SOLVED!! Needless to say Orange were to blame. Once I turned off the porn filter, the Hero is able to upload data to Google. Thanks to the guys at Google answers for that one (would link it, but can't remember where I found it!)
Hi everyone. I've been having problems syncing my calendar on my Hero with Google Calendar.
I've ensured that any new entry is for my google calendar not the phone calendar. I can sync from Google calendar to the Hero but not the other way round.
Contacts and emails work fine.
On my sync settings menu (Settings, Data synchronisation, Google) I have the message "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." It hasn't yet and the Hero is 1 week old!
Any suggestions would be gratefully received!
Pete
Sorry, just so you all know, I have had a good look already for solutions. Most people's just seem to work after they set the calendar on the Hero as the Google Calendar each time they make a new entry...
Sadly not mine!
Do you already have the new update on your Hero?
Mine sync great and I haven´t even installed the new update.
Greets.
Yep new update on unlocked Hero. HTC just said to do a hard reset (which didn't work).
I wonder whether its something to do with my Google calendar rather than the Hero?
I'm wonder if this has happened to anyone else or not and if so how did you fix it. Randomly when a new email comes into one of my comcast email accounts and I go to the mailbox all of my old emails that were marked as read and just sitting in my inbox are gone. I hit the "Load more messages" button at the bottom of the mailbox and they all come right back but now they are marked as unread. Typically this wouldn't be a big deal but I'm getting over 100 emails a day and need to save a lot of them so I don't want to have to keep marking those 50 as read every time 1 new email comes through. Anyone else have this happen or have any thoughts on how to fix it?
Same thing here, but it was happening on my myTouch3G with Cyanogen6 Froyo too, so I don't think it's the phone. Also, I have it set to delete from server if deleted from inbox, but after deleting some I'll get an update in an hour with some, if not all, of the same emails still.
Froyo bugs with the email app I'm guessing?
Hopefully this gets fixed with an OTA updated or a custom ROM, very annoying, especially since it didn't happen on my Backflip with 1.5 or 2.1 custom rom. Glad to see I'm not the only one, and I have all the settings set up the same way you do to, but the emails never get deleted from the server.
If you didn't have a 2.2 ROM my guess then is it's a general Froyo bug. I didn't notice it on stock 1.6 with the myTouch, only after updating to Cyanogen6 with 2.2, but when I searched their forums, feedback seemed to indicate it was a Cyanogen bug, not Froyo.
Time to see if this already has a bug report on Google lol
Morning all,
In the stock Froyo I found that Exchange push email was not working reliably. There were alot of postings on the Moto forum, as well as other forums. I myself saw this problem in the middle of the day, where I had to manually sync to get my new Exchange email, rather than it showing up via push and then being notified. This is a huge problem for me.
Now that I have moved to the 591 release of Gbread I was wondering if this issue still exists, or has it been resolved. If not then how are you getting around this huge problem?
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
I have a newer Droid, build 340...I have not experienced the lack of pushing Email while stock.
I did download a couple of apps that seemed to interfere, I rooted and installed a ROM Manager (for task management), this caused my Email to quit syncing, but my calender was fine (very odd), to fix this I removed all of my information in my corporate synch account and then re-entered it and all has been well since.
I'm not sure if this is the same problem you are having but this was my experience.
I had 2.2.1 on my phone and ActiveSync worked very well for Email, Contacts and Calendar. It would correctly 'ping' the folders, and go fetch updates when they happened.
Since moving to 2.3.3 with an official ROM (and any other ones I tested) I have always experienced an issue with the Calendar Sync portion of ActiveSync.
Email and Contacts still ping the Inbox and Contacts folders as expected but the Calendar has a mind of it's own.
Even though the Calendar folder is also pinged - it kicks off it's own independent 'Sync' request approximately every minute. And, what is worse is that after every one of these 'sync' requests it also initiates another ping on all folders Email, Contacts, and Calendar.
If I leave Calendar sync selected, multiple parallel ping requests end up clogging the server, and obviously this also has ramifications for data usage and battery draining.
I end up having to disable Calendar Sync for most of the time, only manually turning it on/off to sync any meetings I have set up or have accepted invitations to.
If you look at the attached screenshots, you can see that the date/time of the last update for Contacts is staying the same (09/08/2011 15:25) whereas the Calendar is updating every minute. This is happening even though nothing is changing on the Calendar on the server side.
Is this just me ? Or can other people please confirm that they are seeing the issue also.
EDIT: Well apparantly it wasn't just me - but there are very few people who run into this. Clearing the Email application data completely has cured the problem.
