iOS4 doesn’t like my Gmail contacts

Once upon a day there was a guy, a simple guy. A technology loving, athletic, admirable, majestic, smart guy. This guy owned an iPhone. Pretty, it was. Then this happened. Steve Jobs introduced the new features of the new highly anticipated iOS4, Apples new mobile operating system.

Of course, I was excited.. er, he was excited. If he was a puppy someone would have been cleaning the unfortunate secretion he would have created on the new lounge carpet. He felt like a kid with a new toy, or at least a release day for a new toy.

So then came along yesterday. The release of the new magical operating system which turns your iPhone into a multi-tasking sensation. If you were one of the sad sad people who were watching this feed I salute you for your patience, and smack you for your geeky sadness (You can smack me back, I did the same).

The new system works as expected. Though the are many people reporting issues, fortunately I’ve just had one.

The worst most annoying one!

I use the Exchange syncing service with Google. Which worked flawlessly.

Until now.

I have this many contacts in my address book: 0

My calender has managed to Sync, yet my emails have not. I receive an error about connecting to the Google mail servers when I try to sync.

As I can see, the issue has been discussed here, here, oh and here again which was linked back to here. So are there actually any solutions?

It’s been over 24 hours now, I still have no contacts. I’m about to kill Google.

Any readers have the same issues, and any possible fixes? I don’t want to result in having to use iTunes to sync my damn contacts.