I heard from our tech guru Karri Saarinen, how to sync your N900 and Google Calendar. Before this, I had my iCal synced to my Google Calendar and wondered what the N900 would mean to the initial setup. To my surprise, adding the Google Calendar – N900 sync worked perfectly and I wanted to share this with others as I’m sure many are looking for a way to keep their N900s in sync with iCal and Google Calendar, since Nokia doesn’t support this by default yet.
While I followed this piece of advice on setting up your sync, I found it a bit difficult and thought of writing my own simpler way.
The requirements
- N900 – please update it to the latest Maemo version
- Macintosh with iCal, synced to your Google account (get instructions for this from Google Calendar help)
Step 1
Go to your settings and find the “Mail for exchange” -button under Connectivity.
Step 2
You should see a view like this. Click Next to continue setup.
Step 3
Enter your e-mail address to the top field (I have tested this with Google accounts and thus I can’t guarantee this works with Google Apps accounts). Enter your password and check the username is correct. Leave the domain part blank. Press next to continue to the next step.
Step 4
For the server, enter m.google.com and make sure the port is 443 and secure connection is checked. Once you’ve entered these – press next.
Step 5
When you get to the step where you need to choose what to synchronise – only check to sync calendar and tasks. Press next to move forward.
It might give you a warning, click the screen to “ok” it and move forward.
Step 6
You get to this page, and you’re almost set. I strongly suggest you add the synchronised content to a new calendar, so click Advanced settings.
Step 7
Scroll down to the part where you see Calendar and tasks. In there, click Calendar and choose New. Once set – click Save. (Note: you won’t be able to name the calendar or anything in this step – you’ll have to do this from the Calendar settings)
Step 8
Once you’ve move forward from the Advanced settings, your N900 starts syncing with Google. This might take some time so give it a minute or so at least (depending on how much there is to sync).
Step 9
This is where you end up after setting up the Sync between N900 and Google. You can set the automatic syncs from the system settings under Mail for exchange if you want to set sync intervals during weekdays for example.
Now, when you add something to iCal it should automatically now sync it to Google and when your N900 has reached its sync interval (or you wish to sync it manually) – it will update itself with the new material.
All done!
If you’ve followed the steps above, you should have successfully setup your sync between Nokia N900 and Google Calendar (and iCal – if you have it synced, like I have). I’m not an expert in this, but let me know how this works for you!
Enjoy!