Hello everyone,
I have an O2 Xda Orbit, onto which I have installed the marvellous ROM created by Tom (Version 4.1). Since I have now left my old job, I no longer have the luxury of an Exchange server to store my calendar appointments.
I discovered that I can use Google calendars, and give access to everyone to see where I am, but I cant find a usable application to run on the phone that will keep the appointments in sync. let me explain.
Most of the apps offer a "free" version that will only sync 3 days ahead, good for testing, crap for normal use. In addition, I use Re occurring appointments, which dont seem to be copied over to google.
Does anyone know of a good app that will sync in both directions between my phone and my online calendar. If I had to move away from Google and use hotmail or similar, then thats fine too.
Thanks guys, youre all great
one week ago I started to use GooSync. It works very well. Take a look....
Emm, i think it was OggSync..
kakainis said:
Emm, i think it was OggSync..
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Both are google calender apps
Goosync worked well with me. I have my shift pattern programmed, so it's always recuring with no issues
I think both have a free version if you only use one calender
Hays
Google Calendar Sync
As long as you are happy to sync using your PC then ...
5 March 2008 Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
You can now access your Google Calendar account from your mobile phone! Just visit mobile.google.com/calendar/ with your phone's web browser and once you're logged in, you'll see your list of upcoming events with date and time information in an easy-to-browse format.
Cheers
Tom
Various calendars in Google , Outlook format
In case you are interested www.addadate.com has loads of sports and social calendars in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal and Lotus Notes format. Ideal to sync with your Orbit includes Formula One, Tour de France, Moon phases etc etc
"Yahoo! Go" is a free app if you have a yahoo account, it syncs calendar and contacts, gives you access to local news, your yahoo e-mail, stock market, yahoo maps, weather and flickr. it's a pretty solid app, if you can put up with Yahoo!. I use it to save my contacts when i hard-reset. havn't had any problems yet.
Various calendars in Google , Outlook format
In case you are interested www.addadate.com has loads of sports and social calendars in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal and Lotus Notes format. Ideal to sync with your Orbit includes Formula One, Tour de France, Moon phases etc etc
Hey Folks,
I have changed from Gmail to Google APPS, and i would like my Google apps account the be the primary account on my Desire with Defrost 2.1(soon to be updated to 2.4a) thing is all the restore/backup information is on my first Gmail account, and i flash alot so i would like to have all that data associated with my apps account now.. is there a way to change wich account the system backups/restores from ?
kind Regards
Vicster
No one has any clues what so ever?
I used MyBackup Root to back up all my contacts on my phone while I was using leedroid. When I've reloaded them into cynogenmod each contact has about 4 copies.
Is there a way to sort my contacts and remove the duplicates? or is there an alternative contact list like that on sense I'm missing having peoples profiles linked with their contact data. The non sense contacts in cm7 rc2 is weak in comparison to the sense verison.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks
The way I did it I setup my contacts to sync with my Google Account so no matter what rom I have I always have my contacts. Then I just link Facebook and Twitter and I get the contact pictures. It's much easier than using 3rd party apps to do it for you.
Ignore this i've posted my question elsewhere.
Sync all your (multiple) contacts contacts to gmail.
Log into gmail on a pc, click contacts on the left side bar. Then click the drop down box "more actions", and select "find & merge duplicates".
Having your contacts synced to gmail works really well for swapping and changing roms, and also pretty much guarantees you will never loose them.....
No problem with linkedin and others. But when I try to add Facebook, I'm kicked back to the list of accounts.
Tried to reinstall facebooks, tried to clear the FB data ad cache. Even was not possible to add FB account after installing a stock 4.0.4 ROM from google (after full phone erase).
Google and FB are not friends anymore?
Facebook's Fault
Facebook never made or modified an ICS version for there app. Consequently you cannot add account and phone will not sync. There are numerous fix solutions with root. My Gnex is not rooted so I simply use an app called SyncMyPix in Play Store. This app will at least sync you photos for contact purposes. Facebook just need to optimize for ICS and things will work better!
The issue is actually Facebook not using the correct API for contact sync and hasn't moved on the issue for over a year: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/
If you want a deeper integration on stock android like status updates in you "people" app you can get something like HaxSync (don't know if there is a better or free solution).
Hi, I wrote "Calendar Manager" to create new offline calendars on my device (Samsung i9000). Since custom ROMs like AOKP or CM don't ship with the "local/phone/offline" calendar, known from Samsung devices. Its free, no demo, no ads.
For anybody who wants their appointments or tasks safe on their's device, just download the apk, install (remember to allow 3rd party apps in your device settings), and create as many calendars as you wish.
