Hi,
How does the Android / HTC Calendar works?
I meant, does it always use Google Calendar?
That's OK, but does it has "birthday" and "anniversary" kind of reminder?
If yes, does it remind you at 00:00 (past midnight) like Windows Mobile?
I hate that on Windows Mobile, why would I want to be reminded of birthday at midnight .... Option like "Remind birthday/anniversary at [XX:YY] the day after" would be better.
I don't know if it always use Google Calendar but about the automatic birthday reminder, there is no notification at all. You'll just see it as an event in the day.
To see birthdays and other contact events, you have to add the corresponding calendar in your google calendar settings.
I hope reminder will be a coming feature cause it's not so difficult as it already exist for other kind of event...
If you forget your better half's birthday or god forbid an anniversary the phone reminding you the next day will be the least of your worries lol!
Bummer, this is quite strange that "reminder" is not there in Android calendar.
Because I think this should be one of "smartphone" core / main feature.
gogol said:
Bummer, this is quite strange that "reminder" is not there in Android calendar.
Because I think this should be one of "smartphone" core / main feature.
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Reminders are there! But google calendar doesn't notify contact's birthday automatically!
If you want, you can register a reminder manually
Log into your Google Calendar, set up an event that re-occurs annually, and set the reminder options. Your device's Android Calendar will automatically sync with your Google Calendar and you will receive reminders in your device's notification bar/window of events along with whatever notification sound you selected.
Also don't forget that Google intend android to be developed in the wild, while most manufacturers are developing they tend to stick with the stuff that is going to sell. Unfortunately that means things like active wallpaper and sence UI. Search the market, loads of good calendar apps!
This sounds interesting. I have Google Calendar Sync automatically sync with my Outlook calendar every couple of hours. So if I understand this right, HTC Calendar will then automatically sync with Google Calendar and there pick up any changes I have made in Outlook on my PC. So I won't have to sync manually between Outlook and my Desire.
Have I understood that right? Sorry, I am new to Android and looking forward to getting my Desire next week.
Thanks Your explanation is very good.
I am trying to avoid Microsoft Office because if I use Google service, I don't have to sync via "cable" to my PC.
With Google Calendar, I can edit the calendar wherever and sync it via internet (3G/Wi-Fi) ... nice!
Now, only if the HTC Calendar has a nice looks and presentation (day view, week view, month view ... LIST VIEW).
shaneaus said:
Log into your Google Calendar, set up an event that re-occurs annually, and set the reminder options. Your device's Android Calendar will automatically sync with your Google Calendar and you will receive reminders in your device's notification bar/window of events along with whatever notification sound you selected.
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gogol said:
Thanks Your explanation is very good.
I am trying to avoid Microsoft Office because if I use Google service, I don't have to sync via "cable" to my PC.
With Google Calendar, I can edit the calendar wherever and sync it via internet (3G/Wi-Fi) ... nice!
Now, only if the HTC Calendar has a nice looks and presentation (day view, week view, month view ... LIST VIEW).
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The calendar does all that, and yes it does do notifications at whatever time you specify.
norm2002 said:
This sounds interesting. I have Google Calendar Sync automatically sync with my Outlook calendar every couple of hours. So if I understand this right, HTC Calendar will then automatically sync with Google Calendar and there pick up any changes I have made in Outlook on my PC. So I won't have to sync manually between Outlook and my Desire.
Have I understood that right? Sorry, I am new to Android and looking forward to getting my Desire next week.
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Yes that's right. The same would happen if you were to get outlook to sync to google contacts.
To add Birthdays from Google contacts to your Google Calendar.
1. Using a computer go to calendar.google.com
2. Top Right corner, click on settings/calendar settings.
3. Under Calendar settings click Calendars
4. By Other Calendars, click Browse Interesting Calendars
5. Under Interesting Calendars, select More
6. Subscribe to the Contacts' Birthdays and Events calendar.
7. Return to Calendar, your Contacts' Birthdays should now be appearing.
8. On your phone open the calendar app and go to menu/more/refresh
9. Go to menu/more/calendars and make sure the new CBE calendar is checked.
10. Back to Calendar. The birthdays should now be showing.
11. If they do not appear, try menu/refresh.
12. If they still do not appear go to menu/more/calendars/remove and remove the CBE calendar then menu/more/calendars/add and readd the CBE calendar (this is what I had to do).
