N900: Support for Google Calendar and Contacts?

[bAxon]

I searched the forums but I could not find an answer about Google Apps/ G Calendar - Will N900 support two way sync with Google Calendar and contacts?

Tks

[debernardis]

Also another interesting question (could deserve a thread): will the n900 be able to import calendar, contacts, todo list, notes and whatever from symbian phones?

[slate8]

I too am interested to know if the N900 has Google contacts and calendar sync. Anyone know?

[ysss]

Contact sync is a necessity, given the integration with IM\Telephony and all the other protocols linked to it. But for the Calendar, it still has the possibility of running offline version of gcal with google gear, right?

[danilos2k]

do you know that with symbian phone you can sync google calendar and contact with "mail of exchange" application?

So I think that with N900 will be the same, and "mail of exchange" is already in the phone :D

[Ovek]

do you know that with symbian phone you can sync google calendar and contact with "mail of exchange" application?

So I think that with N900 will be the same, and "mail of exchange" is already in the phone :D

Yea if maemo doesn't directly support Google calendar sync you can always set the Google service to emulate Exchange so you can sync it that way.

[Jaffa]

Yes, Mail for Exchange works with Google, as per the instructions here:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951

Given it's all Evolution Data Store, it should be trivial to write third party sync plugins; e.g. to sync multiple Google calendars directly.

[togashi]

I had already planned this.

As soon as I get my hands on the n900( already pre-ordered, eagerly awaiting it) I'll code a daemon to have your contacts synced with google contacts :)

[qgil]

I searched the forums but I could not find an answer about Google Apps/ G Calendar - Will N900 support two way sync with Google Calendar and contacts?

Maemo 5 supports ActiveSync and so does Google Sync (http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html) so it should work.

[fpp]

Still no SyncML ?...

[badger]

The device will sync with Nokia PC Suite via USB so its possible to Sync Calendar that way but not contacts...

I was hoping that the Conduit port would come back to life and be complied for Meamo 5 with Contacts and calendar support.

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/conduit/

http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/tag/maemo/

[bAxon]

PC Suite..hmm.. I was hoping for something over the air

[ragnar]

http://maemo.nokia.com/features/calendar/

Well, the Mail for Exchange sync is over the air. Of course not everyone is using Exchange. I haven't tried the PC suite solution myself.

[peterjb31]

http://maemo.nokia.com/features/calendar/

Well, the Mail for Exchange sync is over the air. Of course not everyone is using Exchange. I haven't tried the PC suite solution myself.

In this specific instance (ie sync with google), then Exchange sync is suitable as Google supports synchronising with an Exchange client.

[korbé]

The device will sync with Nokia PC Suite via USB so its possible to Sync Calendar that way but not contacts...

I was hoping that the Conduit port would come back to life and be complied for Meamo 5 with Contacts and calendar support.

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/conduit/

http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/tag/maemo/


Ho Ho, a port of Conduit?

Why Nokia dont'k make and include this port in Maemo 5?

[Jaffa]

Why Nokia dont'k make and include this port in Maemo 5?

Because if Nokia did everything, there'd be no development community?

[dneary]

Mail for Exchange does indeed seem like the solution. For some reason I can't get it working myself. For those who want to try, instructions are here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=14298

Dave.

[ewan]

Do we know whether the N900 can support multiple Exchange type accounts? It would be useful to be able to sync with both Google and a real Exchange server.

[dneary]

There's one way to find out... I don't have "a real Exchange server" handy right now. I could try with Zimbra, I suppose...

Dave.

[dneary]

Also another interesting question (could deserve a thread): will the n900 be able to import calendar, contacts, todo list, notes and whatever from symbian phones?

Device to device sync over bluetooth works perfectly - I did it today with my trusty old N82 to the N900, using the normal Bluetooth "sync with another terminal" option.

Dave.

[danilos2k]

Device to device sync over bluetooth works perfectly - I did it today with my trusty old N82 to the N900, using the normal Bluetooth "sync with another terminal" option.

Dave.

do you have a google account? can you please check how does it work with Mail for Exchange?

if you can post some pics... :D

thank you, Danilo

[danilos2k]

do you have a google account? can you please check how does it work with Mail for Exchange?

if you can post some pics... :D

thank you, Danilo

[rcadden]

The first thing I did when I pulled my N900 out was set up and sync with Google over Mail for Exchange - works brilliantly, though you'll need to tinker with the settings or else you'll get constant 'server not responding' errors (seems Google doesn't like it when you ping constantly).

Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks seem to be supported, though it's only a single calendar, not multiple (would like to see multiple support really soon).

Note that Gmail is not supported as part of your Mail for Exchange profile (or didn't seem to be for me) so you'll need to setup the Gmail profile separately using the built-in Gmail profile.

[nymajoak]

(would like to see multiple support really soon).


+1 on that..

[dneary]

do you have a google account? can you please check how does it work with Mail for Exchange?

if you can post some pics... :D

thank you, Danilo

I do have a google account - and once I got home, and the wifi worked properly, I got my contacts & calendar synced. There was also a check-box for mail, but I didn't want that.

The instructions to follow, which work as advertised, are here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951

I could post some pics, but not right now...

Cheers,
Dave.

[zaheerm]

It works but only for first calendar and doesn't do multiple calendar or calendar separation. I unchecked contacts, because I have way too many contacts in gmail to want them all on my phone.

[bergie]

I do have a google account - and once I got home, and the wifi worked properly, I got my contacts & calendar synced.

Seems to constantly fail for me at some random spot of the synchronization process. Some discussion on Qaiku (http://www.qaiku.com/go/40xy) and bug 5404 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5404).

[danilos2k]

Seems to constantly fail for me at some random spot of the synchronization process. Some discussion on Qaiku (http://www.qaiku.com/go/40xy) and bug 5404 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5404).

if you have a "google apps" account you have to Enable Google Sync

[EIPI]

I've synced my google apps calendar to my N900 successfully. However the past two days I get this error "Exchange server not responding". Has anyone else seen similar? Thanks in advance.

[EIPI]

Calendar is now working.

Question on Google Contacts sync via Mail for Exchange. The contacts that get populated on the N900 do not contain all the 'contact information' that is stored within my Google account. The only thing I get is the Name, and Email. I cannot for instance, get the address or phone number and sync those. Is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance.

[mrlanrat]

I assume the Maemo calendar program supports multiple calendars, and I know Google calendar does. So what is limiting us from syncing multiple calendars? Can we create a work around? or is it a limit on only one exchange account?

[joshua.maverick]

We need multiple calendar support asap! Anybody know any developers who could handle this? Let the PMs begin.

[flux41]

You could sync to ScheduleWorld and then have ScheduleWorld sync to Google calendar.

[mrlanrat]

You could sync to ScheduleWorld and then have ScheduleWorld sync to Google calendar.

