I use the calendar on my phone a lot, with in fact 5 Google calendars in use and on view at the same time across 3 different Google accounts. Unfortunately the SGS2 calendar is sadly deficient with regard to the AOSP calendar as I used with Cyanogenmod 6.1 on my Hero previously and I would very much like to swap it out for the AOSP calendar. Can anyone advise on how to do this? I have seen this described for the original Galaxy and variations but have not been able to implement this on the SGS2. Many thanks in advance for any assistance!
Disadvantages of Samsung Calendar with regard to AOSP calendar:
Black background makes many appointments difficult to see as calendar colours are optimised for white background as with Google calendar web interface and AOSP calendar app. There does not appear to be any support for a theme or colour option setting.
All-day events are shown right at the top of the page and so are easily missed on Samsung Calendar but kept in view on with AOSP. See attached 'day view' screenshot with no all-day events visible despite week and month view showing 3 all day events that day.
All-day events lasting more than one day are shown separately for each day in most views with Samsung calendar and so it is not easy to see that they span several days. In week and month view, they are often reduced to tiny squares which have no label and can be really hard to see- see attached screenshot- can you see that there are 3 all day events on Saturday 21st but only 2 on the other days in the purple calendar? AOSP calendar would show them as continuous events spanning several days.
No hyperlink support: AOSP calendar allows you to click through on a phone number mentioned in an appointment to dial it, or the location described to do a maps search, the Samsung Calendar does not permit this.
Screenshots taken with this app (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.geeksoft.screenshot&feature=search_result) which decided to shift all of the colours here for some reason although I don't think it significant here- it still illustrates the above points adequately.
Hardware/ Software specs:
Samsung Galaxy S2, unbranded, unlocked, from Carphone Warehouse UK
Rooted
LauncherPro plus
Updated to current stock firmware
Calendars in use and on view here:
On my own Google account
My work
My personal (shared)
My personal (private)
On my wife's Google account
My wife's personal (shared)
On my wife and my joint Google account
Joint calendar (for events we attend together)
SquiffSquiff said:
I use the calendar on my phone a lot, with in fact 5 Google calendars in use and on view at the same time across 3 different Google accounts. Unfortunately the SGS2 calendar is sadly deficient with regard to the AOSP calendar as I used with Cyanogenmod 6.1 on my Hero previously and I would very much like to swap it out for the AOSP calendar. Can anyone advise on how to do this? I have seen this described for the original Galaxy and variations but have not been able to implement this on the SGS2. Many thanks in advance for any assistance!
Disadvantages of Samsung Calendar with regard to AOSP calendar:
Black background makes many appointments difficult to see as calendar colours are optimised for white background as with Google calendar web interface and AOSP calendar app. There does not appear to be any support for a theme or colour option setting.
All-day events are shown right at the top of the page and so are easily missed on Samsung Calendar but kept in view on with AOSP. See attached 'day view' screenshot with no all-day events visible despite week and month view showing 3 all day events that day.
All-day events lasting more than one day are shown separately for each day in most views with Samsung calendar and so it is not easy to see that they span several days. In week and month view, they are often reduced to tiny squares which have no label and can be really hard to see- see attached screenshot- can you see that there are 3 all day events on Saturday 21st but only 2 on the other days in the purple calendar? AOSP calendar would show them as continuous events spanning several days.
No hyperlink support: AOSP calendar allows you to click through on a phone number mentioned in an appointment to dial it, or the location described to do a maps search, the Samsung Calendar does not permit this.
Screenshots taken with this app (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.geeksoft.screenshot&feature=search_result) which decided to shift all of the colours here for some reason although I don't think it significant here- it still illustrates the above points adequately.
