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Back to Nuevasync
After some comments from Jon Skeet over at SuperUser.com in response to my praise of Nuevasync, I tried Google native syncing methods for getting my contacts and calendars from the cloud to my iPhone. It all seemed to work well, until I noticed that certain contacts kept duplicating. After making sure there was no other sync service operational (I have tried a few), I was pretty sure it had to be something between the iPhone and Google.
So, I went back to Nuevasync, and all has been well since. By the way, the Google Calendar Sync was working just fine, but I can only set up one Exchange sync on the iPhone, so that went back to Nuevasync as well.
Update Aug 23 2009: Switching back to Nuevasync didn't make the duplicates go away. I guess it's something else. Will investigate further.
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iPhone 3.0 default calendar and Nuevasync
Today I noticed that changes I made to my iPhone Calendar did not show up in the connected Google Calendar. After some research, it turned out that my default iPhone calendar was set to a read only calendar I also subscribe too. So, apparently my calendar settings had changed after I upgraded to 3.0. I don't know if this was the 3.0 update or the fact that I tinkered with some settings.
After settings my default calendar on the iPhone to my primary Google Calendar, everything was working again and updates showed online and in iCal.
Your iPhone default calendar can be found in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > (scroll all the way down) Default calendar.
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iPhone localhost bluetooth
After changing iPhone settings (for example, to enable Tethering) your iPhone bluetooth identifier may change to localhost. Since that is not a very descriptive name, you probably want to change it. You can do it by following these steps (they may be overkill, but it worked like this for me):
- Remove the Bluetooth device localhost.
- Connect your iPhone to iTunes.
- Wait for it to sync (if you haven't set it to automatically sync, you can skip this step).
- In iTunes, find your iPhone in the left sidebar. Click the name of your iPhone once. It will become editable.
- Change the iPhone's name to something else (I just appended the letter 'x'). Press Enter. Your iPhone's screen will very briefly show "Synchronizing".
- Change the iPhone's name back to its original name. Press Enter. iPhone screen will again briefly show "Synchronizing".
- Start Bluetooth, connect and configure your iPhone, it will show the name you gave it in the previous step.
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