Don't pin any hopes on getting google calendar sync to work...

I have been trying to get this to work for some time now.

You see, I don't have Outlook installed on my PC: I use Google
services for just about everything. Anyhow, I resent having to dock
the Jornada and sync with my PC. I have a wireless card in the
handheld, so shouldn't I be able to do this over-the-air?

Well, as is often the case, the HPC predates google's sync services
and any software I could find requires a higher version of the OS and
.net CF 2.0. I could get around the versioning problem using tools
such as "executability check" but not the .net CF requirement. There
is absolutely no way to install it on this machine. You can install
.net CF 1.0, but this is not compatible with any of those apps.












The closest I have come to getting google sync to work is by
installing an old Pocket PC shareware application called "TTSync". It
will run if you have the Redgear utility installed. However, as you
can see from the picture, it doesn't run very well.

Nevertheless, I tried ediing the .ini file in the TTSync folder with
the the server details for Goosync.com (where I have registered an
account) and eventually I had success. The sync process seemed to work
and I had my google calendar appointments and contacts appearing in
Pocket Outlook.

Sadly, this only seems to work once, and then I have to delete my
device profile on goosync and re-add it for the sync to work again,
and when it does work for subsequent tries, it duplicates all the
data.

Therefore I have given up for the time being, but at least the above
shows that it is at least technically possible.

Sent from my HP Jornada 720