Mobile Phones are the part and parcel of life now ! Contact Numbers are important ingredient of any mobile user. By chance you loose your contacts then it becomes a nightmare to recompile the list ! It’s better to have a backup of such contacts ! Google Sync is a free online service for backup of your contacts !
How Does Google Sync Work ?
Google uses a protocol called Microsoft Exchange active Sync for providing majority of the synchronization services. It also uses a method based on SyncML for other phones.
Checkout this list of devices supported and it’s help details.
Syncing Contacts with SyncML :
Check out following link for the detailed information.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/topic.py?topic=22181
Example Set Up Instructions: Sony Ericsson W800i
To set up Google Sync on a Sony Ericsson W800i phone, please follow these steps:
- Click the 'Menu' key and open the 'Organizer'.
- Select 'Synchronization'.
- Select 'New Account' and enter 'Google Sync' or any name of your choice.
- Enter the following values:
- Server address: https://m.google.com/syncml
- Username: your Google Account username, e.g. you@googlemail.com
- Password: your Google password
- Connection: select the Internet access point for your carrier
- Applications: mark 'Contacts' only and click 'OK'
- App. settings: open 'Contacts' and for 'Database name' enter 'contacts' (lower case), leave other fields blank
- Sync. interval: choose how frequently you would like to synchronize with Google
- Leave other settings unchanged
- Click 'Save' to exit this screen and save your Sync profile.
- Highlight your new Sync profile and press 'Start'.
Help links for iPhone,Windows Mobile and BlackBerry and Nokia.
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