Synchronising data on your phone

You can sync contacts, email, calendar events, and other information with your phone from multiple email accounts, synchronisation services and other kinds of accounts, depending on the applications installed on your phone. Synchronising your phone with other information sources is an easy and practical way to stay up to date.

You can:

access your Gmail™ , Google Calendar™, Google™ contacts, Google™ Chrome bookmarks and other Google services you use.

access your corporate email, contacts and calendar applications.

access your Facebook™ contacts, calendar, albums and other services you use.

synchronise your phone with an Internet server using SyncML™.

Synchronising with Google™

Synchronise your phone with your Gmail™ , Google Calendar™, Google™ contacts, Google™ Chrome bookmarks and data from other Google services you use. View and manage them from your phone just as easily as you would from a computer.

After synchronising, you can find Gmail™ in the Gmail™ application; Google Calendar™ in the Calendar application; Google™ contacts in the Contacts application; and other data in corresponding Google applications that you have installed.

To set up a Google™ account in your phone for synchronisation

1From your Home screen, tap .

2Tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

3Make sure that synchronisation is turned on so that applications can synchronise data automatically.

4Tap Add account > Google.

5Follow the registration wizard to create a Google™ account, or sign in if you already have an account.

6Mark the Back up & restore checkbox if you want to back up data to your Google™ account, then tap Accept.

7Tap Done.

8Tap your newly created Google™ account, then tap the items you want to synchronise.

To synchronise manually with your Google™ account

1From the Home screen, tap .

2Tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

3Tap the Google™ account you want to synchronise.

4Press , then tap Sync now.

To synchronise your browser with Google™ Chrome

1From your Home screen, tap .

2Tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

3Tap the Google™ account, then mark the relevant checkbox to synchronise the browser.

To remove a Google™ account from your phone

1From your Home screen, tap .

2Tap Settings > Accounts & sync.

3Tap the Google™ account you want to remove from the accounts list.

4Press , then tap Remove account.

5Tap Remove account again to confirm.

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