A friend of mine who just got his G1 sms'd me that the only thing not good abt the Google calendar is that it will not do reminders for events that reoccur on different days each year.
Like Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November) or someone's payday (every third Thursday on a full moon or whatever.)
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make a program that'll allow this. Who's up to it?
This is not a G1 issue, it's a Google Calendar issue. Cal on G1 just parses the data in your Google Calendar account. What your problem is is getting events that recur on something other than a fixed date onto there. For holidays, simply add one of the public holiday calendars.
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I'm not sure how these calendar events came to be on my ppc, except perhaps that a previous sync or software app created all day events every year from the day someone was born until the present for their birthday, etc.
Now I get errors when I sync, because it can't transfer these OLD appointments. Is there any easy way to clear the calendar of all appt data from before 2005 or such?
Hi everyone,
i'm experiencing problems with my Xperia X1 (WM6.1) when inviting somebody to an appointment (independent from which calendar i use). After setting up the appointment i'm inviting additional participants who are all using Outlook 2003 or 2007. But when they receive the invitation, the meeting time is not adopted correctly. Example: Today, it's february 1st. The meeting is scheduled to 4th of april. In my calendar the meeting is scheduled for the 4th of April but the participants get an appointment for the 1st of february. It's like I scheduled a meeting that starts right now. If the recipient also uses pocket outlook, everything seems to be fine.
I am not sure if this is a Xperia problem, therefore i postet it as a general question.
Is anyone able to reproduce this problem?
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I have the same problem with my X1.
Same problem with HTC HD2. No solutions after more than a year?
Here it is the english version of BirthdaysToCalendar. It will add all or selected birthdays of your contacts to your calendar. This is useful for people that do not have Outlook on their PCs, to accomplish the task.
The program offers a few choices, either add all birthdays to the calendar in one go or let it ask in single steps for each contact's birthday to be added or not. Set the reminder time (time you will be informed prior to the birthday) in minutes. 1 day would be 1440min. , 2 days 2880 min. and so forth. On top you can have the birth year added to the subject, so you will know how old they'll be.
No duplicates will be generated if the program is run again. However, if you have a birthday alert set up manually yourself before, but they are not in the the same form (John Doe's Birthday or Birthday John Doe) they will be duplicated.
Get it here:
http://mytd2.blogspot.com/2009/08/birthdaystocalendar-in-english.html
Thank you for your application, It has been added to the rollup thread.
Is it different then B2C - Birthday2Calendar? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529857
Yes, it's different, though both derive from a sample included in MS Visual Studio 2008 with the same name
With his you can vary the reminder time (will add that too), with mine you can single step through the birthdays, so they differ a bit.
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Mine has the same functionality +more now
hth,
Tin
My Outlook 2007 on PC will automatically add birthdays to Calendar as long as I have entered the birthday data into contacts and sync them.
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My Outlook 2007 on PC will automatically add birthdays to Calendar as long as I have entered the birthday data into contacts and sync them.
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That's why I said:
This is useful for people that do not have Outlook on their PCs, to accomplish the task.
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in the first post.
New extended version is up.
I'll be on vacation until Sunday 23rd and probably won't be able to answer, if questions arise. Just letting you know
Take care,
Tin
Hi, I install this app and when I run it it set all my birthdays to my calendar, but it put it duplicate, for example, I have a birthday on 18 July, so the app put the birthday 18 and 19 July. So when I tried to delete the bad one, when I try to access the birthday, mi screen turn white and I cant delete o edit the appointment.
My question is, how can I delete this appointments or the all calendar?
Thanks.
TinTin,
Do you mind to share your code or change the program so we can change the appointment prefix (localization to another language)?
Best regards.
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Hi, I install this app and when I run it it set all my birthdays to my calendar, but it put it duplicate, for example, I have a birthday on 18 July, so the app put the birthday 18 and 19 July. So when I tried to delete the bad one, when I try to access the birthday, mi screen turn white and I cant delete o edit the appointment.
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I get the same problem, I realise what has caused it but trying to delete the appointments in phone just causes the white screen and forces me to do a soft reset.
Same problem here as the people above me have mentioned. Screen turning white when wanting to delete extra day.
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Windows Phone 7, configured properly and 100% working with Exchange (e-mails set to sync back 1 month)
So, today someone asked me what day I met with someone back on December 2nd (today is December 20th).
