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User profile for user: Hekarioth
Hekarioth Author
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Contacts synchronize with iPhone 3g OR!!! iCloud. Need help.

Hi,


Since about a week my contacts only synchronize with my iPhone 3g OR icloud.

Depending on wich selection i make in the adressbook preferences for "standard account".

When i put it on "local" it syncs with the iPhone, on "iCloud" with the cloud.


It started about a week ago when i noticed that all my contact on the mac suddenly are doubled.

So i started deleting the double ones.

After doing that i had some of them on the iPhone and some in the Cloud ( and all in the adressbook ).

Then followed another advise ( from the apple support community ):

Exported all the contacts from the adressbook on the mac.

Deleted everything from the Mac, iPhone and the Cloud.

And then put em back in.


Since then i have the aforementioned Problem. "Cloud OR phone"


Thanks for any help in advance.


2008 15" Macbook Pro running OSX Lion

iPhone 3g with the newest iOS (not jailbroken)

2008 Macbook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 3, 2011 1:10 PM

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User profile for user: Hekarioth
Hekarioth Author
User level: Level 1
9 points

Nov 3, 2011 1:33 PM in response to Sjazbec

Hi,


the curious thing is it worked for weeks now. Since the first day iCloud was released. I had the contacts in the cloud and on my Phone.

I knew the phone couldnt sync FROM the cloud but at least both should work for themselves.

If i get it right this means i cant have an iphone 3g and and iphone4s at the same time, both being in sync with my contacts?!

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User profile for user: Sjazbec
Sjazbec
User level: Level 4
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Nov 3, 2011 2:30 PM in response to Hekarioth

If i get it right this means i cant have an iphone 3g and and iphone4s at the same time, both being in sync with my contacts?!

exactly.


If you need to have calendar/contacts/etc in sync, you must opt-out of icloud and not use it on any device. Instead you go back to itunes sync - have iTunes on Mac/PC sync to iphone3g and 4s. But once you start using iCloud, the 3G is out, no sync anymore to the other(s).

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Contacts synchronize with iPhone 3g OR!!! iCloud. Need help.

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