Windows Phone 8: Solution how to Sync Calendar and Contacts

[phue77]

Hi all,

Today is a great day. I have found a native way how to sync calendar and contacts directly with Windows Phone 8 (you only need the GDR2-Update):

1) Add a Google account in WP8 Settings. Choose an invalid E-Mail and a Password.
2) Switch off your phone and restart the device
3) Edit the Settings of your new Google account
4) Give a valid Name of your account
5) Switch off sending E-Mail function
6) Activate Contacts and Calendar
7) In Carddav-Field:

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SERVERADDRESS:443/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/YOURLOGIN/contacts


8) In Caldav-Feld:

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SERVERADDRESS:443/remote.php/caldav/calendars/YOURLOGIN/defaultcalendar


If you are signing your SSL certificate by yourself you have to install this self signed certificate on your Windows Phone 8:

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openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private.key -out certificate.pem
openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.cer

The certificate.cer has to be imported, for example by Internet Explorer or by E-Mail as Attachement. Open it on Windows Phone an then install the certificate (after Installation the device has to be restarted).

Calendar-Syncronisation works fine. The contacts will not be added from Windows Phone 8 => Owncloud. I hope this will be fixed by next release from Owncloud...?

(Note for contact synchronization problems: This issue is solved since Version 6.0.0a)

You find on my blog a detailed instruction (with screenshots) how to configure Windows Phone 8 for Owncloud.

Yeah, am I the first...?

Greetings,
Peter

[hulluperuna]

Hi

I followed you step by step guide several times every time I try to sync the contacts or calendar I get an Error Code 80072EFD. It tells me that there was a problem connecting with the owncloud server.
When I try to open the same link I have add in the browser on the device it shows me a login screen. When I enter the credentials I can log in.

So the devcie seems to be able to reach the server and the credentials are correct.
What else could be an issue?

I am setting up the sync only in the local network so my link is:

http://192.168.10.47/owncloud/remote.ph ... E/contacts

Thanks HP

[phue77]

Hi HP,

80072EFD means that Windows Phone can not establish a connection to live Server. Which makes no sense in our case.

However, probably wants your Windows Phone establish a connection through cellular phone network. This could be the reason why internal IP number is not reacheable. Try to deactivate cellular network and force WIFI Connection.

best regards,
Peter

[bvlidk]

Hello there!

Thank you very much for this how to! It just works without any problem, after importing the self signed certificate.

And as a bonus - I also added my imap mail account. It works without any problem also.

/B

[th80de]

Hmm. I have the same error as hulluperuna. Also restarted the phone. Could it has something to do with the certificate? How can I check if it is installed proberly?

Edit:
I forgot to open port 443. So the error above is fixed.
BUT, now I have error 80072F0D, which seems to be a result of a mis-configured cert. What did you enter on creating the pem-file? Do I need to follow some specific rules on that?

[bvlidk]

BUT, now I have error 80072F0D, which seems to be a result of a mis-configured cert. What did you enter on creating the pem-file? Do I need to follow some specific rules on that?

I had the same error. I extracted the certificate using:

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openssl s_client -connect localhost:443

on the machine running owncloud - then copied the key (incl. -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE-----) into a file using a text editor, saved the file as "mycert.pem", and attached it to a mail to my self. Then opened the mail on the phone, opened the attachment and imported the certificate.

Note - it's important that you restart the phone _after_ you imported the certificate.

Anyway - today I signed up at http://startssl.com - they issues free personal ssl-certificates. It's almost as easy as create a self-signed certificate, and totally free.

Hope you get it to work.

[th80de]

Thanks. I "fixed" it by using the ssl-certificate files that came with my xampp installation instead of generating new ones with the commands from first post.

Now there is a problem with time zones for appointments created on the windows phone device after synced to owncloud (Workaround: using utc on server). But that's a different story

[bubblegum]

Maybe I am too silly for that job. I followed the instructions step by step. But it ends every time with the error 80072F0D. I tried to create a certificate with the 2 lines for the console. I also tried to create it with "openssl s_create ..". Every time i followed exactly the instructions.

I am using a hosting server with SSH access. Owncloud is running at a subdomain. The domain is not SSL ready. What is going wrong? Does somebody has a hint for me?

[xaloy]

Bei mir hat es ohne Probleme geklappt.
schaut das der Server auch das richtige Zertifikat hat.
ich musste eine pem Datei auf meinem phone installeren.
ging nur per email Anhang
htc x8

[Westfale]

Hello,

I have the same problem as hulluperuna, and I also only want to synch at home.

Has someone solved this already?

Best regards,
Martin