Comments on: Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or iPod Touch

By: Swoppy

Swoppy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:55:25 +0000

I can’t get google to sync with my address book. I have a feeling you have to sync it with at leat one device to make it work… any ideas?

By: Eduardo Fenili

Eduardo Fenili — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:19:26 +0000

Thanks for the heads up :) I don't have an iPhone/iPod or iTouch so I simply made a new plist file and copied all your information from the screenshot. Works like a charm.

Just in case anyone else was wondering what to do if you didn't have that file.

Cheers

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:14:40 +0000

I also only have an iPod classic. I searched the web (with google images) for com.apple.iPod.plist and found an image with iPhone data. I made a new device and copied the necessary data.

By: Hannes Heß

Hannes Heß — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:50:54 +0000

Hi,
I have an ipod classic. I was wondering if I change the value, if my Mac and iTunes will still recognize my ipod as it should. I want to prevent that my classic is treated as an ipod touch and messes up everything.

Thanks for helping!

By: Joan Unterweger

Joan Unterweger — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:57:07 +0000

Like Jacques (post June 3) above, I have no ipod, and the com.apple.ipod.plist file does not exist in my computer. Can anyone explain what I can do. All help appreciated.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:52:28 +0000

I just tried this on a Mac without an ipod sync. I simply created a new plist with only the “dictionary” entries, and the “Family ID” entry. Everything works great.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:54:03 +0000

OK, I was able to change the family id of my iPod and AddressBook offered me the Google sync option. I’ve enabled it but nothing seems to happen. What do you have to do to actually sync?

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:44:18 +0000

Warning:
If you have many email addresses in your contacts in gmail, your iphone will become much much slower, as all of these are duplicated and pushed to your iphone.

I had about 400 genuine contacts in my Address Book, yet now my address book after sync is more like 2000 entries, most of which are email addresses I've emailed or cc'ed once, duplicated 3-5x.

Not sure why this happened but I'm not planning on using this Sync until they let me meaningfully differentiate between "people I've emailed (ie, including @craigslist.org)" and the contacts that I really care about.

For a company that prides itself on making meaning out of data, Google really loses here to Yahoo (which doesn't do sync all that well either).

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:17:26 +0000

I have no ipod, and the com.apple.ipod.plist file does not exist in my computer… any help welcome !