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[solved] Regarding android contact and calender sync

I have a question to all android users:
1. After i install an android OS how do i recover or transfer my contacts and calender events from WM 6.1 to android?

Try syncing your contact with Google sync before jumping to android, then you will have your contact list safely waiting at google servers.

There are many ways but the best one to my opinion is this. I have tried it and it is amazingly easy to use. Just a few clicks. Although I am from Greece and greek contacts are a little bit difficult to be handled, results were simply excellent for me. But you have to do it immediately because the android app is still beta and expires tomorrow. I suppose there will be a non beta version after that but it may not be for free

I forgot to mention that the above way of backup, can only handle contacts, sms, call log and bookmarks. As the site says "much more coming soon" but now it cannot handle calendar entries

google is great
google is great. I suggest every one can just use google to sync contact and calender. this problem solved!

Ok! I agree, Google Sync solves. I'll close here, anything send me PM

Which Multiple Calender Sync to use?

What's your opinion on which tool for multiple google calendars? Goosync? OggSync? Others? Pros/cons?
I want to be able to categorize and sync my multiple google calendars in a way that make sense, keeps things separated, syncs live and has push calendar capabilities, and easy to use on my phone.
Thanks.

Anyone have any input?

For a free solution and a good alternative to Oggsync, take a look at the ActiveGcSync project at milow.net. it's a little slow to sync but the job is done and the author is working on a new version to speed up the sync.

francky37 said:
For a free solution and a good alternative to Oggsync, take a look at the ActiveGcSync project at milow.net. it's a little slow to sync but the job is done and the author is working on a new version to speed up the sync.
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hmmm...interesting...live activesync with push calendar and multiple calendars? how does it group them, by category?

rvt1000 said:
how does it group them, by category?
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yes, it uses one category for each calendar.

Contact manager with ability to add/edit additional fields (birthdays,anniversary...)

OK, so the standard contacts manager on android sucks.
Is there a separate Contact manager app for android with ability to add/edit additional fields (birthdays,anniversary etc)? I also want those fields to sync normally with gmail and show up on the calendar (Contact's birthdays and events).
Sorry if this been asked before. I have searched but, couldn't finds what I'm looking for.

Droff said:
OK, so the standard contacts manager on android sucks.
Is there a separate Contact manager app for android with ability to add/edit additional fields (birthdays,anniversary etc)? I also want those fields to sync normally with gmail and show up on the calendar (Contact's birthdays and events).
Sorry if this been asked before. I have searched but, couldn't finds what I'm looking for.
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What phone do you use? On my Captivate we have that function built into the TouchWiz Contacts app.

This would actually be a very nice addition for me as well. I have a Moto Droid and the standard Android Contacts manager does stink for not allowing you to edit these fields.

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What phone do you use? On my Captivate we have that function built into the TouchWiz Contacts app.
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Yeah, I don't have touchwiz and not very sure how it works there.
I'm very surprised that with so many apps out there nobody has done a simple app (I don't really know how simple is it) that can do contacts->calendar events sync with google. I would think all that needs to be done is ability to add 2 date fields to the contact record. Is there something (google/os?) blocking this?
What I simply want to do is enter a birthday and anniversary for the contact on the phone, and want those dates show up on that "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar. Can do it using Gmail on PC (sadly only 1 anniversary shows up ), but phone contacts app has no such functionality. Been waiting for this thing forever.

Thought to up the topic and ask again before giving up.
There is really no android app with such functionality?

Well your phone gets all of that info from Facebook (if I'm understanding you correctly), and facebook is different then google contacts. It shows up the same on the phone, but you'll notice that on your google account, you don't have those contacts.
It's impossible, currently, to get your facebook information to gmail. They are feuding intensely about this. If you've got a yahoo or windows live account, you can import into windows live, then export to google using vcf files.
This will make all of your contacts GOOGLE contacts, and then they will be fully editable.
I personally am opting to wait a few months for this to happen on its own. Google and Facebook are battling right now, but they'll come to a truse and facebook will allow google to get contact information, rather then excluding them and letting other providers do it.
There a few facebook apps, however, that will get the names and birthdays to your google account. From there, you can edit them. But none of them will include email addresses.

irish22022 said:
Well your phone gets all of that info from Facebook (if I'm understanding you correctly), and facebook is different then google contacts. It shows up the same on the phone, but you'll notice that on your google account, you don't have those contacts.
It's impossible, currently, to get your facebook information to gmail. They are feuding intensely about this. If you've got a yahoo or windows live account, you can import into windows live, then export to google using vcf files.
This will make all of your contacts GOOGLE contacts, and then they will be fully editable.
I personally am opting to wait a few months for this to happen on its own. Google and Facebook are battling right now, but they'll come to a truse and facebook will allow google to get contact information, rather then excluding them and letting other providers do it.
There a few facebook apps, however, that will get the names and birthdays to your google account. From there, you can edit them. But none of them will include email addresses.
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You didn't get me. I don't care about Facebook. All I want is an app that I can use to edit a contact to add a birthday or anniversary on a phone. Standard contact manager on the phone only allows me to add an extra field (like a note). I can put something like this "birthday: 01/01/2001" in that field, and it will sync this info with my google account. The problem is that somehow that custom note field is not formated correctly and that birthday date does not show up automatically in Google's "Contact's birthdays and anniversaries" calendar.
If I enter the birthday date through Gmail on my PC, then date does show up automatically in that calendar.
So what I want has nothing to do with facebook.