That almost defeats the purpose. We can already sync Google calendar with outlook and outlook with the N900.

What I (we) want is over the air wireless syncing.

[Jaffa]

Question on Google Contacts sync via Mail for Exchange. The contacts that get populated on the N900 do not contain all the 'contact information' that is stored within my Google account. The only thing I get is the Name, and Email. I cannot for instance, get the address or phone number and sync those. Is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance.

Since it doesn't do photos either, I've had a request for Hermes (http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/) to support Google Contacts. If doing that, it'd be trivial to pull down additional information as well - but this seems to overlap with the built-in functionality.

I suggest raising a bug, but there are three possibilities:


Mail for Exchange doesn't support it.
Google's Exchange server doesn't support it.
ActiveSync doesn't support it.


#2 and #3 aren't fixable by Nokia in Mail for Exchange, and so this where there'd be an opportunity for Hermes.

[nymajoak]

That almost defeats the purpose. We can already sync Google calendar with outlook and outlook with the N900.

What I (we) want is over the air wireless syncing.

Multiple calendar sync is important for me as well.

I am not familiar with scheduleworld but I assumed it would work OTA. There are other 3rd party services as well, I know for instance nuevasync uses MfE and claims to support multiple Google calendars, and I *assumed* it works OTA.

Haven't used anything like this though and for obvious reasons can't test with the N900.

There are a lot of questions and discussions floating around regarding (multiple) calendars, sync and MfE and I personally would definitely like to see a solution to this.

[hopbeat]

Having basic (one way only) support for multiple calendars should be a day of coding. Two way sync is a bit more difficult, but again it should be possible in a week or so.

I can write a sync client in the beginning of December when we get our devices, unless someone will do it first.

[EIPI]

Since it doesn't do photos either, I've had a request for Hermes (http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/) to support Google Contacts. If doing that, it'd be trivial to pull down additional information as well - but this seems to overlap with the built-in functionality.

I suggest raising a bug, but there are three possibilities:


Mail for Exchange doesn't support it.
Google's Exchange server doesn't support it.
ActiveSync doesn't support it.


#2 and #3 aren't fixable by Nokia in Mail for Exchange, and so this where there'd be an opportunity for Hermes.

Hmmm, I naively think that Mail for Exchange is just missing the functionality to pull those additional fields and then sync them with the N900. Or, if it does pull those fields, then it is missing some conduit to put them in the correct spot on the N900. My Google contacts' photos get loaded when I add a Google Talk account to the IM. So that is currently there. I will raise a bug about the syncing and that will hopefully unravel where the problem lies.

EDIT: Bug 5835 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5835) raised.

[bni]

Ok, since currently sync of: Phone#, MSN, Skype name, etc does not work, is it possible to atleast export contacts as vCard from GMail, an then import it into N900 Contacts?

Is it then possible to use for example the imported skype name when making a skype call, or must you enter or "move it to another field" somehow manually?

[joshua.maverick]

Having basic (one way only) support for multiple calendars should be a day of coding. Two way sync is a bit more difficult, but again it should be possible in a week or so.

I can write a sync client in the beginning of December when we get our devices, unless someone will do it first.

Thank you!

[hopbeat]

You'll thank me when I actually do something :)

Standalone python client should work OTA with all the calendars from the account.

Will keep you posted.

[Jaffa]

Having basic (one way only) support for multiple calendars should be a day of coding. Two way sync is a bit more difficult, but again it should be possible in a week or so.

I can write a sync client in the beginning of December when we get our devices, unless someone will do it first.

Using new code, Conduit or syncevolution? I suggest you start on it now, the final SDK has everything you need and having a nice Control Panel applet and well-behaved background sync for multiple Google Calendars to Evolution's calendar on Maemo would be a big plus.

It's also worth seeing if Khertan is doing anything with mCalendar - keeping it as its own UI, or changing it to be a sync agent.

[hopbeat]

I will probably use python that can be either launched as requested or work in the background. It won't be a speed demon, but should still work fairly well.

I have checked the situation with N810 and I can confirm that Python API from Google works and allows requesting all the calendars from the account.

[charlie]

I will probably use python that can be either launched as requested or work in the background. It won't be a speed demon, but should still work fairly well.


Have you looked at the code from Erminig (http://erminig.garage.maemo.org/)? It's two way sync between Google and the GPE calendar written in python, with a GTK UI and command line interface.

From what I recall from digging round in the code a while ago, the interface to the GPE calendar was fairly modular and it should be possible to replace it with one that accesses the native backend.

[dnastase]

I can confirm that there are issues with sync-ing.
The first sync seems to have been correct (I didn't check all fields in all contacts though).

However if I update a contact in Google Contacts it doesn't get pulled down in the phone.
I get these "connection errors" to the server.

Is there any update on this issue ?

[bAxon]

wow that is not good.. can anyone else confirm this?

[EIPI]

I can confirm that there are issues with sync-ing.
The first sync seems to have been correct (I didn't check all fields in all contacts though).

However if I update a contact in Google Contacts it doesn't get pulled down in the phone.
I get these "connection errors" to the server.

Is there any update on this issue ?

I filed bug 5835 (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5835) a few weeks ago about the contacts not syncing with Google correctly. That is known internally to Nokia as evidenced by the internal bug number it has.

[bAxon]

how about calendar sync?

[EIPI]

calendar sync works like a charm!

[bAxon]

calendar sync works like a charm!

how about gmail notifications?

[EIPI]

Yeah, if you have your gmail setup with the mail client, it will notify you of new messages.

[joshua.maverick]

multiple calendar support?

[EIPI]

there has been so much talk about multiple calendars not working I think. Not sure if that has changed. There are other google calendar threads out there that answer that I'm sure ... I do not know, sorry.

[dnastase]

It seems it syncs only the first calendar defined in the Google Calendar ...

[cddiede]

[QUOTE=rcadden;345295]The first thing I did when I pulled my N900 out was set up and sync with Google over Mail for Exchange - works brilliantly, though you'll need to tinker with the settings or else you'll get constant 'server not responding' errors (seems Google doesn't like it when you ping constantly).

Can you tell us what settings that you tinkered with? I'm still stuck with the "Exchange server not responding" error for my google calendar.

[bAxon]

I think that is the same problem with BlackBerry sync - only the 1st calendar is synced

That is the reason why there are many requests at Google board to allow to color activities based on certain logic so you do not have to have 10 calendars

[nshelekhov]

I am stuck with "Exchange server not responding" error too.. First, It synced correctly, but this error occured after I created some events in calendar...

:(

[nshelekhov]

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35136

[jcompagner]

just dont poll more then once or twice a day. Dont do every hour or even faster that will not work reliable.

At least that is what works for me for syncing the calendar.

[in-maemo]

just dont poll more then once or twice a day. Dont do every hour or even faster that will not work reliable.

At least that is what works for me for syncing the calendar.

