If you’re an O2 customer you can setup your iPhone to synchronise or backup contacts to the O2 Bluebook service. If you have not registered for O2 Bluebook yet, go to http://bluebook.o2.co.uk/ and follow the joining instructions.
Once registered, login and click on Contacts and then “Set up a phone”. The iPhone model won’t be listed so choose another device such as the Nokia N95.
Next download and install the free Synthesis SyncML Client for iPhone from Apple’s App Store and configure it with the following settings:
Server URL: http://o2contacts.o2.co.uk/syncml
SyncML Version: SyncML DS 1.2
User: your_o2_portal_username@o2.co.uk
Password: your_o2_portal_password
Tap on ‘Start Synchronisation’ and marvel as your contacts go whizzing around the ether and appear like magic in your Bluebook account.
Follow-up:
You may see an “Access denied” error message the first time you attempt to synchronise. It seems to resolve itself if you try again with the same settings.
For the first sync I recommend that you ‘push’ your iPhone contacts to the server:
Settings > Contacts > Sync Mode > Update Server
Known issues:
- Bluebook doesn’t support the ‘Company’ field and so contacts that only have the ‘Company’ field populated (no First or Last name) will appear as “(no name)” in the Bluebook contacts list
- It is not possible to select a single contact group, so all contacts are synchronised
- Contact photos are not synchronised from the iPhone
victor. I did exactly as you described but when I look at the contacts that were uploaded from my iphone I found that the names were OK but no phone numbers were attached. Any clues? Many thanks
michael_volinese
26 Dec 08 at 3:26 pm
Have you tried this again recently Michael? I think O2 made some changes to the field mappings and it works a lot better now.
Victor
25 Feb 09 at 5:38 pm
hi victor
i’m new on iphoen and i was over the moon when i’ve found out that i could back up my contacts from my iphone to o2 bluebook….
i did exactly you said here but it faild, the respond is: sync faild: invalid data from server (wrong URL?)
any idea?
christina
taiwaneselady
4 Jun 09 at 11:47 am
also on my blebook it says i have unsynchronised devices!
;-(
taiwaneselady
4 Jun 09 at 12:09 pm
hey thank you so much for this, it worked just as you said, the first time an error came up but you just have to press sync once more and it should work. all my contacts are online now, but is there a way to sync my messages? i want to keep them somewhere but my iphone is running out of space. thanks again!
missjessd
19 Jun 09 at 2:09 pm
Is there a way I can sync contacts back to iphone from bluebook?
smudger2468
20 Jun 09 at 11:00 am
**UPDATE After a couple of days syncing the contacts, it should also automatically sync messages without any further adjustments.
However, I am not sure what happens when messages are deleted off of the phone, are they kept in bluebook or deleted as well? My guess is that they should be kept, as this is the whole point in the service, but any help would be appreciated!
missjessd
2 Jul 09 at 11:14 am