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
When you edit calendar entries the Description field gets overwritten by the Where field's contents! Is anyone else having this problem? This really sucks for me.
YES, I am having the exact same problem! It's very annoying to lose information that I spend time entering on my calendar.
To recap, using the calendar application, there is no way to edit the description field. Moreover, if you attempt to edit, then the description field is over-written with the location.
My workaround is to use Jorte Calendar (from the Market), which allows editing of the description field and doesn't corrupt it, unlike the native calendar.
Moreover, note that the description field is always one line, no matter how big of a description was entered through other interfaces (such as Google calendar on a browser or Jorte Calendar on the device). I am running stock FroYo 2.2 with OTA update, unrooted.
Quick question... I've just switched back to Sense from CM6, and I'm wondering if I am losing my mind.
Am I right in saying that it is NOT POSSIBLE to edit calendar entries using HTC calendar? That seems unbelievable to me, but so far the only options I can see are to create an entry or delete. There is no "edit" option. I'm 99% certain that the AOSP calendar has this.
Can someone please confirm?
Thanks,
Matt_TX
EDIT: Even more bizarre... I CAN edit entries created on my Exchange Calendar, but I CANNOT edit entries created on my Google Calendars. So weird!
My edit option seems to depend on where the entry comes from. If I add something striaght to the calendar I can edit it as I please. If it's something that sync'ed from lets say Facebook then I can not edit it. My work exchange also syncs and it all depends on what the event is and if it's something I originally made or not. All in all I think it depends on the type of even it is but I will also be watching this thread to see if someone has a little more info they can chime in with.
This is really very strange...
I can add, edit and delete apppointments on my Exchange calendar - regardless of where the entry was orignally made - Phone, OWA or Outlook.
I can ONLY add or delete (NO EDIT) appointments on my Google calendar(s) - regardless of where the entry was originally made - Phone or Web.
Anyone know why this is the case? AOSP calendar works just fine... Is this a bug in Sense?
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.
The native calendar and one I downloaded called Calendar seem to be in sync with each other regardless of how I set them. I set the native one to my sync with gmail calendar and the new one has a folder/calendar I created. No matter which account I select, the other calendar changes to it. I can't use them as two different calendars. Hope that was clear enough! Any thoughts?
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The native calendar and one I downloaded called Calendar seem to be in sync with each other regardless of how I set them. I set the native one to my sync with gmail calendar and the new one has a folder/calendar I created. No matter which account I select, the other calendar changes to it. I can't use them as two different calendars. Hope that was clear enough! Any thoughts?
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I can't help you directly but have you tried Agenda Widget Plus? It lets you choose which calendars to use (e.g. exchange or google calendars). It's not really a calendar app but has nice widget options
Android basically collapses all calendars into a single view. Depending on the app or widget, you can select which calendars to view, as well as to which calendar a new entry should be saved. The data is kept within each calendar, so if you delete one the other calendars will stay. If you use Outlook, its very much like the overlay view.
Hope that helps clear the confusion.
Sent from my Inspire 4G