Finally – another BIG-time iPhone wish list item gets ticked off.  Over The Air (OTA) sync with Google Calendars!  SyncJe has just been launched by nexthaus.com, and it is a sight for sore eyes.  It will wirelessly sync your iPhone to SyncML servers, like goosync and mobical.  It can sync calendars. contacts, and notes. […]
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SyncJe – Wireless Google Calendar Sync for iPhone!!!

Jan 4th 2008 by

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Finally – another BIG-time iPhone wish list item gets ticked off.  Over The Air (OTA) sync with Google Calendars! 

SyncJe has just been launched by nexthaus.com, and it is a sight for sore eyes.  It will wirelessly sync your iPhone to SyncML servers, like goosync and mobical.  It can sync calendars. contacts, and notes. I haven’t tried the latter two yet, but have successfully tested OTA sync in both directions with Goosync for my Google Calendar – Yay.

The other very good news on this one is that although it will be a paid-for app (with a 15 day trial) until Jan 8, nexthaus.com are giving away free licenses to everyone!

Read on for a few tips on getting yourself registered for it, and getting this working with Goosync …

So … to get going with SyncJe, here’s what you do:

  • Go HERE to see initial setup and registering info
  • Note – when you go to enter your registration info on the iPhone the ‘License Name’ asked for is the username you picked when submitting your registration form on the nexthaus site
  • Check THIS PAGE for install instructions for the iPhone (yougoogcalendartest] need to add nexthaus’ Installer source)
  • To sync with your Google Calendar via Goosync, follow these instructions – you need a Goosync account (there is a free level one):

URL: http://sync.goosync.com
username: goosync username
password: goosync password
Turn contacts off
For Calendar, the folder name is "Calendar" without the quotes
Keep in mind, you will also have to log into the goosync web interface, and  change your device there to be the iPhone. Login to https://www.goosync.com/Login.aspx then open My Device and then click on "Change Device…" button and find the iPhone.

You can also use SyncJe to sync with other SyncML servers – like MyFunambol and various others – and the developers are working on some more documentation for setting up sync with other services. 

I’m not sure if I can just add my MyFunambol details to SyncJe, to control all my OTA sync in one app.  Will try that soon, and will check out how Notes sync works.

For more details on SyncJe, and some very responsive and effective help from the SyncJe developers, see THIS THREAD at MMI. 

Thanks to LouN from nexthaus for the great help with this today.

UPDATE: The folks at nexthaus have already produced some very useful addiitional "Quick Start’ information – that provides some further help on initial configuration of SynJe.  You can find it at their Quick Start page:

http://nexthaus.com/SyncJe%20for%20iPhone%20quickstart.pdf

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