BUG in Android Google Calender that erases or changes all events - Galaxy S II General

When using and syncing the agenda on an Android device (Can't test with other platforms, as I only have Android and Windows) with Google Calender the following bug is being reported by several people:
When you change a recurring event, even though you say 'only change this event' it changes all recurring events or even deletes them (even when I only changed, not deleted, a single event).
This makes the Google Calender useless on Android as you can never change single events of recurring events (for example, today I am going to the gym later than normal and wanna change that by changing and selecting 'only this event' and suddenly all my gym entires are later or even deleted)
https://code.google.com/p/android/is...etail?id=17276
I am, like most of you, using a Samsung Galaxy S2 normal firmware KE2

I have just issued a bug report on Google, issue number 17276.
The more people star it the faster it gets fixed.
It turns out to be an bug that has been around for almost a year, but is yet to be resolved. Shows how few people use recurring calender items with sync to Outlook 2010

Seeing the number of respondents in 1 day it is a bug that more people seem to have. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17276
Anyone has a workaround?

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2.1 ROMs - Manually Added Birthdays Appear 1 Day Early

From what I can tell when contacts sync from Google or Facebook all of the information is correct. If you manually add a birthday to a contact then whatever day you select for the birthday will show one day earlier after you enter it! This appears to affect only the birthday, other dates work fine.
I've tested this on the following ROMs:
Fresh 2.0b2
DamageControl v1
DamageControl v1.1b5
DamageControl v2.0r2
I've tested this to be true on five Hero's. Can anyone else confirm as well?
WORK-AROUND
To fix the issue, turn off the Date & Time automatic update
MENU -> SETTINGS -> DATE & TIME Uncheck the Automatic box
General consensus from the information in this thread is that the problem is related to how the contacts application handles birthdays and DST (daylight savings time) rules. If your phone is updating from the network then it's applying DST rules, where as if you turn off the automatic updates it does not apply DST rules. You just have to make sure after if you turn off the automatic updates that your date/time is correct and remember to set it correctly next time DST rolls around.
I'm on DamageControl v1.0, birthday's work fine for me. Odd problem you're having there :/
scirio said:
I'm on DamageControl v1.0, birthday's work fine for me. Odd problem you're having there :/
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So if you add a new birthday and save it, it stays as the date you selected?
I can confirm, same issue in mine (Fresh 2.0c), the correct dates stuck after I then updated the birthdays in Google Contacts.
it sends it a day early on all the roms even the stock 1.5. I think it is so you know ahead of the day.
This sounds similar to an issue I've always had with the Google Holidays calendar. If you open the calendar to view a holiday (all-day event) it shows on the correct day. However, if you're using the calendar widget which shows upcoming events, it always shows a day early.
Somehow there's a timezone issue where it starts all-day events before the day starts, say, 11pm the day before. So the widget shows the event a day early.
(and yes, for the record I have verified that both the phone / calendar timezone settings are the same)
I've had this problem with Google for a long time. Even back on my HTC Touch Pro. When I merged all of my contacts from Outlook onto Google, they did this to me. I think it has something to do with the Daylight savings time issue fix that happened a while ago. Somehow it changed all of the birthdays from starting at 12:00am to 11:59pm to 11:00am - 11:59pm, effectively making each birthday start an hour earlier for that day, or on a calendar as 1 day earlier. I could never get it to fix itself, I had to go in and manually delete and re-enter all of the birthdays.
dcdave63 said:
I've had this problem with Google for a long time. Even back on my HTC Touch Pro. When I merged all of my contacts from Outlook onto Google, they did this to me. I think it has something to do with the Daylight savings time issue fix that happened a while ago. Somehow it changed all of the birthdays from starting at 12:00am to 11:59pm to 11:00am - 11:59pm, effectively making each birthday start an hour earlier for that day, or on a calendar as 1 day earlier. I could never get it to fix itself, I had to go in and manually delete and re-enter all of the birthdays.
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That gave me an idea. I turned off the network time and manually set it instead. When I did that, now I can add birthdays correctly! It must have something to do with DST like you mentioned above.
I think its because its setup as a "meeting" a time to a time, instead of associated with a day/date. DST fixes generally fix the
"meetings" but don't effect items associated with a date, like a holiday.
So I updated the first post with a work-around in case anyone else searches for a fix to this problem. I don't see it as a big deal personally, especially since I don't mess with contacts on my phone. I add details through Gmail then let it sync over which will sync the birthday correctly.
My understanding from Google searches and the replys to this thread is that dates synced over from Google and Facebook are associated as dates, whereas birthdays added through the People application are actually associated as a meeting time encompassing the whole day (so 12:00am to 11:59pm) but because it's not an actual calendar item DST rules are not applying to it hence it still thinks it's an hour ago placing the start time of then event at 11:00pm instead of 12pm and making the date appear as one day earlier.
Does this sound right to everyone?