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Now, only if the HTC Calendar has a nice looks and presentation (day view, week view, month view ... LIST VIEW).
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Try "Calendar Pad", it's in the market and free:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/jp.ne.gate.calpad
Note that it has one little problem on Android 2.1 (editing an all-day event would move it to the next day) but this was probably an Android bug because with 2.2 this no longer happens
Is there a way to change the colors ICS assigns to calendars?
I am syncing several corporate calendars on one account and a couple personal calendars on another account. None of the calendars display the same color which has been chosen for it under the web interface (i.e. one calendar displays as blue online while it is grey on my Nexus). There does not appear to be any way to change a calendar's assigned color within the ICS app.
I am either missing something or this is a pretty large oversight on Google's behalf. I was expecting a tighter integration between Android and Google Apps. It is pretty disappointing that I could at least reassign colors on my Blackberry's but not Android.
Assign the colors in Gmail from a PC and the app will sync to the same colors. Not an ICS issue, has been this way for a while.
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Assign the colors in Gmail from a PC and the app will sync to the same colors. Not an ICS issue, has been this way for a while.
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That is the issue. I have assigned colors in Gmail but they do not sync on the Nexus. Greens are Blue, Reds are Grey.....etc
Did you ever fix this? Having the same issue.
edit: http://snoep.it/android-ics-and-exchange-calendar-colors/
Yes I did. It appears that the issue was due to using the "old" theme instead of the new google themw. Which is a dissappointment since the calendar colors in the old theme were better than the bright shades in the new one.
I have the new calendar theme but I am getting the old calendar colors :/ Dull and dark colors.
Stock calendar. All looks good when I look at the calendar on google/computer.
Phone set to sync with my google calendar and add on calendars.
I have repeating events, add on calendars for sports, holidays, phases of the moon and regular calendar entries.
Set on my phone to sync all of these.
When I open the calendar on the phone it does not show the sports. There are solid colored lines across the top of the calendar with no printing visible. When I click on one it brings up the edit screen for that entry.(the repeating events)
Are all these issues due to a buggy app? Hope to fix in an update? Or do I need to change something on the phone?
Thank you.
Hey, I'm looking for a calendar app that syncs google calendar and displays the color of the events I place on my browesr.(for exmaple- docotr appointment is red on my brower's calendar I want it to be red on my phone aswell).
Anyone is familiar with such app? is it even possible?
Thanx
Doesn't the built in calendar already doing that?
miata said:
Doesn't the built in calendar already doing that?
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Not that I can see, all of my event in the calendar app have a single color of green(which i cant seem to find a way to change aswell...).
Yuvs12 said:
Not that I can see, all of my event in the calendar app have a single color of green(which i cant seem to find a way to change aswell...).
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You can change it from your desktop. Log in to Google, click on calendar, and where it has your your calendar name and Tasks below it (could be different on yours). If you select the drop down arrow, you can select a different color. This will sync to your phone also.
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You can change it from your desktop. Log in to Google, click on calendar, and where it has your your calendar name and Tasks below it (could be different on yours). If you select the drop down arrow, you can select a different color. This will sync to your phone also.
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Thanx, that answers my question on how to change the overall color on my calendar, but im still looking for a way/an app that gives me diffrent colors for each event like on my brower's calendar.
up.
If you wanted a widget, you could try Simple Calendar widget
No they were right, go via the web to your Google calendar and pick the event and you can change the color of just that event. I've done it before so I know it works. I even have separate calendars with different colors too.
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No they were right, go via the web to your Google calendar and pick the event and you can change the color of just that event. I've done it before so I know it works. I even have separate calendars with different colors too.
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yea i know i can do that in my web's google calendar but the event's color wont show up on my phone, all the events have the same color on my g-nexus...
and thanx to whoever offered the widget, im not looking for a widget but thanx anyway
Hi Folks,
I saw that #C0COLOR# actually returns the color of the calendar and not the individual event. So, i have got two calendars synced up with my google calendar. It shows Green for all events coming from calendar 1 and lighter green for all events coming from calendar 2.
My question is... is there a way to show the event color, note that while creating a new entry in google calendar you can choose the event color, and that's exactly what i want the variable to return (the color code).
Regards,
Harsh Jayara