Android Calendar sync - G1 General

My calendar online at gmail has tons of items dating back to october. But when I sync it only goes back to like april. Is there a special way to bring these events back to the device? Its used to work but for some reason it doesn't. And I double checked, and all the original events dating back to october/november when I got the phone are online. I keep syncing but It doesn't show up. Suggestions or reasons devs?

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This is a question, has nothing to do with developing.
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Task app? Outlook Sync? Online Sync?

My G1 shipped today and I'm excited to get it tomorrow sometime. But I'm curious about getting tasks to work with my G1.
It looks like Google is thinking the same as Apple in that it doesn't have a built in task app. I think right now it will sync with Google Calendar and Gmail (for contacts), but there is no service to sync with tasks.
So... that said... are there any solutions working from the app store right from the get go or does anyone know of any future plans from any devs?
I'm using Funambol on WinMobile right now to sync contacts, tasks, and calendar data. It works great... and I even found that they have an app created for Android (I'm not sure if it's available yet), but so far it only syncs contacts.
Is there is anything out there I can use right now to get tasks working on the G1?
nothing yet, but should be up over time, outlook sync is one of the big ticket items developers are working on
Hopefully something comes out soon. I've come to depend on tasks and I have also come to depend on a shopping list program (hopefully this comes out soon).
From what I understand, anyone can start publishing apps starting on Monday. However, it won't be till Q1 2009 that apps from the app store can be purchased. I'm all for freeware and there's always great apps out there that are free... but I've had better luck with programs I actually had to buy.
Anyways... I'll eagerly be checking for updates to see what tasks managers come out into the market.
On a side note... is there any RSS feed I can subscribe to showing new or updated additions to the android app store? Or if not, perhaps there's a blog or two I can subscribe to so I can stay on top of all the new apps coming out?
Ayodeji13 said:
nothing yet, but should be up over time, outlook sync is one of the big ticket items developers are working on
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Well I have a few days left of my 14 days, if I cant sync with Outlook, I am done with G1 and its going back/
Just extracting my contact from outlook and importing them correctly in Gmail was a pain in the ass. Despite what is indicated on gmail help's page they absolutely don't support outlook csv format. Unless throwing every number in the "notes" fields is what they consider "supporting".
It took me a whole evening writing my own application that reads the csv and upload it properly into gmail using their contact API. No way I was going to re-input 600 contacts by hand.. I'd share the c# code for the app with whomever asks for it but it is *not* something for end-users just a quick hack that worked for me *once*. If you can't code you don't want it.
I managed to get the funambol app (Market is so slow...) so I will try to open an account there and see if it can sync all of outlook, gmail and the phone properly after all they have plugins for everything. Too bad they don't support appointment right now but it's still the best bet.

Email Upload

I have tried searching the forum for this answer but either I am a horrible searcher or I was right and this is a unique problem.
I recently played with the Rogers rom but realized it wasn’t that amazing and went back to CyanogenMod 3.3.4(switched a couple builds in between, I will post those if you would like me to)
Ever since I went from Rogers to Cyanogen's mod I cannot send email or I cannot archive it. It looks like I have archived it on the phone but when I open my computer and see gmail, it shows all of those emails as unread. Also when I get a new email on my phone if I have tried archiving previous emails, I cannot see the archived emails but the number of emails changes as if all the archived emails were unread. It is like I can get email but it is a one way sync. Let me know if you need anymore info.
I hope I posted this in the right forum, I know that the dev forum is being flooded with questions.
Thank you!
Zach
mttallaczach said:
I have tried searching the forum for this answer but either I am a horrible searcher or I was right and this is a unique problem.
I recently played with the Rogers rom but realized it wasn’t that amazing and went back to CyanogenMod 3.3.4(switched a couple builds in between, I will post those if you would like me to)
Ever since I went from Rogers to Cyanogen's mod I cannot send email or I cannot archive it. It looks like I have archived it on the phone but when I open my computer and see gmail, it shows all of those emails as unread. Also when I get a new email on my phone if I have tried archiving previous emails, I cannot see the archived emails but the number of emails changes as if all the archived emails were unread. It is like I can get email but it is a one way sync. Let me know if you need anymore info.
I hope I posted this in the right forum, I know that the dev forum is being flooded with questions.
Thank you!
Zach
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A peculiar problem indeed.
Assuming you've already tried wiping (you have, right?), is this only happening on Cyanogens? Or all the other ROM's you tried as well? If you're not sure, try another ROM and see if the problem persists.
If this is persisting through other ROM's then go back to stock and see if it will work from there. Then, get back to us...
I have tried wiping(numerous times) and I have tried just standard JF builds. Still not working. I guess I may go back to T-Mobile Cupcake and Root from RC29(I hope I have the number right)
I'd really rather not have to do this but anyone else have any other idea?
Thanks!
Zach

