Sync Google Calendar with iPhone 3G
August 5, 2008 · Print Post
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Yesterday I posted about syncing Google Calendar with Thunderbird. Today I will talk about syncing Google Calendar with your iPhone 3G (Since I have the iPhone 3G). It is pretty simple and all it requires is a user name and login to a specific site. This site does all the syncing, the only problem I found was it kinda drains battery fairly quickly.
So far I am impressed with this specific site and its rapid syncing capability. Well the site is called NuevaSync. It is a fairly simple process. First what is NuevaSync?
NuevaSync allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.
So first thing first, is to simple just signup via NuevaSync and create your username, email, and password. You will then receive an email confirmation which ofcourse you will have to validate your email.
The registration process is fairly simple and is very straight forward. So far I have not had any issues with this service. Everything syncs seamlessly and it is a perfect way to stay in control of your schedule where ever I maybe or whatever device I may have.
Well lets get into syncing the service with your iPhone. this works with your iPhone and iPod Touch as long as you have version 2.0. If you do have it then it integrates with ease and NuevaSync provides you a more in depth step by step configuration once logged in. NuevaSync helps you along the way with your installation.
After you have confirmed your email, you will then be introduced to your dashboard. It is a fairly simple dashboard with 4 options, since we are just doing Google Calendar chose “Change” which is the first row. You will then just enter your Google email or Google account id in which you want to sync your Google calendar with.
Once that is done, go to your Settings within your iPhone and you will simple just chose Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
- Select “Add Account”.
- Choose “Microsoft Exchange”
- Under “Email”, enter the e-mail address you used for NuevaSync registration.
- Under “Username” enter your NuevaSync username.
- Under “Password” enter your NuevaSync password.
- Under “Description” you can leave the default or enter a description of your choosing.
- Tap “Next”.
- When it has finished, it will display a new field, “Server”. Enter “www.nuevasync.com” as the value.
- Tap “Next”.
- On the next page, turn off “Mail” and “Contacts”.
- Tap “Save”
That is it, soon this service will sync with your calendar if not immediately. I found this to be very helpful and ofcourse to be more productive. Also NuevaSync will soon have exchange service for email and that I can’t wait.
August 5th, 2008 11:43 am
Just spent 5 minutes doing this and I can verify that it works. I can write my to do list in the morning on a real computer and keep up with it all day on iphone.
Good shit Ian.
August 5th, 2008 12:28 pm
Ahhh I’ve been waiting for something like this. Thanks for this post. I use Google-Apps-for-your-domain and this works pretty damn well so far.
See you at ASE.
August 5th, 2008 2:56 pm
Works great. Now is there any way to make iPhone Calendar toggle display of different calendars, as in Google Calendar?
August 5th, 2008 4:39 pm
Tried Nuevasych and it worked. But feel very uncomfortable to give my login details for my primary email address to some strangers. Also, it syncs only with one calendar. How do you guys feel about that?
August 6th, 2008 4:09 am
This was great (although it does scare me to send my email address and password as the previous post mentioned). I have a question though (hopefully some can answer) - If I add to the calendar on my iphone, will it update online on google calendar? Does it work both ways?
Thanks so much.
August 6th, 2008 8:48 am
Awesome work-around for those who can’t get Outlook Cal to sync. Bit of trouble but better than nothing: sync Outlook to Google, then google to iPhone using Nuevasync.
As you can see by my email address I can’t wait for Nueva to finish email support! Great service, and free [so far!]
August 6th, 2008 3:57 pm
When I add events on my iphone, it does sync online. However, when I add a new event online on my gcal, it does not sync on my phone. Any tips?
August 6th, 2008 4:03 pm
my fault. nothing is syncing. HELP!
August 7th, 2008 9:04 am
I followed the steps. All went well. The question I have is… under the settings, I keep email and contacts off but what about calendar? When I went to turn it on, it said it would erase the calendar events in my iphone which I do want to keep.
Please advise
Thanks
August 7th, 2008 9:57 am
> Tony
correct it will erase all event you have in your current calendar - it first needs to sync with Google and if there isnt anything in Google it will remove your current events you added in your iphone.
