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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?
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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.
Hey All,
Is there and Android native app that syncs your exchange calendar with your google calendar...
Like Moxier, Touchdown, etc. are all fine, but they have their own calendars - I just want one calendar with everything (in this case, my google calendar)...
Yeah, I know there are desktop apps, but these are useless if you're on the road for weeks and only carrying your beloved Android phone...
Thanks!
Thought I'd answer my own question since no one else could... That way, if anyone else wants an answer to the same question, here it is...
Yes - 2.2 gives you exchange calendar sync, so all your appointments appear on the one android calendar. Nice - no need for Moxier, Touchdown or anything, and I only have to look at one calendar to find out my schedule, not 3...
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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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?
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.
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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.
I have a Microsoft Exchange account that I use for calendar and contact (I don't use it for email). When I set this up as a corporate account syncing just doesn't work. It synced initially although some of the calendar events were missing. I ended up erasing contact and calendar storage data to start fresh and neither the calendar nor contacts will sync from the exchange account, even when I try to manually sync them or reboot the phone.
I'm using a new phone that came as a replacement for my original phone that died. On the first phone I had this issue on 4.4. On 4.4.2 it completely failed to autosync but would at least sync manually and on reboots.
But on my new phone on 4.4.2 it won't sync at all.
I'm wondering if it has issues with some versions of Exchange or if this is generally broken for everyone.
It's hard to believe Google hasn't bothered to fix Exchange support going on 4 months now...
I have access to my exchange data through Touchdown but it has it's own sync bugs which they are clearly not interested in fixing as I reported them repeatedly over the last couple of years and it doesn't integrate well with the rest of the phone.
Works fine for me. Is sync set to push?
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No problems here.
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Strange. Yes, I tried it on push initially then also every 5 minutes.
I did find when I created a new contact on the Nexus 5 then updated it in Outlook the update did sync back to the Nexus 5. I'm wondering if the account manager keeps track of what's been synced and only updates changes rather than checking for differences. In that case maybe by deleted my contacts and calendar data they become out of sync with the account manager and there's no way to restore the data except by deleting and recreating the account... I'll have to test that.
During the initial sync, though, I had 3 all day recurring appointments for tomorrow and only 2 of them showed up in the Nexus 5 Calendar. So something went wrong and the syncing is definitely not very robust to any issues that can occur.
I use my exchange calendar all the time with no issues... Updates both ways immediately.
Deleted and recreated the account. There's one recurring (yearly) appointment today which does not appear on the phone calendar no matter what I do (it does appear in Touchdown's calendar). Impossible to tell if that's a unique appointment not being synced or more likely there are others.
Added some test appointments and contacts in Outlook. They sync instantly to Touchdown. They do sync to the native apps but only if I manually force a sync through account settings. Otherwise they won't sync at all.
Changes I make on the phone's apps do sync immediately to the exchange server.
I'm surprised noone else is having these issues. Must not work well with some aspect of the server I'm using. But Touchdown doesn't seem to have this issue so I blame Google...
Mine works fine as well. I have two accounts set up. One on Exchange 2010 and one on Exchange 2013. Both account calendars, contacts, emails, tasks, and notes sync just fine. Could be the server that you're connecting to. Do you know the version? Are there any administrative restrictions or policies running? You can also check the Mobile Devices section in OWA and make sure you don't have too many in there. If you reach your limit of devices it won't let you set it up at all.
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I blame Google...
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Ha ha. So quick to blame. If I were pointing fingers, i'd be pointing them at you. Chances are its your config.... if you're going to blame Google, you have to be willing to factory reset and do nothing other than set your exchange account up. Then you must work with your IT department to rule out your exchange config. Only then can you blame Google
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Mine works fine as well. I have two accounts set up. One on Exchange 2010 and one on Exchange 2013. Both account calendars, contacts, emails, tasks, and notes sync just fine. Could be the server that you're connecting to. Do you know the version? Are there any administrative restrictions or policies running? You can also check the Mobile Devices section in OWA and make sure you don't have too many in there. If you reach your limit of devices it won't let you set it up at all.
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I checked the OWA options and removed some old entries but I don't think that's the issue or I wouldn't be able to setup the account at all. I'm currently well under the limit.
Strangely, it seems to be working better now. There's still that one appointment that will never sync but after I enabled email syncing (which I don't actually need) it now does seem to sync updates in both directions automatically within a few minutes of any change. I've also noticed when I'm in the account settings to do a manual sync after quickly passing through contacts and calendars the syncing icon lingers on email even though it wasn't checked.
I'm wondering if there's a bug where updates are tried exclusively to email syncing. If anyone has some time, perhaps you could try deselecting email syncing but leave contacts and calendar and see if when you make a change it will automatically sync.
I've also sent an email to our server's admin to inquire if there's any known issue with kit kat and our server.
