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I must say that I love my Desire (have had it for about a week), except for some small kinks and I'm not the big fan of the HTC Sense lock-screen (I don't like the vertical "handle", I would much prefer the default Android one.. [any tips to get it is welcome]).
But there is one thing that annoys me, and I don't understand why they didn't implement. And that is birthday "reminders" in the calendar..
I like the HTC Calendar and I "love" the integration between Google Contacts (& Calendar), the phone and Facebook... For me (as a developer) it couldn't be much more work to integrate that into that calendar as well (the data is already there, you just have to show it [more or less..]).
Anybody know if there's a way to "fix" this (a setting I've missed) or a better calendar app that can handle this?
I know that you can include birthday info in your Google Calender from your Google contacts, but that's not "good enough". For one thing, I don't have all my friends (that I have on Facebook) in my Google Contacts and I have no intention to add them to it (or go through them and add their birthdays..)
I'm glad for any input..
All the best to you..
/Chris
(I used "Google [Service]" to be clear on what I was talking about)
I have the same problem. How do i make my device remimd me of my contacts b-day?
thanl you
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You have to do it via Google.
First you have to sync your contacts with your Google contacts. The birthday and anniversary details will be carried up to your Google contacts from your phone.
Then switch to your Google calendar. On the left hand side in the Other calendars section, click "Add", select "Browse Interesting Calendars" and click the "More" tab. From the displayed list click the "subscribe" link against "Contacts' birthdays and events."
This adds your contacts' birthdays to your Google Calendar, which when sync'd with your phone will appear on you phone's calendar.
I admit this is not straightforward and I would have liked to have seen the phone do this by itself.
And what can we do with the contacts stored on the phone and no as a gmail contact?
Thanks!
meson1 said:
You have to do it via Google.
First you have to sync your contacts with your Google contacts. The birthday and anniversary details will be carried up to your Google contacts from your phone.
Then switch to your Google calendar. On the left hand side in the Other calendars section, click "Add", select "Browse Interesting Calendars" and click the "More" tab. From the displayed list click the "subscribe" link against "Contacts' birthdays and events."
This adds your contacts' birthdays to your Google Calendar, which when sync'd with your phone will appear on you phone's calendar.
I admit this is not straightforward and I would have liked to have seen the phone do this by itself.
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Wonder if someone could help me with this. I had this all setup and it showed my birthdays fine.
Then I added a couple more birthdays to contacts and they didnt show even after syncing rebooting an taking off the calendar and putting it back on.
Now I cannot at all get the calendar to show ANY birthdays. Ive got it all set up right, and i;ve syncd. They show on the google calendar on the laptop here, it shows all tasks and birthdays, however the calendar on the phone doesnt show anything other than uk holidays. Ive messed with every setting possible...HELP!
Julian1984 said:
And what can we do with the contacts stored on the phone and not as a gmail contact?
Thanks!
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On your phone you have three types of contacts: SIM contacts, Phone contacts and Google. Obviously, SIM contacts reside on your SIM card; Phone contacts in the phone and Google contacts on Google Mail.
As you have pointed out only Google contacts will synchronize with your Google Mail account. But all is not lost. You won't have to type in all your contact details again because you can link contacts together in the phone.
What you do is to create Google contacts that duplicate each of your phone contacts. Just create each Google contact on your phone with the same name as each existing phone contact. You do not need to include any details, just create them as empty contacts. Once you've done this, they will appear as two separate contacts in the contact list.
Now the magic. For each person, edit either one of their two contacts. You will see that you can link each contact with another contact. If you've used the same name for your Phone and Google contacts it will already be suggesting that these two can be linked together. So link them.
Now you will find your two linked contacts now appear as one in your contact list. And these linked contacts will now synchronize with your Google Mail account contacts and carry all the details from your original Phone contact with them.
Hope this helps.
eboBirthday from the Marketplace. Free.
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Then I added a couple more birthdays to contacts and they didnt show even after syncing rebooting an taking off the calendar and putting it back on.
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I had this too. Only birthdays that were assigned to contacts at the time I created the calendar online show now.
I'm going to try and delete that calendar and re-create it but something is definitely wrong when you subsequently add birthdays after making that calendar.