> Kenny
it should sync easily and update google. Does it sync with your Google calendar at all? maybe instead of using the private XML use the public? have you tried that?
August 7th, 2008 10:29 am
I reset everything on the phone and on NuevaSync and all is well. Thanks!
August 7th, 2008 12:21 pm
I’ve signed up for NuevaSync, but haven’t yet configured my iPhone. In reading the device configuration settings, they say that adding the Exchange account will delete calendar and contacts on the phone. The calendar I don’t care about (duh - that’s why I’m interested in this service), but losing my contacts has me concerned.
I also have the funambol syncML app installed for manually syncing contacts and am wondering if the loss of my contacts is a temporary problem easily resolved by resyncing funambol afterwards, or will the addition of an “Exchange” account disable the ability of the funambol client to sync with my contacts altogether. Does anyone know? Thanks.
August 7th, 2008 3:36 pm
Thanks! Been looking for a way to do this, perfect timing right before summit!
August 9th, 2008 1:48 pm
has anyone found a way to add multiple exchange accounts? My iPhone won’t let me add a 2nd account under “Microsoft Exchange”
August 12th, 2008 4:37 am
Hi,
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August 12th, 2008 11:57 am
Hi
But does this sync inputs made on your iPhone to the Google calendar, or just from the Google cal to the iPhone?
thx
August 13th, 2008 3:37 pm
This worked flawlessly. Thanks!
August 13th, 2008 10:39 pm
Thank you SO MUCH! This is the perfect way to 2-way sync contacts and calendar to the iPhone! My favorite tool so far, dont pay for mobile me crap
August 14th, 2008 1:42 pm
Is there a delay for synching inputs made on your iPhone to the Google calendar or does it just not work?
Thx,
Tiffany
August 14th, 2008 3:25 pm
This works perfectly!! Thank you so much.
Tiffany, make sure you have the push on the calendar selection on.
August 17th, 2008 4:15 am
This worked amazingly! I wish that it would show the colors of my different calendars, but other that that, it’s awesome. It didn’t delete any contacts which I was really afraid of. I’m so happy with the way this turned out!
August 24th, 2008 5:08 pm
great, it works perfectly, thanks a lot.
August 26th, 2008 6:21 pm
Thanks for the write-up. Works well for me except:
Events put into Gcal transfer to Iphone and thuderbird
Events put into iphone transfer to thunderbird and gcal
Events put into thunderbird DO NOT transfer to either
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
August 27th, 2008 8:01 pm
thanks for this guide! i was wondering how to sync my calendar etc.. via wifi to my iphone, now i know how!
thanks for posting brilliant guides, keep up the good work!
August 30th, 2008 9:59 am
So I lose my gmail account to my iPhone? Calendar syncs flawlessly both ways, but I am not getting my email to my phone.
I followed the directions, which requires that I turn off email under settings. Later went back to get email, and it wants me to reconfigure my gmail account. I turn on email under settings, reconfigure email account and get SSL error.
Can we have both Calendar and email (using gmail)?
Thanks,
Phil
August 30th, 2008 10:39 am
Got it! You can have google Calendar sync and gmail work with email app on iPhone.
Set up two different accounts. One to work with the calendar, and another to work with gmail. Turn off email on “Calendar” account, and turn off calendar on “Email” account.
Can’t remember exactly how I got it to work, but I got it.
September 3rd, 2008 12:25 pm
hello! i configured everything according to instruction but my iphone is somehow unable to verify the account after i enter http://www.nuevasync.com as the server! please help.
September 4th, 2008 9:57 am
Fantastic, works great!
September 4th, 2008 12:16 pm
works now! think the server was down for a bit. only thing is it’s kind of slow in syncing the various calendars (right now it has only synced two calendars out of three) as well as updating google calendar with iphone entries.
thanks for the tip! invaluable!
September 4th, 2008 2:37 pm
Just quick question,i made a change to the gcal n im looking at the iphone in calender mode and the change doesnt have yet.Do i have to get out of the iphone calender and go back in to see the change?
how does the push work on gcal.if there is a change,does it automatically push to the iphone.I have that setting on .
