I noticed recently that my phone wasn't reminding me of my calendar reminders. When I went to check the settings i see that my primary google calendar is missing. I tried to add the calendar back by going into setting and calendar but I have no option to make it visable. I tried re-signing in but i get a message saying there is already an account for my gmail.
I know a full factory reset will fix this but before I do any suggestions?
Thanks
Mark
Bump: I've been trying to fix my missing calendar issue for the day and now luck.
Check yours... Has your calendar account disappeared?
How do you get it back?
Did you clear data by any chance? I was just trying to correct my calendar account on my Scroll Excel, as it somehow associated its self with the wrong email address, and when I cleared the data from both the calendar app and the calendar storage through manage apps, I managed to get rid of the wrong email address.
Now I just need to find out how to put the right email in!
hmm, i also once noticed i didnt had the calender for my google birthdays, but i couldnt find a fix (didnt look for long though because i was going to flash a rom anyways) so i did factory reset and flashed new rom and now it works fine.
try to remove your google account (correct one), then clear the data of your calendar and then add him again?
I have trouble getting new contacts that I add to my phone to sync with my Google account. I've lost quite a few new numbers that I've put into my phone, not knowing that it hasn't synced to my Google account, I flash a new ROM and restore contacts from my account only to find out that I'm missing that person's number . I have "Sync Contacts" checked in my Google account settings and I make sure the contact is assigned to a group. Even with a force sync within the contacts app and my google account settings doesn't bring the newly entered contact over. Anybody else experience this or have a work around?
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Do you have your phone set to save new contacts to google?
Contacts > Menu > Settings > Save new contacts to
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post above mine is the way to go....
It worked! Thank you so much. Now do you have to do this every single time? Seems counter productive to having auto sync features with your google account if you have to do this every time you add somebody.
edit: settings was set to "Save to phone" Why did I not even think of this! Thanks again
Nope, that is the default setting for all contacts. Set it once and you should be good. However, I would double check it after re-flashing ROMs and such, just in case.
I would set that setting to 'Always ask'. This setting will be applied whenever you add a new contact. The default is 'Phone' which does not sync with Google. If you have Exchange server account, you will see exchange contact as well.
So, each contacts belongs to a specific contact provider: Phone, SIM card, Google, Exchange account or any other account types you installed. Only the contacts that belongs to a that contact provider will be synced with that provider. Phone and SIM card contacts stays on the phone or SIM card, never synced with any cloud services.
Trying to resolve the Market issue, I removed my Google Account and reinstalled it, but this deleted all my synced contacts in the process.
Is there any way to recover them?
Sorry for not helping - because I can't - but am curious as to which "market issue" you're referring to?
Login to your gmail account on a PC and select contacts. If they are there you should be fine.
They should re sync when the account is added again. If not go on a computer and check the contacts in gmail, if they are gone which means they are deleted from the server. Gmail allows you to restore you contact list back to any point in the last 30 days. So it is really hard to accidently lose anything permanently.
Thanks for the help. Solved.
I've noticed random calendar entries missing from my google calendar from the last 3 weeks, and many entries missing from future weeks, but they're all still on my phone. I've just created some test calendar entries on the phone to see if they would update online, yet they're not appearing on google calendar. But my google account on the phone confirms it's syncing, with 'last synced 5/12/2013 at XX.XX am/pm time'
Is this anything to do with my samsung account?
Samsung account said session expired. I forgot my old password so created a new one on the samsung site.
A popup message saying 'Update Samsung Account?' has been continually appearing, even though I've downloaded the update several times. If I remove the samsung account, does it affect my google calendar or will I lose anything else important?
My phone contacts seems to update ok though.
So, how do I get google calendar to see my phone calendar events?
Looks like everything is a mess, i would do a full wipe if i were you, but im not so here we go. Are u using the samsung calendar or google calendar to look at your google calendar events? If you are using samsung calendar, did you choose to sync your gmail within the calendar app settings?
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Looks like everything is a mess, i would do a full wipe if i were you, but im not so here we go. Are u using the samsung calendar or google calendar to look at your google calendar events? If you are using samsung calendar, did you choose to sync your gmail within the calendar app settings?
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Hi. I'm using my google calendar to look at my calendar events. I don't recall choosing to sync gmail with the samsung calendar.
In system settings on the phone, the google account tells me it just synced a few minutes ago, with the green sync icon next to it, even though it hasn't actually updated any new calendar entries on google calendar online. In system settings/Samsung account, it just occurred to me that my Samsung account is a different email address, an ntlworld.com address, not the gmail address I use to log in for google calendar. But it's always been that way, so I'm not sure if or how my samsung account would affect what's happening with my google calendar? Currently I've disabled sync on the samsung account because the pop up message kept appearing, and the sync icon was red saying sync error. Added a test calendar event to my phone but not showing up online. The settings in my phones default calendar are ticked for my gmail account/email address, ie, 'My Calendar', 'Contacts Birthdays', 'UK Holidays', there's nothing showing my samsung account email address. I'm rather confused!