Right, one thing I've found is that the birthdays I've added on the phone have NOT made their way back into Google's cloud. I've re-entered them in GMail online and re-created the calendar to show birthdays but they still aren't showing, not online and not in my phone!
Right, just re-added the calendar again online and it's now showing in the web calendar. After a refresh of the calendar on the phone, it's now showing there too.
So numerous bugs. If you want to see your birthdays, the process seems to be:
1) Enter them all online in your Gmail contacts
2) Delete then recreate your "friends birthdays" calendar in Google Calendar online
3) Refresh your phone
If you add any new birthdays, you'll need to do this all again. Pretty poor
tifosi256 said:
Right, just re-added the calendar again online and it's now showing in the web calendar. After a refresh of the calendar on the phone, it's now showing there too.
So numerous bugs. If you want to see your birthdays, the process seems to be:
1) Enter them all online in your Gmail contacts
2) Delete then recreate your "friends birthdays" calendar in Google Calendar online
3) Refresh your phone
If you add any new birthdays, you'll need to do this all again. Pretty poor
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sounds like a horror story - here was i thinking that someone would have written an app to read birthdays from built-in phone contacts ... :-(
mrdo said:
sounds like a horror story - here was i thinking that someone would have written an app to read birthdays from built-in phone contacts ... :-(
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Well, it's certainly sub-optimal. I'd say the main bug is the phone not sending birthdays entered on it back to Google. The non-refreshing calendar thing I can kind of understand. I guess the additional calendars are assumed to be static (like UK Public holidays etc). Just a guess. I'd heard about the birthday syncing bug on another android phone, kinda hoped it would be sorted on the Desire.
tifosi256 said:
Well, it's certainly sub-optimal. I'd say the main bug is the phone not sending birthdays entered on it back to Google. The non-refreshing calendar thing I can kind of understand. I guess the additional calendars are assumed to be static (like UK Public holidays etc). Just a guess. I'd heard about the birthday syncing bug on another android phone, kinda hoped it would be sorted on the Desire.
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Thanks tif I will try it later. Got that birthday program and its cool but I'd like to see them in my calendar too!
tifosi256 said:
Well, it's certainly sub-optimal. I'd say the main bug is the phone not sending birthdays entered on it back to Google. The non-refreshing calendar thing I can kind of understand. I guess the additional calendars are assumed to be static (like UK Public holidays etc). Just a guess. I'd heard about the birthday syncing bug on another android phone, kinda hoped it would be sorted on the Desire.
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For me it takes about 12-18 hour until birthdays are synched with my calendar, but only when i refresh the calendar manually (menu -> more -> refresh)
Try to add a birthday @ google contacts, wait 24 hours, refresh the calendar.
The only way it works for me.
When i add a birthday to a contact (when creating the contact), the contact disappers lol.
@meson1: I thank you for your post, and I guess it could be helpsome for someone but as I said in the original post. I know that you can do that, bit I don't want that.. Don't want to go through and manually add a hundred people to my Google contacts.. First there are already too many posts in there, second: too much work for too litle result and för something that more or less should be given..
I will check out that app. But I'm still looking för a good solution to this problem.. (anybody know if there's än API för the calendar?)
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ChaosOfChris said:
@meson1: I thank you for your post, and I guess it could be helpsome for someone but as I said in the original post. I know that you can do that, bit I don't want that.. Don't want to go through and manually add a hundred people to my Google contacts.. First there are already too many posts in there, second: too much work for too litle result and för something that more or less should be given.
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I'm afraid I don't know a way to do this for all your contacts enmasse. My experience with this stuff is limited. I looked into all this shortly after I got my Desire not having had any experience of Google Mail or Android before. After some experimentation that is what I have found.
I do agree that this part of the functionality is extremely lacking and it seems from other peoples' posts that it is also extremely buggy too. I do not like having to go via Google to do this stuff. I think this stuff should be integrated into the phone by itself and then linking to Google and anything else should be an extra.
It's all the more annoying that it's an obvious function to include, but that no-one has connected the dots. Or at least connected them in a technically competant fashion.
