Calendar, Contacts and everything PIM freezes and doesn't sync

Keeps spinning and never syncs anything. Also can not access accounts in settings. That also freezes

Ok, after many resets and going straight to the accounts tab to try and delete accounts, it finally let me delete facebook. It was facebook that was locking up and now everything is back to working. I re added facebook just a moment ago and so far still working with no problems. Facebook was definitely the problem for me.

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How to synchronise calendar, contacts and music separately?

Anyone knows how you can synchronize your calendar, contacts and music separately? It seems that ITunes is capable of only synchronizing everything you have.
I have a computer at home (Vista) with my music and another one at work (XP) with my contacts and calendar (Outlook). Is it possible to synchronize my Ipod with both automatically and conveniently? ie my work PC doesn't delete all my music?
I have a 5 years old palm pilot that does this without any special intervention. Can ITunes do the same?

iOS: Transferring information from your current iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device

How can I sync my new iPhone 4S to calendar, contacts, and photos on my MacBook?

Just bought my first iPhone after 2 years as an Android user. My 2008 MacBook would never talk to the Android, but now - they tell me - I can backup my phone onto my computer and share contacts, calendar and photos with the computer.
I've plugged the phone into the computer but the computer's Finder doesn't show it. And the phone indicates it's charging but doesn't show any way to swap data.
I feel like I'm missing something really basic ... but what?

All of this is handled through iTunes. You must have iTunes installed on the comptuer. Also, you will not be able to see any files in Finder, as the iPhone does not give you access to that information. The only time you will ever see anything from the iPhone in Finder is if you have photos in the Camera Roll.
After you download and install iTunes, you would set up syncing your device with specific apps on the computer, to handle calendar, contacts, and photos. You might want to start out by thumbing through the User Guide here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

ICloud: I can't set a check mark at calendar, contacts and mail. Why?

iCloud: I can't set a check mark at calendar, contacts and mail. Why?

I'm afraid so. The iCloud control panel is only compatible with Outlook 2007 or later.
iCloud system requirements:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4759
However, you should still be able to add your iCloud mail account manually in Outlook using the server information.
iCloud server information:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864

Can 2 iCloud accounts share same Calendar, Contacts, and Photos? (family)

iPhone #1 (Husband)
iPhone #2 (wife)
iMac (Both)
We do not want to share the same email or reminders... email is personal, but we would like to share photos, contacts, and calendars. Can two iCloud accounts be shared with the same iMac and by doing so the iMac syncs the two accounts in Calandar, Contacts, Photos and merges the two accounts to the one program resulting in both phones containing the same Calendars, Contacts, and Photos???
Any ideas, tips, tricks, or suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks!

I posted pretty much the same question on the forum a week [How to share contacts in iCloud?] and did mention that there the subscribe functionality for Calendar (replacement of iCal) works fine, but the issue with Contacts is becoming more critical (as Apple gave up the MobileMe support)... I did increment the count of 'I have the same question' hopefully increasing sight of Apple support team...

Hotmail Full Calendar/Contacts and Email Sync Poss...

You can set up hotmail to sync calendar/contacts and email (all folders, just like imap) through the N900 but have to set it up as an "exchange" account.
In the email client add new account and select "exchange" and put in your username and password. The next page will ask for the server which is m.hotmail.com - leave the domain empty. Select SSL (which it does by default.) Then set up your sync parameters.
This is nice for consumers who don't have a work exchange account that takes care of syncing for you.
If you run Outlook - you can use the Outlook connector to sync your contacts/calendar to Hotmail - which will then sync onto your N900. This way you won't have to use Ovi or PC Suite to sync...
Just passing along... I searched and found some info on this for other Nokia devices - but nothing for the N900 so I thought I would mention it.
Sandy

kudos for that, since i upgraded to pr1/2 i've been changing between both google and hotmail, but after pr1.3 i decided to stay with hotmail.
anyways here are the settings to get google account working :
Calendar AND contacts sync settings can be created by:
1st Open settings menu.
2nd Open "Email for Exchange" submenu.
3rd Filling in the fields as:
a. Server: m.google.com
b. Port: 443
c. Secure connection: check yes
d. Conflict resolution: your choice
e. User name: [email protected]
f. Password: your password
g. Domain: leave blank
h. Synchronize e-mail: leave unchecked.
i. Synchronize calendar and tasks: check yes.
k. Calendar: N900 (to populate existing calendar) or create a new one
j. Synchronize calendar back: your choice
k. Synchronize completed tasks: your choice
l. Synchronize contacts: check yes
m. First synchronization: your choice
A note of caution: For this sync to work your calendar must be empty. If you have already used the synchronization tool to transfer the calendar data from your old phone to your n900 it will not allow you to write the Google calendar data from the server into it. The n900 calendar will remain as a local, unsynchronized calendar and you must create another calendar for synchronization purposes. However, I believe this is not the best way to go. Instead, if you have already transferred your calendar data from your old phone open the n900's calendar, select all, and delete. Then the Google server will synchronize its data with the N900 calendar.
Reality is wrong....dreams are for real... 2pac .
don't forget to hit that green kudos

HT204053 My contacts and calenders stopped syncing on my I pad and iPhone any ideas?

