Today my calendar has gone crazy... I only see SINGLE events WITH a reminder. I don't see it if there's no reminder, nor do I see it if it's recurring at all!
If I set a meeting that's recurring to not recurr, it'll show! And it doesn't seem to be a syncing issue, as I can create a local calendar entry and it behaves the same way.
I've tried nuking my local calendar and re-syncing it from Google, it did, but same problems.
Anyone else seen this?? It's driving me insane.
Okay, so still no idea what the hell is going on, but I've found if I disable network time AND go in and select Eastern Time (although it was already Eastern) THEN all of my recurring meetings show back up.
I don't know if this is possibly some limitation in the Android calendar or intentional since it's very consistent, but my suspicion is that maybe AT&T is sending out dumb data for the clock today?
BTW, I've also noticed that with automatic time turned on when I look at an event, it specifically says it's in the "Eastern Standard Time" but if I disable automatic time and set it per the above, I see no timezone notices in my events.
I'm disabling network time for now, I'll revisit it later, surely this is something intended or maybe I'm hitting a bug... I just can't imagine the logic of hiding recurring events if in a different timezone, assuming this is what's going on with AT&T today.
Hard to believe nobody else has had this problem.. Maybe I have a bad entry in my calendar. Perhaps someday I'll nuke my Work calendar, or perhaps rename it and create a new one, and manually create the new entries and see if the problem goes away..
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Interesting problem this, it seems to have just started to happen out of the blue a few days ago.
The problem, in a nutshell, is that whatever I try to do, be it recreate the entries in the Address Book, create a duplicate entry with the same name, use the O2 Plus feature which lets you save a contact to your address book and make a new entry like that... Whatever I do, whenever I receive a new text message, the person's name isn't shown as the sender, just their mobile number in international format.
Even if I have that contact in my phone already, with their number in the same format as is shown on the text message (+447...), their name doesn't show at all. It's really starting to annoy me, as I've not added or removed anything to my XDA and yet this problem isn't going away.
Argh! Anybody have any ideas as to what's wrong? I might ring O2's oddly-named Data Support and quiz them about this tomorrow, too...
Cheers again everyone,
Christopher
When you search the forum for "CallerID" you'll find a few people asking about the same problem, mainly when receiving calls however not SMS' and some suggestions.
Do you have photos attached to your contacts? I'd try reinstalling the CallerID_Alpine_... from your Extended_Rom, if all fails it might be easiest to restore a backup (if you got one that is).
hth,
Max
I did some further testing today, borrowed a mate's phone and rang mine... Bizarre, the first time my phone was rung, it would take approx. 30 seconds for the name of the caller to show, the number showed up fine though. Subsequent dials would result in the name showing up almost instantly (as usual)...
.... Veeeeeeery odd. I'll just dash off and try reinstalling this CallerID cab...
hey guys is there anyway to set it up where my phone only downloads my emails during set hours? i'm sick of waking up in the middle of the night cuz i just inherited $5 million dollars from my long lost ancestor in nigeria....
in active sync you can change the time interval and time to connect like 10 til 18.00 rest by hand
hey, sorry but i still dont get it. you mean i should go to activesync on my comp while my phone is connected? i did that and didnt see any settings for limiting the number of hours my phone downloads emails... please clairify. thanks
omar
One thing I do so it doesn't wake me up at night is disable the notifications. I just remember to check my mail during the day. I don't need to get buzz/alarm each time a mail comes in. If you want to try this do the following:
Start -> Settings -> Sounds & Notifications -> Notifications
From the drop down tab select "Messaging: New e-mail message" and you can set the type of alarm you get. I just disable everything.
If you're using Active Sync to sync you mail (I don't, I use IMAP) you can setup a schedule as the previous post states. Just go to ActiveSync, click on Menu and there's an option for Schedule.
I understand your frustrations with this, but rather than limiting the download, why not limit the notifications. What I found and installed was PhoneWeaver from SBSH.net. This is an automatic profile changer. With this you can specify when and what notifications are set and how loud they are. For me, I have it set to be on vibrate while during work hours, silent at night, and full ring all the rest of the time. For me, this works great.
Hope this helps.
Good suggestions, thanks. I have a 17 year old son that goes out on the weekends and I want to have my phone ring if he needs me. But I have three email accounts and several google notifications that send me a lot of emails. Middle of the night waking up to an email blows.
When I travel, I have been just putting the Kaiser into flight mode, but that doesn't let my wife phone me during an emergency. So, disabling notification before I go to bed in those situations makes a lot of sense.
It used to, now it only shows appointments that are today. I have checked all the settings I could and it seems to only want to show the current day.
Any ideas?
I tried uninstalling and removing all registry keys for it, but that was a no go.
Help.
Are you talking about the Now Screen? If so, did you go to Spb Shell settings, click on the Now Screen tab, and then the configure button? You can set how far out one can display appointments.
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Are you talking about the Now Screen? If so, did you go to Spb Shell settings, click on the Now Screen tab, and then the configure button? You can set how far out one can display appointments.
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That only changes how much calendar is shown.. I am trying to get the now screen to show like the next 3 appointments ALWAYS.
Could it be a calendar registry problem? It looks as if my default calendar is the same after some experiments.
Sorry, I'm not aware of a setting like that for Spb Shell. Do you want ONLY three appointments, or AT LEAST 3 appointments always? Would the auto setting do that?
I would like more than just the next one.
Example..
I have 1 thing on there to do today, but 2 tomorrow. SO, it should show those 3 I would think. It seems like it used to.
I have mine set to auto, and it shows the next three events/appointments, or what ever it can fit on the screen I guess.
it won't show all day events though... just to clarify for you.
so if you're appointments are all day I don't think they'll be shown.
hope this sort of helps you.
also - have you changed any of the layouts (using qa_layouts, xml files, etc?) if you've been tinkering with those, you may lose the calendar opperability.