If I knew how, I'd knock up a really simple app to let you sync birthdays and anniversaries in the contacts to the calendar. As it is I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Android SDK and Java let alone doing anything practical.
Perhaps there's someone out there that is further up the Android Development learning curve that can put something together.
If I had the time (and not already too many projects to work with) I could perhaps put something together (If I knew there was some nice APIs)...
But I tried eboBirthday and it works ok.. (Far from ultimate and I can't even call it "good"..). First it downloaded all the birthdays from Facebook (and displays it in a extremely plain interface). But I can't say that it went smooth.. It was a bit "buggy" and I got an error at the end (even if it seemed to have downloaded all the info fine).
Then by using eboBirthday Contact Sync (also free in the market) that match my Google Contacts with my Facebook contacts and updated them..
And when I looked at my Google Calendar, the info was already there (no need to remove the Contacts birthdays calendar etc).
And then I just synced my calendar in the phone and now, at least, got all the birthdays for my Google Contacts in my calendar (plus reminders from eboBirthday).
I'm having problems synching multiple Google calendars to my phone...
Under "My Calendars" in Google calendar (when viewing Calendar Settings via the desktop) I have my own named calendar. Under "Other Calendars" I have my wife's calendar, "Contacts' birthdays and Events", "UK Holidays" and I've just added a Google calendar called "England" which contains the upcomming World Cup Fixtures.
Everything in my original four calendars syncs fine - and if I use the "Create New Calendar" button to add another calendar under "My Calendars" that too appears on the phone, but try as I might I can do nothing to make the "England" calendar appear.
I actually had a similar problem just after getting the phone - but then it was with the "Contacts' birthdays and Events" calendar which I'd just added. It seems to me that whatever calendars are there when the phone first syncs will appear just fine, but if you add any extra "Other Calendars" they never show up.
I fixed the previous issue by doing a full system reset and starting over. That was fine then, because I'd had the phone less than a day, so hadn't set much up, but I don't want to keep doing this every time I want to add another calendar!
I found another discussion on the Google forums with a link to a solution that involved the following...
Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications
com.android.providers.calendar -> clear data
Forced a Calendar Sync and got all my Calendars
Trouble is, that was for a HTC hero, and there doesn't appear to be a com.android.providers.calendar app on the Desire!
I have tried...
Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications
Calendar storage -> Clear data
...That did clear everything and force a re-sync, but still the "England" calendar does not appear.
I've also checked it's not listed on the phone's calendar app under Calendars, and I've tried the "Add calendars" option there too, but that does nothing.
Has anyone got any ideas how I can resove this? I realise I could copy all the events from another calendar to my own one, but I'd rather be able to sync things automatically.
Thanks,
Matt
I've seen a few similar issues posted on various boards, without any concrete solutions, so I'm guessing it may well be affecting others too - although admittedly, it's probably not a major issue, as how often do people chop and change their calendars?
Would someone be prepared to try adding another calendar (via their Desktop) and seeing if they can see it on their Desire? (i.e. From Google Calendar, select Other Calendar's, Add, Browse Interesting Calendars, then pick one to try - you can always remove it later.)
I also tried...
Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications
Calendar -> Clear data
...but this didn't help either.
My only other thought was that perhaps I'd hit a limit on the number of calendars, but I'd be surprised if that was the case already?
If I go into the calendars option on the phone I see...
My Calendar
<My named calendar>
Contact's birthdays and events
UK Holidays
<Wife's calendar>
PC Sync
If this is an issue for other people too, then perhaps it could be added to the "Flaws & annoyances with the HTC Desire..." thread.
Any assistance appreciated.
Instead of clearing the calendars data, look for 'Calendar Storage' and clear the data for that, followed by a reboot.
TractorMatty said:
If I go into the calendars option on the phone I see...
My Calendar
<My named calendar>
Contact's birthdays and events
UK Holidays
<Wife's calendar>
PC Sync
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On mine I see:
My Calendar
<My named Calendar>
Contact's birthdays and events
UK Holidays
PC Sync
My cousins calendar does not appear either.
Also, whats the difference between My Calendar, My Named Calendar and PC Sync?
Thanks Rusty, but I tried that the first time around with no luck.
