Sync google calendar with iphone without syncing contacts

Trotter

Hi all,

Can anyone point me in the direction of a guide to syncing my google calendar with the iphone calendar without messing with my contacts on the phone?

Thanks a lot!

guil

set it up then go to settings>mail and then go to the new account and ya can turn off mail and contacts sync
i used this guide
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

Trotter

Great, I've got it almost sorted.

If I leave it alone now, my google calendar is set to the default calendar on the iphone. So, when I add "get bread" to my iphone, it doesn't actually store that entry on the iphone.. it writes it to the default google calendar instead of the iphone one.. right?

Does that mean that if the google calendar becomes unavailable for any reason, I'll be left with no calendar entries on my phone?

Is there any way to have the iphone send the entries on the default iphone calendar to my default google calendar?

What way do the experts here recommend I set things up?

guil

havent a clue lol sorry, i only used to to sync my contacts and saw the options to turn each feature on an off

John_Mc

I used these instructions and it works perfectly. Events are stored on both the phone and on Google Calendar, and synced automatically.

guil

John_Mc wrote: »

I used these instructions and it works perfectly. Events are stored on both the phone and on Google Calendar, and synced automatically.

ha thats the exact one i posted

John_Mc

guil wrote: »

ha thats the exact one i posted

Sorry, only scanned through the thread! The OP must be doing something wrong so if it works for both of us!

Trotter

Thanks all,

I must be doing something odd. I followed the instructions but I messed with the default calendar setting.

Trotter

Could you check for me, when you've run the setup from the above instructions, does the iphone then default to adding entries to your main gmail calendar?

Im not explaining myself very well, but when I set it up, and added new items to my calendar on the phone, they come up with a little dot beside them that says they're entries to my google calendar.

Now I can still see them on the phone because the phone is reading from the google calendar and its own calendar anyway.

Its just that now when I tap the button that says show me the iphone only calendar, these new entries arent there.

If I change the default calendar in iphone settings to my iphone calendar, the phone reads any new entries I made in work on the google calendar but the iphone calendar entries dont show on the google calendar.

Clear as mud Sorry..