Verizon Rolling Out BIS Google Contacts Sync for OS 5.0+?

by Ronen Halevy on Oct 19th, 2009 at 12:05 am EST

When BIS 2.8 launched in North America earlier this month I was dying to play with the Google Contacts sync option. Turns out that carriers had to enable this feature themselves and that was probably not going to happen until OS 5.0 was officially released.

Turns out I though wrong. I have been getting reports this past week that Google Contact sync has started showing up as an option for some users on Verizon and even AT&T. Bob let me know tonight that his BlackBerry Tour running OS 5.0 now has Google Contact sync that works. I have also heard from another friend that only when they logged into the Verizon BIS from their BlackBerry browser did the option show up… I even heard from a user on AT&T who says that as of today he has started seeing the Google Contact sync option in his BIS. I am also on AT&T and don’t see any such thing…

Still this begs the question. Do you have the option for Google Contacts sync on your BES? If so what carrier/OS are you using and what did you do to make it work?

Full screenshot of it available on Verizon courtesy our tipster Bob:

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 and is filed under News.
Tags: BES 2.8, Google Contact Sync

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20 Comments to “Verizon Rolling Out BIS Google Contacts Sync for OS 5.0+?”

Posted by: Alan
October 19, 2009 at 12:26 am EST

I can confirm that this option is enabled on the Telus BIS site.

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Posted by: Adam F
October 19, 2009 at 12:29 am EST

Its enabled for TMO, but it wont let me add it yet (gives an authentication error when trying to save the settings).

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- Posted by: AndyK
  November 12, 2009 at 10:18 am EST
  
  http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/viewContent.do?externalId=KB19270&sliceId=1
  
  This site has details on what the Email settings & authentication page on the BlackBerry should look like ..
  
  I am on TMO with an 8900 and I still cannot access my GMail contacts via my bb. Any other TMO users on 5.0 hh code?
  
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Posted by: MarkE
October 19, 2009 at 1:07 am EST

Its on the site for VZW, but I too get an authentication error when trying to save settings. Maybe this is a good sign that OS 5.0 is finally on its way to VZW!

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- Posted by: cj100570
  October 19, 2009 at 11:32 am EST
  
  If your browser auto fills your username and password you’ll get the error. Delete the password and fill manually. That worked for me.
  
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Posted by: Mat
October 19, 2009 at 1:33 am EST

I’m with TELUS using BB8330 OS 5.0.0.230 and I have the contact sync option in BIS. Does that mean i can get rid of google sync app if I don’t care about calendar sync (since it doesn’t work half the time anyways?)

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Posted by: cj100570
October 19, 2009 at 1:34 am EST

It finally went live on Verizon today. I had been checking for the feature every since RIM said 2.8 was out.

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Posted by: Mat
October 19, 2009 at 1:37 am EST

Little Uupdate for TELUS bb8330 and os 5.0.0.230.

the option is there but when I select it and hit save, I get an error message:

An error occurred during email account validation.
Please check your information and try again.

It won’t let me save if the option is selected.

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Posted by: Mat
October 19, 2009 at 1:42 am EST

update 2, when doing it from the email setting on the device itself, it works

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Posted by: Brady
October 19, 2009 at 1:47 am EST

Works for me. BB Storm on VZW running OS 5.0.0.238. Not sure how this will work exactly, since I’m using Google Sync as well for my contacts and calendar sync needs.

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Posted by: Jason Sands
October 19, 2009 at 4:53 am EST

Same deal with the account validation, both on Apps Premier and GMail.

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Posted by: wojtas25
October 19, 2009 at 8:08 am EST

Umm, i spotted this option already one month ago (or three weeks ago ) on Orange Poland Not working yet.

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Posted by: Alex S
October 19, 2009 at 9:10 am EST

On VZW with Tour running 5.0.0.230, and the option was enabled on my BIS site!!!

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Posted by: mscooley
October 19, 2009 at 9:20 am EST

Cellular South up and running.

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Posted by: Jason
October 19, 2009 at 10:35 am EST

Posted on the Sprint site but is not saving information

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Posted by: c0rinne
October 19, 2009 at 1:45 pm EST

I don’t see it on TMo

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Posted by: AstraSync
October 20, 2009 at 5:43 am EST

If you want full two way calendar & contact sync AND push email from Gmail on your BlackBerry you might be interested in our product AstraSync http://www.astrasync.com. Which is designed to provide just that!

You can try if free for 7 days by signing up at our website. Just set it up following the iPhone or windows mobile guides: http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple

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Posted by: Will
October 27, 2009 at 2:57 pm EST

Works for me on VZW BB Storm with OS 5.0 upgrade. Only annoyance is the multi-line address field from Google contact syncs into the address line 1 field on my BB. So the entire address is mashed all together in one line. Haven’t figured out a way around this yet.

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- Posted by: Carmine
  October 30, 2009 at 3:58 am EST
  
  if you do find a way around this please update as quick as possible because this is absolutely annoying. you can’t map from contacts after syncing.
  
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