My contacts and calenders stopped syncing between my iPad and my iPhone. It worked for a couple of moths when I first set it up.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Contacts not syncing.
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.
Calendars not syncing.
First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your calendars are in the iCloud account, you might try unchecking calendar syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling calendar syncing settings.

Following the most recent IOS IPhone update our Iphone calendars, contacts and messages have all merged. This problem has never happened before. We all use the same Itunes account as a family and one AppleID. Does anyone know the cause of this problem?

We have 4 Iphones. As a family we have happily shared the same ITunes account and one AppleID. After the most recent iPhone IOS update all our contacts and calendars have merged and we randomly receive some messages that one of us has sent to another contact.
This is causing chaos.
Can anyone help me with:
1. Has anyone experienced a similar problem recently?
2. The records to the individual phones have not been saved been saved separately. After this merging of all the data into one composite record, is there anyway to reverse the change and restore the phones to just their individual records?
3. I guess that the cause may be the common AppleID. I have tried to create my own AppleID but my personal email address is already linked to the existing AppleID so I am blocked from setting up a separate AppleID in my own name. Does anyone know how I can get around this block?
4. Would it be better to create a separate Apple ICloud address for each of us as well? How do I do this?
Many thanks in anticipation,
Peter

This is exactly what happens when sharing a single Apple ID for iCloud and iMessage. Why would you expect any different?

Multiple problems with calendar, contacts, and syncing

(1) My iPhone is mis-labeling times in my calendar. For example, I received an invitation from a Windows user for a calendar that is synced to my iPhone. The time on my work desktop is for 10:30. The time that showed up on my iPhone was 11:30. Also, on a calendar I have on my Mac, a recurring appointment at 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays was mis-labeled in my iPhone for several different times--one at 2:00. One at 12:30.
(2) My iPhone is not pushing calendar events in either direction--either from my iPhone to my Mac or from my Mac to my iPhone. I think the same is true for Contacts, even though I have checked my settings and all are scheduled to push.
(3) I believe my Contacts are being deleted when I try to sync to my Mac with a wire.
Any help to any of these problems would be much appreciated.

Give this a try: Go to google.com Contacts and remove any numbers or symbols that are in a contact's name.

Calendar, Contacts, and Reminders do not recognize valid accounts

I have had this problem ever since I moved from MobileMe to iCloud. I have valid email accounts that I can send and receive mail to/from with no problem. When I bring up iCal, Contacts, or Reminders I get a message telling me to provide the password for one of the email accounts. It returns an error saying the login is invalid. HOWEVER, there is nothing wrong with the login information in the account description. It works fine with Mail. I deleted the account and re-added it and Mail found the server account no problem. But iCal, Contacts, and Reminders say that they cannot validate the account against the server.
What server are these apps trying to connect to? What is different about how mail uses the account info as opposed to iCal, Contacts, and Reminders? And why do these apps recognize my other accounts but not this one in particular, even though they are set up identically in every way?
Thanks in advance.
Brad
iMac i7 27", MacOS 10.8.2.

bradrose wrote:
What server are these apps trying to connect to? What is different about how mail uses the account info as opposed to iCal, Contacts, and Reminders?
They are different servers, that is the difference.
Change the password for whichever account is referenced when this happens "I get a message telling me to provide the password for one of the email accounts. It returns an error saying the login is invalid.

Mac Calendar, Notes, and Tasks not syncing with Blackberry Bold

I recently purchased a Macbook Pro with out of the box with OS X Mountain Lion Installed. Downloaded and installed the latest version of the Blackberry Desktop Software. Quickly realized that I am unable the sync the Mac Address Book with my BlackBerry Bold 9930 while the iCloud is enabled. Once disabled, the my Address Book syncs like it used to.
Calendars, however, are not syncing. I have tried several ways, including disableing the iCloud and creating New Calendars both "On My Mac" as well as "On iCloud" without success. The error is as follows:
"There are no writable calendars available for syncing on this computer."
I am confident that once the solution to the writable calendars is found it will automatically resolve the syncing of Tasks too. Please advise how I can solve this problem.
Secondly, I noticed that Mountain Lion comes equipped with an independent Notes App. Initially I thought this to be a really cool new feature of Mountain Lion when compared to my previous experiences with Snow Leopard. For simplicity, I initially deleted all my old notes from the BlackBerry and transfered the notes files which were backed up from my previous MacBook Pro to the BlackBerry. The tranfer occured without a hitch. A few days later, I realized that eventhough my notes were syncing without a hitch, my edits were not being saved. I.e. edits made on the Mac were not syncing forward to the BlackBerry and vice versa. So I lost some content. When trying to trouble shoot the problem I realized that the Desktop Software was programed to sync with "Apple Mail Notes" on the Mac, and not the Notes App. So bascially, the notes were syncing from the wrong source and everytime I synced them, the notes on the Blackberry were being replaced by the original notes that I had moved over from my Old Mac. How can I re-set/re-program the Desktop software to sync with the notes in the Notes app? Or, where can I access these "Apple Mail Notes" So that I can make edits and add/delete notes so that they sync accurately?
Help!
Thanks.
Mo

