I purchased a "Sumvision Cyclone Astr+" (ICSv4.0.3) 7 inch Tablet the other week. I love it. I can sit on the couch and surf the web, play games and watch youtube to my hearts content.
However, a couple of little things are bugging me that I would like to fix.
GMail works perfectly, but Google Calendar simply doesn't work. I did some searching and replaced my GoogleCalendarSync.apk as initially I didn't even have the Sync Calendar option in the Accounts. Now I can see the sync option for Calendar, and it does sync (it shows a last sync time) BUT the Calendar simply refuses to find my Google Calendars (I have 3, my personal one, birthdays and UK Holidays)
I have downloaded Jorte and that also fails to find my Google Calendars.
I'm totally stuck, as all info I read said that replacing that apk fixed it for others. I'd like to fix it, just to add that extra little functionality. (Anyone know why the A10 Tablets suffer from this?)
Workaround
Hello,
I ran into the same problem with Google Calender not syncing (I also bought the same tablet from eBuyer), the workaround to getting your calenders to display on the tablet is listed here.
"Add gmail account in calendar as exchange account. Take note
domain\username: gmail\[email protected]
server: m.google.com
on next screen, check only 'sync calendar from this account'"
One other thing that you will also come across is you cannot move apps to the SD card as the tablet splits the internal memory and uses the SDcard mount for internal memory. This is a real pain but I am not sure if this is unique to our tablet or ICS related. Also, the tablet is supposed to come with 1GB of RAM, yet you can also only see 306MB when you go into the system settings.
Oh well. I hope the Calender fix works.
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I got syncing working between Outlook and the Google Calendar site ... so I can see all my events and such on the Google Calendar website.
What isnt working is the sync with my Tab 10.1 ... I can see the calendar name on the Tab (and it changes on the Tab almost immediately when I change the calendar name on the website) but none of the events ever sync down to the device.
I've tried removing my google account and setting it back up, tried just turning sync on/off, tried powering off/on ... any one else having this issue and/or solved it? Thanks.
I am having the same exact issues you are. When I'm out and about I set all my calander events on my evo. Non of them however transfer over to my tab. I made sure auto sync is on and even tried manually hitting the sync button but no dice. Its easier to view mybdaynahead on my tab. Hopefully next update take all GT 10.1s from a beta feel to a solid feel. On my second GT10.1 already :-(
" hang on to your dookie, its about to get spooky "
So between this issue and a few others I factory reset my SGT last night and magically the Google Calendar is working perfectly now (so far). :-/
Not sure if my answer apply, but I sync with exchange and that work fine at least.
I think I'm having the same issue, or at least I'm sure that the calendar widgets don't show all the synched appointments in my calendars...
garese said:
I think I'm having the same issue, or at least I'm sure that the calendar widgets don't show all the synched appointments in my calendars...
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the calendar widget is garbage, because it only displays your events for the week. download WIZZ from the market, it has a much better agenda widget.
Hi,
I am using the calender that came on my Samsung Galazy S 2. It worked fine for a few days. I transfered my paper diary onto the phone diary and syncd it with my google account and my facebook. First I had trouble with the facebook sync as, even though I had 'hide delined events' ticked it would not do so. This meant I just unchecked facebook in the 'Calenders' section and had nothing showing from facebook at all as my whole diary was spammed up with things I didn;t want in there I was not going to and could not get rid off. This fustrated me, but I put in things I wanted to go to maually and I thought it would be fine.
The real trouble started randomly one night when I went to look at my calender and everything had gone! I mean every event in the whole calender. I went online and checked and it was all on the online google calender. I re syncd my phone with google and it seemed to be ok, however it hadn't added all the events, some I had in 2012, such as holiday dates, had not been addded despite them being on google fine. So I re syncd to see if this would add the missing dates, however it just removed every event again!
I system restored the phone and tried starting again from scratch. We re syncd the phone and it did the whole thing over again. Also when we go into 'Settings' 'Calenders' it only shows 'my calender' and no google at all now.
What is going on! I am getting really fustrated as one of the main things I wanted to use my phone for was the calender fuction with the handy screen widgets. I have lost appointments that people have booked because of this (thankfully I keep a paper diary still out of fear of 'not being able to trust technology! haha :S)
Please any help would be greatly appreiciated as it's fustrating me to the point of taking the phone back to the shop and everything else with it is fine. I did ask in the shop for another question relating to the in phone fuctions and they were no help so I can't just go and ask them
Thank you in advance for any help,
Abbi
Program and version you use to access Google Calendar (e.g. Internet Explorer 7 or Outlook 2003): stock calender on galaxy s2. Have tried also jorte calender with the same problems.
Any Sync software you're using or have used (e.g. Google Calendar Sync): google calender sync, ical(but hadnt transfer it onto the phone)
If you're using the non-Apps version of Google Calendar (accessing from google.com/calendar/render) or you're on Google Apps: using the google online where all my diary dates have been stored.
If you have any Labs (and which ones) or Offline enabled: none
sorry for any bad grammer, spelling, written in an angry hurry!
Did you have any luck getting to the bottom of this?
My S2 has seemingly stopped syncing with Google calendar too. God knows why, I've installed various apps and updated the software via Kies recently....
Hi there
I am on Android since about 2 months, using a HTC Desire S. As I am allergic with Sense, I direclty installed a custom rom, from wich I deleted useless applications to me.
