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Android / HTC Calendar

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).

gogol said:
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

Quest for the ultimate PIM...

There are a lot of Personal Information Managers available, and i have looked at many, but none of them fill my needs completely. Currently, I'm using many different apps to maintain my appointments, contacts and email, and still this is not perfect.
Currently, i'm using :
Improved Email (http://www.mwebster.us/) for my email needs (great subfolder support, handy overview of different exchange accounts, but no google account support);
The built In Gmail app (obvious only Gmail support)
Calendar Pad (the only calendar app which has the one-and-only useable week view (this one. All other month- and week views are totally unuseable in my opinion)
Android Agenda Widget (great customizing options, integrated view of appointments in all calendars with colour coding)
The built in appointments app when it comes to editing appointments
The built in contacts app
And still, this doesn't do it all:
- can't change exchange contacts details with the stock contacts app (only name)
- can't edit a lot of exchange appointments because they show up as meetings instead of appointments
- bugs in the built in Agenda app when opening all day & recurring events from an exchange account (events skipping a day forward, events becoming stretched over days).
My needs are:
- supporting two (or more) Exchange accounts
- support Google Calendar(s)
- widget showing apointments from all calendars in one view, showing the calendar colours
- email support for subfolders also
- contacts from Exchange and Google linked to the phones telephonebook
- full editing support of exchange items
- a week view of appointments like Calendar Pad
Touchdown brings back (bug free) editing of exchange contacts and appointments, but lacks a useable week view, and more important, only supports multiple exchange accounts by switching profiles (so agenda widgets like Pure Calendar only show appointments from one profile at a time and contacts in the phones telephonebook can only be edited if the appropiate profile is selected first in Touchdown. 2 dealbrakers IMHO). Also, searching the GAL (global adress list) on the exchange server doesn't always work.
Roadsync does support multiple exchange accounts, but only by editing the server credentials (which isn't real support imho).
So, Android is still lacking in business PIM support for me. Who knows of a PIM, which does it all?

Does the calendar still not show birthdates stored in contacts?

I think the thread title says it all. I added a birthdate in a contact and it doesn't show up in the calendar. But the birthdate of another friend is shown (which is stored in contacts too).
Now I don't know if this date was saved manually by me or did it work once with the calendar?

For this you have to go in the settings of your Google Calendar (on the web), then Calendar tab -> Browser interesting's calendars and subscribe to the Contacts' birthdays and events calendar

This is awesome. I never knew about these. Kinda hard to find. The instructions about KINDA get you there.
Step 1
google.com/Calendar
in the left panel at the bottom - Other Calendars; click little Arrow -> Browse Interesting Calendars
Holidays is the first tab. US Holidays is a good one.
More Tab -> Contacts' Bday and Events = Bingo
Step 2
Then on your PHONE go to Calendar > Menu > Calendars to Display
Click "Calendars to Sync" button
Select which ones to sync from the ones you selected in the first step.
Pretty cool stuff. Learn something every day.
I have Moon Phase, Birthdays, US Holidays.

I have to agree that this not the most intuitive feature
but thanks for the more detailed instructions

Very good tip and instructions. Many thanks.

I didn't even realize this was an option. I gave up on it a long time ago. Thanks for the tips guys.

Lemim0uth said:
For this you have to go in the settings of your Google Calendar (on the web), then Calendar tab -> Browser interesting's calendars and subscribe to the Contacts' birthdays and events calendar
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Most useful post I've read all day.
Thanks!

It is nice, but for some reason, google made it impossible to get a notification for these events. Anyone find a workaround for doing that? All I can think of is to copy each to a new calendar in the web interface - but that is clunky and tedious

Why won't Facebook calendar sync to the calendar app?

The og epic did this no problem and I miss it. I have my FB set up thru social hub and have calendar sync checked off so what's the prob??
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I used to have that working myself but then timezones on events were all messed up so I was forced to find another way.
So what I did was a bit of an end-around that uses your Google account's calendar. If you don't want to sync to Google calendar then this won't work.
If you do, go to your Facebook Events page. There's a link called "Export". That will pop up a message with a webcal://... link. Copy that link to your clipboard.
Then go into your Google calendar using a computer browser (sign in to the account you sync to your phone). Click the little dropdown triangle next to the "Other calendars" section on the left-hand sidebar and choose "Add by URL". Paste the URL that you copied from Facebook into the box and click "Add Calendar".
Now your Facebook events will be in your Google calendar.
If you go to Settings for the Calendar on your phone and select the "Calendars" option, you can pick and choose which of the Google calendars you want to sync. Each will show up as a separate calendar.
If you are obsessive about wishing people a happy birthday, you can also go to the "Birthdays" link under Events on Facebook and follow the same method to export a calendar of all of your Friends' birthdays.

MmmSkyscraper said:
I used to have that working myself but then timezones on events were all messed up so I was forced to find another way.
So what I did was a bit of an end-around that uses your Google account's calendar. If you don't want to sync to Google calendar then this won't work.
If you do, go to your Facebook Events page. There's a link called "Export". That will pop up a message with a webcal://... link. Copy that link to your clipboard.
Then go into your Google calendar using a computer browser (sign in to the account you sync to your phone). Click the little dropdown triangle next to the "Other calendars" section on the left-hand sidebar and choose "Add by URL". Paste the URL that you copied from Facebook into the box and click "Add Calendar".
Now your Facebook events will be in your Google calendar.
If you go to Settings for the Calendar on your phone and select the "Calendars" option, you can pick and choose which of the Google calendars you want to sync. Each will show up as a separate calendar.
If you are obsessive about wishing people a happy birthday, you can also go to the "Birthdays" link under Events on Facebook and follow the same method to export a calendar of all of your Friends' birthdays.
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I forgot about this thread lol. After removing all my synced accounts and restoring them manually I got my calendar back up. I guess restoring synced accounts from titanium doesn't do much of a good job.. But thanks for the info bcuz I didn't know I could export a calendar from FB!
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[Q] Business Calendar facebook synchronisation

Hi all,
I've been using Business Calendar for a while. It synchronises my gmail calendar and also my facebook events/birthdays. This is really useful because I don't need to put an event into my calendar after I've already accepted it.
Since switching to a custom ROM (JellyTime), Business Calendar does not seem to recognise my facebook account on the phone so I cannot get it to synchronise the facebook events. The instructions say that it should recognise any calendars on your phone but that does not happen.
Does anyone know how to get facebook events to synchronise with the calendar?
Thanks.

Any thoughts from anyone? Alternatively, does anyone know if you can get the Google calendar to sync with Facebook events?
Thanks.
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From Facebook you can export events and birthdays as calendar links that can then be added to your Google calendar. They will then appear as additional calendars on your phone.
I forget exactly how to do it in Facebook, but I think you go to events, click on settings, and then you have the export option. Google it for more details.
Good luck!

zamula said:
From Facebook you can export events and birthdays as calendar links that can then be added to your Google calendar. They will then appear as additional calendars on your phone.
I forget exactly how to do it in Facebook, but I think you go to events, click on settings, and then you have the export option. Google it for more details.
Good luck!
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Thanks Zamula - your way worked! Just one point of clarification, rather than exporting, you need to right click on the link and copy the address. You can then add it as a Google calendar under Other Calendars. In Business Calendar you can then add the calendars (1 for birthdays, 1 for events) to synchronise them. So far so good, the last thing is whether the calendars auto update. I'll be able to tell that when I'm invited to a new event!