in Google Contacts, i have activated the "Contact's Birthdays and Events" calendar. while i can use this calendar for example in Thunderbird or even the old mobile, the calendar won't load in the SGS2's calendar app - it is not even listed as calendar at all.
some calendar widgets from the market do list the birthday calendar as "inactive", which probably means that it's currently not synced. other Google Calendars like "Week Numbers" work just fine, so it seems that the birthday calendar is not synced on purpose. from reading forum posts, it also seems possible to use this calendar in other android devices...
has anyone found a way to get the birthday calendar to work with the SGS2?
I promise I searched, all the threads I found were about adding a second Google calendar from a Google account (sub calendar).
On her Galaxy Tab there are 2 calendars, the Google account calendar and a "My Calendar". We use My Phone Explorer to sync the tablet with her Outlook on the PC without involving Google and it synchronizes to the My Calendar calendar. On her Moto XPRT there is only the Google account calendar. My Phone Explorer will sync to the XPRT using the Google account calendar. The downside is that any changes/creations she makes on the phone will not be visible on the tablet unless she shows both the Google and "My Calendar" calendars on the tablet. We would like to not involve Google. Adding a "My Calendar" calendar to the XPRT would allow us to do this. Unfortunately Calendar -> More -> Calendars -> Does not have the Menu -> Add Calendar that I've seen in other threads were they describe adding new calendars.
Is there another way or a different menu sequence to add new non-Google based calendars that are contained on the device?
Hello
I'm having trouble getting the Calendar on the SGS2 to sync with the Calendar on google?
Now I can create an appointment, and it appears on google and the phone, but if I create it on Google the phone won't update.
The sync checkbox is ticked, and every time I create a new event on the Calendar i'm greeted by
"Google calendar cannot sync with Samsung Kies. Use My Calendar to sync with Kies"
followed by
"Local calendar cannot sync with Google calendar. You need a Google account"
So I have sync running, emails are pushing, and as I said items created on the Phone push to Google, but I can't get Google to push back to the phone, can anyone explain to me what i'm doing wrong
Many Thanks,
Luke.
I have the same problem. Have had the problem for a while on multiple roms and kernels
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O great, so its F'd then
Maybe i'll be getting the Galaxy Nexus then.
The Calendar app can work with many calendar sources. I have it syncing it with gmail, yahoo and also the phone's internal calendar (which is also the one KIES deals with).
When you go into Calendar -> Menu -> Settings -> Calendars. You will see all the accounts that independently sync with the Calendar app. So you can have an appointment via a work's account and another appointment via your gmail account. The gmail appointment will only sync with the gmail account and the work's appointment will only sync with the work's account.
What it appears to be is that you create an appointment in gmail (on the web) and it will happily appear on the web and also on your phone soon after. Any modifications to that appointment on the phone will appear on the web.
A new appointment created on the phone is saved as a local calendar event. Go to Calendar -> Menu -> Create. You will see half-way down an option called 'Calendar' select your gmail account from this option. As long as you save the new appointment the Calendar app will use that as the default calendar.
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I have had the stock calendar working but I would highly recommend Business Calendar.
Way better in every way.
A few days ago I bought a S7 (on 6.0.1), upgrading from my Xperia Z (on 5.1.1). As usual the first thing I set up was my outlook account with my calendars - I set up an Exchange account as well as through the outlook app (just like I have it on my Xperia). I use the outlook app for my emails and use Business Calendar 2 Pro as my primary calendar app/widget.
I have a few individual calendars on my outlook account. However on my S7, business calendar doesn't show the individual calendars, instead it has merged them all into 1 calendar. I made sure both phones are running the same version of both apps (outlook and business calendar). I also tried the native samsung planner app and other calendar apps but they all also merged the individual calendars into 1 calendar. Any ideas on how I can change it so that I can see my individual calendars on my S7?
I have screenshots, but can't post them atm, being a new user.
Thanks
Hello dear XDA comunity,
I would like to have all calendar events from one account always copied (i.e. synced) to another.
More precisely: My calendar app (acalendar) displays all events from my google account plus all events from an other account created by the app "Calendar Sync for Facebook". That is totally fine. But I would like to also see those Facebook events in my google calendar on the desktop. So do you know a way to sync events from one calendar account to another? Maybe an app?
Best regards,
Willy