Our server version is: 14.2.318.2
Will the native client sync all past appointments or is there a hardcoded limit? I'm wondering if the failure to sync that one appointment, despite it being an annual recurring appointment, might be because it was created too far in the past.
As far as I'm aware, you need email syncing regularly for calendar to sync
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rootSU said:
Ha ha. So quick to blame. If I were pointing fingers, i'd be pointing them at you. Chances are its your config.... if you're going to blame Google, you have to be willing to factory reset and do nothing other than set your exchange account up. Then you must work with your IT department to rule out your exchange config. Only then can you blame Google
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While I appreciate your point, if I can't blame Google then I'm going to go ahead and blame Microsoft. I'm pretty comfortable with multinational corporations taking the blame for my problems as a reasonable exchange for corporate person-hood.
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While I appreciate your point, if I can't blame Google then I'm going to go ahead and blame Microsoft. I'm pretty comfortable with multinational corporations taking the blame for my problems as a reasonable exchange for corporate person-hood.
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As an exchange administrator, I find myself blaming Microsoft at least twice an hour.
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rootSU said:
As far as I'm aware, you need email syncing regularly for calendar to sync
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Is that a requirement from Activesync or Google's implementation? I realize my use case is probably unusual but if you need email syncing for any syncing to work then the UI shouldn't allow you to uncheck it.
Under Touchdown I'm not syncing any email folders, but I don't know if it's still technically doing an email sync to 0 folders...
Anyway, if that's the source of the problem I don't have a problem enabling email sync.
I appreciate everyone's help!
I've not had chance to test it on kk, but certainly on aosp jb on my s3, I had to have email syncing. I preferred to set email to manual sync just for when I was afk, but even then no calendar updates. It had to syncs regularly to get updates
Nowadays its force of habit to.let it sync without notifications. Maybe i'll test next week
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If it's corp email then have you made sure your exchange admin hasn't restricted connectivity to certain device types? Or that they have EAS policies around PIN/encryption that you haven't applied or aren't supported by your device?
Because EAS works fine on the N5. And EAS is MS's documented standard which is often very badly implemented by certain vendors (I'm looking at you, Apple)
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I've problems with only some of my contacts. They initially syncing all fine from the server, but changes on some contacts on the phone won't be pushed back to the server.
I use an Office365 account with exchange 2013. And it seems to work with contacts that have no birthday entry, but not with the ones that have a birthday. Maybe this is not the cause. But the only difference.
I use CM11 nightlies on my N5, but had the same issues on N4 Stock / CM10 and N5 Stock.
Another problem is that I cannot enter debug mode any more with *#*#36245#*#*. Maybe some has an idea how to enable this.
Thanks for any help.
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orgl said:
I've problems with only some of my contacts. They initially syncing all fine from the server, but changes on some contacts on the phone won't be pushed back to the server.
I use an Office365 account with exchange 2013. And it seems to work with contacts that have no birthday entry, but not with the ones that have a birthday. Maybe this is not the cause. But the only difference.
I use CM11 nightlies on my N5, but had the same issues on N4 Stock / CM10 and N5 Stock.
Another problem is that I cannot enter debug mode any more with *#*#36245#*#*. Maybe some has an idea how to enable this.
Thanks for any help.
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As I mentioned above, after enabling email syncing I don't seem to have problems with syncing changes but I did notice several yearly recurring appointments will not show up in the Nexus 5 calendar app.
It's interesting that you mentioned an issue with contacts that have a birthday field as the appointments that are not showing up (at least the one's I've noticed so far) happen to be birthday reminders of contacts that have a birthday field. They have been edited but may have originally been created automatically from the contact birthday entry. In my case, the contacts with the birthday are showing up but not the related calendar entry. I haven't tried editing one of these contacts to see if there are any syncing issues. Perhaps I'll test that.
I wonder if there's a bug related to birthday appointment links?
I've noticed 2 other issues:
1. Despite having selected to sync all days only the last week of appointments sync to the Nexus 5. It's not quite clear if this setting is for email only or everything including calendar. I often find it useful to look up past appointments for reference of when I had a meeting or event but the calendar won't sync into the past and also won't search into the past using the server when online so there is no way to look up past appointments on the phone.
2. There appears to be a daylight savings time bug with recurring all day appointments. I've found that such appointments show up as 2 day events in the calendar on days past the daylight savings time change. When looking at one of these appointments they are scheduled from 11pm on the day they should appear to 11pm the following day. The shift of 1 hour back makes a certain amount of sense in terms of when the appointment should start relative to today's time (like a timezone shift) except while the hour gets shifted back 1 hour from midnight the day does not (if it were relative time it should start at 11pm the prior to the scheduled event not the day of). In any case, the display should be properly adjusted for daylight time so this doesn't happen. Also, recurring events that are not all day show up at the correct date and time and non-recurring events whether or not they are all day also show up correctly.