I have it set up to poll every 30 minutes during peak time and did it far more often during testing. No problems at all.

The problem with "Exchange server not responding" is due to email. You cannot synchronize gmail via MfE (Mail for Exchange). You need to set up a separate gmail imap account. Disable that and contact/calendar sync will work correctly.

[DannStarr]

I have it set up to poll every 30 minutes during peak time and did it far more often during testing. No problems at all.

The problem with "Exchange server not responding" is due to email. You cannot synchronize gmail via MfE (Mail for Exchange). You need to set up a separate gmail imap account. Disable that and contact/calendar sync will work correctly.

Ok, heres my problem; google calendar wont sync at all. at first sync i had no entries in my googl calendar so didnt exxpect anything. my email was syncd as were my contacts seemingly without problems.

i then added some entries to google calendar. unchecked the box for email and now i get "exchange server not responding"

I have the seperate imap set up for my gmail which works, but i really want the calendar sync to work so that the entries show up on my n900 calendar... any suggestions?

[dboreham]

i then added some entries to google calendar. unchecked the box for email and now i get "exchange server not responding"

Hi, we've done some work to make our service compatible with the N900 and at this point I think it works quite well (sadly we don't yet have an actual N900 to test with). I'm also interested to know if the N900 can do multiple calendar sync like the iPhone. We have code that merges all the user's (selected) multiple calendars for devices that don't support multical. Currently the N900 is treated as a single calendar device by our code. I we can confirm that it does do multical (the search for the answer to this question was the reason I found this thread btw), then we'll change the device type in our service.

Register for a free acct at www.nuevasync.com (use the free trial option to enable email and tasks sync testing). Please send reports of any problems to our forum (I may not see replies here quickly), or via our support system.

[Untouchab1e]

Hi, we've done some work to make our service compatible with the N900 and at this point I think it works quite well (sadly we don't yet have an actual N900 to test with). I'm also interested to know if the N900 can do multiple calendar sync like the iPhone. We have code that merges all the user's (selected) multiple calendars for devices that don't support multical. Currently the N900 is treated as a single calendar device by our code. I we can confirm that it does do multical (the search for the answer to this question was the reason I found this thread btw), then we'll change the device type in our service.

Register for a free acct at www.nuevasync.com (use the free trial option to enable email and tasks sync testing). Please send reports of any problems to our forum (I may not see replies here quickly), or via our support system.

Signing up for the free trial now :) If it works as well as I hope, I will easily pay the fee once the trial is over

[cddiede]

Hi, we've done some work to make our service compatible with the N900 and at this point I think it works quite well (sadly we don't yet have an actual N900 to test with). I'm also interested to know if the N900 can do multiple calendar sync like the iPhone.

Register for a free acct at www.nuevasync.com (use the free trial option to enable email and tasks sync testing). Please send reports of any problems to our forum (I may not see replies here quickly), or via our support system.

I just setup a free account (username cddiede) and tried to snc one google calendar only. All I get is a message that reads"Exchange Server Error"

[cddiede]

I just setup a free account (username cddiede) and tried to snc one google calendar only. All I get is a message that reads"Exchange Server Error"

Okay, I just tried again over Wi-fi and it worked this time!

[Ekimoze]

I had the same problem. " Exchange server not responding " when i tried to export my N900 contacts to my Gmail account and also when in the other way.
So i've tried with Nuevasync but it seems to retrieve my contacts from my Gmail account only and not from my N900 to my Gmail account.

[cddiede]

I had the same problem. " Exchange server not responding " when i tried to export my N900 contacts to my Gmail account and also when in the other way.
So i've tried with Nuevasync but it seems to retrieve my contacts from my Gmail account only and not from my N900 to my Gmail account.

Did you sign up for a NuevaSync Premium account? I'm not sure, but the free account may only be good for one way sync for contacts...

[Ekimoze]

Thanks for your help but I've tried with the 3 days trial so I think it's useless to pay for premium, it's the same, it wont works :(

With Gmail and Mail For Exchange, sometimes it works but since yesterday, nothing.
Always "Exchange server not responding" even if I only activate contacts sync ( no mail, no calendar )


Edit : Just had to try again several times and now it's working with nuevasync but some contacts details are missing (msn) but it's ok ! thx !

[tatewaki]

Hey dboreham

I signed op for a free account, just now and it worked like a charm! Not only is my Google calendar events showing up, but also the other calendar events, like my schools and friends! Greet Work!

[olinka]

"Exchange server not responding" issue happens when you try to sync a calendar in your n900 with google that was previously synced with anything else. (other mobile, exchange, pc suite, etc) For example I imported my contacts (so not calendar) from my other mobile phone, and after tried to sync with google, and it did not work.

Resoution:
In sync settings set up a new calendar, and sync will work again.
You can also delete all items from calendar named "N900" and then try to retrieve the calendar items from google.

It worked for me, but somebody please confirm this is working.

Istvan

[magalinasser]

Nuevasync works like a charm !
I tried google sync first, it works sometimes.( most of the times it gives " exchange server not responding " )
Now i have been using Nuevasync for a week, with Google mail and it is very smooth.

[DeRRudi]

When i start with a clean calendar and an empty contacts list. Google calendar and contacts sync perfect. Changes made on google are also synced correctly.

I found out that if i add an postal code to an contact. The "exchange server not responding" error appears. Clean my calendar and do a re-sync. All is fine.

Guess there is something wrong with the way Maemo wants to sync certain fields. Because it cannot sync the "postal code" itreturns with a "exchange server not responding". I now have the postal code in the "region" field and it sync again! :)

I guess there are more fields who will give this error.

[filbert]

"Exchange server not responding" issue happens when you try to sync a calendar in your n900 with google that was previously synced with anything else. (other mobile, exchange, pc suite, etc) For example I imported my contacts (so not calendar) from my other mobile phone, and after tried to sync with google, and it did not work.

Resoution:
In sync settings set up a new calendar, and sync will work again.
You can also delete all items from calendar named "N900" and then try to retrieve the calendar items from google.

It worked for me, but somebody please confirm this is working.

Istvan

Yes! I was having the same problem. Sync to a new calendar and it worked (both ways). I am only using calendar at the moment, I haven't tried contacts (don't use google, need LDAP support for the N900!)

Thanks for the post

Rgrds

Peter

[jean2323]

i succeed to synchronize the contacts + calendar ... but ... some fields are missing ... if the phone no is marked as "other" ... it seems that it won't be passed to n900 ... i bet there are other fields missing too

it also creates sms and sip audio fields ... funny and annoying !

shame ... it work perfectly with my n95

[canabal]

For anyone else syncing google (via nuevasync or not) do your contacts bday's appear as wrong int the smart calendar? Mine are all off by one day (i.e. should be 15th but show 16th)

It shows them as this way in the contact info too.

I have checked and the timezones of my phone, nuevasync and google are all the same (GMT-5). Any ideas?

