Sync contacts with gmail - no phone sync'd

Once I removed the Sony Ericsson from iSync, Google contacts no longer syncs. That's dumb. Turns out it it was a 'feature' only reversed in Snow Leopard.

Tried to set up so that sync happens without it:

http://lifehacker.com/393855/enable-google-contact-sync-without-an-iphoneipod-touch

There should be a plist file with the interval between syncs in it, but I don't have it. Someone suggested recreating the Google sync settings.

Tried to create a new address book entry and see if it syncs in the morning.

iSync Sony Ericsson W880i with Feisar plugin

Bought and installed Feisar's plugin for my phone, then ran iSync.

I set up an address book group called On Phone which will have all my contacts that are on the phone in it. Got to sync with that at first, to avoid deleting anything on the phone - the group is empty at first.

Took a couple of hours to get everything well organised, but then did a sync and it seems to work fine now.

Calender syncing won't work seemlessly though, because it seems to be only able to sync with calendars on the mac, not my gmail calendar. The option to sync phone items to the gmail one isn't available, so I make one called On Phone just for things I add on the phone and want to move into another calendar at home. That's not the end of the world for now though. And the main thing is that todo items sync!