This is a "How To" on replacing the TouchWiz Calendar with the Froyo Stock Calendar. This allows you to click on the location of appointments to load Maps and get directions. Also, click on phone numbers and web links in the calendar appointment descriptions.
This is for JI6 and other Froyo roms only, not 2.1.
For those of you who changed to the Stock 2.1 calendar, the process is not the same as before, its much easier. With busybox and Rooted JI6 Froyo this worked for me. (should work on Cognition 2.2 as well)
-Download stock 2.2 calendar apk from the nexus one CyanogenMod or I have It attached to this post.
-Put the Calendar.apk in the same folder as adb.exe
-Run the following commands in CMD after navigating to the folder with adb.exe
Code:
adb push Calendar.apk /sdcard/Calendar.apk
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old
busybox cp /sdcard/Calendar.apk /system/app/TouchWizCalendar.apk
reboot
Problems:
-Transparent Grey Box (smudge) near top of calendar (much less obvious then the 2.1 stock calendar blue + sign)
-Press menu and select "Calendars" it force closes. You can not hide calendars including "My Calendar"
-New events created from the phone on the stock android calendar do not sync back to the Google Calendar. You can still edit events that were originally created on Google Calendar and they will sync back to the Google Calendar.
To UNDO and get TouchWizCalendar Back:
Code:
adb shell
su
cd /system/app
mv TouchWizCalendar.apk Calendar.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.old TouchWizCalendar.apk
mv TouchWizCalendar.odex.old TouchWizCalendar.odex
reboot
Let me know if this works for you or not!
Worked for me. Same issues as already posted. I am just doing things to do them, I never use my calendar.
It seems to have worked for me although I got some weird error messages:
# mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.apk TouchWizCalendar.old
failed on 'TouchWizCalendar.apk' - No such file or directory
# mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old
mv TouchWizCalendar.odex TouchWizCalendar.odex.old
failed on 'TouchWizCalendar.odex' - No such file or directory
But like I said it seems to be working. Not being able to click the location link in hte Samsung Calendar is just stupid when you can one click to G Maps in the Stock. I can live with the smudge thing too just for that feature.
I'm using Cognition 2.2 BETA 1 btw
Any chance you know of a way to show HTML Calendar events and not just the HTML code?
works as expected. anyone else notice an odd "smudge" at the top of the calendar screen(s)?
uiskibum said:
works as expected. anyone else notice an odd "smudge" at the top of the calendar screen(s)?
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yes, mine has the smudge too
Froyo Calendar Questions
Hi All,
With the Froyo calendar, I was hoping a few issues I had with the TW calendar would be resolved. Namely:
1. Reminders don't sync with my Google calendar
2. Can't customize repeating events (say, I have class MWF, I can't do this on the phone, only in Google)
3. Events created on phone for the Google calendar don't sync to my Google calendar
Are these things I can't do with the stock calendar or am I doing something wrong?
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works as expected. anyone else notice an odd "smudge" at the top of the calendar screen(s)?
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The "smudge" or transparent gray box is a issue similar to the 2.1 stock calendar replacement. The 2.1 had a large non-transparent bubble with a "+" sign in the middle of it. Don't know why or how to get rid of it, but at least with 2.2 you can see through it and it doesn't cover the days
nearnhart said:
Hi All,
With the Froyo calendar, I was hoping a few issues I had with the TW calendar would be resolved. Namely:
1. Reminders don't sync with my Google calendar
2. Can't customize repeating events (say, I have class MWF, I can't do this on the phone, only in Google)
3. Events created on phone for the Google calendar don't sync to my Google calendar
Are these things I can't do with the stock calendar or am I doing something wrong?
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I do have the issue of the events created on the phone not syncing back to Google Calendar and I have updated the OP problems section. I can't believe I never realized that problem but I guess I use my phone more. Just to be clear, did you have the new-events-not-syncing issue on the TW calendar as well?
I don't have a problem with Reminders syncing back as long as the event was originally created in Google Calendar and then edited on the phone. As far as customizing repeating events, I'm afraid we are stuck with preset "One-time, Daily, Every weekday, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly" Options.
Nope, with the TW calendar it would sync OK. I don't know why Google can't get their **** together and code the calendar to sync properly. oy.
nearnhart said:
Nope, with the TW calendar it would sync OK. I don't know why Google can't get their **** together and code the calendar to sync properly. oy.
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That may be a deal breaker for some. I for one need click-able links for addresses to launch maps over the new appointment sync from phone to PC, so its worth the trade-off for me. I don't think its Google that is the problem, Samsung changed things when they put the TouchWiz Calendar in and now we are trying to go back and its not working quite right. Thanks for letting everyone know.
If you look at the 'smudge' closely it is a stretched out check box thats unchecked but you can't seem to get rid of it
Simply amazing!!!! This is one of the features I miss from my Droid!!!!
