing in again."
Dismiss that message and then I get, Last Sync Failed...same message, yada yada yada. Any advice? | Yea, did the same to me to until about my 14th sync attempt....  |
11-19-2008, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by YaBoiD Yea, did the same to me to until about my 14th sync attempt.... | hahah. that's good to know, I may be on attempt 7 or 8 by now. except right now, i'm looking at,
"Starting Sync....Received response"
been here for 5 minutes now. 
**i also opened this thread on Google's mobile forum, so maybe b'tween here and there, we will be fixed! haha
Last edited by mscooley; 11-19-2008 at 02:11 PM.
Reason: added more info
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11-19-2008, 02:25 PM
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I have been getting the same message. I thought it was related to the contact sync so I disabled that. Just syncing the calendar, I get the same message, however I get a confirmation of deleted/new events underneath the error. It looks like it is syncing the calendar OK and because the Contacts didn't sync, it gives an error. I don't know. I logged into Gmail and it looks like all my contacts are there. Maybe it works and just spits out an error.
UPDATE: Last sync failed with the mentioned error. Then under that-Last Successful Sync and the time it finished which just happened. I will try now with contacts and see what happens.
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