[Q] Calendar: Clear Agenda And Birthdays (7720) (Solved) - Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Greetings Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me or point me in the right direction of how I can clear the agenda section on 7720. For some reason I cannot delete past Facebook events that I have attended. I already turned off the feature not to notify me of events I am not attending, but I cannot seem to delete these old events that are cluttering my agenda section.
Secondly, I was curious how do I get the phone to remind me of Facebook birthdays? Do I actually have to manually add every contacts birthday information directly into my live.com or how does this work because it does not remind me of my friends birthdays that are both in my contact list, on my live.com, and on my facebook.
Thank you for any help. =D

You can clear old Facebook events you have attended by removing them through Facebook. Go to Facebook, look at your past events, at the bottom of the event page is a link to remove the event. You need to do this for each event.
Of course, this removes any events you have in your Facebook history, so if you want to keep that, then you need to just ignore the past events.
Don't know about the birthdays one, haven't touched reminders at all.

Just a quick update for anyone having this problem. IF you have never used the calendar on live.com it will ask you the first time what your timezone is then once you do that it will sync all your calendar birthdays! I got the idea from this thread where he manually added his birthdays. All I had to do though was set my time zone and it fixed the glitch.

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[App][New] BirthdaysToCalendar - add the birthdays from your contacts to the calendar

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.
jzhyok said:
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.
fofo13 said:
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.

[Q] Bug in hotmail calendar - birthdays + wp7?

I've noticed a bug in WP7 + live.com calendar. If you let your account to put birthday dates automatically from facebook account it is of course added to your calendar.
However when you later on remove facebook account from live.com or your phone. The birthday data are still there and is impossible to remove them. When you try to do it you just get an error I think it's because the contact does not exist anymore as you removed fb account from it.
When you add fb account again, the birthdays date is again uploaded so you will get for each contact two duplicate date for birthdays.
Does someone know how to fix this? Because of some issues on my phone I was adding and removing fb account from my live account and phone for several times and now my calendar is filled by many duplicate dates which I'm unable to remove.
I haven't removed my Facebook account but I did notice duplicate entries for birthdays in my calendar.
Some are showing in my default calendar and the duplicates are in the automatically added Birthdays calendar.
I don't know why is this happening, but I don't like it.
BUMP
Does anybody know a solution to this? I think ot's hotmail's fault, but still.
i have the same issue. no solution found.
Maybe hotmail has to clean it up ?
Ask support for help maybe cause its annoying.
I do not fully understand the problem/issue you're having.
My FB contacts do not automatically show up in my Live calendar. In order to have my Live Calendar show FB Birthdays, I have to subscribe to the FB Birthday calendar on the Live Calendar (website). These Birthdays are then treated as a "new" calendar on my phone and I can have it set in a different color. As soon as I remove a friend from facebook, the birthday will be removed from the subscribed calendar (well, not "instantly", but during the next sync), therefore from my Live calendar as well...
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of course, removing your own FB account from your phone won't delete these calendars. Your FB account still exists and syncs to your Live online calendar. You would have to unsubscribe from your FB Birthday calendar as well, using the Live Calendar website.
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I should also mention that the FB Birthday subscription to your Live Calendar is "read only", you can't modify or edit dates for these subscriptions from your live calendar, but only the FB calendar.
I'm having the same issue and it's really annoying. I've previously had to remove my Facebook account and then re-add it and since then I've had duplicate birthdays for Facebook contacts. I don't want to remove fb accounts again and risk getting triple entries.
Tomorrow I will be trying to contact MS or windows phone support to find a solution to this problem. It cannot be that hard to fix. I will post here when I find anything out.
Anyone find a solution for this? Its extremely annoying and frustrating, especially when MS doesn't care to try and fix what should be something very easy on their end.
Solution for duplicates problem
I know, this thread is old, but I have been confronted with exactly the same problem. I disconnected my facebook account and reconnected it - after that I had double trouble with my birthday entries.
No matter how you got duplicates (or like in my case even triples!) - the solution is actually really simple.
I assume in the following that your live account is correctly connected with your facebook account (click here to check that)
The resolve the problem, do the following step by step:
First of all: Look that every birthday, which is not from facebook, comes from a contact in your contact list (yeah, I know, this step sucks...).
After this, you should only have birthdays in your birthday calendar which either come from facebook or from your contact list. Ready? Good.
Delete the birthday calendar. Just click on its name on the left and then click on "Delete". Confirm the security question.
After this, there shouldn't be a birthday calendar any more. Else refresh the page by pressing F5 and/or repeat this whole step. If it won't disappear, remove the connection between live.com and facebook and try again.
Now create a new birthday calendar. But wait! Not by creating a new calendar, but clicking on the "New" entry on the top and then on "birthday calendar"! Give it a name (or leave it as it is) and click on "Save".
Enter the properties of your newly created calendar (click its name on the left) and click on "Refresh" somewhere in the middle of the page. If your live account is connected with facebook, live.com will get all those birthdays for you and save them in your live birthday calendar - but only one per facebook contact.
Of course, if you have entered the birthday in your live contact record as well as in facebook, you'll get two birthday entries in your live calendar - but I think you'll get over that. Or just remove it from your live contact.
I hope this will help everybody with duplicate birthday entries from facebook in their live calendar.
Greetings
relexx

Some contact birthdays & anniversaries not showing up in calendar after GB update

Since I got the OTA update, I have noticed that some of my contacts birthdays and anniversaries no longer show up in the calendar. They still show up in the contact list on my phone, and they show up in Google Contacts and well as Google Calendar, but some aren't making it to the phone calendar.
I have forced refreshes and have done things like slightly change small pieces of information (such as part of the person's name) but nothing works and I can't figure out any reason why it is only affecting a few people but not everyone; everyone else in my contacts shows up in the calendar as they're supposed to.
Anyone else notice this? Any suggestions?
Thanks.

