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I can't work out why, but stuff added to my google Calendar on my phone, doesn't sync to my online google calendar.
Stuff added online, shows up on my phone's calendar with a red marker when you open the calendar. But stuff added on the phone, doesn't show up online! When you add something using the monthly widget, it shows up with a blue marker, and doesn't seem to upload to google. This is really annoying, and no amount of going in to Data sync settings and forcing synchronisaition seems to fix it. Somewhere, I must have set up something wrong, I assume, but can anyone tell me where..?
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So I 've managed to figure out that there are multiple calendars on the Hero. One must be the google online one, and the other must be the phone one. Both are called "My calendar". I can't find a way of deleting the phone one, or changing its name, or just using the online one as default, but I have gone on to the website and changed the name of the online one to something different. This now means I can identify the differences between them, and put stuff on my online calendar easily from my phone.
But can anyone tell me how I can move appointments between calendars? Or delete the phone only calendar altogether? I have no need for it, if I have an online calendar!!
On mine one is called "my calendar" and the other is my google email login name. Seems like my calendar is local to the phone whereas the "other" is the online calendar which could be shared with others.
Don't know yet how to move between the two or how to delete the local one. Mine always defaults to the online one so I just never change it.
jamesking420 said:
OK,
So I 've managed to figure out that there are multiple calendars on the Hero. One must be the google online one, and the other must be the phone one. Both are called "My calendar". I can't find a way of deleting the phone one, or changing its name, or just using the online one as default, but I have gone on to the website and changed the name of the online one to something different. This now means I can identify the differences between them, and put stuff on my online calendar easily from my phone.
But can anyone tell me how I can move appointments between calendars? Or delete the phone only calendar altogether? I have no need for it, if I have an online calendar!!
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Hello everybody,
I am having the exact same issue on a non-rooted HTC Magic (32A). The problem must have occured because I did not directly sign on my gmail account during the setup wizard, but did that later on.
As a result, a "my calendar" cal was created and was made the phone's default one. Later on, I did sign to gmail and, as a result, obtained access to my google calendars. However, the "my calendar" account remains there and I have not been able to remove it from the list of calendar accounts. To make things worse, selecting to create a new calendar event preselects "my calendar" instead of my own gmail calendar.
Of course I can always return the phone to factory defaults, but that would mean that I'd have to reinstall my applications, do a zillion of tuneups etc etc. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish the same thing? Or a workaround to preselect my own gmail calendar as the default one?
Thanks in advance for any info provided.
goldohulk said:
As a result, a "my calendar" cal was created and was made the phone's default one. Later on, I did sign to gmail and, as a result, obtained access to my google calendars. However, the "my calendar" account remains there and I have not been able to remove it from the list of calendar accounts. To make things worse, selecting to create a new calendar event preselects "my calendar" instead of my own gmail calendar.
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EDIT: I am not really sure whether signing directly at the first setup wizard execution avoid the creation of "my calendar" altogether, OR it just creates it but sets the gmail calendar as the default.... Can anyone who has directly provided his/her gmail account during the initial setup wizard, confirm whether:
(a) a local "my calendar" calendar exists (or not) and
(b) which calendar is the default one, when a new calendar event is created
goldohulk said:
EDIT: I am not really sure whether signing directly at the first setup wizard execution avoid the creation of "my calendar" altogether, OR it just creates it but sets the gmail calendar as the default.... Can anyone who has directly provided his/her gmail account during the initial setup wizard, confirm whether:
(a) a local "my calendar" calendar exists (or not) and
(b) which calendar is the default one, when a new calendar event is created
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Yes, the local "my calendar" still exists.
When I create a new event, it uses whichever calendar I selected the last time I created an event.
In my case, my google calendar is labelled with my full name, and the HTC one is "my calendar", so it's easy...
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Yes, the local "my calendar" still exists.
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And you connected to google services right at the initial setup wizard, without skipping it? There goes the theory then...
When I create a new event, it uses whichever calendar I selected the last time I created an event.
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I'm on a HTC Magic and no matter which calendar I select during event creation, the next event will again default to "my calendar". Are you on Hero? Other?
In my case, my google calendar is labelled with my full name, and the HTC one is "my calendar", so it's easy...
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I can see the google calendar and I can create events there or view the synced ones. Everything works perfectly there. I just can't make my own Google calendar the default
goldohulk said:
And you connected to google services right at the initial setup wizard, without skipping it? There goes the theory then...
