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Sync Google Calendar With Your Phone

October 15th, 2006 (6:40pm) Om Malik 45 Comments

I just found this cool open source application which allows you to synchronize your Google Calendar and your mobile phone. It works for most phones including Blackberry, though I guess its best served on Symbian (considering the source.) I plan to test it out later today and get back to you with more information. You can download it from a WAP browser as well if you go to wap.gcalsync.com.

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scott says: October 15th, 2006 8:00pm

> I guess its best served on Symbian

It’s a Java application so it probably doesn’t matter what operating system your device is running. The word is that JME (Java Mobile Edition) itself will be open sourced before the end of the year.

Om Malik says: October 15th, 2006 9:54pm

That would be seriously hot… lot of cool new developments. I just tried the service… doesn’t work too well with Blackberry (NOT WORKING) but got it working on an old Nokia phone in a matter of seconds.

Krish says: October 15th, 2006 11:57pm

I just tried in my old Blackberry 6230. I got some java run time error. I gave up.

Om Malik says: October 16th, 2006 12:13am

Blackberry is very stringent on security settings and access to applications and as a result it is having the problems. I tried with old phones - works nicely, though the UI just simply blows. Wish some of these open source projects paid some attention to the GUI and stuff.

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Klaus Nielsen says: October 16th, 2006 2:44am

It’s not working 100% on all phones.. You can read the Google Group for Gcalsync here: http://groups.google.com/group/gcalsync

Kris says: October 16th, 2006 2:50am

And with gsmcal2html, you can export the calendar from your mobile to a html page!

chill says: October 16th, 2006 3:03am

the download page does not work, check it out, http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173106

olli says: October 16th, 2006 3:06am

Unfortunately it requires certain extensions to the J2ME to be supported by your phone - specifically the Java API to access the calendar stuff - it doesn’t work for my C550 for example (however it works fine on a C600).

Tobeon says: October 16th, 2006 3:29am

gcalsyn unable to verify digital signature on my SPV5 C550
but I guess as OLLI just said above it doesn’t work on his C550 either I am just going to go have to sulk and wait around till I either get a new phone (march) or someone releases one that works with my phone (I am far to lazy/stupid to make one myself!)

james says: October 16th, 2006 5:23am

tried on unlocked cingular 8125 - both signed/unsigned gave “unable to verify signature” and couldn’t install :-(

Chris G says: October 16th, 2006 7:03am

Just came across some details that said you might want to remove and replace your Blackberry battery after you download the app. That could be why its not working Om.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=709575

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Sync Google Calendar With Your Phone

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xamox says: October 16th, 2006 10:29am

Yeah there are no files to download for me as well. I would really love to have this work for my phone.

Om Malik says: October 16th, 2006 10:35am

Guys, did you try the unsigned version of the software? You need to install, power down and restart the phone. also, i have only got this working on Nokia phones - 6680, N71 and Nokia N73. Not working on 8801 and often enough on the E61. (Cingular E62 it does not work.)

Brian says: October 16th, 2006 10:36am

download link isn’t working…whats up with that.

Om Malik says: October 16th, 2006 10:37am

here is the link for unsigned version link

here is a link for the signed version. link

My advise is use http://wap.gcalsync.com

the developer’s site is http://www.gcalsync.com

David says: October 16th, 2006 12:37pm

your link to the unsigned version is text rather than a link…

ohad p says: October 17th, 2006 12:32am

syncing google-calendar, or any other web-calendar out there with mobile phones is an important niche overlooked by phone makers.

nokia has a suite for syncing with outlook which i bet covers up some of the users out there, but its sad to see that a company investing so much in their pc suite fails to spot the importance of open standard sync…

gcalsync is nice, but not far from perfect.

this niche is still open up for smart players

EirePreneur says: October 17th, 2006 3:35am

Google is my Microsoft

First we had Google Calendar SMS alerts and now we have Google Calendar sync with phone. Admittedly I did have to play around with the settings to get it working satisfactorily on my Nokia 6630 but once I changed the

engtech says: October 17th, 2006 10:46am

Have you seen the Holy Grail of Synchronization? Complicated, but it works. I use it for synching my Outlook/Google Calendar to my phone/iPod without using GPRS data transfers.

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Don Law says: October 19th, 2006 11:35am

I find it easier to use Spongecell and communicate with my calendar via SMS than to try to sync it to my phones.

Ken Yarmosh says: October 19th, 2006 9:35pm

I’ve been using GCal Sync with my phone (Nokia E61) for about a month. It’s a must have There were some recent updates that supposedly fixed some timezone issues but I haven’t gotten the chance to download the new software.

I actually use about four different Google Calendars I created for the different parts of my life. But in order to have all events sync up on my phone, I just copy them over to the main calendar and then hide them on an individual basis.

It’s a great tool and makes my phone a ‘go to’ source for all appointments and meetings.

Mario says: October 20th, 2006 1:03am

Sadly, my LG VX9000 appears to be useless. Damn Verizon. I just get to see the program code rather than given even an opportunity to install.

-R

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Klaus Nielsen says: November 5th, 2006 3:16pm

While the GcalSync app is great.. but not fully working, I might suggest using the phones native SyncML with . The site looks a bit shady, but it plain simply WORKS. They send you a sms with the sync settings for your phone and thats it.. SyncML (now called OMA DS) also works with many other applications such as Outlook and Mozilla Calendar (with a connector). So you should be able to sync Google Calendar with a LOT of apps.

Klaus Nielsen says: November 5th, 2006 3:18pm

Great.. Sorry for the unfortunate use of html in my previous comment.

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I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.

Yatin Saraiya says: May 22nd, 2007 7:06am

You can also sync directly over the air with Google Calendar using this software: http://www.saraiya.com

Melissa Clark says: October 2nd, 2007 8:53pm

Has anyone used the saraiya app on a blackberry? Hiow did it go?

Claudia says: October 14th, 2007 11:10pm

Yes, I’ve been using the saraya app for a couple of months and it’s working more or less - meaning the bugs are not really fixed, so it’s a pain really. Can’t wait for something else! Help!

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BB Junkie says: February 26th, 2008 11:21am

Google sync looked like my solution. My enterprise uses NotifyLink which is a complete disaster as a synching product to Groupwise. I synched to Outlook, exported my calendar as a csv file to get all my current entries into Google calendar. Loaded Google sync to my ATT 8800, I was a pig is S _ _ _.

Then… I realized that not all the entries that I was creating were synching. I gave my secretary full editing permission to my calendar (and asked her to keep a record of all changes while I test the syncing.) The initial tests passes. When we moved to “production”, I saw that some appointments that were created on Google calendar never synched to my BBerry, and some from my BBerry would appear on the calendar and then vanish from my BBerry.

Oh well, Sync needs to go back to Google labs. it’s not ripe yet…

John Turnpike says: February 26th, 2008 5:04pm

Claiming that NotifyLink is a “complete disaster” is like yelling to the world that you don’t understand technology! NotifyLink works better than GroupWise mobile server.

You should call for tech support rather than make slanderous comments dude!

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