How to Sync a Blackberry With Google Calendar
Juggling calendars can be not only confusing but embarrassing--if you miss an appointment because you forgot to transcribe it. While it's convenient to have your Google Calendar available on your desktop computer, if you're not always in your office, it's important to make sure the information is transferred to your BlackBerry device, too. With Google Sync, you can share information between calendars. The program can even be set to automatically sync, so if the location of a meeting changes, you'll know it. Installation and setup are very simple.
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Instructions
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Download and Install Google Sync
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Download and install the necessary software. In order to sync your BlackBerry device with your Google Calendar, you'll first need to have the synchronization software installed. Navigate your BlackBerry browser to http://m.google.com/sync and click on the "Download" link.
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Use the menu button on your BlackBerry and choose "Get Link" to access the download page. Click "Download."
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Wait while the program installs. When it finishes, locate the Google Sync icon on the screen. Click on it and fill in the login information for your Google account, including the associated email address and the correct password.
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Sign in to Google Sync by clicking the "Login" button.
Sync Information
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Click the "Sync Now" button on the Welcome screen to begin sharing your calendar information.
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Check to see when you last synchronized your calendars via the Status screen. This is the default screen for Google Sync. It provides you with the time of the last sync and shows you what changes were made to your calendar.
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Opt to sync your calendars automatically or manually. From the Status screen, navigate to the Options menu. Choose "Automatic" if you want Google Sync to check for and update new information every few hours. Choose "Manual" if you only want the calendar to sync when you use the "Sync Now" option.
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Set a time frame for event synchronization in the "Sync Period" menu. You can sync up to 6 months ahead of time.
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Decide how to handle information conflicts that occur when you've changed the same event on your BlackBerry device and on your Google Calendar between synchronizations. You can change your specifications to always defer to one calendar or the other.
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Tips & Warnings
If you have more than one Google calendar that you want to sync, you'll need to add each calendar in the Options menu.
Any changes you make on your BlackBerry will show up on your Google Calendar within minutes.
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Comments
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I can only get it to sync my contacts, which is the one thing I really don't care about - and it just duplicated them all. Not one thing came over from my calendar - the only thing I care about. The whole purpose of my wanting Google calendar on my blackberry, and it doesn't work. Then I try starting over and the whole thing just freezes. I didn't Google this page to have an explanation straight out of the directions on my blackberry (the same directions that haven't worked for me). I want to know what to do when it doesn't work. Anybody?
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lvhealey
Jan 08, 2011
I have successfully imported calendar events from my new igoogle calendar to my blackberry. But I want to import calendar events FROM my blackberry TO my new igoogle calendar. How do I do that? -
sebastianro
Jul 22, 2010
Alternatively (and when you only use the browser / or only use Wifi), you could also have a small program parsing Google's iCal feed and returning HTML for the BB browser. I did that and it works really well...
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ml09
Jun 29, 2009
How do you sync between Google Calendar and BlackBerry with only WiFi, which is free of charge.