Just to be sure, I just did so again and then immediately rebooted, but I still only get my original set of calendars back - no sign of the England world cup fixtures.
Psy-Blade said:
On mine I see:
My Calendar
<My named Calendar>
Contact's birthdays and events
UK Holidays
PC Sync
My cousins calendar does not appear either.
Also, whats the difference between My Calendar, My Named Calendar and PC Sync?
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I think My Calendar is local to the phone (i.e. not synched to a Google account, so you won't see stuff in there if you look online), and <My Named Calendar> is the Google one.
PC Sync is presumably one used if your using HTC Sync or some other program to sync with a calendar stored locally on your own PC. (I don't use HTC Sync though, as I've no need for it.)
I've got 2 calendars showing on the phone, my one and the UK Holidays one I picked out from the interesting list a while ago.
Just tried adding Englands WC fixtures and it's not showing in the list, but working fine on the desktop. Forced it to sync up and it made no difference.
Thanks for trying this Rusty - it seems to confirm that this is an issue, and not just me...
As far as I can tell it seems to be a problem adding ANY additional calendars, as I also tried adding ones that had events today - just in case it was something to do with nothing being in the calendar for a few weeks ahead (as is the case with the World Cup Fixtures).
As mentioned in my original post, it looks like this problem may not be Desire specific, but it looks like we could do with a Desire specific solution/workaround, as the Hero one's not appropriate for us.
I may look into an alternative calendar app.
As far as I can see the built in one doesn't allow adding a new event and having it set to private?
It doesn't sync tasks either
I'm just worrying about having 3 different push connections (google for contacts, k-9 email for email and whatever calendar app for calendar) and its affect on battery life.
Had the same problem,it didnt sync right away, the next day it did though... weird.
KrewCial said:
Had the same problem,it didnt sync right away, the next day it did though... weird.
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I also read of possible delays syncing, and thought that may be the case here. I've had these extra calendar(s) on for several days now and despite reboots, clearing data and re-syncing, still nothing's appeared.
I'll keep an eye on mine for a couple of days and let you know it it appears.
TractorMatty said:
I also read of possible delays syncing, and thought that may be the case here. I've had these extra calendar(s) on for several days now and despite reboots, clearing data and re-syncing, still nothing's appeared.
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Another issue I noticed was that events added before a certain date would not get synced. Simply opening an event on the pc and editing it, saving, then undoing the changes would get it synced. Luckily I only started using Google Calendar a couple months ago, so I didnt have that many events saved before this certain date and went through each one of them editing, saving then undoing the changes. Afterwards, all events synced ok.
KrewCial said:
Another issue I noticed was that events added before a certain date would not get synced. Simply opening an event on the pc and editing it, saving, then undoing the changes would get it synced. Luckily I only started using Google Calendar a couple months ago, so I didnt have that many events saved before this certain date and went through each one of them editing, saving then undoing the changes. Afterwards, all events synced ok.
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I had a similar issue with some repeating events that began many months/years ago. In that case what I did was stop the repeating event then re-add them as new ones going forward. That wasn't such a pain as I only have about four of these for specific days, but at least there was an easy workaround!
A workaround for adding additional calendars that does not involve completely resetting everything on the phone would be nice.
TractorMatty said:
A workaround for adding additional calendars that does not involve completely resetting everything on the phone would be nice.
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A full reset wouldn't help either.
This is actually a Google limititation that only affects (their) sports calendars. They even state (expand Sports to see it) it outright:
Google said:
Keep in mind that it's not possible to sync sports calendars with other calendar applications at this time.
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I tried adding a moon phase calendar via "Browse interesting calendars - more", and that did show on the phone as it should.
This thread also mentions the same issue.
Regards
-Øyvind
Sports and random calendars may not be able to sync but I still can't get my cousins and gf's shared calendars to sync to my phone
Psy-Blade said:
Sports and random calendars may not be able to sync but I still can't get my cousins and gf's shared calendars to sync to my phone
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Did you try to clear calendar storage to see if that fixes it?
Not sure if that did anything but while messing around I hit Menu > Add Calendars and they're all there available to sync.