[Q] When syncing new calendar app it interferes with stock calendar app. .

Ok here is my problem. I have a completely stock g2x that is unlocked. I downloaded a new calendar app(business calendar) because it lets me distinguish between birthdays, events, and US holidays by making them highlighted in a different color. This makes it easier to see different events. After I separate my events and label them(birthdays, holidays,events), when I sync the calendar to my gmail account, it keeps making the events appear like the old calendar with everything highlighted in blue and you can't see the separate events. Basically what I am saying is that everytime I sync this new calendar it copies the old calendar. Now since I am not rooted, and don't plan to, I guess I can't delete or disable the stock calendar? I don't know what to do.
It doesn't make sense because when I go to settings on the old calendar, it gives you the option to sync and view birthdays(brown),events(blue),holidays(green), but when you create a new event it only gives you one option to label your event which is your email address which in turn makes the event blue like everything else. I know its kind of weird but I figured it is worth a shot to ask you guys.

Syncing gmail birthdays to calendar app

trying to bring my birthdays from all my contacts to my phone is proving no easy task. though I have my gmail setup and all my contacts have downloaded and the birthdays are showing in each individual contact, I can't get the birthdays to appear in S planner.
I have events in my calendars in gmail that do appear but not my contact birthdays and other events.
please help!
I use acalendar+ for this. It has the ability to remind you for a birthday without the need to create an event in the calendar and it has a view to see the coming birthdays with age. It takes this info from the contact birhtday field.
It is more flexible than s planner or google calendar
I have a widget that pools everything together and its been really convenient so Id like to get that sorted
I don't think s planner is that flexible.
I also use an agenda widget that shows me birtdays and events from several calendars including google. It is also provided by acalendar+. Another app I used earlier was "business calendar 2" which also has the ability to show events and birthdays combined in one widget but it hasn't had the ability to remind me on a birthday without adding an event to the calendar
my problem is that in the settings of s planner there is an option to show contact birthdays and I have it toggled to on but still no joy
that is the reason why i canged my calendar app. S Planner has only shown the birthdays of the so called "local calendar", not from my exchange active sync account and not from my google account calendar. Might be a minor bug but that has made me change my calendar app.
And those mentioned setting is only for device contacts.
thunder141 said:
that is the reason why i canged my calendar app. S Planner has only shown the birthdays of the so called "local calendar", not from my exchange active sync account and not from my google account calendar. Might be a minor bug but that has made me change my calendar app.
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hope there is something that can fix it
I looked in the actual s planner and i found out you have to enable Google Calendar AND Google contacts in the calendar settings. Than it shows birthadys in the calendar as daily event
thunder141 said:
I looked in the actual s planner and i found out you have to enable Google Calendar AND Google contacts in the calendar settings. Than it shows birthadys in the calendar as daily event
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mine has Device: "my calendars", "contact's birthdays" and "tasks"
google: ".. @gmail.com"
"holidays in Greece"
Samsung account: "samsung calendar"
"samsung tasks"
and they're all on, nothing more specific than that
Strange , i have in this google area contacts as an selectable point
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Strange , i have in this google area contacts as an selectable point
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not what it looks like for me
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not what it looks like for me
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Hi
I don't use SPlanner but birthdays and special events from Contacts shows there (as on Google Calendar, that I use). You have to enable it on Google Calendar: web first, and then on your phone (check to sync). See if it works for you.
Cheers
r.albu said:
Hi
I don't use SPlanner but birthdays and special events from Contacts shows there (as on Google Calendar, that I use). You have to enable it on Google Calendar: web first, and then on your phone (check to sync). See if it works for you.
Cheers
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what exactly do I enable on the web side of things?
it was working fine on my s4 mini until 2 weeks ago...
kostas90 said:
what exactly do I enable on the web side of things?
it was working fine on my s4 mini until 2 weeks ago...
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Sorry, what I suggested was for setting it up for the first time. I didn't understand you had it working before.
Found this in an other forum:
"I had similar problem. I downloaded Google calender synced it and now both calenders and s planner show all events as well as anniversary and birthdays"
This did it. Thanks a lot!
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And another workaround to try:
ok guys, finally found out what was wrong!
First I want to make sure we are all on the same page here:
1. When inserting a birthday on a contact, you can see the entry in Google Calendar (https://www.google.com/calendar/render) but you cannot see the entry on S Planner!
2. The entry exists on contact level both in the contacts of the device and in the contacts of GMail Contacts
IF this is the case then the solution to the problem is the following:
Go to System Settings --> Application Manager -->ALL
Find Application "Calendar Storage"
Open it and Clear Data
Open S-Planner and Re-sync your Calendar (Menu --> Sync)
All birthdays should appear correctly now
I realized that the calendar either gets a max value and does not update or there must be a kind of bug in there cause, the entry is there (since opening Google Calendar online you can see the entry) and after deleting and re-creating the contact does not fix the problem.
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