When I type my new password into the Samsung account on my phone then click 'Done', it says 'In Progress'.. 'Signing In..' then always says 'Unfortunately, Samsung account has stopped' and Processing failed. So I can't even log in! Do I need to remove the samsung account and reinstall it? And should I do a backup first with 'My Backup' which I have installed?
Hmm. Go to settings, accounts, and click on your google account, in there you should find tick boxes like "app data" "browser" "calendar" etc., make sure calendar is ticked. If it is ticked, un-tick it, clear data of calendars, reboot, and tick it again. As for your samsung account, you should probably make a new account or fiddle with its settings from your web browser maybe. Could be samsung apps fault too, you need to re-install the stock rom to overcome that. ( Or maybe finding its app and clearing its data)
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Hmm. Go to settings, accounts, and click on your google account, in there you should find tick boxes like "app data" "browser" "calendar" etc., make sure calendar is ticked. If it is ticked, un-tick it, clear data of calendars, reboot, and tick it again. As for your samsung account, you should probably make a new account or fiddle with its settings from your web browser maybe. Could be samsung apps fault too, you need to re-install the stock rom to overcome that. ( Or maybe finding its app and clearing its data)
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Yeah there's 13 sync boxes, including app data, sync calendar, sync gmail, all ticked and synced within the last 2 hours. Sync google play news wasn't ticked but I've now ticked it.
'Clear data of calendars'. You mean in Application Manager/Calendar Storage? TIn there it says 0.99mb total calendar storage and there's the 'clear data' box. I'm a bit worried, won't that delete all my calendar events? In which case, shouldn't I back up first?
Yes it will clear your calendar data, but they should be backed up on google servers, did you put new entries after this problem occured? Check your google calendar from a PC, everything there should be safe.
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Yes it will clear your calendar data, but they should be backed up on google servers, did you put new entries after this problem occured? Check your google calendar from a PC, everything there should be safe.
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That's my whole point though, when I go to 'Calendar' from google chrome, my calendar appears but random older entries are not there starting from about 3 weeks ago, yet some are there. Many entries are also not there for future calendar events I've entered in my phone. And any new entries I made today are not showing up either. So the google servers are not automatically backing up what I'm putting on my phone's calendar. Which is why it's a risk to clear phone data, because its only my phone that is actually showing all my entries, but the server isn't.
Then try just clearing the cache of calendar storage and google calendar. Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too. You can backup with titanium backup (tho i don't know if it will work %100, calendar backups are always messy). Lets try not deleting your data for now. Does deleting google account and re-creating delete your entries? If not, you can try that as well. You can also try re-installing google calendar app via an apk without deleting it.
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Then try just clearing the cache of calendar storage and google calendar. Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too. You can backup with titanium backup (tho i don't know if it will work %100, calendar backups are always messy). Lets try not deleting your data for now. Does deleting google account and re-creating delete your entries? If not, you can try that as well. You can also try re-installing google calendar app via an apk without deleting it.
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The cache is greyed out, there's nothing to clear.
I'm not rooted so can't use titanium backup, I'm currently backing the whole phone up fwith My Backup Pro. Then I'll delete the samsung account and see if that makes any difference. If not, I'll delete the google account and reinstall it.
"Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too." Yeah, in calendar settings on the phone, everything is ticked. 'Calendars', I click on that and there's a bunch of things that can only be ticked or unticked. 'My Calendar' is ticked, 'My Task' is ticked, then under that it shows my google gmail address ticked, uk holidays, contacts birthdays also ticked. That's all there is.
There aren't a problem with settings then, as you also thought, you should try backing up and deleting and re-creating accounts.
First up: I do not want to sync my contacts with Google.
For an unknown reason my mobile keeps synchronizing my personal address book with Google. Even worse: Somehow I get a lot of crap contacts, even empty or just with an email. Most of my contacts are 2-3 times in my address book and I have no idea where to look for the problem.
I changed /Settings/Accounts/Google Account #1 & #2/ > untick "Contacts", when I first set up my system (SlimROM 9.0).
Usually I sync my address book manually using MyPhoneExplorer. I have Xposed/Xprivacy installed to block many apps from reading my contacts. Hangouts is installed but since its a Google app I presume, that it accepts my setting to not sync contacts plus I didn't find any settings in the app.
I checked Gmail-Accounts online and unticked the "Automatically add contacts to address book when answering an email", after I first saw that something went wrong. All my contacts where online but only in one account. I deleted all contacts from Gmail online and from my phone, checked all settings again and copied over my contacts with MyPhoneExplorer.
After a while all crap contacs where back and synced with Gmail online.
What should I do to prevend this from happening, ignoring the fact that now it wouldn't REALLY matter anymore since Google got what I didn't want them to get: Personal information about my friends and colleagues who didn't agree to that?