[jean2323]

another issue: if any of the contacts have several phone numbers under the same name (eg. "mobile") ... you get only one number trasfered to the phone ...

[yogakills]

I searched the forums but I could not find an answer about Google Apps/ G Calendar - Will N900 support two way sync with Google Calendar and contacts?

Tks

Found this http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en Sorry if someone has already posted.

Rgds

[QueenShawtii]

OMG.. you don't know how happy you just made me.

[chakli]

i already have a separate mfe acct...is there any way to sync google calendar and contacts??

[THavoc]

i already have a separate mfe acct...is there any way to sync google calendar and contacts??

Not at the moment; N900 supports a single MfE acc. I suppose a separate app. to sync would be possible (or a syncML client), but there's nothing yet.

I hope somebody's working on it tough :D

[canabal]

Found this http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en Sorry if someone has already posted.

Rgds

Yep, that is how to do it, but it is not officially supported, and it does give some errors. i.e. my contacts only sync down, and there is a constant "cannot connect to server" error for some people.

Hopefully the demand is there enough that the maemo guys find a way to get it working.

[gesperon]

Did you sign up for a NuevaSync Premium account? I'm not sure, but the free account may only be good for one way sync for contacts...

I works with the free account both ways, but only contacts

[THavoc]

I works with the free account both ways, but only contacts

Calendar too, but it merges all google cals into a single one.

[johnmccombs]

I've been succcessful getting this to work with a vanilla gmail account (e.g. fred@gmail.com), but I can't get it to work with my Google Apps account (fred@mycorp.com). Gets an authentication error (sorry didn't capture the exact text).

Anyone had any success with this?

UPDATE: With Google Apps accounts you have to enable MfE in your GA Mail settings - then it works.

j

[pierro78]

Thanks so much for the NuevaSync tip guys !
I've added it to the wiki ( http://wiki.maemo.org/Sync#Synchronising_with_Google )

Now I am more confident that I want to buy the N900 ... just need to find it at a good price ... like 450E max in France/Paris ;)

[geraldh]

I also use Nuevasync (free account) to sync with my google-calendar. It works really good. Too bad that is merges all calendar into one... Is anything heard about when they want to support / implement multi-calendar-support for Maemo/N900? Or is that just impossible?

[tdanz]

there is also a possibility to directly use the MfE system delivered with the N900; this solution worked well for me concerning calendars

see http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en for details

[DaSilva]

It's not officially supported and not reliable. If you have contacts with saved birthday information you may notice that those are not synced properly (+/- 2 days difference!)

[joshua.maverick]

Yea, multi sync would be perfect, other than though it has been working great. Is there a benefit of MfE over iMap for email though?

[jinx]

I also use Nuevasync (free account) to sync with my google-calendar. It works really good. Too bad that is merges all calendar into one... Is anything heard about when they want to support / implement multi-calendar-support for Maemo/N900? Or is that just impossible?

afaik MfE only supports one calendar. So the only solution for now is using categories, is this supported? I have asked vitaly_repin about support for syncing multiple calendars and he answered, that his has no priority... Obviously many people actually only use *one single* calendar.

[HangLoose]

Has anyone tried NuevaSync with Zoho Calendar?

[joshua.maverick]

We should take a vote, or start a brainstorm to show that we want it.

[bazz]

Not sure if this is what people are looking for, but this seems to work for me.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

Scratch that....I'm having a problem. I think it has something to do with the fact that I can not uncheck (Its checked by default) "Synchronize e-mail: leave unchecked."
any ideas?

[canabal]

Not sure if this is what people are looking for, but this seems to work for me.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

Scratch that....I'm having a problem. I think it has something to do with the fact that I can not uncheck (Its checked by default) "Synchronize e-mail: leave unchecked."
any ideas?

You can uncheck emails. You need to setup mail for exchange from the settings menu though, not directly through emails.

Also, that "works" as has been discussed many times. But there are a lot of issues with it.

[dharder]

Being that this isn't working at all, has anyone had success syncing with anything else other than Google? I am, ultimately, looking for a way to get my calendars and contacts sync'd with my Mac and such.

[myk]

My old Symbian phone syncs OK to google, so I then tried syncing that to the N900 by bluetooth. It had some trouble at first, with duplicates and times changed. Then it was working OK, until suddenly a number of my contacts are duplicated, and I'm seeing skype names split off as separate entries in the contacts list. Total bloody shambles.

[dharder]

The splitting off is a bit of a pain, but what I've been doing is Merging Contacts in the Contacts app on the N900. Just need to sync that with the rest of my address books, etc. *sigh*

[chiques]

I have an N900 and I was able to sync Google Calendar using these instructions.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

[canabal]

That link has been posted about 20 times in this thread. Look up on this very page and you will see it there also.

[pierro78]

Anybody knows if the Google Calendar and Contacts sync works better with the Maemo 5 PR 1.1 firmware from today (jan 14th) ??
Or do we still need to use a 3rd party service like NuevaSync ??

Thanks !

[karamba]

Anybody knows if the Google Calendar and Contacts sync works better with the Maemo 5 PR 1.1 firmware from today (jan 14th) ??
Or do we still need to use a 3rd party service like NuevaSync ??

Thanks !

Works better!

I always managed to do the initial sync with calendar and contacts. But after adding or changing events in the server side sync failed forever (until I deleted the MFE account and recreated it again).
I just tested it and updates in the server are updated in the N900 calendar and the sync is successful.
Didn't test it on the contacts though.

[joshua.maverick]

I emailed Nuevasync asking about multi calendar for the n900. This is the convo:

> When will multi calendar support for the n900 come along? I'm down to beta test/provide feedback.
When Nokia adds support to their Mail for Exchange on the N900.
Our service has full support already (for the iPhone), so it only needs their client to have the feature.

Is there a bug or brainstorm available for this? I will promote it like crazy, multi calendar syncing with google would be perfect for myself, and I'm sure a lot of people as well.

[petibub]

For the calendar: give Erminig a try: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40408

[shaunbetts]

I had similar problems to other people, i could sync once with Google, and then it would fail.

So deleted the account and it only synced once again.

But when i was looking at the calendar settings i noticed it said in brackets (synchronised PC Suite), so i deleted the calendar and synced with Google and it worked. i then looked at calendar and it only says " synchronised " instead of "synchronised PC Suite" and my calendar and contacts have been syncing ever since.

I what causes the error is if the N900 is plugged in to the computer in PC Suite mode and if the calendar on the phone or the Google Calendar is edited it does not sync.

Summery
If you N900 is not syncing with google for a second time try this
go to calendar
Then settings
Edit calendars
Click N900 (blue) calendar
Then delete

Hope i have helped

[sgleo87]

Anyone know if contacts sync works now (in the new release) or is it still initial sync only?

[canabal]

Mine has always worked, but it seems to for some people and not for others.

