any ideas how to make my facebook contacts appear in my contacts app guys? I mainly want it for the birthdays so that they show up in my calendars but can't figure it out as adding a facebook account doesn't have the option to sync contacts
There was an description in this article i remembered
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
as mentioned in the original post I dont have the option to sync contacts. I have added facebook as an account but there is no option to add contacts
what is with the other solution to include the calendar?
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kostas90 said:
as mentioned in the original post I dont have the option to sync contacts. I have added facebook as an account but there is no option to add contacts
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Do You have installed any facebook app ?
thunder141 said:
what is with the other solution to include the calendar?
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Do You have installed any facebook app ?
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yes, installed and signed in
What is with this option:
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
thunder141 said:
What is with this option:
Another option is to include the facebook birthdays in your calendar. Look here
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I tried that but facebook doesn't look like that anymore and doesnt have that option
I use sync.me from the play store
kostas90 said:
I tried that but facebook doesn't look like that anymore and doesnt have that option
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I did this literally 2 days ago and can confirm it does work. Once you open your events page look down to the bottom right, below Events Happening This Week you will have a small link to birthdays. Copy that link and add it as a new google calendar.
Also +1 for the app sync.me from the playstore. I use it occasionally and uninstall it afterwards as it has other features which I dont want (caller ID etc). The contact pics remain for each user even if the app is gone.
skzalez said:
I did this literally 2 days ago and can confirm it does work. Once you open your events page look down to the bottom right, below Events Happening This Week you will have a small link to birthdays. Copy that link and add it as a new google calendar.
Also +1 for the app sync.me from the playstore. I use it occasionally and uninstall it afterwards as it has other features which I dont want (caller ID etc). The contact pics remain for each user even if the app is gone.
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did it, thanks a ton!
I was a bit iffy on the sync.me app due to the ID features and the blocking because I don't need it so thanks for getting me out of it as well
also, this will be continually updated, right? I don't need to re-do this everytime I add a new facebook friend.
No, it is a link to your Facebook birthdays. It will get actualized
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No, it is a link to your Facebook birthdays. It will get actualized
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I dont follow
I meant: It will be updated as you suspect in your post, cause the facebook birthday calendar is "linked" with this method
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Not sure if this is ICS ROM fault but since I've put ISC rom on my galaxyS there are no birthdays in my callendar. I've missed couple of them because of that.
I've tried almost everything but no success so far. I've even bought Business Cal App but it also can't see those dates from contacts.
Did you find out anything new about this? I just noticed the same... I want my birthdays back in my calendar
On your computer:
Open the browser, open up google calendar
Click on settings (right of page, below your avatar)
Click setting
Click on calendars (under calendar settings)
Click Browse interesting calendars
Click More (Holidays, sports, More)
Contacts' birthdays and events ..click subscribe :good:
On your device:
Open the calendar app
Click on the three dots
Click Calendar to display
Check the, Contacts birthday and events
Click Calendar to Sync
Click ok
Give it a few seconds, depending on how many you are syncing. It could be as short as 15 sec to 5 min. This will also depend on the use of wifi or 3/4g.
TonyStark said:
On your computer:
On your device:
Open the calendar app
Click on the three dots
Click Calendar to display
Check the, Contacts birthday and events
Click Calendar to Sync
Click ok
Give it a few seconds, depending on how many you are syncing. It could be as short as 15 sec to 5 min. This will also depend on the use of wifi or 3/4g.
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Hi TonyStark,
I didn't have the Calendar to display when i click on the three dots.
Have you another solution?
Thanks and best.
Man
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Oup's I had to wait a little bit more...
Contacts birthday and event appeared under my gmail account
Have a nice day...
i opened facebook app today and had a pop up asking me for adding my phone contacts to facebook.. but unfortunately, i canceled the process.. i noticed that i can sync my facebook account in the phone.. it seems that google finally reactivated that option again.. but the problem is that i don't find how to select the contacts to sync!!!
have anybody else noticed that new feature???
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I dont know but there is already an app that can sync fb contacts and it works flawlessly so I dont really need this anymore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
Gambler_3 said:
I dont know but there is already an app that can sync fb contacts and it works flawlessly so I dont really need this anymore.
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which one do you use??? if you are so satisfied, i can give it a try..
Was editing my post with the link just as you replied.
Yes i can confirm it's working again i just flashed factory images today,installed facebook and facebook account was added in accounts & sync in setting i just activated it and everything worked.
Does it grab high res pics?
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Well, the account shows up, under accounts & sync in the phone settings, but I don't think it's actually syncing the contacts. None of them are showing up for me in the people app.
oldblue910 said:
Well, the account shows up, under accounts & sync in the phone settings, but I don't think it's actually syncing the contacts. None of them are showing up for me in the people app.
