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Free/Busy Information, where did it go?

I remember in X2.V1 from Abu, i used to see on the contacts information screen for any contact a "Free/busy information" label, that if I would click on it will look up the calendar schedule of that person in Outlook. After that ROM the feature is not on threre on any later ROM. The curious thing is that I flashed back to V1 and could not see it. My Company's admin states has not change any to the exchange server configuration.
how do i get "free/bussy information" back?

terracot said:
I remember in X2.V1 from Abu, i used to see on the contacts information screen for any contact a "Free/busy information" label, that if I would click on it will look up the calendar schedule of that person in Outlook. After that ROM the feature is not on threre on any later ROM. The curious thing is that I flashed back to V1 and could not see it. My Company's admin states has not change any to the exchange server configuration.
how do i get "free/bussy information" back?
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Once again, why would you open your own thread , to answer your own question about a rom that already has it's own thread to answer questions in ?
You are a senior member, shouldn't you know better ?

[Request] - Facebook sync app

Hi
I have an idea for an app. It should work kind a like the facebook function in WM 6.5, but in another way. Instead of choosing contacts to syng, it should sync every "friend" from the facebook profile.
You log in with your facebook log ind. The program looks at your friends, and if the friend has a number attached, the friend is added to your contactbook, with name, phone number, profile picture, and address(only if the friend has this info available).
Other features:
Auto sync. Each day? hour? week? user choice?
Choice of "Only sync when connected over WIFI"
If friend exist, then update number, address, profile picture, etc.
What do you think? Wouldnt this be nice?

It would indeed, but if i recall correctly fabook has put an end to this. Whether it's illegal or not i don't know, but im sure FB won't agree with it...
/Smirge

Smirge said:
It would indeed, but if i recall correctly fabook has put an end to this. Whether it's illegal or not i don't know, but im sure FB won't agree with it...
/Smirge
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Hmm, but there is already a built in function in WM 6.5, but only for each single user, so should'nt it be possible to extend to all users?

http://www.booksync.co.uk/
its for the pictures, correct the names and birthday date
but im missing the sync of numbers, emails...

I used to have (WM 6.1) the option to save the picture as the birthday date to the profile in my contacts.
When I link a contact with facebook in WM 6.5, I only can save the picture, so the birthday is not saved in the profile, even as in the calendar.
Is there a solution for this problem ?

Linked contacts? questions.

So...I have a contact named Iris. I pin Iris to the home page. Fine. Now when I go into her contact I have the option to link her to another. Fine. I link her to David. I back out to the homepage. WTF?...Iris is now David?..Ok what and why has my Iris "pane" changed to David? I dont understand this. Not only that but if i search my contacts for Iris that name no longer shows up.
Very odd and I really hate this.
Is there a solution?

Hi,
I use the link option only to join together 2 entries in my contact list for 1 person.
For example, I have a friend in my contacts called Jim but his facebook contact name is James, i can link these 2 together to have just 1 entry in my contact list. I think I know what your trying to do - mabye link together a husband and wife or something, I'm not sure if you can do that?
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
Hope this makes sense.

Hi there,
The link contacts feature is more for linking the same contact but from different sources together.
Say you have Iris on Exchange, the same Iris on FB but with slightly different info including differing email addresses, and say you have the same Iris (but spelt Irisss) in Live. The Link feature enables you to join all these sources together in one view.
Please remember though that this is a "view" and not a single physical contact. All three contacts will remain as they are in their respective areas in the cloud. There is no auto update or merging of data. I've asked this question on another forum and as yet, no response.

dov74 said:
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
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Our posts sort of crossed and I forgot to put in what you mentioned above

Yeah! I think yours makes more sense tho lol!

I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing

harsaphes said:
I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing
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They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.

Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot. I'm also on Facebook, but the phone only shows my contact on the phone not the FB contact as well to link too. In fact I cant search for my self either lol.

chubnut said:
They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.
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Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.

it does not disappear only one of the contacts would be showed and the other contacts details is merged in the contact you linked in.
If you want Iris to show than first unlink the contacts and then select David and link Iris...

No it doesn't disappear but if you search for that contact name it doesn't show up any longer.

chubnut said:
Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot.
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Is there any way at all to send contact info to a third person via vcard, sms or anything? No cut and paste either - so, do we really have to write it down on paper, then enter it into an sms?

harsaphes said:
Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.
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You're missing the point.
The suggestions are there because the OS thinks that the contacts are the same person. This might be because of similar name, similar E-mail or whatever. Personally it has never suggested the wrong people before.
The original contact doesn't disappear, linking is done to link accounts of the same person together. The reason why your original person "disappeared" was because you linked 2 people together who weren't the same person.

Problem with adding participants to calendar event?

