[Q] Google calendar sync - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm using the Google calendar service for the past years for my work, although I did not have any Android devices.
I got the One and I synced my calendar but unfortunately past events have not synced. The sync went just to a month in the past.
As I need to check past events very often and use the Search function this is a huge problem for me.
The only solution until now is to use the browser and search through the mobile calendar site, but this is not the best solution.
So, my question is: Is there any way to sync all my past events to the HTC One calendar app?
If not is there any other calendar app that would allow me to sync these events?
If again not is there any other solution using something else instead of Google?

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before we try to figure out the problem... can you verify that the calendar app you are using is actually by google and not HTC?

xxtakixx said:
before we try to figure out the problem... can you verify that the calendar app you are using is actually by google and not HTC?
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I didn't see your answer, so sorry for not replying earlier.
The problem is not app-specific, it's Google Calendar specific.
Google Calendar allows you to sync with mobile devices but syncs events up to one month back, not older.
So I searched around and found a solution.
In case anyone is interested, this worked for me:
I went to my Google account (from my PC browser) and exported my Calendar (it's a zip file).
I then unzipped it and imported it to the same account (no duplicates) and when my phone synced back I got all my entries in my Calendar app (I use the HTC calendar app). So now I can go back to events or search.

Corduroy-21 said:
I didn't see your answer, so sorry for not replying earlier.
The problem is not app-specific, it's Google Calendar specific.
Google Calendar allows you to sync with mobile devices but syncs events up to one month back, not older.
So I searched around and found a solution.
In case anyone is interested, this worked for me:
I went to my Google account (from my PC browser) and exported my Calendar (it's a zip file).
I then unzipped it and imported it to the same account (no duplicates) and when my phone synced back I got all my entries in my Calendar app (I use the HTC calendar app). So now I can go back to events or search.
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no worries. I didnt realize Google calendar doesnt sync beyond one month of your events. thanks for the heads up.

Corduroy-21 said:
I didn't see your answer, so sorry for not replying earlier.
The problem is not app-specific, it's Google Calendar specific.
Google Calendar allows you to sync with mobile devices but syncs events up to one month back, not older.
So I searched around and found a solution.
In case anyone is interested, this worked for me:
I went to my Google account (from my PC browser) and exported my Calendar (it's a zip file).
I then unzipped it and imported it to the same account (no duplicates) and when my phone synced back I got all my entries in my Calendar app (I use the HTC calendar app). So now I can go back to events or search.
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Well the zip file technique didnt work with me, I see only one exporting option at the top calendars but not for the one that i added "Contacts birthdays and events". Anyway i tried to export and that is my mail calendar and even that exporting failed saying "Processed zero events.Failed to import events: Processing error during upload." I can see the birthdays and event of my contacts [that i maintain in gmail with birthday date] in the calendar but not on my phone. I cleared the cache and the data from the HTC Calendar app and i re-added this calendar from my mail account and then only some birthdays are shown and some are not. Its irritating to see these many cache problems with android/HTC.

phsetaknev said:
Well the zip file technique didnt work with me, I see only one exporting option at the top calendars but not for the one that i added "Contacts birthdays and events". Anyway i tried to export and that is my mail calendar and even that exporting failed saying "Processed zero events.Failed to import events: Processing error during upload." I can see the birthdays and event of my contacts [that i maintain in gmail with birthday date] in the calendar but not on my phone. I cleared the cache and the data from the HTC Calendar app and i re-added this calendar from my mail account and then only some birthdays are shown and some are not. Its irritating to see these many cache problems with android/HTC.
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Did you unzip the file?
The exported file is .zip. and you have to import the .ics

Corduroy-21 said:
Did you unzip the file?
The exported file is .zip. and you have to import the .ics
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Yes i did that later and still only some contacts' birthdays and events are shown.
And do you know how to get full clarity contact pictures while calling [only using google, not from facebook] I'd like to set a contact picture to each and everyone to my contacts in gmail and i want them to stay like that, but while calling the picture is pixellated. Many reported this as annoying in the google forums, but did google resolve this?

phsetaknev said:
Yes i did that later and still only some contacts' birthdays and events are shown.
And do you know how to get full clarity contact pictures while calling [only using google, not from facebook] I'd like to set a contact picture to each and everyone to my contacts in gmail and i want them to stay like that, but while calling the picture is pixellated. Many reported this as annoying in the google forums, but did google resolve this?
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to your question about the contact pics, while i can't confirm if it has been resolved BUT i did notice that the picture itself has to "buffer" or download itself to get clear.been that way for me since early ics.this is what i do if the picture is blurry i go into my contacts on my phone go to that contact click on the pic and nothing else and i see it "buffer/download" itself and go from blurry to clear within secs.