Hardware/ Software specs:
Samsung Galaxy S2, unbranded, unlocked, from Carphone Warehouse UK
Rooted
LauncherPro plus
Updated to current stock firmware
Calendars in use and on view here:
On my own Google account
My work
My personal (shared)
My personal (private)
On my wife's Google account
My wife's personal (shared)
On my wife and my joint Google account
Joint calendar (for events we attend together)
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get villian rom. with villian tweaks it allows u to instal the aosp calendar. which comes under vanilla calendar
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Hello,
I have an unbranded German S II. Since updating to Android 4.0.3 (through Samsung Kies), the standard calendar widget doesn't work like it used to anymore.
I synchronize with my Google account where I have multiple different calendars for different purposes (work, freetime, projects, etc.). On my phone I can go into the calendar app's configuration and tick the boxes of those calendars I want to have synchronized and shown. It used to work like that and I could make it so that only my work appointments would be shown on the calendar widget on my homescreen.
Now, after updating to ICS, the calendar widget will show all calendars at all times, rendering it less useful. No amount of fiddling with the properties has corrected this. After asking in two other forums, this is my last hope.
I really hope somebody here knows the problem and might be able to help. Or is this really just me? Thanks in advance!
I don't have a direct answer to your question, but if the stock calendar widget isn't behaving how you'd like it to, there's a Play Store brimming with alternatives. I'm sure at least one will function in the way you're hoping.
Yeah, I know. I don't need any fancy, skinnable, customizable calendar apps that fill the android market. I'd rather have the stock widget that just does what I want it to. Seeing as this worked fine before the update, I hoped there was something I could do. Alas, seems as if that is not the case. Thanks though
Hello, i have exactly the same problem. Did you find any solution ?
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It's good to hear someone finally acknowledging the problem. I was starting to question my sanity as it seems that out of millions of owners of the SII only I have the problem. Finally someone else speaks up, thank you for that
Sadly, I have not found a solution since. I completely changed the way I organize my events in google calendar. It's not as well organized as it was before but it gets the job done. Still, I would prefer if the calendar worked like it did before...
If you don't want to redo your whole google calendar organization, I guess you could indeed try a third party calendar. The play store is full of calendar apps; I was overwhelmed, because I just want a simple and clean calendar, like the stock one.
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Alyassus said:
Hello,
I have an unbranded German S II. Since updating to Android 4.0.3 (through Samsung Kies), the standard calendar widget doesn't work like it used to anymore.
I synchronize with my Google account where I have multiple different calendars for different purposes (work, freetime, projects, etc.). On my phone I can go into the calendar app's configuration and tick the boxes of those calendars I want to have synchronized and shown. It used to work like that and I could make it so that only my work appointments would be shown on the calendar widget on my homescreen.
Now, after updating to ICS, the calendar widget will show all calendars at all times, rendering it less useful. No amount of fiddling with the properties has corrected this. After asking in two other forums, this is my last hope.
I really hope somebody here knows the problem and might be able to help. Or is this really just me? Thanks in advance!
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When you select the widget, you should be prompted to select which calaendar to display. If it doesn't, check out this alternative widget. You can still use your default calendar, but use this widget instead of the stock:
Simple Calendar Widget
I have a Verizon Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod 10, and I am connected to an Exchange 2010 Server. (Although this problem existed with the stock ROM as well.) When I create a new appointment on my calendar from the phone, it shows as a meeting request instead of a "normal" calendar item. It wouldn't be too much of a problem, except for when I try to edit an entry in Outlook it will say "You are changing details for a meeting on your calendar and you are not the meeting organizer."
Has anyone else experienced this? This problem did not exist on my Samsung Captivate running CM9.
Thanks!
Yes, same problem for me.
When you use the S-planner (Samsung's calender) it's all good.
But with CM10 or even with Google's own calender app on a Sammy ROM one is not able to edit all the calender items except the ones which are meeting requests.
This also means that when you delete a calender item which was created by the Google calendar you get a e-mail saying the organizer deleted the calendar item.
Very annoying!
Update on this: it seems that the problem is the Exchange server together with Android. No problem on a iPhone or Nokia.