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neither me.. i haven't seen any of my facebook contacts in the people app.. actually i didn't found The way to sync.. i regret canceling the process when the facebook app requested me sync..
l_italiano said:
neither me.. i haven't seen any of my facebook contacts in the people app.. actually i didn't found The way to sync.. i regret canceling the process when the facebook app requested me sync..
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You didnt use the app I suggested? It shows fb contacts in the people app for me.
And the sync option of facebook was always there for me but it never worked.
Gambler_3 said:
You didnt use the app I suggested?
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you talking about which app??
l_italiano said:
you talking about which app??
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I posted it in my first post here you go.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
Nice!
Gambler_3 said:
I posted it in my first post here you go.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
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Uhm... personally I don't like these limitations:
IMPORTANT:
* Facebook does not allow to export phone numbers or emails. Only names, pictures and statuses are synced.
* Facebook users have the option to block one or all apps. If they opt for that, they will be EXCLUDED from your friends list.
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Hi guys I've tried doing a search and couldn't find anything so apologies in advance for my incompetence.
I'm new to the Android community and recently got my S3. I'm feeling very frustrated with the contacts syncing because the phone is syncing all of my contacts from gmail including the "other contacts" folder. However doing a basic search in google says that once you setup your android phone the contacts that sync are those in the "my contacts" folder. Is there any solution to this? There doesn't seem to be any place where I can restrict which contact folder from gmail it should be syncing with.
Thanks.
you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
g2sai said:
Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
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Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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fr8cture said:
Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
g2sai said:
Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
g2sai said:
This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
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try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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chiaroscuro7 said:
try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
SMR-DINO313 said:
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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SMR-DINO313 said:
It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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chiaroscuro7 said:
Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
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I'm in stock ROM or wahtever it is I ahvent played around with anything just rooted and unlocked but nothing else.
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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Derp--didn't see that there was a second page
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
Sent from this wizbang Samsung S3 thingamabob @ 88 mph!
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
chiaroscuro7 said:
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
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Yes you are right thanks.
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
Sent from this wizbang Samsung S3 thingamabob @ 88 mph!
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Thanks that's what I was looking for and thank you for noting my lazyness, I didn't know this was going to be an issue (since I'm a noob in all this),however there are contacs that I'm simply no interested to have in my phone, again thanks that solves the problem :cyclops:
chiaroscuro7 said:
nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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I do understand you, I have many old and JIC contacts in my gmail that I don't want to delete, over 2700, but I only want 100 or 200 tops sync to my phone. If I play with the display settings when I enter the conects, only the contacts I want are displayed, but when I search for an specific contact, it searches over all the 2700 contacts and makes my Galaxy S3 verry slow, my old galaxy s2 as well,
If my memory does not fail, when I had the galaxy Ace with gingerbread, the contacts navigation and search was much faster because only the contacts in "My Contacts" where Sync into my phone, i am allmost positive of that. thanx for any responses.
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did not notice that there was a second page, i am new in the forum.
it is not lazy in my case, i have purged over 2000 contacts when i merged the information from my Facebook Contacts, Linked In, Yahoo, MSN, manualy merging some becuse the automerge process did not work for some cases (inverted names with diferent emails (old and new) or phone numbers, etc), but if i delete one and i review and old email, i won't know who was that from, oe maybe where i knew them from (have them in groups or notes) to organize a reunion :good:. anyway deleting information goes agains Gmal Policy (Never have to delete an email or contact again) LOL any help is welcome
I just recently got my replacement nexus 5 phone and updated it to lollipop. But now my contacts and facebook has been creating an error when either one is open. It says "android.process.acore" has stopped. Search and tried methods like clearing contact storage cache and data, but still had the error. The last ting i want to do is factory reset cause I hate redoing all the accounts and redownloading the apps. Is there anyway of fixing the problem?
Also is it just me or does the phone turn to "None" mode at 10 P.M. automatically. Is there anyway to stop that?
For you None issue go to settings/sound and notifications/interruptions. And set the down time to none. No ideas on the other error
frenziedfemale said:
For you None issue go to settings/sound and notifications/interruptions. And set the down time to none. No ideas on the other error
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But for the down time thing I had the time changed to like 12 but it still goes to none at 10 that's why I find it so weird.
The only way I was able to get the android.process.acore error to go away was to delete the FB app. I open up a thread in their help forums about it and have yet to see any response.
xfortrenox said:
The only way I was able to get the android.process.acore error to go away was to delete the FB app. I open up a thread in their help forums about it and have yet to see any response.
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Yeah I did that too. But its so annoying since majority of the games these days is tied in with facebook. It's either you need online to play or for those that don't need online to play its synced to either facebook or google.
nightang3l said:
Yeah I did that too. But its so annoying since majority of the games these days is tied in with facebook. It's either you need online to play or for those that don't need online to play its synced to either facebook or google.
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I don't sync games to facebook, but that does suck. I'm thinking it is some way that facebook is trying to use the contacts. Or that there is some data in our contacts that doesn't mesh well when facebook is added into the contacts mix. I have even gone through and deleted old htc facebook tags in my contacts. I'm stumped.