gmail help

I've successfully got gmail actively synced onto my phone now which is great news. The next step is, figuring out if there's a "search" function for my inbox, much like there is on the gmail website itself. You know, where you can search any term in the engine and it'll pull up all relevant emails. Does such a thing exist on the HD2, if I've got gmail being pushed to it? Also, I've noticed that I'm able to "set flags" on certain emails, which I was hoping to be equivalent to "starring" emails in gmail, but it seems that if I set a flag on my phone, it won't show up as a star on my gmail account. Is there any way to actually achieve this? Thanks for the help guys!
Hi, although you haven't said what ROM you use, On the stock european ROM thee is a Search Phone utility. you can search your email by selecting Messaging (or potentially Outlook Mobile depending on how you have set up your email) as the type and putting the information you are looking for in the "Search for" section. The search string you look for is saved for future searches.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for getting back to me. I'm using the stock rom on my TMOUS device. I have it set up so that I may view my gmails through outlook mobile through activesync. I can't seem to find this "messaging" feature you're talking about though?
Does anybody have any ideas on the "starring" of gmails that I mentioned in my first post?

[Feb 2011] [Q] Recurring Dates in Calendar

I've set recurring calendar entries (Birthdays, etc) in my Calendar. Now with the new year, they are not showing up in this years calendar.... but if I go back to the original date and edit the entry, it definitely shows as a recurring event.
Consequently, I'm missing out on notifications of upcoming events, as they have not recurred over to the new year correctly.
How can I force the calendar entries to re-appear correctly, without having to manually re-enter all the entries again (which defeats the purpose of having a "recurring" setting)
I'm using the Stock 1.44 WWE ROM with Cookies v1 Home Tab to show multiple calendar entries on the homescreen. No other tweaks or registry changes have been made.
Just for future reference, You have no need to tag your topics with date/year, That is for posting ROM/Build releases not general questions/discussion.
Do you get same issue on different roms or just this one?
Thanx Atheist.... I thought was doing the right thing after reading the "Mandatory" thread !!!
Only ever used the official Roms so far... not sure I'm ready to take the step into cooked Roms, until at least the original 12mth warranty is up.
I've found the thread here regarding setting up Google synch, which i've just done. Seems to have solved all the issues I was having
Would be cool though, if you could multi-select appointments (like birthdays, for example) and change settings on them as a global thing (eg, if I want to set up a generic SMS reminder 1 Day and 1 Week prior to the event... it's TEDIOUS to open up every birthday entry to set them)
spinifex74 said:
Thanx Atheist.... I thought was doing the right thing after reading the "Mandatory" thread !!!
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Ahh yes you are correct, my bad. tbh its a silly thing to ask espesially since newbies/n00bs have trouble posting in correct section or reading stickies etc. (btw, not calling you a n00b, just speaking in general).
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Only ever used the official Roms so far... not sure I'm ready to take the step into cooked Roms, until at least the original 12mth warranty is up.
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Installing cooked roms (espesially wm) is very easy and you can also revert back to stock rom/spl etc and your warrenty is intact.
Only thing you need to worry about is flashing incorrect radio as that can brick your device, plenty of info and guides to read though, you should definatley have a good read, you can really bring your phone to life with cooked roms.
spinifex74 said:
I've found the thread here regarding setting up Google synch, which i've just done. Seems to have solved all the issues I was having
Would be cool though, if you could multi-select appointments (like birthdays, for example) and change settings on them as a global thing (eg, if I want to set up a generic SMS reminder 1 Day and 1 Week prior to the event... it's TEDIOUS to open up every birthday entry to set them)
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Well I havent used WM6.5 regulary for nearly a year now so cant really help on this.
Have a really good read though and try some roms, its really easy.
And once you are confident you should 100% get Android on there
Cheers Mate,
Took the plunge last nite and installed my first cooked Rom... Energy/NRG. F**k me it's pretty !!!!!
Still going thru learning how it all works and setting it all up to my specs. Having a few little issues with Active Synch for the calendar with the google/Gmail calendar I set up yesterday.
As described above, I managed to get the calendar synched up yesterday, with the stock Rom... but I am getting an "Invalid Security Certificate on Server" error on the NRG Rom, after following the same process of setting up the synch to google/gmail.
I know this isn't the right place probably to ask for help on THAT particular issue... but since it relates to my original question here, can anyone help on this please?
Error code is 0x80072F06
I've (FINALLY - TOOK FOREVER) managed to synch everything else with MS MyPhone... just need to synch the calendar with my google/gmail calendar.... but Active Synch (when phone is NOT connected physically by USB)... I can press the "Synch" button and A/S attempts to synch, then returns the above error.
If the phone is docked by USB and I attempt to synch, A/S just sits there and does nothing.
Pressing the "Menu" button reveals ONLY the "Status" option available to select.... all of the other options are greyed out and un-selectable.
I've just worked out what I did wrong..... instead of putting the Server as m.google.com, i accidentally put it as m.gmail.com ....... resulting in the certificate error message
OOPS !!!
Recurring Dates
Check HTC Support Downloads, you will see an update that fixes this very issue.
You will also see a 3.14 ROM, Oct2010 I think, that includes the update and some others in it.

