I know you can do it via google->contacts, also hero firmwares have this option, but in my regular 1.6 Rom for MyTouch 3g there is no such field in contacts.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Add the date as a note???
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Add the date as a note???
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This is lame
There should be a special field for this.
Would be nice to have a birthday field in the contact info,
and that this will be synced to your gcalander.
anheuer said:
Would be nice to have a birthday field in the contact info,
and that this will be synced to your gcalander.
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the birthdays will sync with your calendar but you have to add the date's to contacts via gmail.com
I think the calendar name is "contact's bday's and anniversaries" under other calendar subscriptions
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Hello folks,
I have my contacts uploaded to Gmail contacts, and a ton of them also include birthday information.
Unfortunately, it seems that the sync to the "Persons" app on the HTC Hero doesn't sync over that piece of info? Or am I missing something somewhere?
Kind regards
It did not do it for me. I had to create Google Calendar events for my contacts to get the birthday information synched.
In Google Mail, under "Other Calendars", there is a "Contact's Birthdays" calendar you can subscribe to.
marinierb said:
In Google Mail, under "Other Calendars", there is a "Contact's Birthdays" calendar you can subscribe to.
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Thanks i didn't know it existed there
they buried it deep
P.S: you mean under google calendar not mail
Google Calendar, yes, of course.
BTW, Android 2.x will sync the birthday field in your contacts.
ok, we can have the calendar but not the sync in the address book.
if android 2.x can sync, we can not be sure that relative htc-sense addressbook upgrade does it...
...and I think that if you have saved some date on the phone is not sure that you can keep it during the update, expecially if you have a modaco or another mod...
Hi all,
I've managed to get my Google Calendars syncing with my phone now both ways, so I can view 5 calendars on my phone. They sync 2 way and do it very well!
The only thing I'm wanting to do is when creating a new Calendar appointment in HTC Sense, it has default categories of "None", "Business", "Holiday", "Personal" and "Seasonal".
I need to be able to change these so I can put the actual Calendar name in and create new appointments on my phone that will Sync to google.
Anyone got any idea's how I can change these? Haven't been able to find anything so far
Try to use the outook mobile calendar ... There you can introduce new categories but they are not used by the HTC agenda. Maybe are read by Google Sync ?
MuadDib59 said:
Try to use the outook mobile calendar ... There you can introduce new categories but they are not used by the HTC agenda. Maybe are read by Google Sync ?
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Cheers for that. The Categories are in the Pocket Outlook Calendar and if I use those, it syncs correctly. The only problem is the HTC Calendar version, it has the default categories only.
Shame
I agree with you. I posted yesterday evening a question to HTC support to known if we can change the proposed categories into Sense because it's a Sense limitation (same problem with groups into the contacts).
I will keep you informed.
Hi. How did you manage to sync multiple calendars by categories with google cal?
Please explain.
Id love to know the same as jexxer as well. I have only managed to sync 1 google calendar at a time as well.
jexxer said:
Hi. How did you manage to sync multiple calendars by categories with google cal?
Please explain.
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I would appreciate an answer to this question as well. Cheers,
g
GregorVucajnk said:
I would appreciate an answer to this question as well. Cheers,
g
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I use www.nuevasync.com Push email, syncs tasks with Toodledo as well as multiple Google calendars, not free though.
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I agree with you. I posted yesterday evening a question to HTC support to known if we can change the proposed categories into Sense because it's a Sense limitation (same problem with groups into the contacts).
I will keep you informed.
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I'd like to see a workaround for this too, I use David Allen's GTD methodology and I'd like to change the default categories so that match the ones I use on my Outlook calendar. As it is the default categories sync OK with Outlook, but I don't understand why HTC hard-coded them so they can't be changed.
Otherwise the calendar app is pretty good. There aren't any really good, 3rd party, finger-friendly calendars available at the moment.
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Hi all,
I've managed to get my Google Calendars syncing with my phone now both ways, so I can view 5 calendars on my phone. They sync 2 way and do it very well!
The only thing I'm wanting to do is when creating a new Calendar appointment in HTC Sense, it has default categories of "None", "Business", "Holiday", "Personal" and "Seasonal".
I need to be able to change these so I can put the actual Calendar name in and create new appointments on my phone that will Sync to google.
Anyone got any idea's how I can change these? Haven't been able to find anything so far
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Hi,
No answer to your problem but a question ... How did you manage to sync your google calendars ? For the time being, there is just one (the default one attahced to my google gmail account) which can be synced, the others won't show up in pocket informant ... Your input is more than welcome. Thx in advance !
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I use www.nuevasync.com Push email, syncs tasks with Toodledo as well as multiple Google calendars, not free though.
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How do you sync up nuevasync to sync multiple google calendars
and does it stii keep them separate after syncing.
