(In reply to comment #17)
> Ok. One thing I was confused about from the man page was on how to force a
> normal sync, not a slow one?

You cannot force a normal, incremental sync unless there was a successful slow
sync first.

A refresh sync is a one-way slow sync.

Use "syncevolution --sync refresh-from-local MyPhone addressbook" to refresh
the phone's address book from the data on your computer. "refresh-from-remote"
would replace the local data - use that if the data on your computer is older.