[petur]

Mine syncs contacts and calendar properly (2-way although I didn't check that for contacts yet)

What I do hate now, is that I only seem to get 1 month of google calendar entries, I really need several months (a year would be great).

[darkmuck]

Mine only works for the initial contacts sync and then it will fail every time thereafter. However, if I disable the contacts sync and only sync the calendar it will succeed every time... I hope this gets fixed soon.

[BoeMatic]

My calendar and contact sync with google also seems to work normal.
I have it set to "sync every hour" and i didn't notice any problems.

[tlex26]

My calendar and contacts syncs almost perfectly.
The only problem I still have is that the birthdays set in my google contacts are pushed by 1 day on my N900 when after syncing.

[canabal]

My calendar and contacts syncs almost perfectly.
The only problem I still have is that the birthdays set in my google contacts are pushed by 1 day on my N900 when after syncing.

I have the exact same problem, it is strange how it does that.

[petur]

The only problem I still have is that the birthdays set in my google contacts are pushed by 1 day on my N900 when after syncing.

Ah yes, I have that one too... I opened a bugreport for this one:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8697

[canabal]

The only problem with that bug report is that google sync is not officially supported, so the bug is pretty irrelevant at this time until they support it.

[petur]

The only problem with that bug report is that google sync is not officially supported, so the bug is pretty irrelevant at this time until they support it.

it isn't? it is working pretty well otherwise... Let's hope they work on the problem and not reject the issue

[canabal]

it isn't? it is working pretty well otherwise... Let's hope they work on the problem and not reject the issue

No, at this time it is not supported. As such the bug will get scrapped for sure (I think one on the same topic already has). It is the most requested feature for mail for Exchange at this time, so I see support as forthcoming, but not quite yet.

[petur]

That's really strange, because it works rather well. Just the birthdays are off by one day, and some of my contacts names are missing parts.
I created the birthdays as calendar events now, so my current situation is usable.
On to the next bug: Maps (as a whole)

[dneary]

Hi,

The only problem with that bug report is that google sync is not officially supported, so the bug is pretty irrelevant at this time until they support it.

That's not how it works.

If the Nokia developer working on MfE sees this bug, and can reproduce it with Exchange, then he will fix it. It may not affect only Google Contacts, of course.

Let's say it does only affect Google Contacts.

He might close it (works for me or won't fix) if supporting Google Contacts is not a goal at all, and it will never be supported.

Or he might leave it open since working with Google Calendar, while not currently supported, is a goal on his roadmap. That means that the bug may stay open a while, but will eventually get fixed.

So in 2 scenarios of 3, the bug will stay open & get fixed eventually.

Dave.

[canabal]

Hi,



That's not how it works.

If the Nokia developer working on MfE sees this bug, and can reproduce it with Exchange, then he will fix it. It may not affect only Google Contacts, of course.

Let's say it does only affect Google Contacts.

He might close it (works for me or won't fix) if supporting Google Contacts is not a goal at all, and it will never be supported.

Or he might leave it open since working with Google Calendar, while not currently supported, is a goal on his roadmap. That means that the bug may stay open a while, but will eventually get fixed.

So in 2 scenarios of 3, the bug will stay open & get fixed eventually.

Dave.
Yes you are right, it should stay open, but I keep thinking this same bug was opened before but then closed. I may be completely off base though, so in that case sorry.

Just a reminder for everyone, please vote for adding the google sync feature to MfE here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6343

[petur]

I did search to see if there was such a bugreport already before opening the new one.

[petur]

Well I had a quick search and couldn't find any closed bugs about this, but I did find open ones that relate to Google sync, and are kept open:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5835
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5404

[canabal]

Andre Klapper is going around closing a bunch of bugs about google sync at this very moment (it is his job if I am not mistaken) as they are not technically bugs.

Go here to vote for what you want from syncing: http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/google_calendar-contacts_synchronization/

[petur]

phew... the requests for google support was (re)moved, my bugreport was retained :)

[canabal]

That does not mean it will get fixed, likely only he did not notice it. If the others were removed, likely this one should be too. You should truthfully add the google one that was closed as a dependency requirement to yours.

Having an active bug that is not truly valid (if the others are not then that is likely the case) only clogs up bugzilla. I hope this does get fixed as it is a problem for me also, but we need official support for google sync first.

[planetf1]

One approach appears to be to go via SyncML, so I've been thinking about trying out syncevolution.

However this won't sync with google directly rather I need to use a syncmlservice. see here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML

The two services most mentioned are
- funambol -- but this is restricted to 90 day free/demo use (can be extended if "active" in community)
- scheduleworld - 25 USD/year for all except imap

I currently have gmail working fine with nokia messaging. So this leaves calendar & contacts. My N900 contacts are now quite complex -- ie lots of fields. I'm barely using google calendar, but intend to do so more.

Can anyone recommend any other services? Or is it really down to one of these two?
Or even if not google syncing any other good "cloud" calendaring/contact services?

[canabal]

phew... the requests for google support was (re)moved, my bugreport was retained :)
aklapper just set it to an enhancement, which is good. It is also still open, and depends on that other bug as it should have before. Hopefully when google support is added, that one also is fixed.

[taylorfs]

One approach appears to be to go via SyncML, so I've been thinking about trying out syncevolution.

However this won't sync with google directly rather I need to use a syncmlservice. see here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML

The two services most mentioned are
- funambol -- but this is restricted to 90 day free/demo use (can be extended if "active" in community)
- scheduleworld - 25 USD/year for all except imap

I currently have gmail working fine with nokia messaging. So this leaves calendar & contacts. My N900 contacts are now quite complex -- ie lots of fields. I'm barely using google calendar, but intend to do so more.

Can anyone recommend any other services? Or is it really down to one of these two?
Or even if not google syncing any other good "cloud" calendaring/contact services?

Currently on my N810, I am using Erminig for calendar synch, I believe Loreli is working on ermining-ng for n900. The only syncml services I have used have been Funambol and Scheduleworld. Of the two, Scheduleworld is more complete, but more complex to use and troubleshoot. Funambol has been fairly easy and the developers seem to be very responsive to requests. For the ease of synching contacts, either seem worth the price IMHO.

[slewis1972]

My N900 is refusing to sync google calendar. It has the latest firmware. Deleted MFE settings, removed all calendars except N900, Re-added MFE, set to use new calendar. Contacted added all ok, calendar - no way.

Any ideas?

Scott

[pierro78]

@Scott : maybe you could try Nuevasync : http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=464058&postcount=16

[slewis1972]

Thanks pierro78. Just created an account and synced everything all ok. Just need google to sort its act out.

Scott

[stever]

I've just successfully used goosync's syncML service via syncevolution and it worked fine. Goosync also provides its own (optional) contacts storage for those that don't want to do battle with google contacts. It's a commercial service though so you'll need to pay to get the best out of it.