My bad, first time android user is my excuse heh. Thanks
mroek said:
A full reset wouldn't help either.
This is actually a Google limititation that only affects (their) sports calendars. They even state (expand Sports to see it) it outright:
I tried adding a moon phase calendar via "Browse interesting calendars - more", and that did show on the phone as it should.
This thread also mentions the same issue.
Regards
-Øyvind
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Well ain't that interesting, good spot!
Good job there's an option to copy events from said sports calendars to you main calendar.
mroek said:
A full reset wouldn't help either.
This is actually a Google limititation that only affects (their) sports calendars. They even state (expand Sports to see it) it outright:
I tried adding a moon phase calendar via "Browse interesting calendars - more", and that did show on the phone as it should.
This thread also mentions the same issue.
Regards
-Øyvind
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Thanks for this! We live and learn - I'll update the other "issues" thread to make sure everyone's in the picture.
Mines synced with my gmail account and if i click the top of the widget where it says Dec 9 I see the entries in the calender. But looking at the widget itself nothing shows...anyone else having this issue? it says "no upcoming calender eevnts"
ludeboye said:
Mines synced with my gmail account and if i click the top of the widget where it says Dec 9 I see the entries in the calender. But looking at the widget itself nothing shows...anyone else having this issue? it says "no upcoming calender eevnts"
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Same, but I think "Upcoming Event" has a set period of time like it won't show next event if that event is too far ahead. My next event is more than 2 weeks time anyway so will see.
When is your next event?
vosszaa said:
Same, but I think "Upcoming Event" has a set period of time like it won't show next event if that event is too far ahead. My next event is more than 2 weeks time anyway so will see.
When is your next event?
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I had 3 events for the same day. Did not show anything for today Dec 9th
ludeboye said:
I had 3 events for the same day. Did not show anything for today Dec 9th
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So you're saying you have 3 events "today" but none is shown under 'upcoming calendar events"?
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So you're saying you have 3 events "today" but none is shown under 'upcoming calendar events"?
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yes tomorrows event dont show and todays event dont show. Something is wrong.
I see it only does it if you have all day events if you make an event for next day which is not marked all day it will show up.. Is it possible for it to show todays event instead of tomorrows on the widget?
Still playing with it but it doesn't detect either my gmail or hotmail calendar.
I had simular, I found I had not ticked the calander to display.
calender settings-calenders to be displayed-then chose my gmail account.
Also at the bottom which "calender to sync"
Hope it helps
mmrb said:
I had simular, I found I had not ticked the calander to display.
calender settings-calenders to be displayed-then chose my gmail account.
Also at the bottom which "calender to sync"
Hope it helps
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I do have my accounts syned and displayed. Still does not show anything argh
Yeah I noticed the all day events don't show up on the widget either. Which is odd because they show up on honeycomb.
I just changed my all day events to a regular event and it displays fine.
My google calendar events showed up for the next 3 days or 3 events or so, after I dragged the edges of the widget to be as big as I could get it.
I've now switched to pure calendar widget that also gets it's data from google calendar and that's working too (displays the next 10 events in the 4 x 3 widget).
good one, same here, so i am not the only one with that issue, its dont show my facebook calendar events.
For me, widget iis showing all regular events and no all day events, whether today or future.Tapping widget to pull up calendar app shows them but that defeats the purpose. Took Google several attempts to get the Honeycomb calendar widget to work correctly, must be tougher than it ought to be.
Hi,
I'm using the productivity lock screen on the one X, and even though I've specified that i only want to see my Google calender, Facebook birthday events pop up all the time. I unchecked the Facebook calender, but it's still there. Is there any fix for this?
Thanks
darksnakex said:
Hi,
I'm using the productivity lock screen on the one X, and even though I've specified that i only want to see my Google calender, Facebook birthday events pop up all the time. I unchecked the Facebook calender, but it's still there. Is there any fix for this?
Thanks
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I haven't had this issue. But my productivity lockscreen is flickering like crazy!!! A reboot doesn't fix and its only that lockscreen. I don't think really coded this correctly.
Bxsteez said:
But my productivity lockscreen is flickering like crazy!!!