EDIT 23/08/2011:
The problem came back. And my original cure did not work. However, in troubleshooting, I realised that one of my colleagues phone's had also started doing the same - at the same time ! Tracing back I found that I had added a birthday field to one of our shared contacts (that both phones were synching) just before the issue started happening. So, having deleted/re-added/cleared data/etc. to no avail, I simply edited the contact on the server to remove the birthday from the contact and everything settled down again.
To verify the fix, I re-added a birthday record to another contact, and immediately the calendar sync started to spin again. I removed it, and immediately it settled down again.
(NOTE: This ties back to my original "fix" too as I had cleared out any suspect appointments/birthdays/anniversaries/etc during original troubleshooting, but the birthday fields were in non-"ping"ed Contact folders - so the contact records had not been refreshed on the phone until I had done a clear data and reloaded them.)
So, my suspicion is that when Android 2.3.3+ finds a birthday field on a contact it tries to add some kind of calendar event for it (I don't know where this event is, as it does not show up on the calendar as far as I can see.) Every time it asks the server to sync the calendar, it expects the server to have the same event - but when it doesn't find it, it asks for another Calendar sync again.
I also tried the same test with the Anniversary field, but that one did not appear to cause any issues.
Hopefully this will help others.
If anyone else is experiencing the issue, please report back if this fixes it for you.
And, if anyone has any ideas why the birthday field is breaking the sync, it would be great to get a full understanding.
ive been told that this was fixed in JVR
at least some calendar sync issue, do not know if this particular error...
This issue is not fixed in JVR. I loaded JVR specifically to see if it had been fixed, and it has not. I rolled back to stock JVH.
I have seen this issue on every Gingerbread ROM to date.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16273547&postcount=321
so i gues he is wrong
ever thinked this might some issue on your site?
or your company server?
btw after a short google search
I was able to clear the client/server conversion error on an HTC Incredible by clearing all the data out of the calendar app using Menu/ Manage Applications. Then re-sync and the problem went away.
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$omator said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16273547&postcount=321
so i gues he is wrong
ever thinked this might some issue on your site?
or your company server?
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The same server works perfectly well with Android 2.2.1, Nokia MailforExchange, and WindowsMobile 6.5 -
It worked perfectly well syncing the Calendar on this phone too while it was on Android 2.2.1 - it was only when I went to 2.3.x that the problem surfaced, and it has been identical on all builds.
Regarding your other post - my phone was recently in for repair and came back completely wiped with a fresh install of the latest Vodafone approved 2.3.3
As soon as I set up the email client it immediately began to spin on the Calnedar again - so it seems very unlikely that clearing data would do anything.
trying it would hurt yes?
well all i am saying it works for anyone around you
you are aware that this version as well as jvr one got updated
maybe it needs updating on server side also to latest idk
try other server maybe
No, I'm not wrong On JVR exchange calendar sync works fine (finally).
Of course you may say that I photoshopped images, or created manually the calendar entry in my phone
Don't get me wrong. It is working for me too. I get all the appointments across.
It is just that the calendar is constantly synching for some reason.
If you look at the account sync options as I showed above, does your Calendar - last update timestamp change every minute ?
I don't use autosynchronization but my calendar entries are updated when I change something in my exchange calendar (currently my last update was around 10:00 AM). I believe it works the same way the email does - by "push". Maybe when using autosynchronization it does this constant updates? What are your email settings? It's also possible that some Exchange setting is forcing constant updates.
Following the suggestion $omator found from someone with a HTC Incredible, I did the following
1. Moved all my appointments on the server to a secondary (non-sync'ed calendar) - this step may not be necessary but I had already begun moving them anyway to see if one was corrupted.
2. Removed my ActiveSync account
3. Cleared the data from the Email application (it was showing that there was still 76K of data associated with it after removing the account)
4. Turned off the phone, and turned it back on again.
5. Added my ActiveSync account back, and allowed it to sync all content (Emails and Contacts - Calendar was still empty)
6. Once everything was settled (including calendar sync) - I moved back all my appointments to my synched calendar on the server.
7. Happy days ! No more constant synching.
Thanks again $omator for the suggestion. I am always nervous about that "Clear Data" button.
happy to hear!
and the fix i was talking about in jvr
is enabling multi calendars sync or something like that
I am using a stock JVR and have this problem as well. I also tried the solution posted but that didn't work either. Any other suggestions?
Found root cause - Contact BIRTHDAY field !
The problem came back. And my original cure did not work.
However, in troubleshooting, I realised that one of my colleagues phone's had also started doing the same - at the same time ! Tracing back I found that I had added a birthday field to one of our shared contacts (that both phones were synching) just before the issue started happening. So, having deleted/re-added/cleared data/etc. to no avail, I simply edited the contact on the server to remove the birthday from the contact and everything settled down again.