Doesn't look like there's a way to sync BlackBerry MemoPad memos with Apple Notes.
Apparently Apple's Notes app doesn't talk to Apple's Sync Services (older versions of Apple Mail do) - BlackBerry Desktop talks to the Apple apps using Sync Services. Sadly Notes still isn't playing nice, so BlackBerry can't sync notes.
p.s. Microsoft Outlook 2011 DOES talk to Sync Services, but it only syncs my memo headers, and no text. *curls into ball*

Audio is shorter and doesn't sync

I have a video, and when I import it in Premiere (or After Effects), the audio is shorter than video, and therefore of course out of sync.
When I play it on VLC, it is correct, everything syncs. I had tried to re-encode it, but nothing has changed. (Also tried the VideoReDo program - as mentioned on another forum - to fix this, but there is the same result.)
Btw, I don't have to make a timeline, it's enough if I just double-click on the clip (in Premiere) and play it. The audio doesn't sync.

Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen
shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30
For PC http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en or http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

What do I do about contacts and groups not synced from iPhone to iCloud?

I've been syncing my contacts with my Mac (Snow Leopard, not Lion) via iTunes for years now. It's worked well enough, but I don't sync with my Mac that often (typically weeks between syncs), so I've worried a little bit about losing data entered on my iPhone before it gets on my Mac.
Before: Mac <-iTunes contacts sync-> iPhone
A week or so ago I backed up contacts, calendars and my whole iPhone (and my Mac) then upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5. It took a while (hours) but seemed to work.
Then I set up iCloud contact syncing.
What I intended: Mac <-iTunes contacts sync-> iPhone <-iCloud contacts sync-> iCloud
After setting up iCloud contact sync, the trouble began.
I looked at my iPhone contacts and saw that instead of the half dozen groups they were organized into before, they were all in one iCloud group. I found I could make new groups and assign contacts to them on iCloud and they'd sync, but I'm not interested in redoing work organizing hundreds of contacts that iOS and iCloud lost for me.
Shortly I discovered that some contacts were just missing. Poof. Gone after the iCloud sync.
I've hesitated before syncing with my Mac again. I don't want to have the messed up groups and the deleted contacts propogate back to my Mac.
I've also hesitated because I don't see a way to disable iTunes contact syncing before actually plugging in my iPhone — the options for managing what gets synced only seem to appear when the iPhone is connected, and sync starts automatically.
Suggestions for how to proceed?
Thanks!

I found out how to disable automatic syncing:
In the device’s Summary pane, you can set iTunes to automatically sync your device when it’s attached to your computer. To temporarily override this setting, hold down Command and Option (Mac) or Shift and Control (PC) until you see your iPhone appear in the sidebar.
I'm still looking for suggestions about how to proceed to get contacts with groups synced.
Thanks again!

Troubleshooting-iPhone contact and safari bookmarks syncing on mac - help!

I did the update this morning. Everything is working fine but the syncing of my contacts [address book] and the safari bookmarks. they do not change at all when i try doing a syncing. I have more bookmarks in my safari mac than on the iPhone safari. the same happens with my contacts - if I update the information directly on my computer and try syncing it to the iPhone it does not update the info. Can anyone help? thanks.
maria

mfoto,
Sync History is what keeps track of what has been synced and what has been changed.
As a first step you might want to try reseting sync history as mentioned in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301217
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

I have an iphone 3 and outlook 2010. I cleaned up all my outlook contacts and tried to sync but not all of the existing contacts on my phone show up in outlook. Is there a way to sync all numbers on iphone to oulook so I can clean them up from my desktop?

I have an Iphone 3 and use Outlook 2010. I just recently tried to sync with my desktop using Itunes and once they were synced I cleaned up alot of the contacts using outlook but when I tried to sync them not all the information from outlook made it to my iphone. Additionally, there are a lot of contacts in my iphone that are not showing up in outlook. I have tried several things but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

So after looking a bit closer i have noticed that when i have the phone plugged into the computer it shows the songs but when i dont have it plugged in and i go so the song icon on the bottom of the music menu screen it says i have no songs!

Difficulty keeping Google Contacts and iCloud in sync

I have an iPhone, an iPad, and a Gmail account. I'd like to keep my contacts consistent across all of them, but I'm finding this to be very difficult.
I followed the instructions on here which seemed to work for editing linked contacts. But there is a problem with this approach: when using my iphone, I can only add contacts on one of the two accounts (either gmail or icloud) but not both at the same time. If I'm in "all contacts" and click the add contact button, it will only add a contact in the account designated as "default account" in the iOS contact settings.
Is there a better way to keep all contacts synced?

Since you are using Google, you might consider not trying to add iCloud in the mix, and just sync your Google contacts to your iDevices. There are many web pages which will walk you through how to setup your Google account on your iPhone or iPad as if it were an Exchange account. Going that route, you can then select to sync your contacts over the air between Google and your mobile device. I used that for about a year, then I made the full switch to iCloud.I've debated about going back, but I haven't gotten that desperate yet.

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