September 4th, 2008 4:15 pm
Once nuevasync got their server back up and running this morning, it has worked fine. My iphone, google calendar, and thunderbird are all synced perfectly; however, when I checked my email this morning, my entire gmail inbox has been wiped out. I searched the trash and some emails were there, but most are gone. Now, as I type this, I’m getting some messages from people, and others are getting deleted before I ever see them in the inbox. Has this happened to anyone else? I don’t know that it has anything to do with nuevasync, but it’s never happened before and the timing is dodgy. Any help would be great.
September 4th, 2008 9:27 pm
Does anybody know if this works over the cellular network?
I’ve heard AT&T blocks exhange servers…so would this work?
I’ve just set it up on my phone (using the cellular network, not WI Fi) and it told me that the set up failed.
Anyone has an idea what could be causing that?
I am 100% sure the settings are correct and there are no typos
September 4th, 2008 10:36 pm
Me again…
So, i’ve tried to set it up over a wifi network and the setup process itself works fine, now when i suppose it should be synching…it doesn’t NONETHELESS in the troubleshooting page of nuevasync, under status, it tells me it is OK and it says data has been transfered to my iphone X mins ago.
But in my phone i don’t get anything in my calendar…
could it be because i have multiple calendars?
thanks,
e
September 4th, 2008 10:46 pm
No one but Daisy has reservations giving out their google login to these guys? Seriously, it seems dodgy to me!
September 5th, 2008 12:01 pm
> eddie
yesterday nuevasync had issues, but should be back up now. in regards to your other comments it should work over cellular network since all it does is sync to the website and and nuevasync does the syncing on their end. also options to have it done via cellular or wifi? I did not see that option but it should be working fine over both
you can only sync one calendar with your iphone, since it has only 1 xml url to pull and reference information.
September 8th, 2008 7:55 pm
just singed up for the nuevasync but where is it on my iphone? I mean how do I see my calendar?
September 10th, 2008 3:49 am
@Krikkus re: google login credentials
When I set up my account, I had a valid Google login cookie. I was never asked for my google credentials by the nuevasync setup process.
Login to google in one tab, open up another tab and sign up for nuevasync. Nuevasync points to the google.com calendar authorization page, and you have to authorize nuevasync.com, but nowhere do i ever use my password except in google.com login domains. I should’ve screenshotted the authorization, but check the domain you are logging in to, and you should be good.
September 10th, 2008 10:48 am
WOW! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!! This works amazingly. On the iphone I use gmail for my mail, me for my contacts and bookmarks, and now nuevasync for my calendar. Thanks so much!!
September 11th, 2008 12:20 am
I just set all this up in like 5 minutes.. and it works… PERFECTLY =)
It even synced all 5 of my google calenders.
September 11th, 2008 11:21 am
How can i control when the calendar and stuff gets synced? Don’t want to use 3g I only want to sync when I reach a wifi hotspot
September 11th, 2008 7:01 pm
What about the colors?
I got it to work for me, but all 3 calendars are shown with the same color (red). Is there a way to make it show each onr in a different color?
September 12th, 2008 7:21 am
Did this just now, took 10 mins to setup and works brilliantly! We should all be very greatful to nuevasync for this superb service.
September 12th, 2008 8:19 am
By all means!!! Works flawlessly but now I get concerned with billing… How can I make sure that my calendar gets synced when I want and not when I open up the application?
I would very much appreciate help on this,
Marc
September 13th, 2008 4:16 pm
this nueva sync works great for both calender and contacts on my iPhone 3G. A couple minor snafus the first time in contacts but then no problemo. I didn’t back anything up at all. I can still go to outlook to get things back if I have a problem.
September 13th, 2008 6:18 pm
how often does it sync and how can you adjust that?
September 13th, 2008 6:27 pm
Brian,
that’s exactly the info I’m after… somebody help!!
September 15th, 2008 10:08 am
hey tried it just now and it worked.
Thanks, this was really a big help. Can count on the net and guys like you all the time.
September 16th, 2008 12:29 am
Work’s well
just will there be an update that will match the colors on your ipod or iphone with the colors on google calendar for multiple calendars?
thanks
September 16th, 2008 8:35 am
how can i setup a MS Exchange on my iphone when I already have one MS exchange setup already??