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I don't sync games to facebook, but that does suck. I'm thinking it is some way that facebook is trying to use the contacts. Or that there is some data in our contacts that doesn't mesh well when facebook is added into the contacts mix. I have even gone through and deleted old htc facebook tags in my contacts. I'm stumped.
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I dont know if you notice or is it just on mine, but does your google sync have like a sync error when your facebook is connected?
nightang3l said:
I dont know if you notice or is it just on mine, but does your google sync have like a sync error when your facebook is connected?
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Yup, hit the nail on the head!
This has to be a contact storage issue.
I wonder if this has anything to do with certain phones being able to sync the fb contacts to the phone contacts, and others require a third party app to integrate the fb and phone contacts? I remember I used one on KK with Xposed. Did you use anything like that on KK?
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nightang3l said:
I dont know if you notice or is it just on mine, but does your google sync have like a sync error when your facebook is connected?
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I Just looked at this Xposed repo and saw something interesting.
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.dr8.xposed.xfbsync
This has been tested on CM11 4.4.4 Nightly from 06-19-14, but it should work on older CM/AOSP releases as well. Most OEM builds from HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony, etc don't require this, as they modify the ContactsProvider themselves to allow Facebook syncing.
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I wonder if something is messed up with ContactsProvider
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xfortrenox said:
Yup, hit the nail on the head!
This has to be a contact storage issue.
I wonder if this has anything to do with certain phones being able to sync the fb contacts to the phone contacts, and others require a third party app to integrate the fb and phone contacts? I remember I used one on KK with Xposed. Did you use anything like that on KK?
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I Just looked at this Xposed repo and saw something interesting.
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.dr8.xposed.xfbsync
I wonder if something is messed up with ContactsProvider
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Ok sorry, I am nerding out here.
Saw someone else having an acore error when trying to use a hack to get fb contact sync to work through an sql row injection tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55818609&postcount=388
Maybe the fb app is trying to force a change in contactsprovider.apk that is causing this?
xfortrenox said:
Yup, hit the nail on the head!
This has to be a contact storage issue.
I wonder if this has anything to do with certain phones being able to sync the fb contacts to the phone contacts, and others require a third party app to integrate the fb and phone contacts? I remember I used one on KK with Xposed. Did you use anything like that on KK?
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I Just looked at this Xposed repo and saw something interesting.
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.dr8.xposed.xfbsync
I wonder if something is messed up with ContactsProvider
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Ok sorry, I am nerding out here.
Saw someone else having an acore error when trying to use a hack to get fb contact sync to work through an sql row injection tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55818609&postcount=388
Maybe the fb app is trying to force a change in contactsprovider.apk that is causing this?
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Well on Kk I use to use haxync to sync the profile pics to my contacts for higher quality photos.
When I open my default Calendar app and add account I only get corporate as an option. I made sure to add my Google account during GMS settings but for so reason I can't add my Google calendar which is my main calender. Big blow. Again, is it just me or anyone else?
Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
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Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
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Thank you so so much! Question do I need to keep the Google calendar app installed once I added the account to my Huawei calender or can I remove it? I will keep the calendar sync app installed
I'm using Microsoft Outlook instead of Huawei Calendar, and it works fine with Google Calendar on P40 Pro...
Thanks, i like the look and feel of the huawei calendar, been holding off on installing te google calender, will try now, hopefully it would remain synced if google is unistalled
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Yes. You need to install both Google Calendar Sync Adapter (which is missing from the currently commonly circulated zip files of GMS apps) and Google Calendar.
On my Mate 30 Pro I experienced the occasional calendar sync jam that would drain the phone's battery, but haven't seen this so far on P40.
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is the Google Calendar Sync Adapter not on the playstore? meaning it needs to be downloaded from apk sites?
flystarjay said:
Thanks, i like the look and feel of the huawei calendar, been holding off on installing te google calender, will try now, hopefully it would remain synced if google is unistalled
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is the Google Calendar Sync Adapter not on the playstore? meaning it needs to be downloaded from apk sites?
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tboy2000 said:
Yes use an APK site
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Ok thanks, so we need both apps, and what if we want it to work on the huawei calendar?
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Ok thanks, so we need both apps, and what if we want it to work on the huawei calendar?
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tboy2000 said:
Thank you so so much! Question do I need to keep the Google calendar app installed once I added the account to my Huawei calender or can I remove it? I will keep the calendar sync app installed
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You need to leave it installed. If Huawei calendar is not syncing, open Google calendar and refresh it.
Just disable notifications for Google Calendar and chuck it in a folder.
Export Your Google Agenda(s) via a Web page, you will get a .ical file; unzip it; put the unzip file(s) in a usb key; connect this usb key to your phone; just click one time on this file; select the application Huawei Agenda and Huawei Agenda will import it; that's all