Droff said:
All I want is an app that I can use to edit a contact to add a birthday or anniversary on a phone.
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So try "Birthday Reminder GL". It works with gmail contacts in that way.

dally said:
So try "Birthday Reminder GL". It works with gmail contacts in that way.
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It does what I want in paid version, but it's a bit too much money for such simple function.
Couple of other apps that I have tried before got updated and now do offer what I need (and they are free).
I'm set! Thanks

Droff said:
It does what I want in paid version, but it's a bit too much money for such simple function.
I think couple of other apps that I have tried before got updated and now do offer what I need (and they are free).
I'm set! Thanks
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Do you mind sharing what apps you're referring to? I'd like to have this functionality as well.

dboss007 said:
Do you mind sharing what apps you're referring to? I'd like to have this functionality as well.
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There is a Birthday Manager app, EboBirthday and some other one (forgot the name). Both of those sync the dates with google contacts once you put it in the app. You can also do Anniversary. And those dates do show up in the google calendar "contacts birthdays and anniversaries". That's all that I needed.
This functionality really need to be in the OS itself.

I'm with the OP - This really needs to be part of the stock Google contacts and be editable from your device. We also need higher clarity contact pictures too!

[Q] facebook sync fix for ics

Is there any way to fix it without using third party apps?

Another one with the same problem. Even a third party app would be fine for me... Any suggestion?

evcz said:
Another one with the same problem. Even a third party app would be fine for me... Any suggestion?
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Its not broken. The Official Facebook application doesn't support Android 4.0 just yet so you will not be able to sync your contacts to your device. The only method is to use third party applications. I use Friendcaster Pro and it works really well.
Unfortunately, Till Facebook adds compatibility to the official application... you will not see your contacts sync to your device

Nope, the issue is between Google and Facebook, so we won't see contact sync fixed until Google and Facebook make an agreement or until a custom ROM fixes is. I forget the whole story, but I think Facebook doesn't use Android's contact API so when you sync Facebook contacts with your phone they all stay with Facebook and aren't stored locally on the phone. If you uninstall Facebook all your Facebook contacts go to. Google doesn't like that FB doesn't let you control and keep your FB data on your phone so they revoked Facebooks access to the API.
EDIT: heres an article about it: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/

red_skittles said:
Nope, the issue is between Google and Facebook, so we won't see contact sync fixed until Google and Facebook make an agreement or until a custom ROM fixes is. I forget the whole story, but I think Facebook doesn't use Android's contact API so when you sync Facebook contacts with your phone they all stay with Facebook and aren't stored locally on the phone. If you uninstall Facebook all your Facebook contacts go to. Google doesn't like that FB doesn't let you control and keep your FB data on your phone so they revoked Facebooks access to the API.
EDIT: heres an article about it: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/
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You sorta proved my point. More or less its not compatibility with Android 4.0 but its the Nexus S. Once again Facebook will have to upgrade the application in order to make it compatible with the Nexus S. Only difference between what I said is instead of Android 4.0 its for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus
Facebook contact data will continue to appear within the Facebook app. Like all developers on Android, Facebook is free to use the Android contacts API to truly integrate contacts on the device, which would allow users to have more control over their data.
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Azuske said:
You sorta proved my point. More or less its not compatibility with Android 4.0 but its the Nexus S. Once again Facebook will have to upgrade the application in order to make it compatible with the Nexus S. Only difference between what I said is instead of Android 4.0 its for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus
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Facebook never updated the app on Gingerbread. Facebook sync was included in custom ROMS because developers enabled it. Nothing to do with official support from Facebook. Until Google and Facebook sort this out, vanilla Android won't support contact sync, unless Facebook starts using the regular contact API

Friendcaster is not allowing me to login (whitepage)... Is it really compatible with ICS?

evcz said:
Friendcaster is not allowing me to login (whitepage)... Is it really compatible with ICS?
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i would also like to have this verified, hehe, before i spend the $5 for this app!
def would like to see some sync action to my ICS rom... having no pics on the contact face is hard!

try syncmypix
try syncmypix, works good for facebook pics

Thanks! This worked

If you are OK with 3rd party apps, take a look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20477937#post20477937

different between the built-in calender and the downloadable google calendar?

I downloaded the google calender from the playstore and it looks the same as the built-in one (the one that comes with AOSP-based ROMs). thanks

Google calender syncs with your google account(s).

mrjayviper said:
I downloaded the google calender from the playstore and it looks the same as the built-in one (the one that comes with AOSP-based ROMs). thanks
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technically no dif's.

m24red said:
Google calender syncs with your google account(s).
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definitely not true in my simple test.
I created an entry using the downloadable google calender. wipe my rom and sync my calender acct to the cloud and it picked up the entry I made.

You probably didn't have it synced in the calander or have background data on. Works for me with no problems. A simpler test would be to create an entry then check online (PC or on your mobile web browser).