Googol Sync for iPhone Beta is Go!

Hmmm, well it seems my google apps for domains login doesn't work on that site, meaning that I can only sync one calendar - which IS useless. :-(
 
Sweet mother of lord that worked. Thanks very much! Just to try and attempt clear my 'non-googling' name a little I did hunt around the google help pages before settling on the fact that it wasn't possible.

Works brilliantly too!
 
What happens if I try to sync more than 5 calendars? Do i just get calendars using the same colour like I do when syncing with iCal?
 
Ooh. Might have to dabble in this. Currently have to plug in to sync with iCal, which can now work with Google Calendars properly, but this may be even easier.

Push e-mail would be lovely soon though.
 
For those using Push tech, have you noticed dramatically worse battery life? Since enabling gogol sync it is common for me to have to charge my 3G twice a day. I only charged mine 3hrs ago to the max and its already sitting at 35%....

I knew Push would decrease battery life, but not this rapidly. Got no apps running in the background via the background app either - just the standard phone and mail as usual.
 
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For those using Push tech, have you noticed dramatically worse battery life? Since enabling gogol sync it is common for me to have to charge my 3G twice a day. I only charged mine 3hrs ago to the max and its already sitting at 35%....

I knew Push would decrease battery life, but not this rapidly. Got no apps running in the background via the background app either - just the standard phone and mail as usual.
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I have yet to find out myself (Only switched on Push last night and have had it plugged in all day at work) but at lunch my mate said he enabled it and found it ran his battery down majorly so switched it off in favour of 30 minute fetches.
 
Went to bed at 11:30pm last night and woke up at 5am earlier. The phone was down to 60% from a full charge. That is way too drastic. At this rate I'll be switching off push altogether and syncing contacts/calendars via outlook again.

I'll monitor battery at work today now that I've re-charged it to max again.
 
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Went to bed at 11:30pm last night and woke up at 5am earlier. The phone was down to 60% from a full charge. That is way too drastic. At this rate I'll be switching off push altogether and syncing contacts/calendars via outlook again.

I'll monitor battery at work today now that I've re-charged it to max again.
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I use MobileMe and don't notice anything like that.
 
I switched Push off an hour ago after noticing the battery dropping rapidly at work through the day.

I was just told by a friend that if I switched it off and reverted to fetches, then upon launching the Contacts or Calendar app, the data would be grabbed off their servers and he was pretty much correct so I'm Ok now. So still using gogol cal/contacts but via Fetch instead.
 
Theoretically I guess, push should save you battery life compared to fetching if you make less changes to your contacts / calendar than the number of fetches in a day.

If you think about it, if you set it to 15 minute fetch. It'll check your contacts / calendar 4 x per hour x 24 = 96 times a day, whether there are any updates or not.

With push it'll only update whenever a change is made. If that's none in the day or less than 96, then I'd assume it'll save you a fair amount of battery life.

I'd assume the reason people are experiencing lower battery life with push turned on is that you've still got Gmail fetching every 15 minutes (as it doesn't support push on the iPhone) and you're playing around with contacts / calendar a lot (partly with it being new and to see how well it works) which is forcing a lot of push updates. Between the two that'll drain your battery life quite quickly. (Remember every minor calendar / contact change will normally trigger a separate update). When they bring out push Gmail for the iPhone, which I assume they will soon enough, that should go someway to helping.
 
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Well I had figured that already and therefore I hadn't been messing around with Contacts or Calendar since that data was complete and required no editing. Gogolmail was set at 15min fetches though. I'll be spending a fair amount of time today reading about Apples Push implementation because iirc it works differently from MS's version.
 
just got this installed

got the contacts syncing fine, but calender is not working.

i enter a test entry on my iphone, i save it, it flashes twice and dissappears!

also i have entered a test entry on my google calender (on pc), but doesnt appear on the phone.

any ideas?
 
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