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I've got a Calendar WTF question...

Pre-amble:
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)

Zhariak said:
Pre-amble:
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?

action_efn_jackson said:
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.

little_daffodil said:
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.

[Q] Windows Live in Android

Hi guys,
Looking on switching from WinMo to Android... Is there a way to sync Windows Live Contacts and Calendar in Android?
I would agree this is a noob question... But I didn't find conclusive information searching the forum.
Please... It's important for me since my main mail is @hotmail and all my contacts and calendar events are stored there...
Thanks!

CharlyAR said:
Hi guys,
Looking on switching from WinMo to Android... Is there a way to sync Windows Live Contacts and Calendar in Android?
I would agree this is a noob question... But I didn't find conclusive information searching the forum.
Please... It's important for me since my main mail is @hotmail and all my contacts and calendar events are stored there...
Thanks!
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Yes. I did both at one time (I'm using google exclusively for sync now). I think you can set it up either in Accounts, or set up the Exchange email service, and then in accounts you can set up the sync.
Guarantee you can do it, though. Whenever I flash a new ROM, I have to tell it not to sync my live.com contacts and calendar.

Tnx!
I will look some other "details" and will probably flash Enery Desire HD this week.
Cheers.

Soccer_Dad said:
Yes. I did both at one time (I'm using google exclusively for sync now). I think you can set it up either in Accounts, or set up the Exchange email service, and then in accounts you can set up the sync.
Guarantee you can do it, though. Whenever I flash a new ROM, I have to tell it not to sync my live.com contacts and calendar.
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Thanks! I just flashed. I'm fighting some other details. But Live Account worked great!
Cheers.

[Q] Sync'ing Google Calendar FROM Phone TO Web

Ok, I've searched for this and the few solutions that I have found do not make any difference for me, so either, something fundamental has changed at Google, or I have set something else wrong.
The Problem;
I have one Google Calendar and one Windows Live Calendar set up on my Windows Phone. (HTC 7 Pro).
Until 2 weeks ago (approximately) every thing sync'd correctly both ways.
Now, events entered as Google Calendar Items on the Phone do not sync with the Online Calendar. Events entered on the Online Calendar sync as expected.
I have tried changing the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar:" setting to "yes" or "yes, but dont send event reminders....." as suggested in other threads, but this does not have any effect. i am aware that this fix will not work on events created before the setting change. It does not work with events created before or after the Setting was changed.
The Windows Live Calendar syncs properly both ways. There is no issue with this, but could it's presence be affecting how the Google Calendar behaves?
Any further advise would be appreciated.

Have you considered that it can have something to do with summer/vinter time. check that you phone and gmail account have the same time zone and both are updated to summer time.

nickallison said:
Ok, I've searched for this and the few solutions that I have found do not make any difference for me, so either, something fundamental has changed at Google, or I have set something else wrong.
The Problem;
I have one Google Calendar and one Windows Live Calendar set up on my Windows Phone. (HTC 7 Pro).
Until 2 weeks ago (approximately) every thing sync'd correctly both ways.
Now, events entered as Google Calendar Items on the Phone do not sync with the Online Calendar. Events entered on the Online Calendar sync as expected.
I have tried changing the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar:" setting to "yes" or "yes, but dont send event reminders....." as suggested in other threads, but this does not have any effect. i am aware that this fix will not work on events created before the setting change. It does not work with events created before or after the Setting was changed.
The Windows Live Calendar syncs properly both ways. There is no issue with this, but could it's presence be affecting how the Google Calendar behaves?
Any further advise would be appreciated.
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I've had the same issue on my Samsung Focus since I pretty much bought the thing. I gave up and finally just moved to the live calendar. I guess I could try again now that I have Nodo to see if that fixed it.

There's nothing for NoDo to "fix" on your phone. I've been using Google Calendar on my Focus since day 1, and it has always worked (both pre- and post-Nodo) once I got it properly configured (using the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" setting). I just tested it to make sure.
I wonder if your Google account on your phone has become corrupted somehow. Have you tried deleting the account from the phone and recreating it?
But, I am puzzled that you say that the events were syncing correctly before. If you didn't have the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar" setting enabled, I don't see how that could have worked. WP7-created events are only sent as invitations to Google, and without that setting, they can't show up in your calendar.

Thanks for responses.
I'm fairly certain that this is not a DST issue. I have checked clocks and all seems correct.
Apologies for confusion, robodad.
I switched the "automatically add invitations..." setting to NO about the time it stopped working, but didn't notice until the last couple of days that it had, stopped working.
On noticing, I researched and discovered how this setting should be set to YES due to the way that Google handles new events from WP7.
Now that this is switched back to YES it is still not sync'ing.
A response to the same question on Google's forums has suggested that the ICS is broken. I do not know what this means but it appears that this is at Google's end.

