How to delete PC Sync Calendar? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm having a spot of bother with syncing my Desire with Outlook, using HTC Sync 2. I am trying to use the 'Repair' option to delete and replace the 'PC Sync' calendar, as duplicate entries keep popping up, but it never seems to fully replace the calendar. When I try to delete the PC Sync calendar on the phone itself, the option doesn't appear, only the 'My Name' calendar. I am wary of HTC Sync, because I once managed to delete all of my contacts and calendars from the PC using it, but luckily had a backup on my HD2. Is there any way to fully delete the PC Sync calendar on the Desire?
Thanks.

I came to so much grief with HTC Sync I uninstalled it and now use MyPhoneExplorer which is working ok for me at the moment.

Oh, I thought that was only for Sony Ericsson phones. I'll have to give that a try. In the meantime, I created a blank calendar on Outlook, and did a repair sync with HTC Sync 2, and that wiped the calendar on the Desire, so I could start afresh.

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HTC Sync Not Transferring Contacts

I have the HTC EVO and I have tried to use the Sync software that came on the phone and then I updated to the latest version which fixed the problems of freezing and not reading the phone but I still cannot get my calender or contacts to sync. I get the Sync successful message but it shows zero contacts or calender dates for the phone and the computer. Any ideas?
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not sure about the calendar, but for the contacts, try this:
go to "people"
Then click on Menu, and make sure google is checked.
I have everything sync'd through google it is already checked by default. The problem I am having is syncing my contacts and calender using HTC Sync onto my PC running Win7 64-bit and Microsoft Outlook 2007.

[Q] HTC Synch no work with Froyo Outlook Calendar

Ok..finally got my Desire to Froyo..have been quite happy until I noticed that I can no longer upload Calendar updates to my PC's Outlook calendar.
I can make changes on the my Windows 7 PC's Outlook Calendar and have that go to my Desire but any Calendar changes on my Desire will not synch up to my PC's Outlook calendar. There are no problems with synch'ing contacts. Yes, I used the PC Synch calendar on the Desire.
This wasn't a problem before. Is HTC Synch not 100% compatiblewith Froyo?
Thanks for any insights.
PS:
1) Tried uninstalling/reinstalling HTC synch - no change there.
2) I've also noted that recurring entries in the calendar (eg: Birthdays) are getting duplicated on the days they occur (ie: 2 entries in the same day). Also, there are duplicate contacts being produced too.
sorry i'm not going to be much help here but i agree that htc sync is unpredictable at best. i constantly have to reboot my pc or phone or both to get sync to work and now my contacts have stopped syncing. again.
you might want to search for a leak of the updated version of htc sync to see if that helps. i'm assuming that it was pulled for a valid reason but it might be worth a try ...
DesireOwner10 said:
PS:
1) Tried uninstalling/reinstalling HTC synch - no change there.
2) I've also noted that recurring entries in the calendar (eg: Birthdays) are getting duplicated on the days they occur (ie: 2 entries in the same day). Also, there are duplicate contacts being produced too.
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I also have the same behaviour, new entries in the phone calendar are not added to the outlook calendar despite being flagged as "PC Sync"
For the birthday thing, I think that it is to do with the info you have stored against a contact in their contact card in outlook, if you have a date for their birthday in the details section of the contact, then sync repeatedly adds it to the calendar for you, even if it is there already
I have the same problem. So I've moved all Calendar entries in Outlook to temporary forder, then from Desire removed Outlook account, manually deleted all Outlook calendar entries in Desire's Calendar (they have left there, despite of account deletion) , then recreated Outlook account (Calendar after all these steps synced OK), and moved back all Calendar entries in Outlook from temporary folder back to main. This solved the non sync problem.
After all I've talked with Exchange specialist. He said, that for some reason Calendar database in Desire become corrupt, and after that the syncing become unimpossible.
Ok, I've managed to fix this (I think anyway!) works for me with outlook 2003, Couple of steps:
Step 1 (optional) gets your missing items onto your PC:
In HTC sync Manger (on PC) go into "settings" then calendar, then click properties, untick deafult calendar and then when selecting the folder to sync with, create a new calendar "temp" or something
Now sync with that calendar: for me this meant that everything on my phone (including the items not uploading before) now goes into this new calendar
Now go back and revert to syncing to the original calendar (the default calendar or me) and lo and behold the missing items now sync up to that too
I thought this was everything sorted, but new items created in the phone still don't sync up to outlook....
so Step 2:
On phone, go into settings, applications, manage applications, all
then for calendar and calendar storage apps go in and "clear data", this will leave you with an empty calandar on your phone, but don't panic...
in HTC sync manger (on PC) go into settings and unselect contact syncing (otherwise the PC will overwrite contact info)
Then go into "repair" and select option for PC to overwrite phone
you can now reselect contacts to sync too under settings menu in HTC sync
Having done this, everything is back on my phone and (for now at least) new appointment items created on the phone sync up correctly too
Hope this helps someone,
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THANKS!
GENIUS.
popkid's solution works. HTC should employ you..none of their ideas worked, your's did.
1000 cheers for taking the time to work out and post the solution!
Caution HTC Sync 3.0.5422
(Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.09.405.8-1.21.405.2_release4dua3bcrut4wrv30)
3.0 does not have the feature to do a repair - force copy clean from handset or PC.
For me, sych has resulted in a large number of yearly recurring all day events being duplicated and copied with a one hour adjustment - the new ones run from 1:00-1:00 and thus span two days.
I am back using 2.0.33 (which is not without bugs either)

