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<title>Loosing Data With Google iPhone Contact Sync</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x2019;s what I did:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;backed up my Google contacts by exporting &lt;b&gt;google.csv&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;backed up my Address Book using the menu creating &lt;b&gt;Address Book - 24.09.09.abbu&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;exported my Address Book by exporting &lt;b&gt;vCards.vcf&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;uploaded the vCards.vcf file to Gmail; 700+ contacts were uploaded, 400+ were merged&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I had already set up syncronization for email and calendars on my iPhone; I switched on syncronization for contacts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I said it should delete existing contacts on the iPhone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I said I was sure&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I waited for a while&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I looked at the Mail app on my iPhone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I looked at the Contacts app on my iPhone; it looked ok&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I looked at the Contacts on Gmail; it looked ok&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Problems I am noticing right now:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;any &lt;b&gt;notes&lt;/b&gt; I had for my contacts were not part of the &lt;b&gt;vCards.vcf&lt;/b&gt; file, were not uploaded to Gmail, and are therefore lost on the iPhone &lt;strong&gt;#fail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;some records were marked as companies in my address book; this information is also lost in Gmail (but not too important); bummer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;some records were not merged correctly (I now have two records for my wife, for example); I assume that&amp;#x2019;s because they did not share an email address, so I can understand it&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I wanted to try a three way sync so I switched on &amp;#x201c;Sync Address Book contacts&amp;#x201d; in my iPhone again – I did not quite understand what &amp;#x201c;Your contacts are being synced with Microsoft Exchange over the air. Your contacts will also sync directly with this computer.&amp;#x201d; – does that mean that the three way sync is the default?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;strangely enough, syncing my iPhone now claims that the photos on the phone are linked to a different folder and syncing them now would delete all images and replace them with new photos; is this a side effect or unrelated? – I verified the settings (&amp;#x201c;Sync photos from: iPhoto) and said that this is what I wanted – and it promptly started to sync the 4.5G of photos, again; &lt;strong&gt;#fail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;once the 4.5G of photos are synced (needlessly), I discover that all my contacts on the iPhone have been duplicated; apprently &lt;strong&gt;a three way sync between iPhone, Address Book, and Gmail is impossible&lt;/strong&gt; (I&amp;#x2019;m using Mac OS 10.4)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I decided to not sync with my Address Book, removed the &amp;#x201c;Sync Address Book contacts&amp;#x201d; check in iTunes and will keep Gmail and the iPhone in sync &amp;#x2013; email addresses and phone numbers are important; Address Book is only necessary when I use Mail.app on the desktop, which I practically never do&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I went back to the Settings app on the iPhone, switched off Contacts sync (deleting some of the contacts), switched it on again (deleting the rest of the contacts) (and confirming it)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I found some entries had &amp;#x201c;lost&amp;#x201d; their phone numbers: it turns out that numbers in the format +41786125175 are not (or no longer?) shown on the iPhone. Number in the format 078 612 51 75 are shown as expected. &lt;strong&gt;#fail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When I added the missing info from my wife&amp;#x2019;s mobile phone to my contacts on the iPhone all contacts disappeared. The phone then reloaded them from the server. Since I have 700+ contacts it takes quite some time. For every record edited. With wifi. I fear the next edit.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel weird using the &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server"&gt;Microsoft Exchange Server&lt;/a&gt; protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Google"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Google"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=iPhone"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/iPhone"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Sync"&gt;Sync&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Sync"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Web"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Das neue iSync versteht unser Nokia 6230i</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;At last! We now have software to sync our mobile phones with a computer. &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Claudia"&gt;Claudia&lt;/a&gt; and I each own a Nokia 6230i. Well, she does starting today. Her phone is new, and we had to get data off the old phone onto the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Nokia 6230i phone does Bluetooth, but the iSync software on OS X 10.3 (&amp;#x201c;Panther&amp;#x201d;) was not able to sync contacts with it. Only a simple file transfer was possible. Or I was just too stupid to set it up. But it works with OS X 10.4 (&amp;#x201c;Tiger&amp;#x201d;) as we discovered yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claudia&amp;#x2019;s addressbook is based upon a very old &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/"&gt;BBDB&lt;/a&gt; file we used to share many years back when both of us used &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?Gnus"&gt;Gnus&lt;/a&gt; to read mail. It contained about 800-900 contacts. Her old phone had  contained 200-300 contacts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The old phone is a Nokia 6610i without Bluetooth. What to do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I copied all her contacts on the old phone to the SIM card. This copied several dozen numbers but still left many on the phone itself. Transferd SIM card and moved the contacts from the SIM onto the new phone. Ran iSync just to check. Seems to work! (Although it did take quite some time!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moved SIM card back to the old phone. Damn! In the first step, I had copied instead of moving! This time, I moved several dozen numbers from the phone to the SIM, transfered SIM and moved them onto the new phone. Transfer stopped after a while. I figured those were the duplicates that it would not transfer and decided to delete the contacts remaining on the SIM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Big mistake! I discovered that the new phone&amp;#x2019;s memory was full. I had called iSync and synchronized all contacts &amp;#x2013; over a thousand by now. It seems that the phone cannot handle more than 1000 contacts. Talk about arbitrary limits. Bastards!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had obviously deleted a few dozen contacts from the SIM that had no room on the phone. Argh! Perhaps I was lucky and those had been copied in the first run? We still don&amp;#x2019;t know whether we lost anybody important.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that iSync has an option to limit synchronization to contacts having a phone number. Very handy, because most of the old and useless contacts from our BBDB times only have Email addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But now I had it figured out. Take the SIM, move contacts from the old phone to the SIM, transfer SIM, move contacts from the SIM to the new phone. Repeat. Then sync. Worked!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claudia&amp;#x2019;s addressbook has around 1130 contacts, now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=nokia"&gt;nokia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=phone"&gt;phone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=sync"&gt;sync&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=mac"&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=software"&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=bluetooth"&gt;bluetooth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:50:17 GMT</pubDate>
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