I'm on a HTC Magic and no matter which calendar I select during event creation, the next event will again default to "my calendar". Are you on Hero? Other?
I can see the google calendar and I can create events there or view the synced ones. Everything works perfectly there. I just can't make my own Google calendar the default
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Yes, connected to Google at initial setup.
Apols, didn't say: yes, I have a Hero.
On the Hero, it's remembered next time. at least it is for me.
EDIT: apols, didn't read your post properly when I replied first time.
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Mate, you've saved me from a format, massive reinstall and application tuneups! Thank you!
excellent!
Calendar still does not sync
In spite of using the option to enter my calendar dates with my google account my Hero still will not upload dates to my google calendar. Google calendar does sync down to my Hero however. Is this something I'm doing wrong or is this a known problem?
works fine for me; the only issue is to ensure you're adding the event to the correct calendar, i.e. the Google one, not an Outlook one, or the local Hero one, with the latter being the default.
after I realised that, it's always worked for me.
yeah still not working. Very odd indeed.
Is it still a problem after installing the new ROM?
For me at least.
HOORAY!
Can confirm the problem - at least for my phone and several other Orange users...
As explained before, for each event you create, the calendar must be set to your google calendar (which you set up on installing the phone for the 1st time, or via settings).
Also, you must ensure that Orange haven't (in their infinite wisdom) set up a under 18 child protection thing on your account, because for some reason this stops the calendar on your Hero uploading data to Google!
I've switched this off and can now add (and delete) data on my Hero which syncs to my Google calendar with ease.
Another solution I have come across.
If you are using HTC ONE-x or similar, this could also be with any phone - your HTC will have it's own calendar + Google has its own as well. I have always used the HTC one, but this time I thought I will give the Google calendar a go. This is when the problems started, as I didnt like the Google Calendar and went back to the HTC, and every event I added on it - even though syncs with the Google calendar on the phone, it does not sync with Gmail online calendar.
So, I then added an event on my phone into the Google Calendar app and it synced. Now I am just coping all the events one by one from HTC calendar to Google. A bit annoying, but at least everything syncs.
Can't even switch the Google Calendar app off, as it deleted all the calendars from both HTC and Google.
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HOORAY!
Can confirm the problem - at least for my phone and several other Orange users...
As explained before, for each event you create, the calendar must be set to your google calendar (which you set up on installing the phone for the 1st time, or via settings).
Also, you must ensure that Orange haven't (in their infinite wisdom) set up a under 18 child protection thing on your account, because for some reason this stops the calendar on your Hero uploading data to Google!
I've switched this off and can now add (and delete) data on my Hero which syncs to my Google calendar with ease.
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Tried to search if everyone was aware of this problem. Don't see any references, so posting in hopes it would help others.
If you just flashed one of the awesome ICS ROMs out there and getting constant FC with the error "Google Calendar Sync Has Stopped", you may be experiencing what I have. Note: This doesn't seem to affect all ICS ROMs as I didnt have this issue with Seraphim, but I'm on Objection right now and this is exactly what is going on with my Calendar.
I've been troubleshooting, installing/uninstalling system apks, finding workarounds and have had no luck figuring this one out. At first I thought it was just an exchange issue (another problem i wont get into). But after searching the web it looks to be a known issue with "Recurring Event" and the ICS sync engine. Because I had problems with Exchange Sync on my device, I ended up syncing my Exchange Calendar with Google using a third party app (gSyncit), so I have multiple recurring meetings in my Google Calendar.
Here is an excerpt from 'ISTAR' in a google groups thread:
"The problem appears when you have eventfull calendars, with repeating events. It looks like not all of them are able to be processed with Android sync daemon. Here is the threat discussing that issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23175 Depending from your calendar there could be 1 or more events bothering that app. So you have to identify them and recreate it or if you got unlucky: refrain from using such pattern.
The easiest way to identify the wrecker is 1) to install log reading app, e.g. aLogcat from Market, 2) Go Setting->Accounts->Google->UnCheck/Check Calendar wait for the error "google calendar sync has stopped" 3) run to aLogcat, pause and scroll to the red lines, saying something like "error in recurring pattern =MO TU WE, etc." The error text can vary depending from the nature of your problem. 4) Try to identify which one is bad event and remove it from all calendars. 5) Resync and go to step 1 if error appears again. After 2-3 iteration you should vanish all your malicious events.
