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How To: Sync Your Mobile Contacts With Your Google Account For Free

By - Vaibhav Sharma On 10 February 2009 18 Comments

I’ll keep the introduction on this one short. All us want to be able to sync out Gmail contacts to our S60 devices and not pay for it, this post will tell you how exactly to go about doing that without requiring to install any application. I’ve successfully used Google Mobile Sync on the Nokia N96, a FP2 device as well, but for the purpose of this tutorial I will be demonstrating the setup on an E71 which runs FP1.

Make sure you backup your contacts, both on the phone and in Gmail.
Navigate to and open the Sync application.
From the Options menu select ‘New sync profile’

Sync application

Choose any name you like for ‘Sync profile name’

Sync profile name

Select and click ‘Applications’, you will see a list of all content types that your phone can synchronize; however, currently Google Sync only supports Contacts.

Select and click ‘Contacts’
- Make sure the ‘Include in Sync’ option is set to ‘Yes’
- Define the ‘Remote Database’ option as ‘contacts’. It needs to be spelled exactly like this (lower case), or Google Sync will not work.
- Click ‘Back’ to exit this screen and save your settings
- Ensure that only Contacts have ‘Settings defined’ and all other content types say ‘Sett. not defined’

Click ‘Back’ to exit this screen and save your settings

Select and click ‘Connection Settings’

Enter the following values:
- Server version: 1.2
- Server ID: Google (capital ‘G’ is important)
- Data bearer: Internet
- Access point: the Internet access point for your carrier.
- Host address: https://m.google.com/syncml (Important to enter https for a secure connection)
- Port: 443
- User name: your Google Account username, e.g. vaibhav@gmail.com
- Password: your Google password.
- Leave other values unchanged.

Click ‘Back’ to exit this screen and save your settings

Click ‘Back’ again to exit the Sync profile settings

Highlight the your Sync profile and select ‘Synchronize’ from the ‘Options’ menu to synchronize your contacts with Google.

Note: On FP2 devices like the N96 & N85, the settings are similar and the only difference is in the order in which they are displayed. Also, Google currently only supports both way syncs, irrespective of the device in use.

Thanks Anuj!

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18 Comments »

Adil said:

Hi Vaibhav,

I had some questions before i dived in to this?

1. What contact groups are synced up?
2. What happens to the contacts on the phone?
3. Will sync with outlook still work?

Thanks,

~Adil.

# 10 February 2009 at 7:16 am

Alsiladka said:

The official google syng website on the N85 browser says the device is not supported! How idiotic, i don’t understand why do the companies come out with new stuff today without the support for FP2 phones!

BTW, sync is also supposed to support calendar syncing, anyway to get that too?

# 10 February 2009 at 7:31 am

Markus said:

You can sync your calendar aswell even if google is not mentoining it
checkout my blog entry from yesterday

Quite useful hack!

# 10 February 2009 at 2:32 pm

rishminder said:

it supports only 2 war sync

why did google do so

# 10 February 2009 at 7:41 pm

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# 10 February 2009 at 8:05 pm

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# 11 February 2009 at 6:06 am

Brian Doherty said:

I tried this on my E71. Worked OK, but only synced 500 out of my 800+ contacts! Not useful. This is a pain, because I’m a paying goosync customer but I found their contact sync too buggy to use. Ovi sync works quickly and reliably; too bad it doesn’t really do anything for me … Still waiting, I guess.

# 11 February 2009 at 8:33 am

Top entrepreneur said:

thanks for the guides and articles

# 12 February 2009 at 12:30 am

jorel314 said:

I found a great syncing solution that does contacts, calendar, and email at the following link.

http://www.seven.com

Click “Try Seven” then choose your device. You can install over the air.

In their forum at:
http://community.seven.com/forum/index.php?forum=true

there’s a FAQ that has “How long can I use this beta version/when does it expire?”

The answer is “There is an expiration date built in, but for this beta program, we’ve set it for 10 years from the date of installation. So for practical purposes, the beta will be usable until we either shut it down or decide to migrate to something else for business reasons. ”

I find that this has been the best calendar/contacts/email solution for my N85 at least until Google has official calendar sync support for symbian.

# 12 February 2009 at 7:58 am

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# 14 February 2009 at 2:19 pm

Maria said:

Great post! I was searching for sync apps for my smart phone, this post helps me, I was reading on Yahoo Biz News that Vopium has launched Vopium Sync Application, I think we should also try this, what you say?

# 17 February 2009 at 4:02 pm

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# 22 February 2009 at 5:16 pm