Change Calendar Category
Not a real solution, but the best (only) solution I found so far:
change manila calendar categories
in my contact list i have ppl birthdays but they dont show up in my calendar to remind me is there a setting that i am missing ? thanks
morpheus6d9 said:
in my contact list i have ppl birthdays but they dont show up in my calendar to remind me is there a setting that i am missing ? thanks
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First, I am assuming that your contacts are linked to your google account (not just saved on the phone).
Go online to google.com/calendar
From there, you can create calendar for your contact's birthdays
Now you can sync that to your phone.
Done.
Hello,
I would like to upload ( & eventually sync. ) the contacts to GMail contacts.
I´m afraid to add GMail to automatic synchro, cause as far as I understand, it will double my contacts ?!
What do you think ?
Cheers
Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.
Well, not completely. ( but your tip is interesting )
Main question is, how to upload to GMail ?
Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?
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Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.
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Thanks for your response. I have the similar question. So can you please explain it clearly to us:
* the contact sync will simply add the contact of my phone to Gmail contact list? or the 2 contact lists will emerge, then we can get a complete contact list on the phone and gmail?
* if I have the duplicated contacts on my phone, how to merge them?
Thanks.
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Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?
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Kind of have the same question. My contacts are now on the phone and the SIM card. After using "sync now" in the settings, I got my gmail contacts onto my phone, but not the phone contacts into gmail.
Is there some trick to do this?
I finally updated GMail using a .csv backup made by "Backup Contacts" found on market.
But I still wonder how to also synch. them ?
Hi,
What I did in your case, was:
First to backup all my phone contacts to outlook in my computer.
There I exported the contacts to a .csv file (like ChefChaudart said). With that file I imported the contacts to my gmail account. Meaning I have all my contacts (the ones I had in the phone and the ones I already had in gmail) all together in the email account.
Last I deleted the contacts in my phone, and syncronised with my gmail account. Now having all the contacts both in the phone and in gmail account.
It's not a fast way to do it, but I didn't found another way.
Cheers
You mean that if you do not delete the contacts on your phone at last step, everything will be duplicated ?
Yes - Once you have all your contacts on Gmail you don't need them on your phone.. it will sync to your phone from Gmail..
in the phone go to accounts and sync tick background data, and auto sync... job done.
Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers
Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?
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Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?
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Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?
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What I would do, and I actually did:
All contacts in Phone list ====> to Outlook (in your case Thunderbird) =====> now to gmail account *====> and now synchronize from gmail to the phone.
* When I had all contacts gathered in one place (gmail account) I deleted them from the phone.
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?
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Once you make sure you have all of your contacts in gmail, I would recomend you to delete them from the phone so after you synchronize with gmail you won't get your contacts duplicated, meaning that in your phone you would have every contact two times.
For obvious reasons, just in case both my phone AND gmail account fail at the same time or any other problem, I keep a backup of all my contacts in outlook.
Cheers
How to import facebook contacts to gmail ??
I m interested in birthdays... On my widget only birthdays from gmail account is shown so is there a way to import birthdays from facebook along with the contacts ???
doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
Sent from The Arc!
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doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
Sent from The Arc!
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Thanks... Will wait...!!!
Actually I wasn't quite right... you can sync contacts.. you just can't sync their birthday info and such like..
I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but.. can't you use Google as your primary source.. which syncs to your phone.. and the sync Thunderbird with either the live google account, or with the phone? Then you'll have everything you need..
Hi,
I'm new around here, so I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
Can anyone tell me how I can get my contacts birthdays to appear on my phone calendar. In calendar settings I have the contacts birthdays option checked to display. When syncing my calendar with my google account, everything appears fine on my laptop when looking at Google calendar. I was temporary able to fix this issue by clearing my calendar and calendar storage data in my apps settings with the birthdays appearing on my calendar after I had done that. However, after adding a few more birthdays and trying the same method, not all the birthdays appear on my calendar that I have recently added. If I check on my laptop again they are all displayed there correctly.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Make sure both the "display" and "synch" settings for the birthday calendar are checked in the Calendar app's settings on your Nexus.
Solutions Etcetera said:
Make sure both the "display" and "synch" settings for the birthday calendar are checked in the Calendar app's settings on your Nexus.
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Thanks for your suggestion, they are both ticked in display and sync.
Do your contacts birthdays show in the calendar or have you not tried?
Rizy7 said:
Thanks for your suggestion, they are both ticked in display and sync.
Do your contacts birthdays show in the calendar or have you not tried?
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Yes, they show. Do you have more than one account?
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Yes, they show. Do you have more than one account?
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No I just have one account but I use a hotmail address for my Google account. If I add a birthday to my contact, it will show up on the online calendar fine but wont display on my phone calendar. The only other thing I can think of is if my simple calendar widget maybe interfering?