Hello,
I've exactly the same problem with my Trophy 7.
i had the setting on " yes, but don't send.." , the appointments came into google calendar with a question mark.
All of a sodden it stopped working, so i changed the setting to "yes", but it doesn't make a difference.
The strange thing is that it does work both ways on my iphone, so there is no problem (i think) from googles side as you suggested.
This is very frustrating because i use google calendar as my main calendar, i hope someone has an other solution.
Thanks for any help.
Monique

Update
Well, from the Google Forums where this has been posted (OPs:-Am I allowed to link to that from here?), Google have now taken some sort of ownership of this and are apparently looking into it.
They have contacted (seemingly) everyone that has posted on their Forum for details as to the problem.
Maybe something sorted out soon.

Latest from Google
This posted on the Google Help Forum as a work around.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for keeping us updated here with what's worked for you and what hasn't. Andrew has been working with me off-thread and has been super helpful, and we think we might have a workaround for now. Do you guys mind trying this out and letting me know if it works for you?
1) Delete the "Google" account on your device
2) Add an "Outlook" account
3) Be sure the email address is correct the first time it asks you
4) Device will say "Check your information and try again" and give a more
detailed form
5) Be sure that both email address and username are correct in this form
(domain can be blank or a dummy value like "goog")
6) Device will give "We couldn't find your settings", choose "Advanced"
7) This time device will give a field for server, enter "m.google.com"
8) Now it should sync.
9) Configure the account as desired and you should be able to add a
calendar event successfully
10) Keep using this account or, optionally, delete this account and add a
"Google" account (either way is the same)
Cheers,
Alice
This appears to have had limited success. Certainly hasn't worked for me. But does appear to have worked for at least one other contributer there. If intermittently

nickallison said:
Ok, I've searched for this and the few solutions that I have found do not make any difference for me, so either, something fundamental has changed at Google, or I have set something else wrong.
The Problem;
I have one Google Calendar and one Windows Live Calendar set up on my Windows Phone. (HTC 7 Pro).
Until 2 weeks ago (approximately) every thing sync'd correctly both ways.
Now, events entered as Google Calendar Items on the Phone do not sync with the Online Calendar. Events entered on the Online Calendar sync as expected.
I have tried changing the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar:" setting to "yes" or "yes, but dont send event reminders....." as suggested in other threads, but this does not have any effect. i am aware that this fix will not work on events created before the setting change. It does not work with events created before or after the Setting was changed.
The Windows Live Calendar syncs properly both ways. There is no issue with this, but could it's presence be affecting how the Google Calendar behaves?
Any further advise would be appreciated.
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Can you please tell me how did you sync your phone calander with windows live account? I can not do it.

Latest from Google Forums
This from Andrew who seems to be doing a lot of work on this.
"I've spent quite an enjoyable an hour on the phone with a mobile-software chap from Google, who has access to sync logs. What's happening in my case is that although I set up the sync with my gmail address, the phone is sending events with my live.com address as "Organizer", and those events are being rejected. This happened again when I connected with a test Google calendar account as well -- my phone used my live.com address.
Steve then tried to sync his phone with a test Google calendar account, and events created on the phone were synced correctly. He then tried his phone with *my* Google calendar -- that is, set up my gmail account on his phone -- and the event was created with his live.com address (and consequently was rejected).
So: the issue can be reproduced using my Google calendar account and any phone, or my phone and any calendar. But no phone should be leaking live.com addresses to Google.
Investigation continues. I'm now going to look for a way of reporting the problem to Microsoft..."
I fear that this may be bringing the issue back full circle to NoDo. We shall see.

Automatic?
erfansaberi said:
Can you please tell me how did you sync your phone calander with windows live account? I can not do it.
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erfansaberi,
So far as I am aware, i never had to do anything other than set up the account, to sync my Live Calendar across from Phone to Desktop to Cloud.
I use Outlook Connector with Outlook 2007. This syncs the Desktop.
To be honest i don't use web apps at all (other than Google where i have no choice at present) as I am invariably on a Mobile Data connection and at least Outlook only transfers the relevant data, and not all the gubbings required to render a web page, in a browser.

I also have this google thing problem... It is quite annoying.
Did anyone here try to delete the account and create an outlook account trick? Does it work? I guess it also removes the contact list, doesn't it?

Work around?
Not sure if someone has come up with a good work around yet, but this is annoying as heck! I actually lost some calendar events after creating events on the phone and syncing to google calendar. Darn you google!
Anyways, after playing around a bit, I think I've got something that works (for me anyways). I created a contact with my own google email address that I use with Google cal in it (it happens to not be an @gmail.com address). So this is pretty much my own contact card with my google cal email address. Now every single calendar event that I create, I have to go to "more details" and "add someone". I add myself under "required" and making sure to select the google cal email. Strangely, after syncing with google cal (manually or just wait a bit) it will show up in google cal.
The setback is that you'll get an email notification in gmail and all the events will have a little "?" next to it in google cal since you're supposed to confirm you're going or not to that event. But at least now we can backup our events to the cloud instead of losing every god dang thing if our phone goes to the crapper.