Hi,
I see that the calendar that comes with the Note 10.1 allows us to add participants to our calendar events directly from our contact list. Lol, about time Google added that option.
Anyway, all of my Contacts are from my Google Account. I have hundreds of contacts yet when I click on the participants button only about 8 contacts come up. They aren't favorites or anything. They just seem random.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I can set it to access all of my contacts? Thanks.

Ah, I think I get it. It only lists contacts that have email addresses. Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to make it list all contacts?

mitchellvii said:
Ah, I think I get it. It only lists contacts that have email addresses. Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to make it list all contacts?
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I suspect not. Isn't the idea that it uses the addresses to inform them of the event, changes etc.?

RikF said:
I suspect not. Isn't the idea that it uses the addresses to inform them of the event, changes etc.?
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Yes I guess but since there are many benefits to adding a contact to an event besides simply
emailing them would be nice to not impose that limitation. That if I wanted the contact there to call or navigate to an address?
Sent from my awesome

[Q] Gmail won't allow to respond to calendar invites

Hi
I've searched for a solution to this problem and cannot find it. It either seems to work for people or it doesn't. As I understand it since a Gmail update at the end of last year this should work. So why isn't it for me?
The problem is when I receive a calendar invite in my email, on my old Galaxy S3 it would need to open the ICS in Calendar for me to be able to accept it. This was not ideal but it worked and I was never able to improve it. In my new Oneplus, it's even worse - if the invite is from Outlook I just get a blank email, with no ICS let alone yes/no options. From Google Calendar, I get weblinks and it takes me to a browser version of the calendar.
I cannot get my head round this, how can it be that the iPhone app by default has simple yes/no/maybe buttons that work in the email without jumping to any other app, but on Google's own phone it seems to have a problem with such a basic feature?
Please help, driving me mad! :crying:
Cheers

No-one?
OK, so can someone help me out with how this SHOULD work?
Here's what I see in the iOS app with an invite from Outlook:-
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And here is what I see in Android:-
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If the invite is from gmail, iOS works exactly the same but Android shows up like this, with weblinks:-
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Is this the same for everyone? If you see something different can you please post it and help me work out why I see something different? Surely Google's own OS should be able to handle calendar invites at least as well as it's app on iOS?!
Thanks!

Slightly shocked that not one person has replied with simply whether they see the same as me or not. Guess I'll have to go elsewhere

Same Here
nickjwall said:
Slightly shocked that not one person has replied with simply whether they see the same as me or not. Guess I'll have to go elsewhere
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In the past, I had "Invitation Plugin" installed to be able to add the invitations to my calendar. But now, since there is no attachment or .ics or anything, even that doesn't work. I get the same "blank" emails as you. This is very frustrating as my wife and I use invitations for everything. She sends them, and I have to get to a PC to open my Gmail to see (and accept) the invitations. Very frustrating when this used to work.
I hope somebody has some answer/workaround for this.

I found a workaround. There's an app called Cal by any.do. It's just a calendar app, but, it does have an indicator/filter that shows pending invitations and allows you to accept/deny and notifies the meeting chair. This is mildly better than searching the entire calendar trying to find the pending invite.
So, when the email comes in, pop over to Cal and do the needful. Not perfect, but better than where I was before.

Thanks for replying, nice to know I'm not alone in this issue Yeah me and the wife do exactly the same
Yep, Cal seems to provide a workaround of sorts, thanks for sharing it. Seems utterly nuts that Google should make their own solutions work better on a competitive platform to their own. Very very poor
If anyone else has any solutions or comments would love to hear them
Cheers

same problem here
I'm running the latest gmail update (v 5.0) on KitKat and I get the same problem - google calendar invites present a links only that take me to a webpage. on gmail for my iPad get big easy buttons to use. How is it possible that the experience is better on iOS than Android?

Same problem here. Confirmed that it is because the invitation is from Outlook. Why is there no solution? Seems like the bug is on the Android Gmail client.

Still no solution available in June - as far as I can tell - is this some kind of spat with Microsoft?
It's a real PITA whatever it is...not what I expected running the latest software versions available.

nickjwall said:
No-one?
OK, so can someone help me out with how this SHOULD work?
And here is what I see in Android:-
View attachment 2957496
Is this the same for everyone? If you see something different can you please post it and help me work out why I see something different? Surely Google's own OS should be able to handle calendar invites at least as well as it's app on iOS?!
Thanks!
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I am facing the similar issue. My problem is bigger - I get at least 30-35 outlook exchange invites on my gmail account and my Gmail App shows just the emails (it doesn't show the date and time) which is sad. All the time, I have to check the calendar app, open each invite / meeting requests and select - Yes / No / Maybe from the Calendar. I so wish that the Android Gmail App comes up with a simple feature (just like you have shown for iOS Gmail App.) so that at least we will know that the email which we have received is an actual Outlook Meeting invite and not a standard email. Can somebody please contact Google Android department and raise this issue? I have tried to report this on the official Google App. Gmail forum but no luck on their response so far.
Again, thanks for bringing this up here on XDA.