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Sync Google Calendar with iPhone 3G

By Ian, August 5, 2008

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.

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307 Comments

Anant

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
Donavan

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
mitzekotze

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
Moime

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
kitus

Is there anyway I can prevent Gmail’s “Suggested Contacts” from being synced??!!!
David

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!
http://www.ayushsaran.com Ayush Saran

This worked great, thanks!
Jackodn

Simple and easy and is working nicely. Thanks so much Ian.
Charley

Very simple and easy to follow. THANKYOU
Edward

I signed up and everything appears to be working, however my iPhone hasn’t yet contacted nuevasync to sync. Any thoughts?

P.S.
Edward

nevermind, it turns out i just wasnt getting a strong enough signal
Viper-sg2

nice, everything is working nicely. THX
http://kedare.alwaysdata.net Kedare

All work fine i can sync my contacts and my calendars !
Ian

I’m interested to find out why everyone is going to great lengths to sync with google calendar? Is ‘mobileme’ not an option?
Bo

Tried to sync calendars with GooSync, but it tells me that Apple does not allow 3rd parties to sync their Agenda. Felt disappointed, but then I found Nuevasync, and it works perfectly so far. I don’t understand what the difference is between these applications in respect to Apples sync policy?
http://www.retouch.dk Mickey Binder

@Bo:

The difference here is that the iPhone connects to what it thinks is an Exchange Service, and the Exchange client is built into the iPhone. Hence it’s not a 3rd party app (Like gooSync or syncML) and the app is therefore having no problems in accessing the calendar. Actually a pretty smart workaround :O)

/Mickey
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Thijzo

Thanks! Works perfect, both ways!
km

works great! thanks so much for the great tutorial! happy holidays
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rtd

I’ve just followed the instructions and it all seems to work.

Thank you very much for this.
kitus

anybody else experiencig minor discrepances between the attributes in iPhone and gmail? The attribute address from gmail is not coherently transferred to the iPhone… As a matter of fact, eventhough gmail does transfer information to the phone, if you click on the address transferred to it, the native google maps application won’t be able to find the address unless it is on the States.

I guess the field info doesn’t match and the iPhone solves it by setting the non existing info to a certain default, that is the States.

This also happens with multiple phones on a single contact. If a contact has several work phones, mobile, etc, the transferred contact gets messy.

Somebody help please

/kitus
kitus

One last thing: anyway I can decide which groups have to be synced? Nuevasync already sorted out the annoying sync of SUGGESTED CONTACTS which is great but I would really like the flexibility of deciding what should be synced and shouldn’t.

For thoso who wanted to control WHEN the sync process has to take place, have a look at the tool Bosspref.

Regards

/kitus
http://www.ianfernando.com Ian

> kitus
you can not have a specific group to be synced
cqxie

When the instruction says there is a new field, this is not a new window. This is the field just under the top line where the label now says “Server.” That’s where you should put in the http://www.nuevasync.com address. I made the mistake of thinking there was a new window, so kept pressing Next (which is disabled at this point).

7 Tap “Next”.
8 When it has finished, it will display a new field, “Server”. Enter “www.nuevasync.com” as the value.
m0nster

is there a way to force either nuevasync or the iphone to sync past months? i had to replace my iphone and upon syncing my calendar, i have been unable to retrieve events from previous months, which i need to keep track of.

thanks!
http://cleverzebra.com Nick W

Thanks for this post Ian!
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kitus

Ian, some additional information to your response of the 26 December… with nuevasync you can’t indeed decide which groups are to be synced. As this was something quite relevant to me, I spent a couple of hours browsing around and finally came across this new application from which I didn’t manage to find any feedback so far…

http://www.syncinablink.com/

Additionally, I also noticed that this company has realeased a sort of syncing for bookmarks which was something I’ve long been after

http://www.syncinablink.com/LinksInABlink.aspx

For many of you this might be the bone of contention: They are not for free but hey, when it comes to this kind of information I’m pretty much happy to have somebody to blame

regards,

Marc
roland

Just completed the synch and it works like a charm! I did my iphone and started on a new log in to complete my wife’s iphone. we are both using gmail with calendar and they are working great! THANKS!!!
D

NuevaSync works fine, however public calenders (such as public holiday s) dont show up on my iphone. Anyone know how to fix this?

Importing is a possiblity but then the events wont be current? Ie if its a holiday that moves around (say Good Friday) then will have to import every year, then there will be multiple events…
Kieran

Help!