[smarques]

Here is how it works for me, its painful and it really upsets me having to do it this way... I think Nokia should get this working as a main priority, anyways...

FIRST SYNC:
Enter the usual params (m.google.com 443 secure connection etc)
If the process gets stuck, just open your n900 browser and go to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
Enter the captcha code, submit
Start the sync again.
In advanced settings/calendar choose 'create new'
It should go all the way through the first import.

After that, the normal sync update does not work, so I set it to manual sync (not automatic sync)
whenever I want to sync I have to go to the address above, unlock the captcha, then go to the mfE settings and trigger a FULL RESYNC

I didnt find any other way around and I have no idea of why this works.. its cumbersome and annoying but at least it works...

hth
sergio

[agge]

The general bug conserning the sync via exchange is that the something don't support sync of more then a 5-10 entry's from the devise to the server or sync of pictures from the device. But it is no problem to sync hundreds of contacts or pictures from gmail.

I managed to workaround this by saving the contacts entry's to files on the phone deleting the contact list and adding five entry's from the files(the easiest way to do this is true the file-manager) sync agenst the server adding five more sync and repeating until all contact is added.

[edQ]

In theory the N900 should sync through MfE. In practice I have found it completely unreliable. It fails consistently. I have redone my settings following various guidelines that propose to fix Google synce but to no avail. Yesterday I tried Nuevasync. It has been working perfectly. Now MfE syncs mail contacts and calendar with push just the way MfE worked on my E71. I am not sure what the problem with the implementation of MfE on the N900 is but if you want your Google accounts synced through MfE then this is the best solution I have been able to find. I did several test back and forth adding and deleteing events on my phone and on Google and it pushed changes within seconds. I have been frustrated with Google sync since I got the N900 three months ago. Ideally MfE on the N900 should just work with Google but until that time this works splendidly.

[myk]

edQ, I think you may be confused about what MfE is. (or am I?)
MfE is not a standard. It is software from microsoft. The N900 supports Exchange 2003 and 2007.
Google does not use exchange, but emulates it. This does not work with N900, so whose fault? Nobody! because there is no specification to follow.
Its the fault of all of us for using a non-standard sync mechanism. Its the fault of Microsoft for being evil and proprietary.

[edQ]

edQ, I think you may be confused about what MfE is. (or am I?)
MfE is not a standard. It is software from microsoft. The N900 supports Exchange 2003 and 2007.
Google does not use exchange, but emulates it. This does not work with N900, so whose fault? Nobody! because there is no specification to follow.
Its the fault of all of us for using a non-standard sync mechanism. Its the fault of Microsoft for being evil and proprietary.

Yeah don't think I referred to MfE was a standard. Sorry if you misunderstood. The thread is on getting Google calendar and contacts to sync with N900. I found a way to sync not only contacts and calendar but email as well using MfE. It solved an issue I was having and thought others might find useful.

As for whose fault I lean toward Nokia at this point. Google may be emulating exchange but My E71 using MfE worked flawlessly with Google; my wife's iPhone using MfE also works with Google. So most MfE clients work fine with whatever Google is doing; except the N900 client.

[myk]

yeah, what i mean is that you are not really using MfE. You are using something pretending to be MfE. Its all a mess, but since Nokia already have a working implementation for Symbian, you'd think they would be able to port the guts of the code to maemo. Maybe if we saw the source code, we would shudder in horror and sympathise.

The real problem is that lack of a proper standard, IMO.
So one cannot "implement" MfE as you put it. Its all a big mess.
Two-way sync seems to be a very difficult thing to do, judging by how many problems I have seen in various programs.

[edQ]

myk
Thanks for clarification, I see where you are going from. Does seem odd that they can get it to work on symbian but not N900. Guess I will just have to pony up the $25 a year for Nuevasync for now. Maybe by next year this will be fixed and I can use Nokia's native client for free.

[mobiledivide]

For those who are looking for just calendar sync, Lorelai is working on an app called Erminig which does two way multiple calendar syncing for Google. The nice thing about that app is that you can sync to multiple calendars on the N900 unlike the nuevasync solution. I believe he is working on scripts to do timed sync as well as an expansion to do contact sync as well.
more here....

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40408

[cb00]

I always thought when it rang early it was just giving a warning. My N95 used to always ring at 11:45...

[edanto]

Damn, as a new user, I wish it was less confusing to find out how (or if?!) I can sync my Google contacts and N900 contacts.

Can anyone point me towards instructions, please?

EDIT: I've found some instructions on how to sync Contacts, and they are very simple!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

For me, it took 2 syncs. The first one synched the calendar (but only 50 events, it must be just a month forward and back) and the second manual sync sorted out the contacts. I was deleting all the contacts on the phone and replacing with my Contacts from Google Apps and it seems to have worked very well.

That's a relief!!

[crasbelize]

MFE is working with NuevaSync!

and NuevaSync is free.....an not sure if everybody knew.

[mark_ireland]

this stupid sync issue is driving me nuts.
i add contact shortcuts on the desktop and they all disapear along with the contacts when a sync is carried out.
when i resync the contacts return, the shortcuts dont and the birthdays move a day forward.
a very very annoying issue :mad: BUT i do love my N900 :D

[zenit]

After upgrading to PR1.2 and struggling to sync google calendar through MFE, I decided to try out SyncEvolution and am quite pleased and happy with the performance.

One can sync both google contacts and calendar with SyncEvolution without any problems. In fact SyncML sync protocol is more relaxed then ActiveSync/MFE and you can retain all the multiple mobile nos and phone nos per contact for sync through syncml & syncevolution unlike MFE which strips all the multiple nos and retains only one no per field and was the reason I did not even attempt to sync google contacts with MFE.

The latest version of SyncEvolution even lets you automate the process and sync daily automatically which quite sufficient for syncing calendar and contacts.

Cheers

[sprite]

I had already planned this.

As soon as I get my hands on the n900( already pre-ordered, eagerly awaiting it) I'll code a daemon to have your contacts synced with google contacts :)


...and what news have you?

I personally have tried using the Mail for Exchange app in the Settings menu. I didn't dare do a contacts sync for fear of losing my contacts. But i made a fresh calender on gmail and synced the n900 calendar OK.

Don't think it works with smart entries like birthday's linked to the contacts database on the n900. But otherwise it's a suitable calendar link.

For the sake of sanity probably best to let the default email app handle email with imap.

[uncle.sam]

Syncing Gmail Calendar(Web) <-> Thunderbird(Lightning)PC <-> iCal(MacBook) <-> N900 without any problems. Works great. Able to note appointments in every calendar and all synced automatically with each other. Like my own "cloud" :) .

[nshelekhov]

http://maemo.org/packages/view/syncevolution-frontend/

It synced contacts perfecly but it dos not sync calendar, how to sync it properly?

[telecomgeek79]

search for ERMINIG...1 calendar sync both ways with a google,com/a/ free edition.
Works great for me.

