Comments on: BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, Storm Announced Stateside

By: LKC

LKC — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:48:02 +0000

OK, Badge . . . nice to know that we have with us the world’s greatest expert on computer use. How condescending of you!!!! Why should ANYONE have to pay extra for 3rd party software just to be able to sync a Blackberry with his/her Mac????? Stop bitching??? All the complaints you’ve read are valid. I am an experienced user (of PCs and the Mac) and that has NOTHING to do with this situation. Why should anyone who has shelled out their hard-earned bucks have to use software that is a “little tricky” and that one has to “fool around a bit and take it really slow”. WHAT???????????????

Give me a break and get off your high-horse. I can tell by the tone of your response that you are nothing if not a total JERK!!

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:48:19 +0000

I finally managed to get my Storm and Mac to sync. I have Pocket Mac and I believe it might have been the advice to connect the blackberry before opening Pocket Mac that helped.

By: Heather Goettsch

Heather Goettsch — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:45:50 +0000

I finally got Pocket Mac to sync my Storm. I believe it was the connecting the blackberry before opening the Pocket Mac that helped.

By: James Beaver

James Beaver — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:49:17 +0000

You must always remembet to restart you Mac ater Installs just to make sure there are no glitches. With Pocket Mac You must connect the blackberry before opening pocketmac otherwise It won’t sync. You must also get the most upto date version.There are threads out there that will help you out. Just give it time and your storm will surprise you and make you happy!!! I’ve had mine for three weeks and I LOVE IT!!!

By: DENNIS

DENNIS — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:45:01 +0000

Berrygood is right
Mark/Space Missing Sync is very good and works great with iCal 10.5.v
It is worth the $39.00

By: JHype876

JHype876 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:18:14 +0000

none of these programs worked for my bb bold apple and RIm need to do something about this… Love my apple but windows is ahead in this game :(

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:22:52 +0000

I just got a Storm yesterday after two happy, flawless years with an 8703e. I was tempted by the iPhone but didn’t want to switch from Verizon – I went through years of agony with other providers before being happy with their service. First Storm phone was a dud, rebooted all day long (every time the phone ‘fell asleep’ it would reset and reboot). Thankfully, Verizon Store swapped it for a new one this morning. I was about to install firmware .114 but glad I didn’t as the Verizon tech said he had to scan for the hacked firmware before trading it in for a new phone (before I even mentioned I was considering it), noting that using the RIM-leaked firmware ‘voids the warranty.’ New phone at least will revive from sleep without crashing. Progress.

However, my primary computer is a Mac aluminum G4 Powerbook, and it won’t sync. It doesn’t even recognize the USB drive. Switch to my terrible Vista-OS laptop and it recognizes the phone, but then the BB Install disks won’t work! I’ve never seen a “can’t read device” error on a fresh-out-of-the-box DVD before. So I’m in the middle of the 200+ MB download from BB, and it looks like I’m stuck having to sync this to my PC, which is quite disappointing.

By: Blackberry Storm Price

Blackberry Storm Price — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:03:54 +0000

Just got my Storm last night and going through all the information and comments online. Thanks for the info.

By: Sherrilyn

Sherrilyn — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:01:44 +0000

Hello. Had the Storm for about a week. I like it. Got the Storm instead of iPhone because we have been with Verizon for a while. Got in on the buy one get one free offer. PocketMac didn’t work at first. Contacted email help from BlackBerry and they helped me to sync contacts and notes but not iCal, iTunes or iPhoto. I’m waiting for another reply from them. I keep getting an error that there’s no media card present. I admit I am not a very technical person but can usually get through things in time. Does anyone have ideas how to get iTunes or iPhoto to sync? Thanks!!

By: Blackberry Storm Man

Blackberry Storm Man — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:56 +0000

The Blackberry platform in general is very business oriented. Your Blackberry Storm comes with free Mac sync software right in the box but you will want to download the latest version from the web instead!

By: berrygood

berrygood — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:50:42 +0000

So far the only reliable, feature-rich application to offer true synching for all the latest version of the BlackBerry, including the Storm and Bold, is The Missing Sync from the folks at Mark/Space.

It works just great for me:

http://www.markspace.com/products/blackberry/blackberry-sync-mac-software.html

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:27:36 +0000

Badge- can you go into more detail re what you did to make the syncing work….I bought the storm 12-15-08. Since then I have wasted endless amounts of time trying to get it sync with my Mac OS 10.5.6. I was able to sync the contacts, itunes and iphoto until I upgraded to 10.5.6 (why why why did I do that?). After the 10.5.6 upgrade the mac no longer sees my media card so I guess I will have to wait for a patch for that. I have never been able to sync with iCal. At the moment it is not syncing with anything.

At work I tried to sync with Groupwise calendar. The first time was no problem. The 2nd time- today- was horrific. All my 2009 appts were deleted on Groupwise. No matter how I sync I cannot get Groupwise to “see” the appts that are (thankfully) still on the BB. I have started to enter them back manually and ask other sot resend appts. I am beginning to think this devise will not meet my needs. I am using two e-mails accounts rcn and mac and want to sync with my work calendar without syncing with work e-mail. It is randomly )?) assigning e-mails accounts to appts and then when I sync with groupwise it doesn’t see the appts because groupwise is not rcn or mac. I am going to try one last effort tomorrow with Verizon phone support. Then buy the missing sync? I really don’t want to spend more money on this thing if I am just going to return it. Anyone out there trying to do what I am doing and getting it to work? Any suggestions?

What I would do to have an iphone – but it is not compatible with groupwise of course the bb storm may not be either!

By: Badge

Badge — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:05:00 +0000

Stop blaming blackberry for all of your technical difficulties. I bought the storm yesterday and I HAVE synced it with my macbook through pocketmac. At first, it is a little tricky but if you fool around a bit and take it really slow, it can sync properly. Everything I wanted to sync, calendar, music, photos, address book.. it’s all on there. Stop bitching and complaining just because you don’t know how to use a computer properly.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:48:12 +0000

I sure wish you folks would date your comments. I just bought a BBStorm 1-1-9. It is my first one. Not too happy so far, but have to change habits. So sorry to hear the news above. Is it worth downloading the Sync software? I have been a Mac head since its birth in 1984. BUT, I won’t get an iPhone due to the AT&T commitment. I’d do without a phone before going back to AT&T. Heard a rumor on the news last night that Apple may open their iPhone to Verizon, et al soon. If it is before Feb 1, I may switch!

By: Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:42:05 +0000

@Amber-Lee

The Missing Sync does offer a demo, according to Softpedia: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Communications/The-Missing-Sync-for-BlackBerry.shtml I haven’t tested it, since I don’t have a BB myself, but hopefully it works for you.

Also, those of you waiting for the official Media Sync for Mac can sign up here to be notified of its release: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/features/media/macsignup.jsp

Hope this helps, I know its a big pain. My dad complains daily.

By: Amber-Lee Wolverton

Amber-Lee Wolverton — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:25:32 +0000

I purchased the Blackberry Storm and I use both Mac and PC. With pocket mac, I can’t even get it to work. I get an error about not being able to connect to the device. I have had to use my pc but I keep all my media on my mac. I heard about The Missing Sync for Blackberry, but they do not seem to offer a demo and I’m certainly not going to spend $39.95 for software that may not even work.