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Hi guys
Not sure how many of you are using HTC calendar app, but i use it all the time. I have about 5 calendars
My
roster
vacation
birthdays
ROSTER MOBILE.
Problem is, i can't see roster mobile on mine Sensation. Reason i have two, is because i had to create reoccurring events, which are shifts, fortnightly. For some reason one i created originally shows days all over the place, far from what i need. So i created another one, which is not correct, but used to be correct on Desire.
I could never see roster mobile after fresh install, so i had to go to calendar, menu -add calendar, and it was there. In sense 3.0 i just can't find add calendar function so i can't add roster mobile. Am i missing something?
Roster still shows days all over the place, so i'm sure roster mobile would have been ok if i could add it.
EDIT:
Sorted, just created new one, exported roster mobile, imported it into new on and it shows.

Some Questions and possible bugs

I upgraded from a HTC Imagio running Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Samsung Galaxy S3 and it is my first foray into the Android world, so I hope you can help with the following. As you can see, it was a big step up the ladder of mobile operating systems!
1. If I have a name prefix for my contact in the contact list, like Mr./Ms./Mrs./Dr., the name does not autocomplete for that contact from the phone keypad. When I enter the letters of the first or last name on the phone keypad, the contact does not show up. However, if I delete the name prefix and leave it blank, it shows up fine. Is there some setting to have all the contacts show up or is it a bug? Is it happening for others too?
2. On the Windows phone, I had a reminder application which showed a list of all reminders. I could set the reminder to repeat after any number of days/weeks/years. However, in the Android Calendar, when I set an event, I am unable to set the number of days/weeks/months/years it has to repeat. For example, I need an event to repeat every 365 days (calendar with no leap day) but I cannot set it on my phone or in GMail. Also, when the alarm goes off, I would like to be reminded again after a day or a few hours or a few minutes until I dismiss the notification so I can have the remidner go off a few days before the event as a reminder. I don't know if that is possible too. I looked at a couple of apps from the Play Store but could not find one which does everything. Anyone know of a trick to get this to work?
Update: DGT GTD & To-Do List with its recent updates now does what I need. Thanks to the author for adding the features.
3. When I check my gmail in the web browser, I am unable to delete the mails. I touch the trash icon but it stays highlighted but does not delete the mail. Is that a bug or am I again doing something wrong? I have different gmail accounts that I would like to check on the phone without transferring contacts and calendar entries.
Update: Looks like a bug in the stock web browser. GMail works as expected in Chrome browser
4. Is there a clear writeup of how the calendar and contacts sync between gmail and the phone? I had transferred all my contacts from my Windows mobile phone to gmail and they showed up on my S3 when I set up the gmail account. However, they would not transfer to my phone. I had to export the contacts to a file on my phone and then import the contacts into my phone. Maybe I do not need the contacts to reside on the phone? I was worried that if I was in an area with poor or no signal reception, then I may not be able to view the contacts if they were only on my gmail account and not on the phone.
4a. Similarly, I would like to know how the calendar entries from gmail can be pulled on to the phone.
Thanks in advance for your help and patience in reading the above! I have a lot to learn but hope I can get my phone to work the way I would enjoy. If you can suggest any resource for reading other than XDA and Android Central, that would be great too.

Oops. This should have been posted in the Q&A Forum. Mods, can you please move it if that is where it belongs? Thanks!

[Q] s planner - galaxy note 10.1

I have noticed on several pictures of the s planner different colors for different events on your calendar. How is that possible, everytime I input something into my calendar it does one color for everything. even when I input it and change the color on my computer and once it syns to my galaxy 10.1 everything is the same color. help. how do i make different events different colors.

As far as I know and im no expert but what i do is create a number of google calendars. for example - work & family - i assign dieffernt calendar colours in google for those calendars. Now back on s planner you will now have two categories for your events/appointments. You will have family and you will have work. Create your event and choose which calendar you want it in. Hey presto - your event appears with the relevant colour assigned back in your google calendar.
Hope that makes sense.
Just create as many clanedars as you need in google. They will appear in s planner.

This doesn't directly answer your question, and I don't know if you can assign different colors to events created in S Planner. But I have different colored events on my S Planner calendar as a result of syncing with two different Google Calendars. Each synced calendar's events appear in a different color, to differentiate between the calendars.

lisa2blonde said:
As far as I know and im no expert but what i do is create a number of google calendars. for example - work & family - i assign dieffernt calendar colours in google for those calendars. Now back on s planner you will now have two categories for your events/appointments. You will have family and you will have work. Create your event and choose which calendar you want it in. Hey presto - your event appears with the relevant colour assigned back in your google calendar.
Hope that makes sense.
Just create as many clanedars as you need in google. They will appear in s planner.
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thank you this totally worked. i have had my note since christmas and just couldnt figure it out but now it works how i expected it to.