[paai]

myk
Thanks for clarification, I see where you are going from. Does seem odd that they can get it to work on symbian but not N900. Guess I will just have to pony up the $25 a year for Nuevasync for now. Maybe by next year this will be fixed and I can use Nokia's native client for free.

Nuevasync also has a free service. It then has some limitations, but it syncs calendar, contacts and email, and that is good enough for me.

Now if only I could find a similar way to sync with my local KDE desktop and do away with Google and the cloud at all...

Paai

[stobbsc]

http://maemo.org/packages/view/syncevolution-frontend/

It synced contacts perfecly but it dos not sync calendar, how to sync it properly?

How did you manage to get this working for contact sync?

This doesn't work for my google again, the sync always fails :-(

[Superrei]

I found that only Full Sync will work. Auto-sync triggered by scheduler is not working. Anyone have solution other than using NuevaSync?:confused:

[jerra]

I found that only Full Sync will work. Auto-sync triggered by scheduler is not working. Anyone have solution other than using NuevaSync?:confused:

I use the "standard" Mfe that ships with the N900 and it works great. Don't use any fancy features (if there are any?).

I had the same problem at different points in time. Reason for my problem was:

I didn't nuke my contacts nor calendar notes on the N900 before configuring Mfe for Google
I had synched the phone with PC Suite and OVI Suite


Finally I did a clean re-install of my phone, flashed eMMC and the lots and before anyting else configured MfE. Of course this requires you to have the contacts/calendar notes stored on your Google account already. Now MfE just works and works. :)
A bit of work but I recommend that. I do not synch against anything else.
Only problem I have found that you can't add photo to contact in N900, then it won't synch. Add the photo in Google's Contacts and it will show up in your phone after synching.

[ivgalvez]

And how does it work if you use Hermes to grab additional information from web pages?

[jerra]

And how does it work if you use Hermes to grab additional information from web pages?

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/962/taxidriveryoutalkintome.jpg

[Superrei]

I didn't nuke my contacts nor calendar notes on the N900 before configuring Mfe for Google




Nuke the contacts and calendar? How about I have some new contact entries on my phone and wants to sync it to Google Contact?

[petur]

he means at the original sync.

Mine stopped syncing recently, So I cleared the calendar and did a full resync again, that made it all work again.

[jerra]

Nuke the contacts and calendar? How about I have some new contact entries on my phone and wants to sync it to Google Contact?
Yes I know that is a problem. A few months ago I sat at my PC and moved my contacts from OVI to Google. I considered it a one time job although it took some time getting it done. Good thing was I got to delete old ones etc.
This is only a problem the first time you setup MfE, after it will synch just fine both ways.

I don't have much experience of MfE, in fact 3 months ago I didn't even know what MfE was... but anyhoo these are my experiences with it.
:p

[ddwalker]

I had the same problem at different points in time. Reason for my problem was:

I didn't nuke my contacts nor calendar notes on the N900 before configuring Mfe for Google
I had synched the phone with PC Suite and OVI Suite




Yes! I think the key is to start with a clean calendar and contact list. Thanks so much. Now everything works perfectly.

BTW, I use erminig-ng to sync with google calendars, which allows you to sync multiple calendars. I mean you can have multiple calendars on N900 and multiple calendars on google. And they'll sync individually.

[Crashdot]

Can anyone confirm that Tasks can actually be synched using MfE?

I have setup and synched calendar and contacts, but n900 tasks are not showing up in gmail, and test gmail tasks are not showing up on the n900.

Nuevasync does not appear to support Gmail tasks, but rather Toodledo and 37signals Highrise accounts, and it costs $25 per year for the addition of that capability. I would just like my n900 tasks to sync with gmail tasks.

Thanks

[qt4eva]

Does anyone know how to fix the problem with syncing contact with google not working when the contact have avatar? I can sync my contact between google and my phone no problem, but if add an avatar to my contact it will not sync, just time out and said sync fail. Thanks

[Mr. Ben]

I would just like to restate how easy Nuevasync is for basic "outlook style" syncing of contacts and calendar. I only wish the N900's calendar was a little more friendly in Month view. I just have a few multicolored lines, doesn't really tell me anything.

[etuoyo]

I can't get my contacts to sync at all. I have tried mail for exchange but just get error message. Followed these instructions but no luck.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951

I have also tried sync evolution but that didn't work either. Anyone have any ideas?

[slender]

try nuevasync. IIRC they even had some supportt messages about syncing contacts with exchange+nuevasync(google)

[foobari]

try nuevasync. IIRC they even had some supportt messages about syncing contacts with exchange+nuevasync(google)
Nuevasync will not be free anymore. :(

Any working alternatives?

[Jaffa]

Nuevasync will not be free anymore. :(

Any working alternatives?

Erminig works well for calendars; I don't think it does contacts. syncevolution can (apparently).

[foobari]

Calendar and contacts syncing nicely with these instructions: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

The default calendar (N900) did not sync though, I needed to create a new one.

[petur]

Calendar and contacts syncing nicely with these instructions: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

The default calendar (N900) did not sync though, I needed to create a new one.

Yes, and it has been working fine since the beginning (except for the birthdays 1-day offset bug).

Even the default calendar syncs properly (remember to empty it completely, then issue a full sync)

[tomchiverton]

Like many people, I got the NeuevaSync email today.
I've just followed http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en and it worked fine *without clearing the local N900 calender*.
I'm on a stock device with PR1.3.

A test event created sync'ed up OK, and when removed from Google Calender on their web site was removed when I did a 2nd manual sync.

[tomchiverton]

oh, and I didn't do a full resync or anything, just saved the settings.

[caco3]

It works for me as well.
I did a test in both directions for the contacts as well as for the calendar. For the calendar I also tested with a repeating entry:
Google shows it correctly, the N900 does only show the first entry if created in google, but the details of the entry indicates the repetition correctly.

I had to do a complete resync on my phone to get it working!
No data got lost.
Please be aware that the user name is your gmail email address (incl. @gmail.com)

[michelvd85]

Calendar and contacts syncing nicely with these instructions: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en

The default calendar (N900) did not sync though, I needed to create a new one.

I tried that one to, but still I get an "error communicating with exchange server" - error...
And he also gives me a message that says: "Invalid username, invalid password or invalid domain for Exchange account", and I know my password and username are correct AND I followed that google thread...
any Ideas?

[tomchiverton]

My N900 has been giving the ambiguous 'server error' when syncing to Google for a few days now, though I've not changed anything :-(

[olinka]

My N900 has been giving the ambiguous 'server error' when syncing to Google for a few days now, though I've not changed anything :-(

Same here - google calendar sysnc stopped working a few days ago for me :(

[Overgaard]

Any news on the latest issues with syncing with Google? Haven't
been able to sync for a while now.

