Comments on: Blackberry Contact Sync

By: ashwani

ashwani — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:57:24 +0000

hi. i have a BB curve , and i use gmail contacts to sync with my phone. I have hundreds of contacts on gmail and now they are all in my BB contact list. How can i sync only *My Contacts* and not every other contact on Gmail with BB.

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:15:28 +0000

Hi. Thanks for the info. But i am still facing a problem here, and wonder if anyone can help. Earlier i was using the blackberry service with a service provider and everything was working normally. Later i shifted to a different service provider, and now i dont have the option of wireless sync. In the address book, when i go to options / wireless sync, it says unavailable. when i go to my gmail contacts, all my contacts are there, but they dont sync with my phone. could anyone tell me if there is a any setting i have missed out, due to which its not working. apart from the address book, everything else is working fine. even my BBM contacts have been remotely backed up, and i retrieved them without any hassle. Just left with my contacts. kindly advice. Thanks in advance…

By: Nicole Lewe

Nicole Lewe — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:01:51 +0000

I have a blackberry pearl. The phone kept giving me critical errors so our IT dept reset the phone. My gmail still syncs emails but it won’t load my Gmail contacts only my outlook contacts. We tried rebooting and resetting up gmail, but it is still missing the gmail contact service book. When I go to contact lists, only option is Desktop.

By: Chris Vidalakis

Chris Vidalakis — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:35:02 +0000

There is a solution I found that works well. It is called Office Accelerator Wireless BlackBerry Sync by Baseline. The company has been around 20 years and gives great service. Just Google Office Accelerator or visit them at http://www.oawireless.com.

By: junetune259

junetune259 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:38:28 +0000

Suthathip

By: junetune259

junetune259 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:33:36 +0000

Jdd

By: Rrrr

Rrrr — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:32:01 +0000

Can I use wireless sync for two gmail accounts?
My 1st gmail account has all the contacts which I would like to wirelessly sync with the blackberry, my 2nd gmail account is new and has not contacts, but I would like the 2nd account to have the same contacts as in the first account.

By: Venu

Venu — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:50:55 +0000

The best way to sync is to start with a empty address book on the device (blackberry) and have all the contacts on Gmail.

You seem to have synced on your existing contacts in Blackberry. I would suggest the following

Go to Contacts -> Options and type Alt+ RSET ; this is to reset the contact sync; this should fix the issue

If not,
1. setup your gmail address book (add all the missing contacts , run de-duplicator etc)
2. Use Desktop manager to clear the Address book on the device and sync again

By: beggsie

beggsie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:22:45 +0000

HELP!
I set up my blackberry to sync with my gmail account last week but now my contact lists on my gmail account and blackberry are multiplying exponentially! As I try to delete contacts, more are added. I cannot even delete them off my blackberry. It is set to not allow duplicates.
signed,
Desperate

By: Morten

Morten — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:33:43 +0000

I get the same problems.

But only on some addresses….
I try to update the address on my BB 9700,… and few minutes later its back to everythingononeline

Also – many of my contacts have PIN registered, but on a few of these the PIN dissapear after sync,… others stay perfect…
Some registered birthday dissapear… others stay …

Using BIS sync… but – its confusing….

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:20:31 +0000

Hi,

I have a problem with my Pearl 9105 3G. I’m in the UK and when I have my Pearl set to wireless sync with my Gmail account, it rearranges the address fields in the ‘address’ and ‘edit address’ section of my Pearl, instead of the address being spread out in the correct fields they’re all bunched up. So instead of looking like this:

Address 1: 10 Field Avenue
Address 2: Fieldfare
City: Lownsdown
Stat/Prov/Region: Suffolk
Country: UK

It looks like this.

Address 1:
10 FieldAvenueFieldfareLonsdownSuffolkUK

Same goes for the address section in the contacts.

By: Venu

Venu — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:29:25 +0000

Andres,
Sync shouldn’t take too much time; delete the Gmail account from the BIS web page and add the account again

By: Andres E. Parilli

Andres E. Parilli — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:17:05 +0000

Hi i am using the Gmail Contact Wireless syncronzation with my Bold9700 and its working good, but i want to know if there a way to force the syncronization, becouse i always have to wait almost 2 days.

Or to know when is going to be the next sync.

By: LarryMcJ

LarryMcJ — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:48:48 +0000

…and you’re very correct about Google Sync and Contacts….just the basic fields sync. It would really be nice if Google Sync did work perfectly…but it’s not going to happen for awhile.

By: LarryMcJ

LarryMcJ — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:45:16 +0000

The problem (well-documented) with the Google Sync App and BlackBerry is any events you have that recur forever (like a daily reminder to take a pill at 1pm) won’t sync properly. The event syncs, but the reminder does not.

The enhanced Gmail Plugin got a few more things added to it in BIS 3.0, but they say that Calendar sync won’t be until October of 2010

By: Venu

Venu — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:40:45 +0000

Yes there is a Google Sync app- and the calendar sync does work nicely. When I tried last, the contact sync was buggy

The BIS contact sync however works fine (The carries BIS has to be on v2.6 for this support I guess) and it probably also needs the Enhanced Gmail Plugin on BB (its generally pushed by the carrier itself)

By: Vinod

Vinod — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:32:57 +0000

I was totally relieved to see the Google Sync app for the BlackBerry. All of my Calendar and Contacts are in there for so long and used to sync beautifully with iPhone and Android. Google didn’t disappoint the BB crowd