How-To: Get Google Sync working without creating duplicates

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Google Sync is something that has been riddled with problems for many a user, including myself.  For those of you with too little time to mess with it or a lack of problem solving skills, here is a step by step way to make Google Sync work for you.

  1. Backup your phone.
  2. After phone is backed-up, download Google Sync (comes with the Google Mobile App).
  3. Run Google Sync for your contacts and/or calendar.
  4. Go into the Google account that you used sync with, and manually delete all multiple contacts (Or let Google find the duplicates and merge for you.)
  5. Do partial restore of your BlackBerry and only restore contacts.
  6. Voila!  Your BlackBerry will no longer multiply contacts when a sync occurs, and you will no longer have multiple contacts in your ‘Berry.

Now, some may ask why Google Sync is necessary, especially is you regularly backup your BlackBerry.  I personally like Google Sync because it gives me the ability to access my contacts from both my computer and my phone.  I am also able to, if I lose my BlackBerry or decide to go to another device, able to either manually add all my contacts back, or sync to Google Sync and immediately have my contacts restored. We hope this solution works for you, and if you have any horror stories, success stories, or anything of that nature relating to Google Sync, let us know!

2 thoughts on “How-To: Get Google Sync working without creating duplicates”

  1. Useful, but there’s one more bit of Google strangeness that needs to be sorted out – syncing with Google munges your contacts. I don’t think that Google supports anything below the address line, so if you enter a contact, have Google wirelessly sync, and then look at the contact again, you will find that the city, state, and zip info are all crammed onto the end of an address line.

    Yahoo does not seem to have this problem. They seem to accept all fields in the contact.

    Another complicating factor is if you use Verizon’s back-up, which can then go in and overwrite everything. Right now, I have Verizon back-up enabled, but Google disabled.

    I get the impression that the BES experience is significantly better than the carrier supplied BIS experience.

    SBS

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