To verify the fix, I re-added a birthday record to another contact, and immediately the calendar sync started to spin again. I removed it, and immediately it settled down again.
(NOTE: This ties back to my original "fix" too as I had cleared out any suspect appointments/birthdays/anniversaries/etc during original troubleshooting, but the birthday fields were in non-"ping"ed Contact folders - so the contact records had not been refreshed on the phone until I had done a clear data and reloaded them.)
So, my suspicion is that when Android 2.3.3+ finds a birthday field on a contact it tries to add some kind of calendar event for it (I don't know where this event is, as it does not show up on the calendar as far as I can see.) Every time it asks the server to sync the calendar, it expects the server to have the same event - but when it doesn't find it, it asks for another Calendar sync again.
I also tried the same test with the Anniversary field, but that one did not appear to cause any issues.
Hopefully this will help others.
If anyone else is experiencing the issue, please report back if this fixes it for you.
And, if anyone has any ideas why the birthday field is breaking the sync, it would be great to get a full understanding.
do not forget to report it also to google
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile?hl=en
somewhere there =)
Thank you very much for this find! I too suffer from this problem since leaving 2.1 (i think). To all others: this IS a bug, even in JVR. Just about when you think deleting & recreating your exchange account solved this, this problem tends to raise its head again (sometimes after a day or so). Two independent Exchange servers cause this problem for me. The result is that the Calendar still syncs, but at the expense of a constant 10% load, halving battery life. Its even visible in the sync settings of the Exchange account; the spinning circle icon never disappears indicating the looping process. This has been reported to Google multiple times (search code.google.com) but they dont seem to mind.
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LiverpoolFCfan said:
The problem came back. And my original cure did not work.
However, in troubleshooting, I realised that one of my colleagues phone's had also started doing the same - at the same time ! Tracing back I found that I had added a birthday field to one of our shared contacts (that both phones were synching) just before the issue started happening. So, having deleted/re-added/cleared data/etc. to no avail, I simply edited the contact on the server to remove the birthday from the contact and everything settled down again.
To verify the fix, I re-added a birthday record to another contact, and immediately the calendar sync started to spin again. I removed it, and immediately it settled down again.
(NOTE: This ties back to my original "fix" too as I had cleared out any suspect appointments/birthdays/anniversaries/etc during original troubleshooting, but the birthday fields were in non-"ping"ed Contact folders - so the contact records had not been refreshed on the phone until I had done a clear data and reloaded them.)
So, my suspicion is that when Android 2.3.3+ finds a birthday field on a contact it tries to add some kind of calendar event for it (I don't know where this event is, as it does not show up on the calendar as far as I can see.) Every time it asks the server to sync the calendar, it expects the server to have the same event - but when it doesn't find it, it asks for another Calendar sync again.
I also tried the same test with the Anniversary field, but that one did not appear to cause any issues.
Hopefully this will help others.
If anyone else is experiencing the issue, please report back if this fixes it for you.
And, if anyone has any ideas why the birthday field is breaking the sync, it would be great to get a full understanding.
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I have exactly the same issue with GingerBread on an HTC EVO 3D, I followed your instructions to clear any Birthday info on my Exchange contacts, I will report back in a few days to see if this fixes my problem.
I only started having the sync issue when my company upgraded to Exchange 2010.
We've experienced sync issues on my company (using exchange 2003/2007) after some microsoft patches.... we still have MS engineers working to find what the heck broke the sync but without success...
Hi,
I've recently updated my SGS2 to FW KF3.
Update seem to be working great, fixing random reboots and giving better battery life.
However, I've also noticed a small bug related to contact's birthday countdown.
I have my android contacts synced with google contacts. For some of my contacts I have a birthday entry. Those contacts that have the bday entry appear on my google calendar too. So far so good.
On the SGS2 (and maybe available on other android phones), if I call a contact a few days from his bday, I get a countdown notice on his profile photo with the number of days remaining till his bday. This feature used to work well, but since the last FW update I noticed the countdown message is off by one day. Meaning, I get a "today is ### bday" one day early, instead of on the actual date shown in google calendar.
Has anyone else noticed this bug?
Any fix suggestions?
Hello mjeshurun,
I have the same problem on official XXKI3 / 2.3.5.
Do you have some solution, or still not?
Thanks
PetoG said:
Hello mjeshurun,
I have the same problem on official XXKI3 / 2.3.5.
Do you have some solution, or still not?
Thanks
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I haven't done anything to fix it, but it seems everything is working normally again. Don't know how or why. Maybe updating to FW 2.3.4 KI4 fixed it.