Comments on: Palm Pre: Troubleshooting NuevaSync / Google Contacts

By: acterry

acterry — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:35:33 +0000

Easiest way that I’ve seen is using the patch mentioned in this article: http://www.precentral.net/how-export-and-move-your-contacts-patch

Now of course, this assumes that you know how to install patches and homebrew apps on your Pre. Here’s a write-up on how to get started: http://www.precentral.net/getting-started-preware

By: msTrowe

msTrowe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:37:24 +0000

I need to get my contacts from my pre to google contacts, any ideas?????

By: Aaron Terry

Aaron Terry — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:31:03 +0000

@Deep. Before I got my Pre, I was already syncing my phone contacts to GMail through NuevaSync. I know a lot of people are doing the separate Google account thing, but I don't want to manage my contacts on a separate google account.

I want access to all my contacts whether I'm using my Pre or google.com apps such Google Voice, Google Calendar, or GMail.

Since Google is now doing Push GMail through their EAS setup, I have considered eliminating NuevaSync and going that route.

By: Deep

Deep — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:01:57 +0000

Why do you do this through Nuevasync? Why not just create a second Google account and export your contacts into that account, then use the new account for contacts, and the old account for email/calendar?____I don't see the difference but maybe I'm missing something?

By: Serge

Serge — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:18:43 +0000

I have the same problem as Susan!!!

By: Aaron Terry

Aaron Terry — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:08:21 +0000

@susan That is strange indeed. The first thing I would do is double check your timezone settings in both Google Calendar and on your Pre. Your Pre should be pulling the time and timezone from the Sprint Network, but if I were you I would verify.

How to check/change the timezone on a Google Calendar:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer...

It's very strange that web-based Google calendar shows one thing when accessed from your PC and another when you use the Pre web browser.

Let me know if you see any weird timezone stuff in your Google Calendar

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:50:07 +0000

Hi Aaron, and thanks for your very useful site! My problem is synching my google calendar to my palm pre. On web-based google accessed from my PC, my appointments appear at the regular time, but on my pre, the appointments all appear 4 hours earlier than they are actually scheduled, When I visit web-based google from my pre (i.e., log onto www.google.com instead of simply going to my calendar on the pre), the appointments there also appear four hours earlier. Any thoughts? Thanks!

By: acterry

acterry — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:29:10 +0000

@Eli I’m glad it was helpful. Thanks for the feedback.

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:57:27 +0000

Thanks so much for this info. It works great; I don’t think I would have used my Google contacts without your help. Thanks again.

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