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Mine too. It was fine for two days and just started flickering today. Maybe the next update will help. A shame, it's really cool when it works.
This is gonna seem like a strange question but did all of you have an all day appointment the day it started going crazy?
darksnakex said:
Hi,
I'm using the productivity lock screen on the one X, and even though I've specified that i only want to see my Google calender, Facebook birthday events pop up all the time. I unchecked the Facebook calender, but it's still there. Is there any fix for this?
Thanks
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I have the exact same problem.
I have both unchecked facebook calendar in calendar settings, gone to productivity lock screen settings and unchecked facebook. I have also repeatedly removed my facebook account but everytime i use the facebook app it automatically synces even when i have turned off automatic syncing. I have revoked all access to contact information via the facebook webpage under application settings. None of this makes a difference.
I am also unable to manually delete the facebook events and birthday events in my calendar.
Bxsteez said:
This is gonna seem like a strange question but did all of you have an all day appointment the day it started going crazy?
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The appointment that was showing when the problem started is "Tax Day" from Google Calendar which is an all-day appointment. It was fine before that came up. We'll see what happens tomorrow when it's gone. Like someone else said, trying to modify what's shown from the different sources in the lock screen settings doesn't change it from displaying what's already been selected in the master calendar app's settings (and vice versa).
BarryH_GEG said:
The appointment that was showing when the problem started is "Tax Day" from Google Calendar which is an all-day appointment. It was fine before that came up. We'll see what happens tomorrow when it's gone. Like someone else said, trying to modify what's shown from the different sources in the lock screen settings doesn't change it from displaying what's already been selected in the master calendar app's settings (and vice versa).
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Same here!! Now that Tax Day is gone I don't have any issues. I'm going to create an all day appointment and see if it comes up again. I wonder if an all day appointment has it constantly refreshing that screen.
Bxsteez said:
Same here!! Now that Tax Day is gone I don't have any issues. I'm going to create an all day appointment and see if it comes up again. I wonder if an all day appointment has it constantly refreshing that screen.
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Weird. I set up an all-day appointment for today using Exchange and the productivity screen handled it fine. Maybe it has something to do with Google calendar. Here's something interesting too. If you slide left or right you can scroll through what's shown on the productivity screen. Pretty neat.
BarryH_GEG said:
Weird. I set up an all-day appointment for today using Exchange and the productivity screen handled it fine. Maybe it has something to do with Google calendar. Here's something interesting too. If you slide left or right you can scroll through what's shown on the productivity screen. Pretty neat.
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I just tried to do the same and it worked fine. I did try and delete the "Tax Day" event but I couldn't. Maybe how it is made and synced caused the issue.
Had the same issue but:
go to settings --> Personalize --> Lock Screen Style
thumb to Productivity and click "Settings" on the bottom left
where it says "Display calendar events from" simply uncheck Facebook
There I fixed it
Someone already replied with those instructions - which don't work. I've got a gmail account with multiple calendars shared to it. When I uncheck all of them in the productivity lock screen settings, appointments from those calendars STILL show up in the lock screen.
Definitely a bug that needs fixing.
Exactly the same problem here...
I have unchecked the Facebook calendar but it still shows up in the productivity lock screen. This is very annoying!!
If you uncheck everything in the Settings, it won't let you click "OK"...
Yeah,i had the same problem to.I fixed it by removing the Facebook account in Settings and deleted all the contacts that were stored by Facebook.
jeyml said:
Yeah,i had the same problem to.I fixed it by removing the Facebook account in Settings and deleted all the contacts that were stored by Facebook.
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I would not want to remove my facebook account because of the lock screen
See a nice reply from HTC:
Thank you for contacting HTC!
Regarding your HTC One X issue, please kindly change another lock screen style to check the phone.
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Is there any other lock screen that would display calendar items?? Perhaps HTC customer service should use their own product and be more familiar before answering...
singcheng said:
I would not want to remove my facebook account because of the lock screen
See a nice reply from HTC:
Is there any other lock screen that would display calendar items?? Perhaps HTC customer service should use their own product and be more familiar before answering...
