Address Book and Blackberry

I love Address Book, but with Apple's announcement that they will be including sync for Blackberries, it would be great if Address Book had a field to include other Blackberry users' PINs, such as other IM applications.

If either of you guys figure this out I'd love to hear. I've got a BB 7130 that was syncing great with my powerbook...until I updated to Tiger. Then it wouldn't even detect my Blackberry. I uninstalled and reinstalled Pocketmac and upon the first sync, and each subsequent sync--like yours my ical syncs just fine but I can't get it do to anything, either way with my addressbook. And it generates an error message of "bad default category length" each time as well.
On another note, my addressbook was on the fritz before I upgraded to Tiger and still is--in that any time I try to print mailing labels, suddenly it creates duplicates and sometimes triplicates of names, only for labels--no such problem with lists or in the main view.

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I have successfully installed the BlackBerry desktop software and was successful at syncing my calendar. However, my contacts will not sync. I get a message that my phone is set to wirelessly update and I need to shut it off. I follow the instructions to go to options and chose desktop or wireless sync off; neither of these options exist on my phone options. I do not know what a BES is but I don't think I have one; this is a personal phone. I've read several posts about this but none of them seem to answer this question.
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SMS - Sending to numbers not in your address book and inserting smiley faces

Hi
I'm new to the world of Blackberry and sorry if this has been posted elsewhere - I've trawled through and can't find anything similiar.
When composing SMS messages, I can only send to those people who are in my address book as the address book automatically opens when you select compose SMS.
Obviously there are times when you need to text to numbers not in your address book so how do you do it?
So far the only solution I have got is to add numbers to my address book and then delete them. Surely there must be a way you can just enter the number manually when you need to?
Secondly is there a shortcut on the Blackberry Pearl to insert smiley faces in SMS messages without entering :-) manually?
Thanks for your help
Trish
I love my Blackberry

You right. I misread. Hitting the SYM key is only for messenger, not for SMS. I didn't anyway to insert emoticons into an SMS message
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Two address books and calendars?

My employer gave me a Blackberry Curve 8310. It is set up to sync email (wireless) with my employer's email server which is Lotus Notes.
My personal address book and calander are on MS Outlook, which I used to sync hardwire with my personal desktop.
Can I use two address books and calendars on the Curve 8310, one Lotus Notes for professional items and one MS based for personal items?
TIA. I hope this wasn't too elementary.

Hi there!
Ummmm...this does not sound like an issue regarding AppWorld...we will have the post moved over to the proper device forum so that the appropriate experts can have visibility to it:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board?board.id=8300
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Sync address book and calendar 8830 with 8130 via DM

I just changed from using an 8130 and now use an 8830. I assumed I could use DM to backup my 8130 and then restore it to my 8830. However, when I do this, many items do migrate, but not 2 of the most important ... my address book and calendar. Both are personal devices and are not linked with any work email server, so that's not the issue. I do notice that in the backup file from my 8130 the address book is called "Address Book - All" and similar with the calendar. However, with the 8830, it is labeled as only "Address Book". I'm wondering if this is the problem? I'm hoping someone can help me get my address book and calendar migrated to my new device.
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BTW, I already tried wiping the new 8830 ... that did nothing.

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I am trying to sync my address book and calendar. every...

I am trying to sync my address book and calendar. everytime i sync it duplicates addresses, even after i have indicated overwrite device

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Syncing Address book and Exchange 2007 - some problems

Hello,
I do have a weird problem, not all of my contacts are uploaded to exchange when I create them in Address Book. I need this so that exchange pushes them on my Blackberry.
In Address Book 5 (Snow Leopard), I do have 2 accounts : On My Mac and Exchange.
Do I need to copy them over? If yes, then, how to avoid duplicates?
Thanks beforehand for your help.
Jean-Francois.

Since Apple does not even support public folders of the type "mail" for their Apple Mail, I doubt they will support "contact" PFs any time soon. Your only chance will be to add the information from your contact PFs to you Active Directory as "Contacts". These will be shown in your Exchange GAL, which is accessible with Address Book and your Outlook users will still be able to also use the contacts.