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it won't show all day events though... just to clarify for you.
so if you're appointments are all day I don't think they'll be shown.
hope this sort of helps you.
also - have you changed any of the layouts (using qa_layouts, xml files, etc?) if you've been tinkering with those, you may lose the calendar opperability.
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I think so!
I'm an old palm user and especially loved the advance function in datebk6. I could set and advance on an appointment and then it showed that appointment everyday with a little countdown next to it showing how many days to got till the appointment. Is there a similar function on ppc (I have agenda one and spbdiary). Don't get me wrong, I don't want an alarm in advance, I only want the important events to show in advance with a countdown timer.
Thanks for your input
The problem was an upcoming appointment with a "-" or "/" in it. After removal, all works fine. Odd.
firstbuddha said:
it won't show all day events though... just to clarify for you.
so if you're appointments are all day I don't think they'll be shown.
hope this sort of helps you.
also - have you changed any of the layouts (using qa_layouts, xml files, etc?) if you've been tinkering with those, you may lose the calendar opperability.
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Me too have same problem...spb calendar is not showing all day events......how do I get back that setting.
So noticed something weird with the stock calendar app tied to my work (exchange) calendar. I have a daily meeting every morning and clicked on it to edit it, clicked to edit all instances, didn't actually make any changes, and after I had clicked save, the appointment no longer shows up in the calendar. It's just gone.
I still get the meeting reminder/alerts but it isn't in the calendar. Two other weird things--after clearing the alert sometimes it will show up again for the meeting--so I've gotten 2 and even 3 alerts for the same meeting. (This might be because I clear it, instead of clicking the alert and hitting dismiss in the calendar app). Today I did click the alert and dismissed it from the app. After doing that the appointment showed up again. After going into "edit" (to try to prevent the double alerts), and hitting save, once again, the appt. is gone.
Anyone else seeing this?
I too had this issue with some of my Outlook appointments that i brought down.
I noticed that when I went back to the month (in month view) where the very first instance of a recurring appointment took place, all of the appointments would pop back up and be displayed. Kinda wierd.
I tried entering appointments through the phone and it wont save anything. Hopefully the 2.2 update will fix a lot of exchange issues, since I feel this is a very important piece of the phone.
Has anybody else tried this?
http://lifehacker.com/5611003/build-a-find-my-iphone-clone-for-android
I did and it works OK, but I have a couple of questions I'm hoping someone can help me out with. First, the 'get location' task seems to run fairly often throughout the day despite no text messages coming in (with or without the magic word). I notice this just by the gps icon appearing at the top fairly often and in the battery usage stats. If I disable the task in tasker, then the symptom goes away.
Is there a way to prevent this from occuring and still keep the usability of the hack? It drains needless battery by finding my location 50+ times a day.
Second, I have it set up according to the directions so a text from a specific number with a specific word sends an SMS back to the same specific number with the location. I know I can make it just act on a key word from ANY number, but is there a way to set it up so it'll send the response text back to ANY number that sends a text with the magic word?
Finally, in the SMS response, I'm trying to format it so the coordinates are a link that I can just tap on and get a google map. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get a hyperlink to work. Right now I have it text the location response to a google voice number. Even if I format the text like this: "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=31.9xxxx,-110.9xxxx" it doesn't show up as a clickable link, I have to copy and paste it into a browser and then it shows on the map. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
First off, if I was trying to find my Nexus One and found an iPhone, I'd be pissed.
Couple things... First off, there's a thread here on XDA about creating such a set of profiles, you might check into it.. I have a long standing debt to dump my profiles for this very thing there, but they need rework and I just haven't taken the time to do it yet. :/
So in the last year (that article you point to was written 8/10) Tasker has gotten the ability to get its location by command, so there's no need for a context for it. Just use the Get Location command in your SMS Received task. It'll grab it only when it needs it. Make sure that you make it grab it AFTER the SMS match, or it'll grab GPS every SMS you get.
And to make it respond to a specific number or the number you're sending from, both are easy... To respond to the number you're sending from just make that a separate command that uses the SMS From Last variable and responds to it, not your fixed number. And similarly if you want to respond to an arbitrary fixed number, again, a different command.
You need to go beyond the article and learn Tasker a little.
For sending a map link, I KNOW somewhere I have a link I'm using but I can't find it... Googling is getting me nothing. It was like goog.le/q=lat,lon, but your problem appears to be more that it's not showing up as a link in your particular SMS client, dunno about that.
Thanks khaytsus! I think I did figure out my first problem. I had two profiles, one to get location, and another to respond to the SMS (which used the get location profile). Both profiles were active (had a check mark) when it turns out the location one shouldn't have. After seeing your post though I deleted the location profile and just added a task to use the 'get location' option that you mentioned.
I'll now try to figure out the part about responding to any SMS number.
If you happen to know where that other thread is I'd appreciate a link, I've tried searching but Tasker is mentioned so much it gets a ton of hits. I did get it to work like I wanted though. I just deleted the required incoming phone number match on the condition and replaced the number in the outgoing text response with "%SMSRF" and it works great now. I tried it with my wife's iphone and the response even shows up as a hyperlink! Odd that when I send it from the google voice inbox the response isn't hyperlinked. Oh well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052249
This is the thread I'm referring to, although there are actually multiple ones out there. I think this one is getting some traffic. I really intended to dump my profiles and tasks to let people use 'em but to be honest I don't even KNOW what I'm using.. I'd have to go through the whole thing, I have a lot of nonsense Tasks in Tasker I'm not even using.. Ahem.
Thank you so much
Thanks for sharing
Now I get to know how to use Find my iPhone option