Friday, June 3, 2011

how to sync all (or part) of your gcal with your ipod/iphone

Hi,
today I was setting up a new shared calendar and I thought to write a small tutorial even for my collegues so to make everything as efficient and smooth as possible. Maybe someone else could be interested so I publish on my blog.
  • of course you need a google account (this does not mean that you need to change your address)
  • To setup the sync with your device, follow these few steps:
    • Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
    • Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select Add Account...
    • Select Other
    • Select Add microsoft exchange Account
    • Enter your account information:  
    •            - In the Email field, enter you gmail address 
    •            - In the Server field, enter m.google.com
    •            - In the Username field, enter your full Google Account email address.
    •            - In the Password field, enter your Google Account password.
    •            - In the Description field, enter the name you'd like to appear on the account. 
    •            - Select Next at the top of your screen.
    • After you've completed setup, open the iPod/iPhone calendar application and syncing will automatically begin.

  • Import the calendar into your gcal account if it's not one your own calendars or ask the creator to invite your gmail accuont.
  • You can now sync all the calendars (well, up to 25 of them) that the single account can see. Simply visit http://m.google.com/sync from your iPod/iPhone to configure which calendars you want to synchronize and that's it.
NOTE You can't sync a work account and a personal account, but if you share the work account's calendar with the personal account, it should be fine.

3 comments:

  1. you can use http://www.busymac.com/ to sync gcal with your ical if you are a mac user.

    (details here: http://michaelkrol.com/2009/01/11/sync-and-share-your-ical-calendar-with-multiple-people-using-busysync-and-google-calendar/)

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  2. the iphone-version 4.3 is not working yet...
    best, Jens

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  3. when you visit http://m.google.com change language in English US and go on sync. It will work!

    Juditta

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