Address Book / PocketMac / BlackBerry syncing issue

Hi folks:
Wonder if anyone's expertise could help illuminate what's going on with my setup. I had a BlackBerry synced with Outlook on my old PC, which I recently replaced with a new MacBook. I was able to use PocketMac to easily sync my BlackBerry with Address Book and Mail on the new MacBook- or so I thought.
Turns out there are some fields included with contacts in my BlackBerry that do not appear with the corresponding contact entry in Address Book. For instance, a given contact will have four or five phone numbers listed on the BlackBerry, with only two or three on the Address Book. I thought that by syncing the two devices I would get an exact match for the data on each one. Was I wrong?
Any ideas? Any setting I can change, or workarounds I can use to make the information complete on both devices?
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When you go through the sync process, do you see any records that the sync recognizes and says it will move to your Mac?
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Synching address book and calendar

No matter how many times I uninstall and re-install Blackberry desktop software, it will synch everything but my address book and calendar - the most important items for me! when I go to "configure settings" I get an "unknown error" message. Anyone got any clues as to how to fix this?

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Data in my iMac address book and iCloud contacts do not match.

The data in my iMac address book and iCloud contacts are different. How can I get my iCloud data to accruately reflect that of my iMac address book? It appears to be an initial synchronization issue. New entries synchronize fine. Appears that initial entries in my Address Book are not showing up in the iCloud Contacts list. Hense, My iPhone coantacts don't match those in my iMac.
Is there a way to clean out my iCloud contacts on reload/re-sychronize it with my iMac Address Book?

Nuts isn't it. This seems to have been an issue snce dAY 1. iT FROSTS ME THAT THERE IS NO SIMPLE QUICK WAY TO UPDATE OR CORRECT the data in both programs simultaneously.. Thats why i decided to just put everytning into the i cloud address brook, and let the one other sit and rot.
then i got smart and said, why don't I delete the outlookaddress book files. and save on confusion.
result - both addresses books and their contents became invisible to outlook.!!!!!! and I can find no way to correct this...to go back to the imperfect world that was.
I did get the outlook contact s back from an archive - but any thing from icloud has become inaccessible from outlook. (fortunately i can get the vcard infformation directly from icloud. but I can't access it from outlook mail.... means no replying, forwarding etc - and a time swallowing nuisance..
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HT4489 How can I synchronize contacts between Apple Address Book/iPhone address book and Outlook (I'm on Mac OX10.7.4 and using Office 2011)?

I appear to have done what I should to move to iCloud on my Mac, MacbookAir, iPhone and iPad. Using Outlook 2011 on the iMac and unable to sync contacts between Outlook and my Apple Address Book and iPhone over the cloud. I gather lots of people have the same problem but some appear to have solved it... any ideas?
Also, in some sync, I managed to duplicate the entries on the Address Book on my Mac, whereas the iCloud Address Book is ok. How can I replace the Address Book on my computer with the one on iCloud?
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Hi Lucy, I had the same problem with Outlook data sync. Once you've enabled iCloud all your contacts are moved to iCloud and are no longer stored on Mac, that's why Outlook cannot reach them - there is simply nothing to reach as data physically stored in cloud.
I use SyncMate to solve this problem. This app allows connecting and syncing numerous devices and accounts with your Mac and they have recently added iCloud into this list (here the page where they describe sync with iCloud http://www.sync-mac.com/cloud-sync.html ).
This is how I established sync of my Outlook data with iCloud via this app.
1. SyncMate syncs only that data which is located on your Mac so you will need to move your contacts back to Address Book on mac from iCloud and disable iCloud for contacts (in order they were stored on Mac, not in iCloud).
2. You install SyncMate and add iCloud as a new connection (depending on data you want to sync you need to choose "Cloud contacts" or "Cloud calendars" connection in SyncMate wizard and log into your iCloud via SyncMate). Once you've done this, you can sync data on Mac with iCloud via SyncMate.
3. I may assume that automatic sync option is enabled in Outlook preferences (as previously your contacts on Mac were synced with Outlook). If no - please, enable it (got to Outlook preferences).
4. Once all this done, data will be automatically synced betwen Outlook and iCloud (latter via SyncMate). The trick of SyncMate is that data is physically located on your Mac (thus ensuring it will be synced with other devices and accounts SyncMate supports, as I said before, SyncMate works with data which is located on Mac), but you still can have it in iCloud (sync will be performed via SyncMate, no need to enable iCloud itself).
5. And of course, you will be able to sync your iPhone contacts with your Mac (SyncMate supports sync with iPhones also). These contacts will be also synced to Outlook.

Microsoft Exchange Categories in iCal, Address Book and Mail

I work in a Microsoft environment with my MacBook Pro and would like to use iCal, Address Book and Mail as my default applications rather than Microsoft Oulook 2011, however, there is not support for the Microsoft Exchange Categories to be replicated into the various Apple applications. This results in my address book not to differentiate any longer from my contact categories stored on the Exchange server, nor my calendar. Categories can be created in iCal and other Apple applications but it then requires for the event or contact to be duplication "On my Mac" which makes me loose my synchronization with other systems. Any idea about to fix that?

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