And I don't think google will fix it fast. The problem is being known since December 11, and still in progress.
Good luck!"
I confirmed this by following his steps and removed all my recurring events one-by-one until Calendar synced successfully without the FC.
Since I haven't been able to get Exchange sync or Google Calendar Sync to work with my work email. I've resorted to using Touchdown as the solution, until this is fixed or until I find a better workaround.
Hopefully someone finds this helpful, or can provide me with a solution.
No issues with calendar sync on that Rom here....recurring events and new events sync fine.
Which version of the Rom are you using
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im on the newest objection 2. seems that this is only affecting a handful of people (only two others on the dev thread has mentioned it). it could possibly be a way that google calendar saves exchange items in its database and unable to process it on the device. dont know. frustrating. ive also tried taking the seraphim calendar apk and dropping it in with no luck. so im stumped.
this is the only issue from making my device perfect with objection which i think is the cleanest cooked up rom
It definitely could be an exchange issue.
I do not use exchange so have no way of testing
There's an app for it
I had this issue after updating my Galaxy Note to ICS 4.0.3. Calendar sync caused forced close and no data was synced. Bought an app called CalenGoo for less than EUR5 after confirming with the very helpful dev that it is not reliant on the defective ICS sync engine. Got everything up and running in seconds!
Deleting recurring events (weekly meetings with colleagues etc) is simply not something anyone who uses their Google calendar for anything serious is going to do. And again no guarantee that adding the meetings again would not just cause the same problem. Rather buy a phone that works.
Also tried deleting my corporate google account from the phone and re-adding it (my personal account synced just fine). Not intrigued to factory reset the phone and restore all apps and lose their settings etc. while there is no guarantee that it would do any good.
It is ridiculous that Google/Samsung would release this kind of defective crap, and makes you think what else might be wrong with ICS if QA is this bad.
Fixed my issue!
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this information!
I use gSyncIt to sync from Outlook to Google, then Google Calendar Sync to sync from Google to an Asus Transformer TF101. It worked fine until I upgraded from Honeycomb to ICS and my main calendar failed to sync from that point on, with the dreaded "Sorry" message.
I followed the tips in the first post and discovered I had only one problematic recurring calendar entry. It used this Outlook pattern:
Weekly repeat, Mondays to Fridays only, started July 16, finished August 10
When I deleted it the sync worked OK. When I recreated it using this:
Daily repeat, weekdays only, started July 16, finished August 10it still didn't work. Mind you gSyncIt could be representing both of these patterns the same way in Google Calendar.
In the end I recreated the repeating calendar entry as 4 separate week long repeating events and it synced fine to Google and through to ICS.
So if you are running into this bug my suggestion would be to check for any daily recurring events that run longer than a week but exclude some days of the week (especially weekends). I have lots of other daily, weekly and monthly recurring events but this is the only one that had that pattern (and the only one that killed the syncing process).
Thanks,
Matt
OP - thanks for the info, been experiencing this since I've upgraded my Galaxy Note to ICS.
One thing to add upon the info on this thread -- it seems to me that when accessing, via the Google Calendar website, the events that cause the crashes, they seem to show a message "This event has a recurrence rule that cannot be edited in Google Calendar" next to the "Repeat:" checkbox of the event.
This might be easier to detect for you than searching the logs. Of course, you still have to go over all of your reoccurring events to find the offending ones.
sagie said:
OP - thanks for the info, been experiencing this since I've upgraded my Galaxy Note to ICS.
One thing to add upon the info on this thread -- it seems to me that when accessing, via the Google Calendar website, the events that cause the crashes, they seem to show a message "This event has a recurrence rule that cannot be edited in Google Calendar" next to the "Repeat:" checkbox of the event.
This might be easier to detect for you than searching the logs. Of course, you still have to go over all of your reoccurring events to find the offending ones.
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thanks for showing a way out.. fishing for those offending entries...
Simple mistake maybe
Hi folks I thought I had this same problem as well but found out there was a simple solution. If the duplicate events have a different colour tab on the lefthand side it means they are coming from different calendar feeds and to stop this happening I just clicked on the drop down menu next to 'Calendar' top left of screen and unchecked everything apart from my Gmail email address & UK Holidays.
After that everything went back to normal ... simple mistake or just me?
