# iPod Touch and Google sync

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 11, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794 "2010-06-11T13:51:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794/1 "2010-06-11T13:51:45Z")

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Got my new toy today… and I want it to sync with Google to get contacts and calendar entries.

I’ve set up the account linkage per [these instructions](http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252).

I’ve got it set to “push”, and also to fetch every 15 minutes (to handle apps that don’t work with push).

But the contacts / calendar entries haven’t downloaded yet.

Any suggestions on what else to try?

Oh - and it did sync the email from that account so I _know_ it’s connected correctly.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794/2 "2010-06-11T14:03:21Z")

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Never mind… I read the instructions more carefully and I’d followed the wrong path when setting things up. :smack:.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794/3 "2010-06-11T21:54:38Z")

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Hey, how do ya like that Google sync? Does it work well?

Do contacts and calendar entries you add on the phone go back to Google too?

I currently have an Android phone, but I’m getting sick of its little bugs and issues. Might consider a Touch later.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-touch-and-google-sync/542794/4 "2010-06-12T01:56:32Z")

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It’s “just” an iPod Touch vs. an iPhone - but yes, I’m now seeing that changes on the phone get sync’ed back up to the google account. It can take a few minutes though. And for some reason, at first none of the contacts (that I had entered online) showed up on the touch’s list. I could _search_ for them, but they wouldn’t show up in the list.

Then I edited something - and all of a sudden they all showed up. 😕 but :).

What’ll be interesting is whether that works with stuff I enter when I’m not linked to a wi-fi: will it re-sync when I get connected again…