September 16th, 2008 10:05 am
That thing with the colours would just be awesome… still no answer regarding how to control WHEN calendar, contacts, etc get synced.. help on that would be very much appreciated.
tahnks
September 16th, 2008 6:31 pm
Awesome indeed! But how can I adjust the colors? Is there a way yet to change the boring grey to … pretty pink?! (…and all the others)
September 16th, 2008 10:39 pm
It doesn’t work with iphone software 2.1. Will a new version be available?
September 17th, 2008 10:40 am
> kam
really? nuevasync should have an update coming soon, I didnt upgrade yet so - I will have to test it out once I upgrade
September 18th, 2008 10:05 pm
I followed the steps, and I’m getting ‘can’t verify credentials from gmail.com’. Please help.
September 19th, 2008 6:11 am
I was distressed to hear that there were problems with the 2.1 ugrade but I had already upgraded. Sooo, I decided to turn off the contact sync function before I lost my contacts. Sure enough, my contacts went away when I turned sync off but came back after a few minutes when I turned it back on. This got me scared and thinking that if something went wrong, I would lose my contacts permanently. In fact, it tells you when you turn off sync that this will happen. So, I tried syncing with goggle again using the ipod/itunes software and it worked perfectly. So I am going to leave that and just sync the calender with Nueva sync.
September 20th, 2008 4:20 pm
Have had a problem arise. While this works perfectly, it now does not.
I am getting my iPhone calendar program crashing every time I go to use it.. My account here states its been 23 hours since the last sync which is when the problem arose. I decided to to a back up on my iphone to help the problem but with no luck.
I can NOT delete this account from my setting under general/mail/etc. When I go to try, and save, it freezes my settings page and crashes.
So now after the restore, I can browse my calendar program but I can NOT add an event to it or it freezes/crashes.
Also, when I go to delete the NuevaSync account in General/Mail, it still crashes.
Suggests on how to remove this account from my iPhone?
September 22nd, 2008 4:52 pm
Signed up and it works fine — although I have only used it for five minutes. Yes, providing my username and password made me VERY nervous but I was desperate enough for this functionality that I did it anyway.
September 22nd, 2008 5:42 pm
Thanks so much..this is exactly what I’ve been looking for since I goy my iPod touch 2 weeks ago…Amazing!
September 26th, 2008 3:52 am
I just signed up and am loving it! Within seconds I had all my Google Calendar events in the iPhone calendar app perfectly. I’ve been asking around for weeks trying to find out how I could do this, and now in a minute I’ve signed up and had all my events on the phone. I’m loving it!
September 27th, 2008 3:05 pm
Thank You!!!! This works great!!!!
September 27th, 2008 7:51 pm
hi. should i have held off with the sync because i have 2.1? now my gcal completely replaced the iphone calendar…which is a big prob.
any suggestions?
thanks!
September 28th, 2008 2:49 pm
I just want to be clear, this service syncs both calendar and contacts?
September 28th, 2008 8:27 pm
I am pretty computer illiterate, but this worked flawlessly. I can’t believe I got it on the first try! Thank you so, so much for this. You rock!
September 30th, 2008 1:52 pm
This rocks - thanks dude
September 30th, 2008 2:15 pm
> All not a problem
- I havent had any issues so far and it has been peace with me so far
October 2nd, 2008 1:21 am
I have exactly the same problem as Tony. Syncing has stopped working recently and just crashes every time i try to use it. Also cannot remove. I’m not convinced it’s due to the 2.1 upgrade, as I did have it working for quite some time with 2.1. I managed to get it working by using the following steps, which don’t really make sense but worked.
1. Logged into the neuvasync account on their website and disabled the syncing of my calendar. Thus leaving nothing to be synced.
2. Then on my iphone I went to settings->Mail,Contacts,Calendars->Account for the calendar->Account Info. I then changed my username to something that would fail authentication, ie I put the letter ‘x’ on the end. I then navigated back to the main menu, which saves the settings.
3. I opened the calendar app on my iphone and everything was responsive again. The calendar was blank. A pop up appeared asking me for the password for the email account associated with this calendar so I entered it (not sure if this step is necessary). I then exited calendar.