The offline/local calendars integrates into the standard calendar module of Android, so you can use them with any calendar application, like the stock calendar viewer.
You can sync the calendar for example with MyPhoneExplorer to Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning and other programs. But it will never be copied into the cloud.
Have fun with it. (Attached)
More info on www . zoks . net / solutions / calendar-manager
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Hi, I wrote "Calendar Manager" to create new offline calendars on my device (Samsung i9000). Since custom ROMs like AOKP or CM don't ship with the "local/phone/offline" calendar, known from Samsung devices. Its free, no demo, no ads.
For anybody who wants their appointments, task safe on their's device, just download the apk, install (remember to allow 3rd party apps in your device settings), and create as many calendars as you wish.
The offline/local calendars integrates into the standard calendar module of Android, so you can use them with any calendar application, like the stock calendar viewer.
You can sync the calendar for example with MyPhoneExplorer to Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning and other programs. But it will never be copied into the cloud.
Have fun with it. (Attached)
More info on www . zoks . net / solutions / calendar-manager
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thanks for sharing....friend....:laugh:
Nice! I will try it!
very nice, thanks alot:silly:
BTW, If some rom cooks reads this, maybe you are interested into integrating this lightweight app
Thanks a lot. You are my hero. After whole afternoon of google-searching you just offered simple solution to my problem
Yet a little suggestion - would it be possible to make the same thing for contact DB (like MyAccount app)?
palver said:
Thanks a lot. You are my hero. After whole afternoon of google-searching you just offered simple solution to my problem
Yet a little suggestion - would it be possible to make the same thing for contact DB (like MyAccount app)?
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I was already doing some research on the Android contacts database. I have no clue why, but it works completely different than the calendar database and on top the documentation is very - lets say compact. Almost as if someone doesn't want you to create offline data storages...
Neverthelesse - will try to implement it in my (very little) spare time.
Good work
Good work. It seems to work on emulator(Do not have a device running android 4.1 yet) Wish this would work on devices running Froyo (or Gingerbread). This would effectively mean we can use offline calendar without ever using Google sync. Wonder why Google does not launch a calendar application by default. Really appreciate the efforts buddy.
In any case, it would be nice if we could import icalendar files directly into Google Calendar(this is obviously not related to your software). Google contacts allows you to import any VCF file directly into contact but icalendar does not seem to work.
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Good work. It seems to work on emulator(Do not have a device running android 4.1 yet) Wish this would work on devices running Froyo (or Gingerbread). This would effectively mean we can use offline calendar without ever using Google sync. Wonder why Google does not launch a calendar application by default. Really appreciate the efforts buddy.
In any case, it would be nice if we could import icalendar files directly into Google Calendar(this is obviously not related to your software). Google contacts allows you to import any VCF file directly into contact but icalendar does not seem to work.
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It was written to run on the custom roms like CM or AOKP which are base on Android 4.x, ICS, JB but don't ship with the local calendar. Samsung stock roms have the local "phone calendar" but CM does not, and they don't want to integrate it because they feel it doesn't make sense to not backup all your data to google. Well, I feel it makes sense to have my appointments stored locally only, so when I flashed AOKP I had to come up with a simple solution to lock Google out from my data.
(By the way I noticed, that Google syncs data from their calendar storage even if you switch syncing off. Weird isn't it?)
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It was written to run on the custom roms like CM or AOKP which are base on Android 4.x, ICS, JB but don't ship with the local calendar. Samsung stock roms have the local "phone calendar" but CM does not, and they don't want to integrate it because they feel it doesn't make sense to not backup all your data to google. Well, I feel it makes sense to have my appointments stored locally only, so when I flashed AOKP I had to come up with a simple solution to lock Google out from my data.
(By the way I noticed, that Google syncs data from their calendar storage even if you switch syncing off. Weird isn't it?)
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Really? Even if under settings you disable Sync feature it still syncs to Google Calendar is it?
I am surprised because ultimately I was going to use your app to get the Calendar DB started(if and when I get the latest Android phone running 4 or later) and sync stuff back and forth from the phone using MyPhoneExplorer. I do not want them synced anywhere. If an old Palm or for the matter the dated Windows Mobile can do it, I cannot fathom Google's reason for disallowing this feature.
Does anyone know if something similar is available fro pre ICS ROMs?
FYI, the people from MyPhoneExplorer may include offline calendar creation capabilities in their App in some future version. They intend to make it work on older systems, too.
The app is not working in my Nexus 4.
1 Installed the app
2 Disabled google calendar and calendar storage
3 Tried creating a new calendar in CM, app crashed
Is this happening because nexus doesnt have a inbuilt offline calendar? (as mentioned in the OP)
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The app is not working in my Nexus 4.