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There was one offending monthly reminder about my Evernote subscription, deleted the series, sync working now. Happy!
I have only Google Calendar (3 agendas thouhg - personal, professional, birthdays) and after I upgraded my Defy to ICS (Nightly build of 2012.05.29, Kernel CM9) I cannot sync Calendar anymore. Try out different Gapps, always cleaning/wiping cache/dalvik, but nothing seems to solve the problem. Not sure what else I could try. Has anyone find a solution/workaround?
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'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.
Does anyone know a way I can display my FB friends birthdays on my Samsung calendar? I have Haxsync but it will only display events and does not give me the option for birthdays.
Same here
It is the same for me too and its annoying as hell !!! The Facebook Calendar sync option is just not available in S6 (check the first attachment) while it is working just fine in S4 (the second attachment). I also checked Lollipop versions of S4 and S5 - the calendar sync is there and working correctly and their Facebook apps are just the same version as on my S6 Edge. I can't see how Samsung managed to miss that or why they didn't include it.
Can anyway help or at least confirm if all S6 devices does not support it?
Try a third party app known as "Birthday Calender". I hope it will fulfill your requirements.
chris mackenzy said:
Try a third party app known as "Birthday Calender". I hope it will fulfill your requirements.
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Thank you Chris but I don't see anything useful. There are several Birthday Calendar applications in Play Store but they are all separate apps and can NOT import in my Google Calendar. Also there is something wrong with all the S Planner - it is not showing other calendars I have in Google Calendar - just the primary one and I can not tell why. It can not even show the birthdays of the contacts I already have in Google Contacts and are synched to the phone!!! As I said annoying as hell...
Any ideas guys ?
ok..here´s the way how it will be working...
https://www.facebook.com/AndroidCalendarSyncApp
Hey folks, good news!
If you are new to using this app, or you just got a new Android device, you are probably pretty disappointed that the app no longer syncs birthdays. If you previously used version 0.8.0 on your device, the birthdays are still on your device and will not be deleted when you upgrade to version 0.8.1.
So, here's the good news. Version 0.8.0 still works, at least until April 30th. So, if you are new to the app and want to sync birthdays to your device before Graph API v1.0 officially expires, follow these steps:
1) Uninstall the version of the Calendar Sync app that you have now.
2) If you have the official Facebook app installed on your device, log out of the Facebook app.
3) Probably optional, but to be safe: Go to this page and remove the Android Calendar Sync app: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
4) Go to your Android settings -> Security -> and enable "Unknown sources". This will allow you to install apps that you download from the web rather than from the Play store.
5) Download version 0.8.0 from here: http://www.shadowfury.net/files/download/29
6) Install version 0.8.0 and set it up like a new installation. Make sure you remember to turn on sync! „smile“-Emoticon
7) Force the Calendar Sync app, and you should see your friends' birthdays again on your calendar.
8) Make sure you go to the Play store and upgrade back to 0.8.1.1. The upgrade will not remove any of your pre-populated friends from your calendar.
9) It is very important that you upgrade back to 0.8.1.1 before the end of April 30th. If you are still using version 0.8.0 on May 1st, that version of the app will stop working and you will lose all of your friends' birthdays with no option to recover them.
Alex-V said:
ok..here´s the way how it will be working...
https://www.facebook.com/AndroidCalendarSyncApp
Hey folks, good news!
If you are new to using this app, or you just got a new Android device, you are probably pretty disappointed that the app no longer syncs birthdays. If you previously used version 0.8.0 on your device, the birthdays are still on your device and will not be deleted when you upgrade to version 0.8.1.
So, here's the good news. Version 0.8.0 still works, at least until April 30th. So, if you are new to the app and want to sync birthdays to your device before Graph API v1.0 officially expires, follow these steps:
1) Uninstall the version of the Calendar Sync app that you have now.
2) If you have the official Facebook app installed on your device, log out of the Facebook app.
3) Probably optional, but to be safe: Go to this page and remove the Android Calendar Sync app: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
4) Go to your Android settings -> Security -> and enable "Unknown sources". This will allow you to install apps that you download from the web rather than from the Play store.
5) Download version 0.8.0 from here: http://www.shadowfury.net/files/download/29
6) Install version 0.8.0 and set it up like a new installation. Make sure you remember to turn on sync! „smile“-Emoticon
7) Force the Calendar Sync app, and you should see your friends' birthdays again on your calendar.