This is when I figured out that deleting Gmail will prevent the calendar to work ("You have no calendars").
So I got connected to my Gmail account from the web (created especially to access the android market), and I noted that my calendar were syncronized, and worst, that all my contacts from the phone were there too.
I am not quite parano, but I'd like to know if there is a way to keep the calendar and contacts only on the phone.
Autosync is disabled on my phone, but it had probably been enabled on the early days, so would disabling the auo sync prevent FOREVER my calendar and contacts to be uploaded to gmail, and manly, is it possible to use the calendar without installing the gmail apk ?
Thank you
Can't tell you about what the sync is doing, because I honestly do not care, so I haven't looked into it, BUT what I can tell you is that the calendar works beautifully eventhough I don't have GMail installed.
Thanks for your information
Well then...
I found somethin' about these apks :
GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk
But I did not delete them, I can find them on my /system/app/ folder, when I tried to install them it asked me if want to replace it, I said Yes but then I have the report with the green check (as a good thing happened), but next to it it's writtent "Application not installed"...
Well it did nothing I think but this doesn't seem to be my issue, as they are already there.
OK,
What I had to do, is simply go in the "account & sync settings" menu, click on my gmail account (synced off) and then launch a calendar sync...
So this is a force go, if you want to use calendar, you need to sync it at least once.
Quite fair but could be better, even Bada needs a Samsung account to use the store since Bada 2.0...
I thought I should post my findings, in case anyone has the same problems down the line.
I tried a new ROM for my SGS4G: T959V. Everything seemed to be working pretty well, there were a few things I didn't like about it.
Eventually I noticed that I couldn't add to the calendar. As soon as I clicked Save it would be gone and not save to my gmail account. This was even the case when I added to "My Calendar" instead of my gmail calendar.
Everything was checked as far as Settings/Accounts/Sync Calendar but I eventually noticed that even things that I added from a computer weren't properly updating.
Even after re-ROMing the problem wasn't fixed. I tried basically every ROM before I figured out the solution:
There are two apps in the Manage Applications section: Calendar and Calendar Storage. I cleared the data of both of them, waited a minute or two. Voila, the calendar app works perfectly.
I couldn't find anything regarding this problem, so hopefully someone might find this useful if they have my problem.
Be careful if you use the local calendar and not the gmail calendar. Also, why do you use the local calendar and not the gmail calendar?
Keep tinkering
I've done some looking around, but I haven't found a solution that has solved the problem, so I hope this isn't redundant:
I have two or three Google calendars. If I go to the website, I see them all fine and can see the information in them. I have my EVO 3D (stock, Gingerbread; too many ICS complaints for me to run the Sprint OTA) set to sync and to show these calendars, but none but the main one will show. This is true whether I have them set to show multiple calendars together or set to show only individual ones. I tried clearing the data in Calendar Storage and resyncing; it made no difference. I don't use the stock Calendar app; I use Jorte and Pimlical, but none of the three of them will show the other calendars (which I believe is because there's only one group of calendar selection settings, no matter which app you use). BTW, the other calendars don't show on either of my tablets, either, so it's not really just a 3D problem.
Does anyone have any idea how to correct this situation?
EVO Longoria
This was an issue with Gingerbread which (for me at least) was resolved in ICS. When I used GB, I got around this problem by using multiple Google accounts and then sharing them with the primary account (the one you have linked to your phone). I had our family calendar as the calendar on my primary Google account. My wife's work calendar was on her account. I created another Google account for my work sked. The key on your secondary calendars, is to go to settings and share them with your primary account. If you select "Make changes and manage sharing" under permissions, you'll be able to make changes from your phone.
Like I said, on ICS, the issue went away for me, and I have created several new calendars on my primary Google account and all of them show up on my E3D.
nobody291 said:
This was an issue with Gingerbread which (for me at least) was resolved in ICS. When I used GB, I got around this problem by using multiple Google accounts and then sharing them with the primary account (the one you have linked to your phone). I had our family calendar as the calendar on my primary Google account. My wife's work calendar was on her account. I created another Google account for my work sked. The key on your secondary calendars, is to go to settings and share them with your primary account. If you select "Make changes and manage sharing" under permissions, you'll be able to make changes from your phone.
Like I said, on ICS, the issue went away for me, and I have created several new calendars on my primary Google account and all of them show up on my E3D.
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Thanks for responding. I wrote you a long post which got lost because my login timed out before I was finished writing. I should have copied it first, but didn't so let me just say this: There is information going around that clearing Calendar Data solves the problem. I have three devices; it didn't work on any of them, and it also made me lose the ability to see anything on my device past a month ago, which it turns out Google warns you about on a Google Calendar help page:
Clear your device's Calendar application data
Warning: After performing the following steps, events from more than 30 days ago will no longer be available for viewing on your device. Rest assured these events remain saved on the main Google Calendar server and are accessible via the web. Further, these steps will cause your Calendar app settings (e.g., Calendar notification ringtones) to be reset.
We recommend proceeding with these steps only if the above steps did not resolve the issue.
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I solved my problem by exporting all my calendars, deleting all data from my primary calendar and importing the data back in to it.
This process had differing results on my three devices, but I was at least able to get a complete "timeline" in one calendar to show on each device. This doesn't help everyone, but it may help some. Remember: If you need to keep any extended period of time available on your device, DON'T clear Calendar Data!
It's sad that after all this time Google hasn't been able to do better than this.