Thank you!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
i get "device not found" error after inputting the first line of code. my SGS is definitely mounted.
i just updated to froyo with kies and had previously replaced the touchwiz calendar with stock eclair calendar. i forgot to put the old touchwiz calendar back before updating to froyo.
now i have no working calendar at all! i tried to install the new touchwiz calendar via root explorer but it keeps saying "calendar not installed."
can anyone help me? i don't care so much about the stock calendar anymore, as i mostly use gemini calendar app now. i just need any calendar to work so that my widgets and events all sync to google calendar.
EDIT: oops, just realized this is the captivate forum. i have an i9000 SGS. don't know how much that changes matters.
Can I just drop the apk in the system /app
I don't think you can. Can't remember for sure though. Give it a try...Just make sure you can undo it if it doesn't work.
Well, I've got gmail (with two accounts, even) and the market set up with the instructions at http://nookdevs.com/Enable_the_Android_Market. And I've even installed both the Calendar and CorpCalendar using the APKs in a copy of update-cm-5.0.8-Droid-signed.zip (found, among other places, here: http://thekilpatrickproject.com/downloads/koush/motorola/sholes/)
But when I push over Contacts.apk and ContactsProvider.apk, nothing noticeable happens. I've still got the Nook contacts app.
Anybody had any luck with this? I'd really like not only to have the stock Android Contacts, but also to be able to sync them w/google AND have the autocomplete working in gmail ...
I am current running 3588 + enhancement which comes with all the gapps, except the calendar. I tried installing the gapps from cyanogen but kept getting force closes. Any ideas how I can add just the Google calendar?
markmac said:
I am current running 3588 + enhancement which comes with all the gapps, except the calendar. I tried installing the gapps from cyanogen but kept getting force closes. Any ideas how I can add just the Google calendar?
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Use Jorte it is in the market and syncs perfectly with your google calendar... best part it is free!
I tried Jorte but there was no option to sync the calendar with an external calendar, it just syncs with the google calendar thats on the device . If you dont have the google calendar installed it doesnt work. I think i have the latest jorte version. I did read that gooCalendar does work though.
Hi there,
I read through a couple of threads and found that some people have the same issues with the stock calendar app as me. I mean the one that comes from Samsung and can be found in stock rom and in overcome. I bought the tab for my business.
Unfortunately, the samsung calendar app is pure garbage to say it friendly. Not all calendars show up, they all have the same color and if you add an appointment in your tab, edit it in google calendar on your PC you mysteriously end up with 2 appointments on your tab.
Yesterday, I switched to CM7 to check out how the calendar works in that mod. If CM7 by technomancer wouldn't be still in beta I'd stay on it for obvious reasons. The calendar works perfect and like a charm. All gmail calendars show up, even the ones from my wife. They all have the colors I selected in gmail calendars on my pc. The syncing works perfect.
I was wondering if someone could port that app into the Overcome Rom, because I have no clue how to do that?
Google should do quality assurance to make sure their functions work right.
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I use pure calendar widget and it gets the entries from the calendar app. Calengoo, is okay but the widgets suck.
I am willing to donate some money for a working port
Well I tried a little bit around and got some things working. I took a calendar and googlecalendarsyncadapter.apk from a 2.3.3 aosp rom and copied it into system/app fixed permissions and did a reboot.
Guess what the calendar is working. You'll get all different colors and the sync works totally right. Unfortunately there's only one problem. The calendar will crash when you select what calendars to sync...you have enough time to select them but then it crashes. I think this has something to do with the emailprovider.apk from samsung. I changed it to an aosp version but then the calendar crashes all the time.
There have to be done some changes on the emailprovider.apk to get it all going but I have no clue what it could be. It seems there is a limitation on how many calendars can be synced.
I'm running Nova HD Plus RC6-15 on my LG O2X.
I noticed that my calendar isn't syncing. It's completely empty on my LG O2X.
So I checked the account & sync status and it had syncing errors on the browser and calendar.
Removed the account. Added it again. Sync started but still no data in my calendar. Gmail is working just fine.
When I go to Calendars in the app and click on the button to choose which calendars to sync it crashes (calendar is stopped).
The thing that strikes me is that under synchronization settings there are several syncs running: Browser, Contacts, Documents etc. All doing fine. The one that isn't working is the Calendar but the name is off. It's called com.android.calendar sync whereas the others have proper names.
Is my calendar app corrupted or something? Is there a way to fix that?
The other thing I noticed is that the mobile version of my google Calendar is empty as well. When I switch to the desktop version I can see the data.
Bit of a weird problem so all help and ideas are appreciated!
Solved my own problem by checken loads of other calendar sync topics.
Found this one somewhere, and it works!
To everyone with sync problems (calendar). when installing CM9 you have to first flash the rom then gapps AND BEFORE YOU REBOOT WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET. This will fix calendar sync.
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