iPhone/Mac/Gmail/address book etc 2 way contacts sync?

matt100 · 12 Jun 2012 at 17:40

this is doing my head in....

I'm used to outlook syncing my contacts to my phone wirelessly.. every job I've had since smartphones became even a slightly big deal has had some sort of exchange setup where I can sync my emails, calendar and contacts with my phone.

Right now thats and iPhone and there's not much chance of that changing because firstly I like it and secondly I work for a fairly heavily iOS involved company now.

The problem comes with the fact we use Gmail and I have a company Macbook pro and it's set up to use Apple Mail.

I can's see any way to sync my contacts? I have ical synced to my google calendar which I guess is OK, I also have my email on my phone which is great.

How can I get some sort of 2 way sync going with my contacts? I followed an online guide to syncing gmail with contacts which asked me if I wanted to delete everything off my phone which was fine, but thats all it did?

I don't have any more contacts in my Macs address book, nothing else in gmail?

This was totally seamless with a windows pc, exchange and outlook regardless of what handset I was using.. Gmail, mac and mail just seems a bit of a mess to me which leads me to assume I'm doing it wrong?

HALP!

Thanks!

matt100 · 12 Jun 2012 at 19:15

I never had any to lose, I followed the guide you linked and it doesn't seem to be doing anything... maybe I've done it wrong?

matt100 · 13 Jun 2012 at 18:24

no there's no contacts going in either direction..

reckon I can do it by cable easily? I've got a million sync cables and the 2 devices are always in the same place?

matt100 · 14 Jun 2012 at 07:46

aha, it was set to icloud... right lets see if this works! Thanks

matt100 · 14 Jun 2012 at 15:37

well I've set my iphone to have the default contacts be gmail, I already have my gmail set up as exchange with m.google etc and I have my address book on the mac set to sync with google using the same settings.

Nothing. Created new contacts at both ends to see if I had a sync issue but still nothing is syncing in either direction???

matt100 · 15 Jun 2012 at 11:15

wargarbl!

So now I've found I can make a contact on my iPhone and get it to my address book and vice versa, I just can't move everything thats in the group "all on my iPhone" to my exchange group.

This really is awful, never had any issues like this before...

Any hacks/bits of software (I am jailbroken if that makes a difference to the choice) that can get all my contacts off and then I could manually put them into my address book with an import? That'll sort it.