I am trying to setup the calendar service and i keep getting the message:

Exchange Server verification failed

My details are correct E.g. username etc

email: Myemail@gmail.com
Server: http://www.nuevasync.com
username: my username
password: ****

So is it me getting username etc wrong or has anyone else had this problem
Kieran

Problem solved, i turned the WIFI off and used 3G and it works. Maybe had something to do with the work WIFI i was using.
Dylan

Excellent tip, thanks for the super-clear instructions!
http://squigglethegamer.blogspot.com Squiggle

Somehow this seems to access my gcal without my password – even though my calendars should be set to private.

It works amazingly though, thank you for this post.
Adam

Question I have setup my 3g phone and I have 4 calendars and 2 other calendars but they all sync as one on my iphone. I cannot click on calendars to see multiple. On my wife’s 2g phone I have setup it also and I can choose the calendar and I can click on the calendar button and see them all. Is the 3G different from 2G

thx
http://www.kalfaoglu.com turgut

I did one thing further: I’m a linux user, so I am using Evolution for my calendar. Well, Evolution can sync to Google — soo, I can sync from evolution to my iphone now!! I’m soo pleased!
-t
kitus

I’m a little frustrated… I had tested it a couple of months ago and it had worked but now it doesn’t. Currently, when I create an evant in google calendar it gets synced to my iphone seamlessly but when I create an event on the iphone it won’t update my google calendar. Could somebody please help¿?

thanks
kitus

I have to take it back, I had disabled “Push” and it took a little while… Sorry!!!
amsterdam

Fantastic program, WOW. Just happily cancelled my MobileMe nonsense account and got a refund. NuevaSync synced immediately and perfectly.
MS Outlook on PC at Work, Mac Laptop, iPhone3G, GoogleCal and iCal FINALLY ALL IN SYNC WIRELESSLY!
Thank you so much!
larryjjs

I have tried the calendar sync using nuevasync. I seem to have everything entered properly. i am trying to sync google calendar with an iphone 3g. i keep getting a pop-up error message on the iphone saying password is incorrect. please enter the password for XXX@gmail.com i repeatedly re-enter, but pop-up keeps coming up. so i am stuck at this point with no calendar! PLEASE HELP !
Khalid

Thanks. it works for me:)
Aimee

Thanks this program seems to be working quite fine but the only issue I have is that the color coding for my multiple calendars for my gcal is not the same for my iphone ones. is this just because the iphone doesn’t have a big color selection or that i’m choosing too many similar colors?
Anette

Hi there.
Somebody PLEASE help me…
Just got an I-phone, spent 3 days getting all my meetings and stuff into the calender in the phone (I used to have it all written down in an old fashioned calendar – the paper-kind ).
I really dont dare trusting the I-phone calender, cuz what if I loose it, or it breaks…I would be truly F*****
So I created a g-mail-calendar (Google), that I can also check at my I-phone….Its empty though, since I´ve never used it before.
I installed nueva, just like Ian dscribed, but now it says, that when I do the final instalment, it will erase the calender in the I-phone,WHICH I JUST SPEND A FREAKING WAR MAKING….what do I do? Does it really erase everything??? I dont really wanna use the google-mail, I am just looking for a back up of my iphone-calendar
Please somebody feel my frustration, and help me out here…
Thanx
http://www.ianfernando.com Ian

If you did it on your iphone they maybe erased – but if you did it on google calendar it wont erase it. since all it will do is re sync. so if you have appointments within your iphone like right now, then you may lose those appointments, but on G calendar yu should be fine.
larryjjs

anette–
i feel your frustration. i had been trying to sync microsoft outlook to the iphone 3g. i too just got the iphone 3g, actually had it for a few weeks. after spending countless hours with apple genius’ i gave up. i would make a change in outlook, yet that change would not update in iphone. so i thought i would try the google calendar thing. can’t get that nuevasync thing to work either. i followed all the directions, but it keeps asking for a password that i key in, they say it is wrong. i can just scream! apple says this phone is supposed to be compatible with outlook. it may be some issue with .pst files, but i cannot seems to fix that either. so for now, i am using a google calendar that is synced from outlook, that i print daily. kinda going backwords in time.
Rodriguez

Thankyou, works seamlessly. Now I don’t need to use the itunes bloatware to sync. In fact, I don’t need itunes anymore at all.
HD

Works perfectly – just what I needed – thank you so much
lvlc

You just made my iPhone experience complete… I just got he iPhone 1 month ago and I am still learning about it.

I had one problem though.. I did all the steps and it did sync with my Google Calendar.. but I am missing calendars… I have 11 calendars and it only sync and showed the first 8 ones. Is there something else I can do? Please help!
http://www.smasra.com Money Academy

thank you i think it will work great . need to know more about iphone

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