Already found out that there is one update which is responsible for this. Just have to figure out which.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
HI,
So I've got a brand spankin' new Nexus 5... along with the apprpriate glitches.
One problem I've seen is that when I get a calendar invitation, and ask to view it in the calendar, it shows me the invitation instead of the calendar. In Jelly Bean, that same button would show me the new meeting and all the other meetings to see if there were conflicts or something. I no longer see that view. I tried it with two calendar apps, Google's and a third-party, and both have the same behavior.
Anyone else see this?
Thanks,
L
Hi all - my 1st post.
Android 5.0.2, EMUI 3.1
Viewing my 0365 account in either standard calendar or aCalendar, I can't see any events prior to this month (except recurring anniversaries).
If I view my old Google calendar, I see events before this month fine.
Checked my old Samsung S3 and I can see previous months' events (with 0365) fine, so I don't think it's a 0365 problem. Or is it?
There doesn't seem to be an option in the menus to extend the viewing date backwards.
Hoping someone can help
I've flashed my i9300 with new rom (MM 6.0). I've used "nano" openGAAPS.
For calendar and reminders I'm using "business calendar" app from store and after flashing I have problem with editing reminders: the problem is that when I choose a reminder to edit, the edit panel is one from google calendar (only gives me date and time change) but I would like that edit panel is from business calendar so that I have other options to change (such as how long before given time the reminder will sound itself (ex. 15min before, 1h before and so on)
so, is there way, and how, to force that my default app for changing reminders is business calendar?
also one additional problem: in business calendar app I can see all the calendars I'm using. So problem is that google has synced my phone with gmail account and drawn all the calendars from my account. So basicly i have 6 calendars: 4 from gmail account, 1 "my calendar" (i think that's the default business calendar calendar) and 1 local calendar that is "my calendar" that I'm using. I can only delete that "my calendar" and others can't be deleted from business app (but I don't need them and i would like to delete them) so I would like to have only 1 calendar - "my calendar"
yelp?
If you read the reviews of the app.. It's the app causing it.
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shivadow said:
If you read the reviews of the app.. It's the app causing it.
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It can't be app... It worked like charm before flashing.
I choosed on purpose the lowest possible gaaps package to avoid google calendar bloatware and it stills high-jacks my calendar...
gesaugen said:
It can't be app... It worked like charm before flashing.
I choosed on purpose the lowest possible gaaps package to avoid google calendar bloatware and it stills high-jacks my calendar...
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Umm.. Allow me to elaborate..
Each and every version of android is completely different from the last. You can see the android version from its API. Newer API's need updated apps as the code is different and optimised from the previous version so the way the app "calls" to the API is different and the older apps cannot take advantage of it.
Couple that with brand and model differences, the way the API calls the hardware will be different and optimised and older apps will not be able to take advantage of it.
And you can take into account that you phone was never made to run anything higher than 4.x, the API will struggle to communicate with any part of the phone software or hardware. OEM code is illegal to use in custom roms so it all has to be totally written from scratch, of which the app will not know about and will not be able to take advantage... You get it..
If you want complete compatibility then you need to buy a newer phone with native support for the new API's.
I hope this clarifies roughly why you are experiencing issues with an otherwise known to be good app. Basically the app and rom are to blame, more likely the rom itself.
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shivadow, thnx for answer.
also I've discovered what is the problem: the copied calendar isn't compatible to new OS so business calendar tries it's best to read event as "whole day" and it redirects editing of the events to the google calendar. The new events that are added to the local calendar which is default calendar of BC can be edited normally.
So I'm copying manually events that are important so that I can delete copied calendar...
also one strange thing is that copied calendar has messed up reminder starting time of events: if an event is set to begin at 19h, it sounds alarm at 7h. the other day it sounded the alarm at 00h and it was set to start that day at 12h...
Like I said, compatibility issues with the api..
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