4. Went back to the Neuvasync website and edited my account to enable the syncing of the calendar again.
5. I then went back to settings->Mail,Contacts,Calendars->Account for the calendar->Account Info and fixed up my account name by removing the ‘x’. Navigated back to the main menu as before.
6. Opened the calendar on the iPhone and kicked off a sync. The calendar downloaded form my google account and everything worked responsively again and I created a test appointment which synced on the server.
So, this long winded process happened to fix my account as I couldn’t remove it before. I’m not sure whether all these steps are necessary but this is exactly what I did to get it working again after it had stopped functioning correctly.
October 2nd, 2008 4:30 am
This is a great app! my other app that I use to sync my contacts says that it couldn’t sync my calendar because of something to do with apple so it’s great to find this. But the question that many have been asking has not been answered yet? How do you control WHEN you sync? I’ve noticed it updates as soon as I make an entry through the iphone but I dont want it to do this I want to control when it syncs. Please could someone answer this soon.
October 2nd, 2008 4:32 am
DJ, I second that!!! please somebody healp with that
October 7th, 2008 10:02 pm
> DJ/kitus
I do not know if there is a sync flow option. I know when I post something in any of my three areas (PC, iphone, online) it syncs pretty well. I might also assume when you click on calendar it syncs or even when it uses push email it syncs. since it would be part of the push email options
October 8th, 2008 6:13 pm
Thank you so much. I have local calendar on Outlook (not an exchange server) which is sync’ed with my google calendar thru google’s utility. ANd now my iphone is synced with my consolidated google and outlook view. PERFECT.
Thanks for the tip. very useful
October 8th, 2008 8:47 pm
Worked like a charm, now I can see my google calendar in Iphone
Thanks a million for your help and it took just few minutes to do it.
October 12th, 2008 5:04 am
Fantastic! This ludite wishes all technology could be this simple!
Cheers!
October 19th, 2008 5:28 am
Thank, to you and to nuevasync !
Merci beaucoup à vous
et aux concepteurs du site nuevasync !
Is it a mistake of apple for the imobile ?
Does apple want to do this,
with mobile me ?
Cheers !
October 23rd, 2008 4:19 pm
I just did this process…it works but I cannot see my specific events according to their related folder names or colors. Everything is in blue…can someone please help fix?
October 24th, 2008 3:05 am
Nicki, I’m after that info as well. If you ever figure out that one, could you please let me/us know?
thanks
October 29th, 2008 12:38 pm
Great article!
is it possible to sync to two different google calendars ?
thanks!
October 29th, 2008 1:02 pm
Hello Nicki and Marc,
Synchronizing with multiple calendars in Outlook works almost fine (each calendar has its own color, but not the same desktop color), so I think this is something that NuevaSync has to implement on their end, map each Google calendar separately in the iPhone.
October 30th, 2008 7:32 am
Uber uber uber!!!
Set it up within minutes and works great. At last I can do something useful with my IPhone calender….
Thanks for the great service!!!
October 30th, 2008 1:39 pm
> peter
right now I think iphone only allows 1 exchange acct - so it will only allow you 1 calendar - let me know if I am wrong
October 30th, 2008 5:00 pm
So, this sounds great and I’d like to try it. Still, just with respect to the password worries above - I didn’t really understand the cookie answer.
How do neuva make their money?
November 5th, 2008 6:41 pm
Well seriously guys… For windows just download google’s microsoft outlook-google cal and vis versa sync program… Then just sync your ipod touch or iphone in itunes to outlook… Works well, works fast, most importantly works reliably… and guess what? Its free.
Download here: http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.e xe
November 5th, 2008 7:20 pm
THANKS!!! This rocks! I was worried about checking google calendar in the small and slow safari window but you fixed it all! the iphone’s functionality has just doubled!
November 10th, 2008 6:56 pm
Can I just thanks to tortise. After using Nuevasync fine for days my calendar ap kept freezing and wouldn’t let me do anything. It was really frustrating. I followed tortose’s fix word for word and I have all my google calendar data back on my ipod touch and alls well again. Thanks
November 11th, 2008 4:20 pm
Thank you!
I just found your post and followed your instructions. For the first time since I bought my Iphone, a year ago, I can make use of the calendar. Yeah!
