After you switched modes, did you make a change to a contact and then sync? That's needed to force Spanning Sync to scrub the offending characters out of contact names.
Thanks, Charlie On Feb 9, 9:19 pm, Hun Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Charlie, > > I selected google compat and my iPhone still shows the X's (as well as > in Gmail Contacts there being extra 'spaces' after first/last name). > > Any ideas? > > Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography |www.ghkim.com > > On Feb 9, 2009, at 02-09-09 05:10pm, cwood wrote: > > I'd appreciate it if you could send a very detailed description of the > problem, with an example, to [email protected]. The exact > address in question would help. > > Thanks, > Charlie > > On Feb 9, 5:17 pm, Tompie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Charlie, > > > I had the same problem when trying the Google sync to my iPhone and > > your hint solved it. The "Gmail compatibility" option does have a > > nasty side-effect though, addresses are no longer correctly synced to > > Google. In the gmail contact editor, it is already visible that the > > postal code shifts all of a sudden behind the city name, after syncing > > to the iPhone and editing an entry, the real damage is visible: the > > sync to Gmail has apparently concatenated "city" + 3 x spaces + > > "postal code" to create a new city name. > > > Any fix for this ? > > > Thanks, > > > Tompie > > > On Feb 9, 11:36 pm, cwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I haven't seen this yet, but I bet I know what it is: Google is > >> replacing the invisible Unicode characters we use to delimit fields > >> (when using the "Preserve Address Book data" mode) with X's. Bad > >> Google! > > >> To fix this, just turn switch Spanning Sync to Gmail compatibility > >> mode: > > >> * Open the Spanning Sync pref pane > >> * In the Contacts tab, uncheck and then re-check the "Sync contacts" > >> checkbox > >> * Choose "Preserve Gmail compatibility" > >> * Click OK > >> * Make some small change to any contact in Address Book to force a > >> "push" sync > >> * After the sync completes, the Unicode characters will no longer > >> exist in Google and subsequent syncs to your iPhone should remove > >> them > >> from your contacts there > > >> Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any > >> problems. > > >> Thanks, > >> Charlie > > >> On Feb 9, 3:52 pm, Hun Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Anyone seeing 'X's in address book contact details (first name, > >>> last name, > >>> address fields, etc.) after synching their iPhones via Exchange Sync > >>> (available today now)? I didn't see it before on my iPhone but > >>> now am > >>> seeing it after synching my gmail account as exchange (so it can > >>> sync mail, > >>> contacts, calendar real-time). :( I don't want to clean up every > >>> contact > >>> manually (600+). > > >>> Hun Kim | GH Kim Photography |www.ghkim.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