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You can try and make you'r own lockscreen but without the calendar items.
jdhatt said:
Someone already replied with those instructions - which don't work. I've got a gmail account with multiple calendars shared to it. When I uncheck all of them in the productivity lock screen settings, appointments from those calendars STILL show up in the lock screen.
Definitely a bug that needs fixing.
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Same problems here... I have multiple co-workers and family members calendars linked to my gmail account, and their events are all showing up on my lock screen. Like you, unchecking them in the settings doesn't do anything.
BTW, this is on an AT&T One XL.
jeyml said:
You can try and make you'r own lockscreen but without the calendar items.
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Too bad I have no idea how to change/modify/create a lock screen...
Any tutorial?
same here
This has been driving me nuts. It only shows one event, some dude's birthday from face book. All I have selected is about three of my google calendars. I have multiple events in the next couple days, none of which are showing up, just buddy's b-day.
My #1 grip with iPhone was lack of lockscreen calendar (after coming form BB).
I am having the same exact issue on my phone as well. I'm on the EVO 4G LTE. Has anyone made any further progress with this?
Edit: still no luck after trying numerous things. I may just have to remove those extra accounts from gmail altogether.
Hi,
on my HTC One S the following fixed it for me:
Settings -> Accounts Sync -> Facebook -> Uncheck Sync Calendar + Uncheck Sync live feed.
Hope it works for you too.
Cheers
Smart Notice
I'm trying to figure out how to get it to show me Birthday reminders (I have a Google calendar dedicated to birthdays, titled "Birthdays" just to make it obvious to the phone.). The option is ticked under settings, but nothing from the phone.
What am I doing wrong?
In Google Calendar, go to Menu>Settings>Birthdays (you will see a tab marked "Birthdays" a couple of lines above settings, but that just toggles birthdays on/off). There you will be able to choose which accounts and behaviors you want to use.
However, that just shows a notification the day of that person's birthday. I have not found a setting to show you a reminder say a week in advance without setting up a specific event.
jlbattagli said:
In Google Calendar, go to Menu>Settings>Birthdays (you will see a tab marked "Birthdays" a couple of lines above settings, but that just toggles birthdays on/off). There you will be able to choose which accounts and behaviors you want to use.
However, that just shows a notification the day of that person's birthday. I have not found a setting to show you a reminder say a week in advance without setting up a specific event.
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Right. And my Birthday's calendar is toggled in, and I created the birthdays in 3 formats:
1. My 'default' Gmail calendar - created an event titled "Fake's Birthday"
2. 'Birthdays' calendar - created an event called "Fake"
3. 'Birthdays' calendar - created an event called "Fake's Birthday".
All 3 are all-day events.
All 3 lead to the same result: The phone won't even read the name of the 'person', and just shows that it's a friend's birthday.
(see attachment.)
http://imgur.com/ZtAwFs9
My girlfriend has a G4 as well, and hers will automatically notify her 6 days in advance that it's someone's birthday (with the correct name/ date/ time) and that you set time aside for celebrations. I tried her calendar settings too, and can't seem to figure it out.
We may have been looking at this from the wrong direction. If you go to Google Calendar settings on your computer, instead of your phone, there are more options available. One is to set a notification "X" number of days before an all-day event. I don't know if your girlfriend is doing it that way, but it would be a way to accomplish what you want.
jlbattagli said:
We may have been looking at this from the wrong direction. If you go to Google Calendar settings on your computer, instead of your phone, there are more options available. One is to set a notification "X" number of days before an all-day event. I don't know if your girlfriend is doing it that way, but it would be a way to accomplish what you want.
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I don't think it's that. I've created multiple events in different formats under different calendars, and the only one that seems to trigger the Smart Notice is if it's under the "xxx's birthday" format. Also, the event must be there 7 days prior (and Google Cal sync that far back) for SN to read it, irrespective of notifications under Google Calendar on the computer.
So anyway, I tried that - and here's what I got today.
Notice how SN reads that it's a birthday from a week before in Calendar, but still doesn't read the name properly again. (slightly different problem!)
http://imgur.com/djyO2UZ
So having a calendar dedicated to Birthdays is useless unless the format of the event is essentially "xxxx's birthday." Wonder if it works for Anniversaries as well.