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to your question about the contact pics, while i can't confirm if it has been resolved BUT i did notice that the picture itself has to "buffer" or download itself to get clear.been that way for me since early ics.this is what i do if the picture is blurry i go into my contacts on my phone go to that contact click on the pic and nothing else and i see it "buffer/download" itself and go from blurry to clear within secs.
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I will try it then, i just need to go to each contact and make the contact pic buffer, provided these pics should've be saved in gmail right? under contacts? I do get options to select the contact pic from accounts like Facebook, whatsapp etc.....i just need to upload a nice contact pic and select google as contact pic and wait for it to buffer?!!

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Facebook events and birthdays in HTC Calendar.

When my HTC Hero(GSM) was ky primary phone, I remember that I could have birthdays show up in the calendar, so I do not have to go to the Facebook application to see them. It was default on the hero but I can't figure out how to get it to work.
Also, I found myself envious of the new Blackberry Torch because through blackberry messenger, it adds your Facebook events to your calendar automatically. Does anyone know of a way to add this as well?
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Two ways to do this that i have found.
One is to go to facebook on a the computer. Export the calendar, and then Import it into your google account. bleh
What i found today i think will do what you need.
Ebobirthday
can be found in the market. This will log into your face book account to sync with Birthdays. Then you can have it sync with the calendar inside the phone.
Hope that helps you somewhat.
This is sort of what I'm looking for, I still feel like there is a way to do this without having to resync that calendar information. Already in the phone if you pull up a contact, it does give the contact's birthday information, but for some reason it does not include that information in the calendar like it did on the Hero.
That app is a good temporary solution until I figure out how to get it to work just the way I want it. Thank you!
Edit: Playing around with it, I found a section in the menu that lets you add Calendars. In order for my Hero to have been able to sync birthdays to the calendar, there had to have been a Facebook calendar in that list, and there isn't one now. So I think to solve my problem it is just a matter of figuring out how to add Facebook to the HTC Calendar.

Google Calendar Entries...

Hi,
If I add an entry on my HD7 it doesn't appear in my Google calendar. I manually sync as well as use the timed function but entries still won't go from the phone to Google calendar.
Whereas if I delete an entry on my phone, it gets deleted immediately from my Google calendar.
Has anyone got an idea how to get entries entered on the phone to appear in Google calendar?
Note: Windows Live is a dead loss with both contacts and calendar so Google might be my last chance of syncing Outlook & phone.
Cheers...
YT
Yorkshiretaff said:
Hi,
If I add an entry on my HD7 it doesn't appear in my Google calendar. I manually sync as well as use the timed function but entries still won't go from the phone to Google calendar.
Whereas if I delete an entry on my phone, it gets deleted immediately from my Google calendar.
Has anyone got an idea how to get entries entered on the phone to appear in Google calendar?
Note: Windows Live is a dead loss with both contacts and calendar so Google might be my last chance of syncing Outlook & phone.
Cheers...
YT
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Are you using multiple calendars? WP7 doesn't support multiple google calendars, maybe its something to do with that?
Captain Splash said:
Are you using multiple calendars? WP7 doesn't support multiple google calendars, maybe its something to do with that?
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No, just the one basic calendar.
Captain Splash said:
Are you using multiple calendars? WP7 doesn't support multiple google calendars, maybe its something to do with that?
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Does that mean you can add, edit and delete entries without problems with your Windows Phone to Google Calendar?
I have been doing that since day one and so far it has always worked like a charm.
Check your settings going to Settings\email & accounts\Google and make sure you are synchronizing the Calendar.
What I really find odd is the fact that the entries are deleted but not added...
Anyway, I add and delete things to the calendar in my HTC HD7 and they reflect to Google as soon as I sync and vice versa. It works!
As a foonote, MS calendar also works flawlessly.
Trimegisto said:
I have been doing that since day one and so far it has always worked like a charm.
Check your settings going to Settings\email & accounts\Google and make sure you are synchronizing the Calendar.
What I really find odd is the fact that the entries are deleted but not added...
Anyway, I add and delete things to the calendar in my HTC HD7 and they reflect to Google as soon as I sync and vice versa. It works!
As a foonote, MS calendar also works flawlessly.
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Thanks for you post... whilst I find MS Calendar works fine (if starting from scratch), it's the fact that existing entries in Outlook wont's sync. I've found that custom categories, complex repeat reminder and attached pictures do not sync correctly. As with MS Contacts, the photos attached to each contact doesn't sync. Where as with Google Contacts and Calendar do.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way a fan of Google, I want to have my phone sync with my PC like I have for the past umpteen years; I don't want my private data uploaded 'somewhere in the cloud' possibly in another country with different privacy laws and complete strangers having access to it. As my MS Calendar has crashed completely now after trying to import from Google Calendar, the reliability is far from what they can expect people to use as a 'standard'.
I'll try creating a gash Google calendar from scratch and see if that can have entries added from my phone.
Thanks again...
YT
It seems that my new google mail account works fine with outlook being sync'd using companionlink 4. The only reason I can think my older gmail account didn't work correctly is that I tried to link it to my ms live account. The ms live account is still dead and I see no way of getting it going, but my phone is now registered under it and apps downloaded against it... hence I'm stuck with it. Major screw-up by Microsoft imho... let's hope they do the right thing with the next update.
Alternatively... HTC provide their own FREE outlook sync'ing software for Android... why not Windows Phone?