Regards // Overgaard

[olinka]

Any news on the latest issues with syncing with Google? Haven't
been able to sync for a while now.


Sync was working again for a few days but now it's not working again. I changed nothing on the phone sync settings.
I'm sure it will work again in a few days (at least I hope so).

[Overgaard]

Any news on the latest issues with syncing with Google? Haven't
been able to sync for a while now.

Regards // Overgaard

Perhaps "never mind"? I tried a "full resync" and that seem to solve the issue for me. Hopefully that did it! :confused:

[cyeung]

Perhaps "never mind"? I tried a "full resync" and that seem to solve the issue for me. Hopefully that did it! :confused:

Whenever I get the "sync error" icon, that is exactly what I do to fix it again.

[sdstrowes]

Interesting that people are having problems. I got sync set up with Google today without any issues. Well, not quite no issues...

I only want it to sync my calendar. On Google, I have multiple calendars, many of which I would like to view on my N900. But MfE only pulls down one of them, and arguably the least useful of the calendars I'd like to use.

Is this a known issue, or do I have to nudge something on Google's side? Or is Erminig (in extras-devel) my only solution?

[nathanbibb]

I'm pretty sure you can only sync one calendar at a time with MfE.

But every few days or so I am getting the issue where sync fails with google and I have to clear the N900 calendar and do a full resync. My wife is syncing to the same calendar with her iPad and she has not had any problems.

It seems like a few people are having this issue - does anyone know how to diagnose it? Is there a log somewhere I can monitor to try to narrow down the issue?

[AndyNokia232]

I'm pretty sure you can only sync one calendar at a time with MfE.

But every few days or so I am getting the issue where sync fails with google and I have to clear the N900 calendar and do a full resync.

I have had some problems with manually syncing with Google calendar (I only use MfE for that). But deleting that calendar and starting the MfE process again seems to fix it. But when you do that, you must make sure that you click Advanced settings, and change the calendar from N900 (default setting) to New Calendar, otherwise it won't work. I'm sure the syncing issues are with Google servers - some days it works, others it doesn't. At least you can fix it, even though it's annoying.

[caco3]

I'm pretty sure you can only sync one calendar at a time with MfE.

But every few days or so I am getting the issue where sync fails with google and I have to clear the N900 calendar and do a full resync. My wife is syncing to the same calendar with her iPad and she has not had any problems.

It seems like a few people are having this issue - does anyone know how to diagnose it? Is there a log somewhere I can monitor to try to narrow down the issue?

I had the same issue every other day.
I annoyed me, so I changed back to NuevaSync.
I know it costs a bit, but I am willing to pay for a working solution.

[tomchiverton]

I just moved to Erming-NG (such these forums for the URL). Rock solid, free, syncs as many google cals as you like to as many N900 as you want, both directions or just one.
Awesome.

[cBeam]

I just moved to Erming-NG (such these forums for the URL). Rock solid, free, syncs as many google cals as you like to as many N900 as you want, both directions or just one.
Awesome.

When I tried Erminig a few weeks ago it screwed up my google calendar. I understand there were some dev activities since then, so I tried it again this weekend. Did not screw up google calendar, but every complex repeat is shown one day off on mt N900. Not really usable for me.

I think it's great when developers volunteer their time and try to resolve a problem that should have been addressed by Nokia months ago. Well, but we all know about Nokia's support for the N900...

[dglent]

i want to synchronize my contacts with google but when i get google contacts they dont have the phone number. If i change a contact and add a phone number the synchronize is no anymore functional : "Error in communication with exchange server"

So, i cant sync but only import the gmail contacts

[caco3]

Hi all
I just wrote a tutorial for egroupware and syncevolution: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72046

[miqu]

Hello

I have a partially working setup that takes minimum amount of pain to achieve.

I use erminig to sync the calendars that I try to keep recurring event free. Then I use MfE for contacts and that one calendar that has recurring events etc.

The problem ofcourse is that I would need another MfE account. I need it because my work calendar and contacts are in an Microsoft Exchange Server...


The pain list:

Every now and then I need to remove my MfE synced calendar and all the contacts when MfE decides to break syncronization. Then re-enable the syncing of calendar and addressbook in MfE and do a complete resync.

I have to run Erminig-ng by hand as I have never seen it sync automaticly eventhough it is setup to do so. When running by hand its dialogs for syncing local events etc jump in front to bother me. This happens eventhough I am using another program and trying to let it do its job in the background.

SyncEvolution also had bugs that made my about 600 contacts sync for a few hours and I ended up in a partly altered addressbook in Google.



SynceEvolution and Erminig-ng were supposed to save me from using MfE with google. But still it seems that they need a bit of work to be finalized enough to help maintain these painful situations.

Well of to report bugs and help with testing. I do hope we get these fixed for us and then Meego also when it comes.

Nice work though for those of you who have made this possible. Thanks dudes.

[tomchiverton]

I have to run Erminig-ng by hand as I have never seen it sync automaticly eventhough it is setup to do so. When running by hand its dialogs for syncing local events etc jump in front to bother me. This happens eventhough I am using another program and trying to let it do its job in the background.
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This doesn't happen in the latest version.

[JamesBond@ge]

I like the sound of this Ernie Nig. Is it in the Repos?

[open-attitude]

All

I got my N900 syncing :) and this is how I did http://open-attitude.blogspot.com/2011/08/sync-n900-with-google-contacts.html

-SS

[m4r0v3r]

mine got stuck so all I did was sync just the contacts and it worked fine.

[petur]

For me, the reverse is true: if I also sync contacts it fails. This worked OK until last month, go figure....

I tried SyncEvolution but that synced 75 contacts of my 400, throwing the rest off my n900 (thanks alot crap)

Apart from that: I have my country and language settings differently, because I want it to know I'm in Belgium, but I do like the interface in English... But this never was a problem for calendar sync.

[JamesBond@ge]

I used SyncEvolution to sync my Contacts to the Memotoo service. It took hours to do and never fully completed. I had to cancel the process in the end. Upon rebooting my phone, I found my Contacts had all gone. Luckily I had exported them as vcards earlier and imported them all back in again.

After my next reboot, I found that my Contacts had gone again. And I had to re-import them again. And so on and so on. This went on for about a month and I had no idea why.

Until, I had the idea to uninstall SyncEvolution. And ta-dah, my Contacts were back and have been ever since.

I also used Ermie-NG to sync my Calendar and it ended up duplicating all my entries and I had to delete my Calendar and re-install it from the internal backup I made before.

On both these occasions, it's lucky that I had made backups beforehand otherwise the consequences (for me personally) would have been a disaster.

And all this from using HALF ARSED and HALF FINISHED methods of syncing my important data.

Is it not the purpose of these syncing systems to actually safeguard your data, not destroy it?

I will never ever ever again use any kind of syncing software on the N900.

It's too risky and there is too much to lose.

[locolyric]

so far the nuevasync give me a great experience.