Hi everyone. I maintain all birthdays and anniversaries for my contacts in the contact details. But somehow, they automatically become reminders. How can I set the phone up (including Outlook on PC) to not to make reminders out of birthdays and anniversaries, but still have them in calender as annual events (without reminders)?
Using Kaiser, WM6 (Alex's Clean ROM); PC has Vista, Outlook 2007.
Not positive about Outlook 2007, but in 2003 (which is where I'd change them), once you open the calendar hit, there is a "reminder" box which, if unchecked, will not provide a reminder for the event. You'll want to make sure you open the series, not the individual event before unchecking the reminder box.
That's just ur way of saying you don't wan't to rember you'r anniversarie lol..
Cheer's
Thanks debs, but I already knew that method of disabling reminders, but the problem is that it has to be done for all of them one by one, which is very annoying if you, let's say, hard reset and restore your contacts, it syncs with outlook and then you have your reminders again; or let's say you add new contact in either pc or ppc, sync and another set of reminders.....
I was looking for something that would disable the automatic reminder.
I use SPB diary for these events to be displayed on today screen, so don't really need to reminded at midnight that someone's birthday or anniversary is coming up!
Setting reminder timing forBirthdays and anniversaries
damac said:
Thanks debs, but I already knew that method of disabling reminders, but the problem is that it has to be done for all of them one by one, which is very annoying if you, let's say, hard reset and restore your contacts, it syncs with outlook and then you have your reminders again; or let's say you add new contact in either pc or ppc, sync and another set of reminders.....
I was looking for something that would disable the automatic reminder.
I use SPB diary for these events to be displayed on today screen, so don't really need to reminded at midnight that someone's birthday or anniversary is coming up!
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I have the same problem. The main problem is not that it reminds me. I need it to remind me. But I don't want it to remind me at midnight. I want to be reminded at 10 AM for example.
And you are right, we should be able to set reminder for a category of reminders such as Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays, etc..
Anyone has a solution for this?
damac said:
Hi everyone. I maintain all birthdays and anniversaries for my contacts in the contact details. But somehow, they automatically become reminders. How can I set the phone up (including Outlook on PC) to not to make reminders out of birthdays and anniversaries, but still have them in calender as annual events (without reminders)?
Using Kaiser, WM6 (Alex's Clean ROM); PC has Vista, Outlook 2007.
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Hi Damac,
You've probably figured this out by now, but ...
1) In Outlook: Tools -> Options...
In the calendar section there's a checkbox for default reminder. That needs to be unchecked to prevent any new calendar items from getting a reminder. Unfortunately this affects all new items; Birthdays, meetings, etc. You may wish to leave this on and just periodically kill off the annual events that you don't need a reminder for.
2) In Outlook: Calendar mode. View -> Current View -> Annual Events (or Events).
This will show a table of all annual events.
Right click on the heading bar (Subject, Location, Recurrence, etc) and select field chooser.
This will open another floating dialog with extra fields that can be added to the table.
Find "Reminder" in the field list and drag it to the heading bar in a suitable spot.
Now any event that has a reminder will have a little alarm bell icon in the reminder field.
You can single click each of those icons to turn off. It's easier than it sounds and most annual events you won't want a reminder for anyway as the alarm always goes off at midnight!
3) On the PPC: This is for a 6.1 version, but it's similar on all of them.
Start -> Settings. Personal tab. Sounds & Notifications.
Sounds tab. This section alows you to turn off sound for all alarms and notifications.
Notifications tab. Select the 'Reminders' event. This allows you to choose the sound that plays and also whether the sound repeats, light flases & vibrate.
Since I do want to be notified of important days, I've just unchecked the repeat box. There's nothing more annoying than being woken up at midnight by a constant notification alarm about Aunt Bessie's birthday. I can put up with a single alarm, but not a repeating one!
Just like the previous poster, I'm also looking for a way of getting the all day events notifications to activate at a time other than midnight...
Cheers,
Anthony
Anyone got a solution to this?
I want it to remind me at a time I select too. Not midnight.
*push*
Me too. Same problem with annoying reminders at 23:45...
Greets,
Puschel
When I was still using the IMate Jam (can remember the operating system) it had a option to set the reminder time for all day events.
Why did they change something that worked.
I wish I can get that code of the imate en add it to my HTC Touch pro 2 (WM6.5)
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I have the same problem. The main problem is not that it reminds me. I need it to remind me. But I don't want it to remind me at midnight. I want to be reminded at 10 AM for example.
And you are right, we should be able to set reminder for a category of reminders such as Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays, etc..
Anyone has a solution for this?
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I'm like yourself, I want to be reminded of families birthdays, anniversaries etc but don't want to be reminded at 12.00am.
To stop this I sync'ed my device with Outlook and then changed the reminder notification time to 0.5 days for each birthday/anniversary
Tip, when you open a birthday/anniversary....make sure you click on 'open the series'
Also, you can change the default notification time so for any new birthdays/anniversaries the default time will be set to whatever you choose, i.e. in my case 0.5 days
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I'm like yourself, I want to be reminded of families birthdays, anniversaries etc but don't want to be reminded at 12.00am.
To stop this I sync'ed my device with Outlook and then changed the reminder notification time to 0.5 days for each birthday/anniversary
Tip, when you open a birthday/anniversary....make sure you click on 'open the series'
Also, you can change the default notification time so for any new birthdays/anniversaries the default time will be set to whatever you choose, i.e. in my case 0.5 days
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Thanks. I am doing this already as a work around. But I want the reminder to ring on the day of the birth day not the day before. The Imate Jam (WM 2003) had a setting " all day begin at .... "
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?
and up !
I have the same problem with my X1.
Same problem with HTC HD2. No solutions after more than a year?
SPB Diary is no longer being developed and Pocketbreeze crashes after about 5 minutes of using it. I tried alarmtoday but and its close but doesnt have all the features of a real Calendar today screen plugin.
So basically I need something that can show all my appointments and tasks for the day on a screen when I turn it on and there is currently no real solution that I know of.
So what are some of you guys using? Anyone know of any calendar plugin that works with wm6.5?
Calendar Touch should work as integrates via PIM so will show in normal Calendar interface also has a nice usable gui.
Today's Aganda this is free and works GREAT. very configurable also in appearance.
need to google search
TodayAgenda_PPC as linking fails for me.
pulls in bdays from contacts also, freeing them from your "calendar".
Hi XDA,
Long time lurker, first time poster
For while now I'm looking for an app that gives me calendar reminders. I have two calendars set-up on my android phone, 1 MS Exchange calendar (work) and 1 google calendar (personal). I'd like to get sound notifications for my personal calendar only, not for the work calendar. I like my work-calendar in my phone just so I can check what's up in my spare time, I get reminders @ the workplace via my PC.
The way I see android work is that either I get notifications for ALL calendars, or I get none. I'd like to get all notifications for one specific calendar.
I'd like an app that integrates, aka I don't want to make new calendar-entries specifically for the seperate notification. I'd like the app to look at my google calendar.
I've been looking for this kind of app for quite a while now, I'd really like it!
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.
Update:
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.