[SOLVED] Sync contacts to gmail problem

i want to transfer my contacts from phone to gmail account. But although it's 'sync on' @my O 2x, it syncs everything except the contacts. I'm using fr19. Any idea how to solve this?
thanks.
Sync on doesn't mean all options are, if you tap on the account you'll get a breakdown of what's available.
Yes, everything is checked. I even pressed the sync button. But still when i open gmail from PC, all my contacts aren't there. Only the starred contaacts. Is that what the star is all about?
EDIT: the only contacts that i have in PC's gmail are the ones i sent emails to. Other than that, no contacts are sync from phone to gmail.com
might be worth checking at http://www.google.com/contacts instead of GMail, but I shouldn't think it's any different.
Starred contacts are exactly that, contacts you've starred. Fire up the contacts list and tap a contact... top right will be a star.
or maybe because i'm using LG's gmail app? still can't sync to gmail contacts.
fifi139 said:
i want to transfer my contacts from phone to gmail account. But although it's 'sync on' @my O 2x, it syncs everything except the contacts. I'm using fr19. Any idea how to solve this?
thanks.
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When you make a new phone contact it defaults to an LG PC Suite contact. These wont sync with your Gmail account.
You will need to recreate them and select your gmail acc instead of the above and then they will sync with gmail on the web etc.
Absolute pain in the backside I'm afraid but don't think there is another option
If you have to change them all into google contacts from lg suite contacts (if that's your problem) then I found using my phone explore (app and PC software) quite easy.
I exported all my contacts to a csv file and then converted them so google contacts could read them and then imported into google contacts.
Seems quite long winded but seemed quicker to me than copying each contact.
Fulwood Sedge said:
If you have to change them all into google contacts from lg suite contacts (if that's your problem) then I found using my phone explore (app and PC software) quite easy.
I exported all my contacts to a csv file and then converted them so google contacts could read them and then imported into google contacts.
Seems quite long winded but seemed quicker to me than copying each contact.
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thanks.. i use the app u mentioned and i can sync with gmail contacts. But only problem is for every entry i have two details, one is from gmail contacts and the one is pc suite. So, i stop sync gmail contacts. But i upload all my LG contacts using myphonexplorer. At least now if i want to change to another android phone the contacts are still there.
Well if you have all your contacts in google then just use my phone explorer to delete them off the phone so you are left with just google contacts. Bit risky if you missed one but if you keep an original file with them all in.
This way if you update contacts then they will be auto saved and backed up with google incase something happens to your phone before you have chance to back up your contacts.
Is there any benefit of one method over another? I mean, besides the obvious that Gmail contacts can be sync directly with the phone? Maybe LG's version is same advantage over gmail's?
I just prefer google contacts as i know they are saved 'in the cloud' and if i ever change my phone i know they will work (as ill be sticking with android). Also, if my phone dies on me i know they will have been backed up almost instantly after i updated/changed a contact.
Also I can access my contacts from anywhere if i havent got my phone with me or my phone has run out of battery life. But that is completely personal opinions.

[Q] Contacts, memos and calendar compatibility?

