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#12 Unable to sync on BlackBerry 8100
When testing, testing phone calendar passes but all
other tests fail. I'm using a BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl)
and I have a hosted google calendar account as well.
When trying to sync, I get the second error.
Testing HTTP: Failed du to
java.lang.RuntimeException: HTTP connection to
http://www.google.com failed due to java.IOException:
Open tunnel - failure
Testing HTTPS: (all three of them)
Failed due to java.io.IOException: Open tunnel -
failure
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I have a BB 8100r and do not get this error; I get data downloaded from my Google calendar, but the data is incorrect (I've posted a seperate bug about that) -- I just thought I'd put a comment here so you know that it CAN work on the 8100.
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Oops ... an update on that last comment: I do get the same exception when using the username/password, but I CAN download data when using the google calendar private feed URL instead. To set this up, however, I have to set the username to '@' and delete the password, otherwise I think it tries to access an account for '@gmail.com' instead of switching over to the feed method. I also had to disable uploading as the feed method is obviously only for downloads to the phone.
that's the good news.
the bad news is the events downloaded from the URL are given the correct time of day, but are set to the "unix zero date" ie, they all get set to Dec 31, 1969. I've told them at work to expect me to be late for most of my appointments :)
Two closely related bugs: When entering the Google calendar URL, you must use the full huge painful URL -- I tried using tinyurl.com, but the gcalsync doesn't appear to honor the URL redirect. That's probably a feature request. Second: if you backspace all the way over the URL, including the http:// part, you cannot enter the URL because the Pearl will auto-capitalize that to Http and I don't think the browser will accept that protocol. This is a general problem with midp software and the Pearl, it has this very nasty 'feature' of auto-capitalizing EVERYTHING, and there's no way to turn it off (although you can edit the auto-text table word by word)
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Tmobile:
Settings -> Advanced -> TCP's" APN to
wap.voicestream.com with a blank username and password