Comments on: Official Google Calendar Sync Support on Blackberry

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:55:03 +0000

Mark unfortunately I didn’t have any hickups with the sync app, but my hope is that Google continues to make releases to it quickly as it’s a much demanded app.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:40:40 +0000

I have Notes 8 at work, with syncs over air with BB calendar just fine (obviously). What I want is to svnc the BB ‘out’ to GoogleCal. So I’ve tried that (set 24 weeks and ‘handheld wins’ in options), and it says ’sync successful. *Most* stuff is in fact now out on the GoogleCal. Yet some things aren’t. There’s no obvious pattern as to the things that didn’t make it. Has anyone experienced this?? I’ve seen people say it works great, and seen alot that couldn’t get it set up, but no reports like mine of “some go, some don’t”…

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:42:38 +0000

Junkie,
Even when you forced a sync you still didn’t see the events getting sucked down from GCal?

By: BBerry Junkie

BBerry Junkie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:23:01 +0000

Google sync looked like my solution. My enterprise uses NotifyLink which is a complete disaster as a synching product to Groupwise. I synched to Outlook, exported my calendar as a csv file to get all my current entries into Google calendar. Loaded Google sync to my ATT 8800, I was a pig is S _ _ _.

Then… I realized that not all the entries that I was creating were synching. I gave my secretary full editing permission to my calendar (and asked her to keep a record of all changes while I test the syncing.) The initial tests passes. When we moved to “production”, I saw that some appointments that were created on Google calendar never synched to my BBerry, and some from my BBerry would appear on the calendar and then vanish from my BBerry.

Oh well, Sync needs to go back to Google labs. it’s not ripe yet…

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:34:32 +0000

Steve,
Actually I think you can do that pretty easily if you use Microsoft Outlook (not Express) and use the Blackberry Desktop Manage to manually sync your device whenever you need to.

You will need to use a 3rd party utility that syncs your Google Calendar with Outlook though… I’ve used Companion Link and it works pretty well.

Then again that is a *lot* of work to just avoid the data plan for your phone and let it sync automatically and wirelessly… but that is the only option I know of at the moment to do it offline manually.

(the Outlook requirement is because the Blackberry Desktop Manager only syncs with Lotus Notes and Outlook I believe as far as desktop apps go)

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:37:52 +0000

I have a question that probably reveals my ignorance of technical matters…

I just got a BlackBerry Pearl. I want to sych with Google Calendar, but I cannot afford the extra cost of web access for my phone. Can I sync the BlackBerry calendar and Google calendar through the USB connection to my desktop? If so, what do I need to do?

Thanks for any help.

Steve

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:49:41 +0000

Alex,
I’m glad it helped you out. I know *exactly* how you feel about the Calendar. I wanted to sync the stupid thing so bad but getting it to work well while maintaining privacy just hasn’t been possible (gcalsync never worked right for me).

Anyway, the skies have parted and we can be mobile happily again

By: Alex Chan

Alex Chan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:33:43 +0000

This is awesome. I just tried it out and it synced with my google calendar perfectly. I was tired of using SyncML and ScheduleWorld when all I wanted was to sync my Blackberry with google calendar. Thanks for the info.

By: Laurence Hartje

Laurence Hartje — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:25 +0000

Now lets hope that Google adds contact syncing as well and then most people would have a free, personal alternative to Blackberry’s Enterprise Server offering.