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Anniversary's in Calendar

I hope someone can answer this for me.
How do you put an anniversary in your calendar without putting a start date? Is it possible?
I have an anniversary which shows up with a line through the little arrows which stand for a recurring item.
This item doesn't show a year (number in brackets) after it on my PDA.
I have no idea how I have done this, but would want to replicate it because this would be useful for some anniversary's where I don't know the start year.

I'd like to know if is posible..
i have been trying that too.

If you insert the birthday or anniversary date in the Contacts' details, then it will show up in the calendar with the number in brackets.
Check this, but I think you have to sync the PDA with Outlook on the PC for it to do this, as I don't think the anniversaries or birthdays show up if you just alter the Contact details on the PDA - but try it.

What about for having St Patrick's day showing on your PPC. There is no start year, it is the same day every year so I don't want to have to manually put it in every year!
Any ideas for that?

Just put it in as a recuring item! There is no need to have a start year or even a year count in brackets for this type of reminder
BTW, forget St Pats day and don't forget to add April 23rd

PaulusUK said:
Just put it in as a recuring item! There is no need to have a start year or even a year count in brackets for this type of reminder
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Sorry I don't get this. If I put it in as a recurring item on an anual basis, as an all day event, then next year it automatically has a 1 in brackets after it. I don't see a way of putting it as a recurring item and not getting the year count! If it is weekly or monthly then it doesn't have it, but yearly does?
Please explain further if I am being a bit daft!
Should I put it as a timed entry?

For holidays for a specific country, in Outlook at the desktop go to options calendar options - add holidays, and choose your country. Then sync your PDA and you'll have national holidays.
For anniversary, use the contacts. That way you'll have them on calendar every year. Even if you don't know the year make a guess.

Calender Issues for recurring appointments

I have been trying to enter birthday as an all day and recurring appointment.
When you do this for the month that it is (ie. if i do it for december atm). Its fine. When I try to jump forward to January and set another 'all day' and recurring appointment (recurring on the same day every year), nothing happens after I press the 'done' softkey (I mean it goes to the day screen, but has no appointment added). I can only make an appointment if i do it as an 'all day' and 'does not repeat' and then go back and edit it to be recurring. Bit of a pain when you want enter birthdays for the year ahead.
Anyone got this problem or know a solution?
Tks

i have this issue as well i did let htc know about it with a long list if other problems. they then started investigating the sms problems and now they have "enough data" for a hotfix they want to close the ticket, not sure though if they meant to fix this issue as well.
As for a workaround make a non-repeating appointment, fill in all data as you want it but just a single appointment save it then edit it to make it repeating, worked for me at least.

Thanks mate
I gathered the way to get round it but it just another thing that seems not to work properly on this phone. I so want to believe its a good phone but I keep finding these bugs which make me lose faith. Anyhow, my 14 day returns ran out today so I'm stuck with it for the next 18 months! HTC and wm7 better sort it out.

I hear that, I'm in the same situation, however I don't think I would take it back overall it is a nice piece of kit just too many bugs. been thinking about getting a no hassle replacement but I really don't think it'd do anything, just need to wait for htc to do the patches, then for wm7

I have taken to using the WM 6.5 calendar when adding or editing things. This is not a WM 6.5 issue it is an issue with the Sense UI calendar. Go to Start -> outlook folder-> calendar. You get much better functionality its just not as finger friendly or pretty.

Weird thing is that when you try to enter these 'all day, yearly recurring events' nothing happens in the sense UI calender nor the outlook calender (having entered via the sense UI calender), but if you sync with my phone you get all the phantom events in that calender!

Can I add notes to dates in calendar?

Hi, I've had my HD2 for just over a week and really pleased with it
What I cannot seem to find is a way of adding a note to a day in the calendar so that when I go back to that day i can read that entry.
Therefore, could I do this with some other software?
Some sort of diary perhaps?
TIA
Bixx

you can add a new note to a day by hitting menu new appointment and put the time as all day if u dont want a specific time hope that helps

Help with recurrent event every 4 weeks in calendar

I just bought a Legend and only now realized that android calendar will not allow an event to recur (ecsactly) every 4 weeks. I really need to be able to do this. Is there a way, without setting up a GoogleCalendar (I really don,t want my appointments in cyberspace)?
Thanks

Is Vibrant's calendar age discriminatory?

Let's say I create a birthday even in Google calendar -- yearly recurring event starting on the day person was born with no ending date.
If the person was born more then 50 years ago, Vibrant (android?) will not show this even after the sync.
I suspect this has something to do with the strange limitation that yearly recurring events can occur at most 50 times (that's the option I'm given when creating new such event on Vibrant).
Does anybody else observe this issue?
Is there a way to change 50 to, let's say, 100? I have root.
Is there any alternative calendar app that doesn't have this limitation?

I have same problem with Galaxy S. I wish we could find a way to increase 50 years limit. Smells like a nasty bug :/

alexeip said:
Let's say I create a birthday even in Google calendar -- yearly recurring event starting on the day person was born with no ending date.
If the person was born more then 50 years ago, Vibrant (android?) will not show this even after the sync.
I suspect this has something to do with the strange limitation that yearly recurring events can occur at most 50 times (that's the option I'm given when creating new such event on Vibrant).
Does anybody else observe this issue?
Is there a way to change 50 to, let's say, 100? I have root.
Is there any alternative calendar app that doesn't have this limitation?
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well people with new high end smartphones are not allowed to know or associate with people with age>40. I beleive it was in the terms of agreement when you bought your phone, careful it could void your warranty (they can tell).
just kidding......or am i?

I tried both calendar pad and jorte. Neither solves the problem because both rely on existing mechanism of synchronization between phone and Google calendar (they just provide different presentation of the sync'ed data).
I suspect there is really no application out there that does its own calendar sync.
As a workaround I've created recurring annual events starting 2010 in the internal phone's calendar for birthdays > 50 years back. Ugly, but will do for now.
My only hope is that Froyo fixes this. Can someone with Froyo access confirm/deny this?

engineer14 said:
well people with new high end smartphones are not allowed to know or associate with people with age>40. I beleive it was in the terms of agreement when you bought your phone, careful it could void your warranty (they can tell).
just kidding......or am i?
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Well that releagetes me to singing cheesy Mulan songs about mirrors. Good thing the phone won't last me as many years as it will take me to get to 50. At least they implemented the proper Don't-ask-don't-tell protocol when I bought mine.
A tip from the aged: I just put it in the year I learned their birthday, and write in the year they were born in the subject. That much math on the fly isn't that tough. It's the only way I remember when I found out their Bday. Doesn't work for facebook, but the folks I know whose bdays are that long ago don't put the year in, anyway. I've heard others just use, like 20th bday, and then put +20 in the subject instead of the year.
Since Social Security, banks and other organizations use birthdays as identity verifications, you won't find my real one in the cloud. But, yes, I'm >40.

Has anyone found a fix for that issue? It still is there in froyo (JPM).

Install the Nexus One calendar.

LOL, who the hell knows what will be in 50 years. We may not have phones, Google, be alive, hell, the the end of world.
Google Calendar lets you create a reoccurring event with no end date via web browser.