1 Installed the app
2 Disabled google calendar and calendar storage
3 Tried creating a new calendar in CM, app crashed
Is this happening because nexus doesnt have a inbuilt offline calendar? (as mentioned in the OP)
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Hi, thanks for using my app and providing feedback.
I think the reason may be, that you disabled "calendar storage". This is an internal database in android, that holds all appointments from all calendars. So if it is disabled, no app can access any calendar. Google did really choose bad names for their apps and services. Here is my "Little Dictionary Of Confusing Google Identifiers and Explanations what they really mean" - that I wrote when figuring out what is NOT documented in the SDK (maybe intentionally, so that everybody just uses Google Calendar Sync...).
Google Calendar =
1) the google calendar web service
2) the google app that displays any calendar
3) the google calendar concept as a whole
Calendar Storage =
a relational database (guessing sqlite) that holds a table for all calendars and a table for all appointments. All calendars that want to use the Android calendar APIs and show the "system" calendars, must use it
Sync Provider =
a service in Android that syncs things from the phone to the cloud
Google Calendar Sync =
the sync provider service that moves appointments from Calendar Storage to Google Calendar (1) and vice versa
Local Calendar =
just a usual calendar in Calendar Storage. BUT it gets a a flag set, that it stays local. So none of all the Sync Providers has a chance to access that data.
Calendar Manager =
creates entry in calendars table in Calendar Storage with "local" bit set.
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Maybe that explains why you should reenable the Calendar Storage and I should integrate a small checke to provide an error message in my app
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Does anyone know if something similar is available fro pre ICS ROMs?
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I just stumbled across CalendarSync which can create a local calendar in Gingerbread (and maybe older versions, too). I don't see any limitations in doing this through the "free" version on the dev's web page, and don't know or care what else it does. I intend to use the local calendar with MyPhoneExplorer.
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Hi, thanks for using my app and providing feedback.
I think the reason may be, that you disabled "calendar storage". This is an internal database in android, that holds all appointments from all calendars. So if it is disabled, no app can access any calendar. Google did really choose bad names for their apps and services. Here is my "Little Dictionary Of Confusing Google Identifiers and Explanations what they really mean" - that I wrote when figuring out what is NOT documented in the SDK (maybe intentionally, so that everybody just uses Google Calendar Sync...).
Google Calendar =
1) the google calendar web service
2) the google app that displays any calendar
3) the google calendar concept as a whole
Calendar Storage =
a relational database (guessing sqlite) that holds a table for all calendars and a table for all appointments. All calendars that want to use the Android calendar APIs and show the "system" calendars, must use it
Sync Provider =
a service in Android that syncs things from the phone to the cloud
Google Calendar Sync =
the sync provider service that moves appointments from Calendar Storage to Google Calendar (1) and vice versa
Local Calendar =
just a usual calendar in Calendar Storage. BUT it gets a a flag set, that it stays local. So none of all the Sync Providers has a chance to access that data.
Calendar Manager =
creates entry in calendars table in Calendar Storage with "local" bit set.
(c) copyright 2013
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Maybe that explains why you should reenable the Calendar Storage and I should integrate a small checke to provide an error message in my app
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I am a newB to android and smart phones. I enabled both calendar and calendar storage, and then tried your app to create an offline calendar, it did work perfectly fine. I have selected only the local calendar that i had created with your app to be 'calendar to display' options in the default calendar. Sorry to have bothered you with my lack of experience and knowledge. And thanks for your long and patient reply
Just a short update: I did some more programming and investigation regarding Google's spontaneous synchronizations. I can confirm that you pull the plug by disabling "Google Calendar Synchronization" and "Google Contacts Synchronization" services.
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voidyrium said:
Hi, I wrote "Calendar Manager" to create new offline calendars on my device (Samsung i9000). Since custom ROMs like AOKP or CM don't ship with the "local/phone/offline" calendar, known from Samsung devices.
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What about an offline contact app as well? You write on your homepage "The problem doesn’t arise when it comes to contacts management, since Android ships with a built-in local contacts account that you can use. On most devices it is simply called “Phone” and co-exists with the Google-account-contacts.".
I've just checked a an AOSP ROM (Slim Bean for the Galaxy S2). There is no option to add a phone account, just one or more google accounts. So, I'm not able to use local contacts.
If you could develop a similar contact storage, this would be awesome!
Thank you.
Hi
Thank you for this! Been bugging me for a solution for like 2 days already.
Thank you!
In any way, can we backup this calendar offline (save to sd card) and then after flashing a new rom restore it from the sd card?
Good work mate!
Thanks