Android Screws Up Outlook Contacts

Hope someone can help here.
Why does Android constantly resort my Outlook contact list? I spent hours fixing the data to sort by last name / first name, and now I see that the sort order has changed again, and what's worse, it's not even consistent. Some contacts are still Lname/Fname, others are Fname/Lname.
Also, I have found duplicate birthday and anniversary entries in my Outlook calendar (two, three, up to five entries), but the problem is that they're wrong. For example, I have my parents anniversary on two different dates with two entries for each date.
What the F is going on here? It's making me nuts, and is almost enough for me to want to go back to Windows Mobile.
Nobody else is experiencing this?
In fact, I just tried another experiment that failed. I added a phone number on my handset that synchronized to my desktop, then later added an address to the contact, but that address data did not synchronize back to the phone.
My experience thus far with Android and/or HTC synch is that it sucks for this sort of thing, and WM was much better. However I won't rule out that I'm doing something wrong. What's up?
Don't know if it is the same problem, but some German users had problems when syncing with Outlook. After a sync the display name was not correct (always firstname, lastname). So I wrote a small app that converts all contacts to "lastname, firstname".
You can have a look here (use at your own risk!):
http://fun2code.de/download.html#displaynames
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Hope someone can help here.
Why does Android constantly resort my Outlook contact list? I spent hours fixing the data to sort by last name / first name, and now I see that the sort order has changed again, and what's worse, it's not even consistent. Some contacts are still Lname/Fname, others are Fname/Lname.
Also, I have found duplicate birthday and anniversary entries in my Outlook calendar (two, three, up to five entries), but the problem is that they're wrong. For example, I have my parents anniversary on two different dates with two entries for each date.
What the F is going on here? It's making me nuts, and is almost enough for me to want to go back to Windows Mobile.
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I experienced the same issue too when i had my HD2 running Nandroid and i have to manually delete those wrong entries created by Android. However, I am not sure what caused the wrong entries, especially the birthday field. I also experienced multiple duplications of the same contact with slightly different contact names and i assumed that it could be due to my syncing with outlook exchange and desktop syncing using HTC sync. Have now gone back to Winmo.

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