That day I had a Calendar entry, and it IS (I confirmed) on my outlook (also setup with Exchange). I went on my phone and the Calendar item wasn't on my Calendar on the phone...
I double checked all my appointments for the past week were both on outlook/phone and they were, but it seems to get blury before the 2nd.
Anyone have any idea why some of these items are disapeering?
Did you check how many days back it will keep items?
I'm not a bonehead, but I can't find a setting for how far back the calendar goes! I can find it for e-mail (which is set to go WAY WAY back), but not for the calendar...
( I know WM6 had the setting, but can't find it on here)
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So, today someone asked me what day I met with someone back on December 2nd (today is December 20th).
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Well the answer clearly is you met with them on december 2nd
now on a serious note. just looked at my calendar and went back to july and all my meetings and what not are all still there. (just in case i have no idea how exchange works) but my guess is for some odd reason you erased it from your calendar on your device.
all my calendar items are still there.
no need for people to be hostile... it could just merely be a syncing issue. this might sound a bit of a reach, but have you tried removing the exchange account and readding it?
haha, sorry about the typo, I had a few glasses of wine before my original post.
(I meant to say they asked me what time I met with someone that day)...
Anyways, the issue is still there, reconfigured the sync and absolutely no change. I've kind of narrowed it down though. It appears it will only sync the calendar back 2 weeks into the past exactly....
Is this a default setting on WP7 we can't change? (Please keep in mind inside of my e-mail sync settings on the phone, I have it configured to go back a month).
Did you go to settings/email accounts and make sure the sync calendar box is checked?
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Did you go to settings/email accounts and make sure the sync calendar box is checked?
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Uhh yes...
As I mentioned originally, The Calendar is syncing, and items are staying up to date (I have at least 6-8 items per day that have to be updated, and they are staying updated, theres no problem with these).
The problem is that after 2 weeks, it just removes the items off the phone (they stay on my Exchange mailbox, and stay in Calendar), the phone just removes them...
E-Mail is setup to sync a month into the past, so I'm thinking the e-mail sync past feature only applies to e-mail on the phone. I havn't been able to find a "how far back to sync" option specifically for the Calendar.
In my last post, I mentioned that I got rid of the Exchange sync, and reconfigured it. This removed everything, and re-set it all up.... The calendar still only goes back 2 weeks...
The only items that are in my Calendar before the 2 weeks are appointments which are configured as re-curring. Any other type of appointments don't show in the past further than 2 weeks into the past.
I don't beleive this is anything I'm doing wrong. I'm just wondering if this 2 weeks into the past thing is hardcoded into the phone, or what...
Just wondering if anyone has found a solution for this 2 weeks thing?
I find it very annoying that only recurring appointments/reminders are kept longer than 2 weeks!
I want my Calendar to store all my appointments and to keep them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Just wondering if anyone has found a solution for this 2 weeks thing?
I find it very annoying that only recurring appointments/reminders are kept longer than 2 weeks!
I want my Calendar to store all my appointments and to keep them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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It has always been so with me too, and many others as I've read on other forums. I hope this will change in the future.
I know this is delayed, but it's great to know this is happening to someone else and not just me!
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Well, I know it may be a bit cluncky, but as my lovely place of employment does not support Active Sync for Windows Phones, I have been using "Google Calendar Sync" on my laptop to keep my Outlook Calendar in sync with my Google calendar (and thus my phone) and have not "lost" any old appointments in my Google calendar.
for exchange, go to settings email accounts outlook and change how many days it syncs email
For hotmail and facebook there isn't a setting but i can go forward and backward months on the calendars and see appointments.
What calendar / account are you having the issue with? I don't have a google calendar to test.
So I've given up waiting for google to implement a decent selection of recurring events on their calendar, and am trying other options.
The type of thing I'm looking for is to be able to schedule events on the first/last day/weekday/weekend day of the month. I got close with a trial of pocket informant but after a while that starting duplicating events on the wrong days (last day of the month would repeat on all the weekdays in the last week of the month).
I then tried the outlook.com app to sync my microsoft calendar to the phone. Again, the data appears fine in microsoft-land, but on the android phone the events are all duplicated across the wrong days.
Does android just not like recurring events?
It's almost enough to make me consider jumping ship to WP8! Well, not really but it annoys me intensely.
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OK, so with PI I can add a recurring event on say the last day of the month. However, whereas the google calendar on my pc shows a correct recurrence, on the phone, with PI or any other calendar I try (stock, jorte, business calendar) the recurrences are incorrect.