[Q] Google Bithday Calendar don't sync - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've added in myy googlemail account the new "contacts birthday calendar", so the dates of my contacts will shown in my calendar. But there is no sync of the birthday calendar on my X10. Only the normal dates and week numbers.
Some ideas to solve the problem?

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go to google agenda
https://www.google.com/calendar/renderOnline
Click 'other calendars'
Add
Browse interesting calendars
More
Birthdays of contacts
Sign on
Back to calendar.. you can see you got your contact birthday calendar now
Go to your phone
Calendar/Agenda
More
Calendars/Agendas
It should give you the option to sync it, and make it visible or not

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That's the way i did. But in my phone, after sync to the added calendar of my google account, there isn't the "birthday of contacts". Only the ****@googlemail.com and the other added calendars are shown. No birthday of contacts.

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on ur pc:
go to google calendar
Calender settings
make sure 'show in list' is checked
and make sure it's in that list at all
if it both is, then im baffled and can't really help.
OR, go to accounts in your phone, and make sure that the calendar does sync (both with your contacts and gmail)

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1. The calendar settings
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
2. the calendar is activate in view mode
3. after sync on my phone, no birthday calendar
Thats mysterious.
Some information 'bout my phone:
- German T-Mobile
- rooted
- Model X10i
- Firmware 2.1 update1
- Baseband-Version 2.1.54
- Kernel-Version 2.6.29 [email protected] #1
- Build 2.1.A.0.435

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did you try this?
Contacts --> Accounts --> googlemail account --> check if 'Sync Calendar' is on
(that one bumped me out once..dunno how it got disabled at that time)

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Automatic synchronizing of googlemail account is enabled. I added the "birthday of contacts" two weeks ago. Nothing happened on my phone since then.

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Daniele82 said:
Automatic synchronizing of googlemail account is enabled. I added the "birthday of contacts" two weeks ago. Nothing happened on my phone since then.
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perhaps manually importing it to your google calendar works. To do so,
on ur pc:
go to calendar (doh)
settings
click on the 'contact birthday calendar'
find the green 'ical' button, this will download a .ics file
go back to the google calendar screen
click 'add calendar' (bottom left)
and click the bottom one 'import calendar'
on ur phone:
sync the calendar: Contacts --> Accounts --> googlemail account --> menu button 'sync now'
(perhaps the names are a bit different, cuz i use the dutch version )

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Doesn' work. The calendar exports an empty iCal File.
While importing, a note pops up "Import calendar: Processed zero events."
Seems, google doesn't like me ;-)

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that seems rather weird.. perhaps you do not have any friend's birthdays listed..but i guess you have..
sorry, I can't help you further

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Anyway, thank you for help. I think I'll look around at the market for a birthday calendar app.

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Hmm, found eboBirthday at the market. A really great birthday calendar app. Synchronizes my googlemail contact's birthday with the SE calendar and put in the dates. Great. All what i want.