I am considering buying Galaxy Note, but there is one issue I haven't been able to clear so far:
How compatible are the GN calendar (s-planner), memo (s-memo) and contacts with Outlook and Google calendar? Can I synchronize between GN and Outlook calendar and contacts? Are the s-memo notes transferred to PC and if so, can they be exported to any other format (Outlook memo? MS Onenote? Evernote? ASCII text? Graphics?)
I have already had Palm PDAs (with the Palm Desktop on PC), then WinMobile devices (with Outlook) and got quite used to the comfort of being able to view and edit contacts, schedules and memos on both PC and the mobile device. If GN doesn't allow this, this would be a serious downside for me.
Everything is synced with Google. If your Outlook syncs with google then it shouldnt be a problem with the calander and contacts. You can add s-memos to calander events, but if you dont do that, then you have to manually sync s-memo things to Google Docs. But other than that its completely autonomous. There are also a lot of apps that do what you want. I would recommend buying a Note.
syncs fine with hotmail, exchange, google and facebook.
I initially had an odd scenario where hotmail gained some facebook calendar events (birthdays) but that seems to have resolved itself.
Thank you for the answer.
It has been written somewhere that the latest version of S-Memo can also synchronize with Evernote. Can anyone confirm that? And if so, does it just send the content as an image or does it retain some more formatting (text? www links? etc.)
macminer said:
Thank you for the answer.
It has been written somewhere that the latest version of S-Memo can also synchronize with Evernote. Can anyone confirm that? And if so, does it just send the content as an image or does it retain some more formatting (text? www links? etc.)
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sync works with evernote but it send the notes as images.
I am a sync-o-phile (oo-er, sounds a bit rude), always have been.
I now have my calendar and contacts synced with Google & Outlook using and App called Sync2 from www.sync2.com. It seems to work fine, although can fail when outlook is closed and it is still alive (I close Outlook to sleep my PC or Outlook can crash). I sync it and several other web calendars at the same time.
I also have my Outlook to do list sync to ToodleDo, and then to Due Today both on my PC and my phone. It uses Outlook categories as Project names, which is neat. I have not tried linking with the Notes To Do list as this seems peculiar to the Note, and I want a more general solution.
I like that Google/Samsung now seems to carry over Outlook categories for contacts in the Note. That means I can use them properly.
I use Evernote to sync all my notes as it is far more powerful than the Google notes thing, and more generic. I also love the ability to open a file, edit it, and save again, and it updates the note.
I use Basecamp on my PC, phone, and the web for managing projects and collaborating with customers.
For files I use SugarSync, and it syncs with up to 3 devices, up to 2GB for free, and I typically just ignore it an expect my files to be wherever I am.
Odd thing is that I have noticed several contacts getting images from other sources I never asked to look up. I presume Facebook. This is bloody annoying. Does anyone know how to stop it?
jeromepearce said:
Odd thing is that I have noticed several contacts getting images from other sources I never asked to look up. I presume Facebook. This is bloody annoying. Does anyone know how to stop it?
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This is quite possible. I have also noticed the same behaviour on my WinMobile phone (HTC Touch Pro2), so it is not directly an Android related issue. And yes, the images for my contacts that appeared suddenly without my consent, are the same as their Facebook profile images.
Got a Note!
You've managed to give me the information I needed and finally I bought a Note!
So far I have been able to confirm:
Synchronizing Smemo with Google Docs - works great, text remains text, while images are embeded in the document
Exporting contacts from Outlook to KIES worked "sort of", while exporting to Gmail and back to Note worked great. I have managed to retain all the information and even code page (I used ASCII, not Unicode) worked as expected.
Exporting calendar from Outlook to Gmail and back to Note worked almost perfectly (apart from some inconsistencies which were due to duplicate entries in Outlook)
As for contact photos, it seems that only those which originate from Facebook are added to contact data.
macminer said:
As for contact photos, it seems that only those which originate from Facebook are added to contact data.
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I got all my contact photos from way back, and those must have come through from Outlook -> Google -> Note as Outlook is the only constant source since I was first able to do this (with my Sony Clie)
Perhaps in my case Outlook photos would also have been added through Google, but I exported/imported them via a .csv file, which didn't retain photos, only text data.
My outlook contact photos sync perfectly.
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Strange Contact Issue

I have a client that has a Droid Turbo and is syncing his contacts with an Exchange Server. He has about 500 contacts in Outlook on his computer but when it syncs with the Droid he has about 4000.
I can not figure out where they are coming from. I did notice the extra contacts are coming from contact groups but I searched everywhere in Outlook and can not find them. I also synced by Note 4 to his account and only had 500 contacts. My phone did not bring in any groups.
Any ideas?
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I have a client that has a Droid Turbo and is syncing his contacts with an Exchange Server. He has about 500 contacts in Outlook on his computer but when it syncs with the Droid he has about 4000.
I can not figure out where they are coming from. I did notice the extra contacts are coming from contact groups but I searched everywhere in Outlook and can not find them. I also synced by Note 4 to his account and only had 500 contacts. My phone did not bring in any groups.
Any ideas?
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Check out my thread about a similar issue. Maybe this answers it... A solution would be great though haha
I am pretty sure you have an option to sync contacts when setting up the account. Is the device rooted? If so:
flash an image that has xposed installed and get that set up.
Download greenify
click the top right corner and go to experimental features
scroll down and enable reveal hidden sync
go to settings app
go to account section and then e-mail account
click the first button that tells you when the last sync was performed (not account settings)
The first option should be " * Contacts" which could be disabled
Its a long workaround but if you already have xposed and greenify like I did then it just a couple of clicks. You could also first try to remove the account and then set it up again, but I forget if that was really an option during setup or not

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