8) Make sure you go to the Play store and upgrade back to 0.8.1.1. The upgrade will not remove any of your pre-populated friends from your calendar.
9) It is very important that you upgrade back to 0.8.1.1 before the end of April 30th. If you are still using version 0.8.0 on May 1st, that version of the app will stop working and you will lose all of your friends' birthdays with no option to recover them.
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Thank you Alex-V, its working perfectly! I have one question though. If the Graph API 1.0 will expire on Apr 30th, why it is necessary to upgrade to 0.8.1.1 ? I don't mean to underrate your effort developing the app by any means and I am grateful that you did. I just want to know will it work in the future and if we will be able to sync any few facebook contacts.
great that it's also working for you.. I only repost that facebook site.. so I don't really now.. but I think the older version is for 1 and the newer for 2 and if you not update you will loose it again after 30 April.. BTW I wrote to facebook about it.. maybe do also..
sinergybg said:
Thank you Alex-V, its working perfectly! I have one question though. If the Graph API 1.0 will expire on Apr 30th, why it is necessary to upgrade to 0.8.1.1 ? I don't mean to underrate your effort developing the app by any means and I am grateful that you did. I just want to know will it work in the future and if we will be able to sync any few facebook contacts.
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Basically, the way the old app works:
1) Download all your friends from Facebook.
2) Check which are new birthdays, and add them
3) Update any birthdays that have changed (unlikely, but who knows?)
4) Delete any friends that are on your calendar, but not in the downloaded list.
Step 4 is necessary because, if you unfriend someone, you probably don't want their birthday on your calendar anymore...
When Graph v1.0 expires, Facebook will simply start forcing the old version of the app to use Graph v2.0, even if I haven't updated it to do so. Graph v2.0 will return a list of 0 friends when you try to download birthdays, and the app will then proceed to delete ALL your birthdays from the calendar. Since you can still technically download information about friends as long as they are also using the app, Facebook won't return an error, it will return a list of 0 friends.
v0.8.1.1 of the app will continue to sync your events, it just no longer syncs birthdays (and therefore doesn't delete birthdays from the calendar). So, the v0.8.1.1 app can keep your events up to date (if you like). Or, if you aren't using the app to download events at all, you could just disable the sync functionality and the app will never contact Facebook again.
As for the second question, I am working on a couple of updates for the app. A new version of the Facebook contact sync that conforms to Graph v2.0 is coming shortly. The next step after that is to implement an invite system. The invite system is fairly involved, so it'll take some time to get that out, but once v0.8.2 is release you will be able to sync new contacts as long as (1) the new contact is also using v0.8.2 or higher of the app --or-- (2) the new contact is willing to stop by my website to quickly authorize the app to have access to their information.
Stop by and like the App Page on Facebook if you want to get updates when I post new information.
-- Jeff
The solution that I got to work for me is Hax sync in the Google Play store. The app has not been updated in awhile but it does work well still.
homegeek said:
The solution that I got to work for me is Hax sync in the Google Play store. The app has not been updated in awhile but it does work well still.
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If it hasn't been updated in awhile, I have to assume it is going to fall to the same fate as my app will at the end of the month as far as birthdays go...
By the way, in case anyone happens to be interested, I posted a relatively short explanation of what is going on from a "privacy policy" perspective. It's really disappointing that Facebook made the changes they did, but there's at least a logical reason behind why they did it... I can't post direct links here yet, since I created a new user id for my development account, but if you use Alex's link above you can find the post on the Facebook app page. Or, a direct link: http www (shadowfury.net) /wiki/Facebookcalendarsync%3AFacebookPrivacyChanges
It is still probably worth writing Facebook to let them know what you think. I've been leaning on them pretty hard, but the more users that let them know what you want from the platform, the more likely they are to either: (1) be willing to work with developers on an exception to policy or (2) develop their own official capability <-- really why doesn't this capability already exist??
Again, sorry I can't post the direct link to Facebook's feedback site, but you can access it here:
http(s) (Facebook website) /help/contact/139819329438825
How it worked for me
Went into options menu (3 dots, right corner, up) > Calendars > Add account > and added the facebook account that was there allready. Then some permissions for facebook to access the device and my calendar synced with FB.
That's how it worked for me on my note edge
Hope it helpes.
hy just install this than go in setting calendar and ad this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shadowfury.facebookcalendarsync