Thank you!
November 12th, 2008 5:50 pm
Um…. Not to be an apple hater (I LOVE my iphone 3g). But in reading all these posts… why don’t you just create a shortcut to http://calendar.google.com on your iphone desktop? Calendars iphone implementation is terrific. Then you get instant 2 way auto sync.
I at first thought using the iphone’s calendar would be “cool” (hence the google search), but now I don’t see the point. And what if “neuvasync” goes out of business or steals your identity?
November 17th, 2008 4:36 pm
Doesn’t work for me. I already have a Microsoft Exchange account set up on the iPod (Touch) to get my work email, calendar etc. I’d hoped to add this to sync with google calendar as well. However I am unable to set up a separate Microsoft Exchange account on the iPod, as it says only one account can be set up. Thus I can’t set up an account to talk to the neuvasync server.
Am I missing something?
November 17th, 2008 6:33 pm
I finally figured out how to control WHEN… first you need to jailbreak your iphone, install the application bosspref so you can access netwokr configuration. By means of this application simply disable 3g and edge, turn push data to on… now your calendar will get synced everytime you reach a “reliable” wifi network. Yours flawlessly!!!
regards,
Marc
November 18th, 2008 2:34 pm
Hi, Ian!
First, let me thank you for this great info about synching iphone calendar with Google calendar through Nuevasync.
My problem is that I did this synching through nuevasync before we changed time (daylight savings-fall back, I’m in New Jersey). I’m not really sure if it started after the change in time, but I noticed that whatever appointment I input through my Iphone 3G (for example, 9AM), it is always reflected in the Google calendar as 1 hour earlier(8AM). On the other hand, if I input the appointment directly to Google calendar (for example 10AM), it will show up in my Iphone an hour later (11AM). It was not like this for a few months after I signed-up. It’s only the switching (fall-back) of time for daylight-savings that I can think of as possible reason. My default time in Google Calendar is set at Eastern Standard Time.
I’d really appreciate any help I can get! Thanks a lot!
November 18th, 2008 5:36 pm
I tried following tortise’s instructions after my sync with neuvasync quit working again. As soon as I try and change my username in the Settings the iPod freezes.
I’m still stuck with a non-responsive Calendar app. Worked fine until I went to 2.1.
November 18th, 2008 7:42 pm
Hi,
Thanks for that. After syncing my iphone with google calendar using Nuevasync, everything worked fine. After a 3-4 days, whenever I click on iphone Calendar it shows my ‘Today’s tasks. However I cannot navigate the calendar, I cannot add a new task in my iphone, I cannot delete an exisiting event.. It just freezes. Occasionally it allows me to navigate ONCE to either see the next day’s or previous days events.
Can someone help me out with this issue.. Thanks for any help
-
San
November 21st, 2008 3:44 pm
works great. it only deleted my events on the iphone, but syncs perfectly… thanks dude.
November 22nd, 2008 7:51 am
It works like a charm, just hate to give my contact info and other details at unknown website, I wish google created this app as they have done it for Blackberry
November 25th, 2008 1:42 pm
Love it, works great and sync was easy and painless.
ONly problem is a big one, I now have now control of my phone capabilities.
When I access my phone from the iphone it crashes.
If I dial out using my contacts, I have no access to my dialer so I can’t hang up or dial out.
I have changed my iphone into an itouch.
Please help
November 26th, 2008 12:28 pm
Hi
can anybody say sonmething about the influence to the battery life and the amount of traffic, to use sync with a google calendar.
cu
mitze
November 26th, 2008 6:26 pm
to sync iphone to google calendar without giving nuevasync your password.
i, open another gmail account and new calendar.
ii. share your new calendar in the new account with your normal account
iii. use your new account to sign up on nuevasync.
iv. follow the other instructions.
v. voila!
hope that is helpful for those concerned with privacy
November 27th, 2008 8:06 am
Is there anyway I can prevent Gmail’s “Suggested Contacts” from being synced??!!!
November 30th, 2008 11:30 pm
Thanks a lot. I already have my Ipod Touch 2.2 sync with Google Calendar.
It’s very simple. In only 10 minutes i made it.
Good luck!