Awesome!!! great news! glad i helped someone - woohoo

[GUIDE]Sync local calendar with Google account[No root]

Hi guys!
Added many calendar entries and then realized that you have added it to the local calendar? Android syncs only the calendar which is connected with your Google Account. So if you want to transfer all entries from local calendar to the Google calendar, you have come to the right place
To achieve this, kindly follow these steps and you will be good to go:good: :-
1. Download this app on your phone - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idea.backup.smscontacts
2. Open it and go to Calendars Backup--->Backup
3. Chose the file name and start the backup.
4. Then transfer the backup file to your pc. It will be in /sdcard/SmsContactsBackup/calendars
5. Open up the backup file on your pc. I'd highly recommend you to use Notepad++ for this. You will see multiple <Calendar entries at the top of the file. Look for the entry which has this attribute:- account_type="LOCAL"
Note down the _id attribute for this <Calendar entry.
6. Now look for <Calendar entry which has name="[email protected]" attribute and note down the _id attribute. Here xyz is your gmail username.
7. Now open Find & Replace and replace this -
Code:
calendar_id="1"
with
Code:
calendar_id="2"
Here, 1 is the _id for LOCAL <Calendar entry and 2 is the id for your Google Calendar (in my case). It could be different for you. So basically whichever calendar entry is set as local, will be converted to the google calendar's entry so that it can be synced
8. Now transfer the modified file back to /sdcard/SmsContactsBackup/calendars
9. Now open Superbackup--->Calendars and click on Delete all calendars.
10. Then restore the modified backup and re-sync your phone with the google calendar. All your local entries will now appear as google calendar entries and will get synced properly to your account.
Enjoy
Regards,
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I have been looking for something like this for several days now. I haven't tried it yet but I will soon and I can't wait. Thank you for sharing.

probbiethe1 said:
I have been looking for something like this for several days now. I haven't tried it yet but I will soon and I can't wait. Thank you for sharing.
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Glad to hear that at least someone found it useful.
Sent from my Xperia S using Tapatalk

Yeah this is very useful. I know most people only use the Google Calendar and don't ever worry about this but for the people that don't know the difference and then try to switch devices this is good to know. Great find!

Great thanks, that's exactly what I was searching for !!
You saved me 2hours of re-entering many bithdays and garbage-colection-days

Entries disappear when syncing.
Hello. I tried this one for my dad's Xperia S. All went well up until I tried to sync it with his google account. After it finishes syncing, all the calendar entries just disappear. Help please?

Hello, I tried this method and everything looks like it is working, when I restore the modified backup it says it is updating 601 entries to the calendar, which is about right - but I am still not seeing them on the calendar.

Do most phones not have a method of exporting local calendars which can then be imported to Google Calendars or other calendars?

Easier way to do it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applisto.copyevents.pro
This allows to periodically move events from one calendar to another and, when using it for the first time allows to specify which time frame has to be considered (into the past and into the future).
Copy: events copied from 1 calendar to the other.
Mirror: tracking changes
Move: original event is removed, only left in target calendar.
It is powerful, be careful to read explanations and features.
Xavi

I was unable to get this guide to work at all. However, another suggestion here worked well. The basic idea is to export an existing calendar as an ICS file and then import it to Google (or wherever) using a desktop computer web browser. The free program referenced in that post worked for me. I was able to export a single calendar as an ICS without issue. However, I couldn't use the suggested program to import a calendar; I had to use the Google Calendar website instead.
you can migrate the events you've already entered on the Phone's calendar (to which you've been adding events with the Samsung Calendar App) into Google Calendar for free using a tool such as Calendar Sync Trial. Open the app and go to "Export" to create an ics (iCal) file containing the phone's calendar events, then import that file into a Google Calendar using a browser, or the same app. You can get Calendar Sync Trial from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icalparse.free
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BTW, this question was also asked at a StackExchange site: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/85089/sync-local-calendar-entries-with-google/231000

[Discussion] What calendar app do you use, and why?

Did a few searches and didn't find any recent threads discussing Calendar apps in general, so let's get one going.
Discussion starters:
What calendar app do you use, and why?
Are there other Calendar apps you've tried? What ones did / didn't you like?
What features do you absolutely demand from your calendar app?
What features do you want from a calendar app, but can't find?
If you ditched a calendar app in the past, when did you ditch it, what app did you go to, and why?

In the past, I've tried a bunch of the top calendars like Business Calendar, aCalendar, Google Calendar, Touch Calendar, Pure Calendar, etc. Every single time, I end up coming back to CalenGoo.
CalenGoo isn't all that pretty, especially the menus and settings (which are quite overwhelming at first.) The setup is difficult, and time consuming, especially if you want to play with the colors, text, etc. Even if you don't try to visually customize the app, it still is far from intuitive, and really does take some time to figure out.
Having said all of that, the primary thing that keeps me coming back is the ability to set default reminders. I have not found this in any other calendar app that I've tried. I want to be send reminders of almost everything I put on my calendar. For me, the most effective reminders are text messages, so I set the default reminders to 4 or 5 separate texts (24 hours prior, 2 hours prior, 30 minutes prior, 10 minutes prior). This saves me a substantial amount of clicking when I'm setting up a new task. At most, maybe I'll need to add or subtract a reminder or play with the times, but not having to add 4 or 5 reminders, set the reminder times, and set the method of reminder is fantastic.
Other more standard features that I demand from my calendar are a month view and a month view widget. I also like the calendar to have a more complex recurring event thing like '3rd monday of each month', 'every other tuesday,' 'quarterly on the 6th of february, may, august, november', etc (you get the picture.) Finally, it must be able to sync with any subset of the google calendars I have added to the phone, and the ability to sync the other optional google generated calendars I've attached, like US holidays, christian holidays, etc.

I used to use business calendar, now I use sunrise calendar. No particular reason for switching - I did a factory reset, and I wanted to see what's the big deal about sunrise.