hi all
im facing a weird problem on my new z5 stock 5.1.1.
my contacts birthdays show up in the calendar (im using a local calendar) only when i select a specific day. none of the bdays get that little dot under the date in month view as they used to have in s planner.
none of the birthdays show up in a the calendar widget. tried the stock one and agenda widget.
any ideas?
thank you
There's a dedicated qa subforum for these kind of questions. People might ignore questions asked in this thread, just sayin
If you're talking google contacts, it might be a google framework bug, at least I can reproduce on some other device. The workaround is to go to google contacts desktop app, in a browser, setup birthdays properly, then sync and all your calendar apps should be fine.
The original problem is that the bday field is now a particular event type that requires a date in specific format bla bla.
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thanks! i exported my local calender on my s5 and imported it on my local calendar on the z5 (with ical), and there you go, whyever, it fixed the bdayissue.
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in the settings of your calendar (at google.com) you can add "other calendars" to your google calendar.
it works fine for me with the holidays calendar.
but yesterday i choosed another "other calendar" with the dates and matches of my football-team.
at google.com i can see the footballdates now but not in my phone-calendar.
i synced nearly 100 times now but my phonecalendar hasnt got any new dates.
in the phone settings i only can choose my googlecalendar and the holidayscalendar to show (which i have set a few month ago).
any suggestions why?
I have got the same problem for a few months now. I use Jorte calendar, but when I go to google calendar and choose "other calendar" Jorte is not on the list, there is only google calendar to choose. Still not figured out why.
but the funny thing is that the holidays calendar is working fine.
i can choose and see it on my phone...
now i know whats the problem is...
the holidays-calendar is in the XML, ICAL and HTML format.
but that football-calendar is only in the HTML format.
to sync the dates to your phone that calendar must be in the XML or in the ICAL format. i dont know which of it...
thats what i think but dont know if its pretty right.
its the only difference that i was able to find about this calendars...
thats what i have found here... thx to Schnubbie
http://groups.google.com/group/goog...i/browse_thread/thread/6505ea2099651ade?pli=1
> The new sports calendars don't seem to be sync able. Is this right? Why?
Yes, that's correct. You cannot sync the sports calendars, because we don't allow any API operations to be performed on the sports calendars.
> Shouldn't they be readonly calendars though so we can at least download them?
In this case, no. We simply do not allow access to those calendars outside of the Google Calendar web interface.
THATS BAD ...
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...
EDIT:
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.
EDIT2:
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
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.
I have created a new contact person in Google Contacts on my PC (Win7, IE9) and added a birthday event to this person.
The event is not showing on Google Calendar (even with subscription for “Contacts' birthdays and events” under settings).
It is showing in Calendar on my ICS android (HTC One S) mobile device.
I deleted this new person from Google Contacts (on PC) and the problem now is that the birthday event remains in android calendar (still not shown in PC-Google Calendar) and I can't delete it.
dannygud said:
I have created a new contact person in Google Contacts on my PC (Win7, IE9) and added a birthday event to this person.
The event is not showing on Google Calendar (even with subscription for “Contacts' birthdays and events” under settings).
It is showing in Calendar on my ICS android (HTC One S) mobile device.
I deleted this new person from Google Contacts (on PC) and the problem now is that the birthday event remains in android calendar (still not shown in PC-Google Calendar) and I can't delete it.
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I had a lot of problems with the HTC calendar finding and syncing to sources with bad information such as incorrect birthdays. I would suggest clearing all cache and data from the calendar, then opening the app and selecting only the data sources you want, breaking the links to any you don't. I can't describe the exact steps because it's not very clear to the user and I don't have a Sense ROM right now (for reasons such as this exactly).
Solution
It seems that I got a solution (not perfect one - because the data is out there somewhere not actually deleted.... but it works...):
I choose to display only the Google calendar diary (my user), not choosing the Contacts (perhaps its local one, although the event was created on Google acount...)
Oh well.....
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
thunder141 said:
Strange , i have in this google area contacts as an selectable point
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not what it looks like for me
kostas90 said:
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:
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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.
Please post back results