[Q] Sync Phone Calendar with PC Calendar

Hello People,
I seem to be having problems with my HTC Desire Calendar.
I am using Desire fireware 2.1 & HTC Sync 2.0.33.
Everytime I add an event in my calendar on phone, it appears "BLUE" in the calendar (For some reason I have 3 calendars in my phone, 2x blue, "MY CALENDAR, & SIZZ calendar, 1x GREEN=PC Sync)
When I sync, it doesnt seem to update on my outlook.
If i add an event on my outlook and sync, it sync beautifully (both PC and phone)
But when I add an event on phone, and sync on PC, nothing gets synced in the calendar. Contacts get updated, but nothing else???
Anybody help?
when you create it on the phone you need to select the PC Sync account, that should be green on your phone = it will then sync.
If you select 'My Calendar' it goes to Google Calendar, not your PC
Cheers dave! Sorted!
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Syncing confusion

Hey guys,
I installed the HTC Sync program, I had Outlook open, I set it up to sync my Contacts to the Outlook Contacts folder. Then I made sure that the sync process was set up to override the computer with what was on the phone in all cases.
I sync... contacts deleted from the phone.
I've never understood this concept of syncing, can someone explain to me what I did wrong?
Secondly...I tried using "mybackup" from the market as a backup plan and my contacts never came back from there. Didn't work. The contact view shows how many I have but won't display them when I check them.

[Q] How do you remove the "PC Sync" Calendar?

Does anyone know how to remove the "PC Sync" calendar from an Android phone (HTC Desire) created when you use the HTC Sync software?
I've disabled it so the entries don't show in my calendar but I think that other apps (Calendar Snooze in particular) is still picking it up.
Thanks in advance.
I'd be interested in this as well.
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Does anyone know how to remove the "PC Sync" calendar from an Android phone (HTC Desire) created when you use the HTC Sync software?
I've disabled it so the entries don't show in my calendar but I think that other apps (Calendar Snooze in particular) is still picking it up.
Thanks in advance.
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I've a very similar problem!
I'd like to set my calendar entries (and contacts) to default to the google calendar and to stop asking me which one I want to use!
There is no direct way to avoid P Sync.
You can do it indirectly as below
1. Open you outlook and make a back up of your Calendar.
2. Delete all the entries in active calendar of outlook.
3. Start sync now.
4. Now the entries in you mobile are completely removed.
5. Change the sync option in HTC Sync app for Calendar as NO.
6. Sync again. Verify that you mobile doesnot contain any outlook entries.
It done now.
You can restore outlook from the backup and continue....
thats bad answer as we cannot remove calneder enteries from computer just to keep them on mobile phone, need some good answer for removing pc sync option to keep google calender sync on desire hd
it's not a bad answer...think again
1. Open your outlook and make a back up of your Calendar.
2 to 6 as above
STEP 7 - RESTORE YOUR OUTLOOK CALENDAR FROM BACKUP
hey listen - i synchronised very first time my desire hd with computer via htc sync and desire has extracted all mine calender enteries including old ones which i also had deleted from computer, i factory resetted my desire hd and than i stopped using htc sync tried syncing with google account which i exported computer outlook and imported in google account. but doing that ways also PC sync option is still selected under calender settings which is making ma lyf difficult by kepping those old enteries which i did very first time!!
can someone help me out with a solution to remove pc sync while using google calender, also note that i have factory resetted my device and not connecting to computer anymore but still its showing me old enteries which i connected with computer very first time. Please help me out as this is really frustrating!!
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Clear calendar storage data in Settings>Applications. Delete your mail account (if you have exchange or something) and re-add. Google is still fine. Then re-sync OTA.
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Better late than never... Try: Settings > Apps > All > Calendar Storage > Clear Data. Then just re-sync all your calendars except the PC Sync/Exchange
This sadly does not work for me on my Lenovo M7 tablet. The 'PC Sync' account remains despite me clearing the calendar storage data. Is it tied to some other app?

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