SOLVED (well sort of)
Posted at the Google Calendar forums thread that has been going on on this topic by Shaun_G
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I have been having this issue for the last month and have found something that works for me:
On your Windows Phone do the following:
1. Open Settings
2. click email & accounts
3. click your google account
4. Under Content to synchronise make sure that Email is ticked (this was not ticked orginally for me).
5. Add a new event to you calandar
6. go back into Settings -> email & accounts and click and hold you Google account until the menu appears and select synchronise
7. you should now see your newley created calandar event in your google calandar web
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This seems to work for me, I do not have to re-sync from the settings>email area either as it happens automatically.

Windows Mobile Contacts To Windows Phone 7

I currently have the HTC Imagio, and i sold it getting ready to upgrade to the HTC Trophy which i should be getting in the mail tomorrow. Ive been trying to google sync like i did previously with my touch pro 2 i had but whenever i do that it says attention required, im trying to hotmail active sync my contacts but cant get that to work either
is there any way to sync my contacts to my gmail or hotmail account then sync it back to my new trophy? how exactly are u suppose to do the hotmail sync is there a step by step process for this somewhere? did they change the google sync process?

deadwrong03 said:
I currently have the HTC Imagio, and i sold it getting ready to upgrade to the HTC Trophy which i should be getting in the mail tomorrow. Ive been trying to google sync like i did previously with my touch pro 2 i had but whenever i do that it says attention required, im trying to hotmail active sync my contacts but cant get that to work either
is there any way to sync my contacts to my gmail or hotmail account then sync it back to my new trophy? how exactly are u suppose to do the hotmail sync is there a step by step process for this somewhere? did they change the google sync process?
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DOWNLOAD the windows live app for WM sync contacts to live. Once that is done, when you log into the new phone with that live ID it will sync those contacts to the trophy.

Omega Ra said:
DOWNLOAD the windows live app for WM sync contacts to live. Once that is done, when you log into the new phone with that live ID it will sync those contacts to the trophy.
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thanks i just did this , now after i did this i went to my hotmail account on the computer and clicked on contacts to see if it went but its showing none of my contacts from my phone isnt it suppose to show on my hotmail account on the computer if they synced?

goto contacts in phone, select all, then in menu button all the way at the bottom is add to windows live( you can also add it to messenger), not sure if you need to hit sync again and logout of hotmail and then back in. took me an hour to fig that out, but so far everything on my phnoe seem to be in windows live contacts.
Nevermind only added a few.

I think I just transferred my contact to the SIM card. Not sure though.

Dragon Queen said:
goto contacts in phone, select all, then in menu button all the way at the bottom is add to windows live( you can also add it to messenger), not sure if you need to hit sync again and logout of hotmail and then back in. took me an hour to fig that out, but so far everything on my phnoe seem to be in windows live contacts.
Nevermind only added a few.
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im running a energy rom and that option isnt in my contacts menu for now i just put them all on my sim card but i would like to kknow how to do this through my live account

I did discover that the live account has a limit on contacts till there is more activity, ect on it I believe I have all of them on there now, took a few hours and many syncs to get there though.

[Q] Double calender items

I have a nice brandnew Desire S, no custom rom (yet) and all original.
I'm experiencing a calender problem I can't find any info about on google.
I have both a google account with appointments, and an exchange account with appointments. When I make a new appointment in outlook, it get's replicated okay to my phone. A moment later the appointment also gets replicated to my google account, and therefore appears 2 times in my calender app (HTC).
Also when I make a new appointment in Google (on the phone or on PC does not matter) it first shows on the phone once, and later it seems to get replicated to my exchange account and it appears also in outlook and twice on my phone.
I dont want replication between the calenders, I just want to be able to look at both calenders.
Anyone an idea about what I am overlooking?
Thanks!

conhen said:
I have a nice brandnew Desire S, no custom rom (yet) and all original.
I'm experiencing a calender problem I can't find any info about on google.
I have both a google account with appointments, and an exchange account with appointments. When I make a new appointment in outlook, it get's replicated okay to my phone. A moment later the appointment also gets replicated to my google account, and therefore appears 2 times in my calender app (HTC).
Also when I make a new appointment in Google (on the phone or on PC does not matter) it first shows on the phone once, and later it seems to get replicated to my exchange account and it appears also in outlook and twice on my phone.
I dont want replication between the calenders, I just want to be able to look at both calenders.
Anyone an idea about what I am overlooking?
Thanks!
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From within the HTC Calendar application
Calendar->More->Calendars and un-select one of your calendars....either Google or Outlook.

ben_pyett said:
From within the HTC Calendar application
Calendar->More->Calendars and un-select one of your calendars....either Google or Outlook.
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But that's not what I want. I want to be able to look into 2 (soon 3) separete calenders, without getting all appointments replicated to the other calenders...
But somehow the problem got solved. The described behaviour has suddenly disappeared. Pitty I don't know why ;-)

conhen said:
But that's not what I want. I want to be able to look into 2 (soon 3) separete calenders, without getting all appointments replicated to the other calenders...
But somehow the problem got solved. The described behaviour has suddenly disappeared. Pitty I don't know why ;-)
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We're you running any additional Sync software on your PC, HTC Sync or Google Calendar Sync?