Calendar Strangeness

This happens on my Evo (Stock ROM Froyo 2.2) and may be happening on yours too. Can somebody verify this bug?
My calendar has a bunch of appointments put in either by our Exchange server or manually added by me. Normally these look fine. However, if I go into the built in calendar application and click the search button (magnifying glass) and then search for an appointment something strange happens. Once the search finds the appointment and I press on the appointment to open the event, the time now shows 12:00 AM. instead of when the appointment really is. Now, the time isn't actually changed because if I navigate/scroll to the actual event and open it from there it's fine.
I never noticed this before and I don't know if it's related to the latest update released by Sprint. Can a few of you try this and report back. I appreciate the help.
i wish I could get my company exchange to interface with the stock mail app What does touchdown do so differently that the stock widget can't?
I was having another issue, totally not the same. Since the update 2 days ago, i have been having an odd issue where facebook events (b days) have vanished off the widget. When i open the app, and remove the widget, then re apply the widget, magically they are back on the list... for about 24 hrs.
It is driving me nuts

Another calendar issue

My calendar has started being a real pain in the backside today. I was reading a few topics on the calendar and after checking my battery usage daily I thought my calendar had started using a lot more battery than it used to (used to be around 5-8% on a full charge, recently its been 15-20%).
So I wasn't able to find any fix in the other threads and someone suggested clearing the data from the app manager which I did. The problem now is that my calendar is messed up. I only use it for birthdays linked via facebook and holidays. It is showing the holidays fine but it is no longer showing birthdays. It shows some (3 to be exact) however there used to be waaaaay more as it showed all my facebook contacts birthdays. The 3 people that it is showing seem to just be random and it says they've been linked from facebook.
The good news is that my calendar battery usage is back down to below 5%, but maybe that's because it isnt even working as it should.
Anyone have any suggestions. I really don't want to do a factory reset. It took me about 3-4 hours to sort out my contacts and link them all correctly so doing that again would drive me mad (unless there is some way I can do a backup which includes the contact links?)
Sorry, I can't help you but HTC clearly has issues with Google Calendar. My calendar eats battery and often sits at the "Loading" screen. I see lots of issues on the forum, and few solutions. Time HTC fixed it.
Hi,
Yeah its a known issue. I have the same problem. I e-mailed HTC about is last week and they replied saying that they know about it and should be fixed in an update soon.
~Sean
Hello!
I tried the clear-data for the calendar and the battery consumption has dropped to normal levels again.
Thing is my Facebook birthdays are not showing up anymore (at least most of them...).
Also, I would like to ask another thing.
Is there a way for the calendar to display birthdays for people that you don't have as friends in facebook but you have their birthdays stored in your phone contact list??
And one final question. If you go to Google calendar online (from a PC) there is an option to have your favorite teams' schedules on your calendar. Is there a way for these schedules to appear on your phone calendar as well?
Thanks!
DanteGR said:
Hello!
I tried the clear-data for the calendar and the battery consumption has dropped to normal levels again.
Thing is my Facebook birthdays are not showing up anymore (at least most of them...).
Also, I would like to ask another thing.
Is there a way for the calendar to display birthdays for people that you don't have as friends in facebook but you have their birthdays stored in your phone contact list??
And one final question. If you go to Google calendar online (from a PC) there is an option to have your favorite teams' schedules on your calendar. Is there a way for these schedules to appear on your phone calendar as well?
Thanks!
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I have the exact same facebook birthday issue because I did the exact same clear data thing. Battery consumption from the calendar has disappeared thankfully but now the facebook birthdays don't appear.
I eventually gave up and left it. Day by day the facebook birthdays have been appearing strangely. Initially only 2 friends birthdays were appearing after clearing the calendar data, then the next day there were about 4, then the next day a few more and its gradually populating the calendar. There are still some missing but I'm hoping they will appear soon as everyday there seems to be some more added.
It is very strange but give it a few days and see if it starts populating.
Same here. Cleared the calendar data and it has resulted in similar effects (improved battery, weird calendar). I'm surprised that such basic functionality (HTC syncing with Google calendar using a Google OS) has caused such problems.
Oh, any syncing my favourite team (the one and only Glasgow Celtic) would be nice. Any ideas? I have Celtic's fixtures in Google Calendar on a PC but they don't appear in my syncs.

[Q] Calender events can't be edited anymore!!!

hi,i've got two android devices (HTC Desire and ACer A500) and i've noticed that the calender events (especially the ones already synced to the account before this bizzare issue) on my google account on both devices can't be edited. Each time I select an event from the calender app or agenda widget, it displays the following:
* The event name,date,time, the account name and reminder (Those are usually there before the said issue).
Then the new details after i noticed this issue are as follows:
* Attendee (which i've never encountered before)
* Attending? (Which is an icon asking if someone will be attending the event or not).
This is very frustrating cos as of yesterday, i was able to edit events on the google account's calender without issue. Though, if i enter new events onto the account,those new ones are allowed to be changed. I've tried everything on both devices as well as signing into my account on my PC in order to trace the problem's origin through the calender settings but to no avail.
All i did before this problem started was edit a few details on my google account such as billing address and method of payment. Could this two result in calendar events disruption? Thanks,your assistance would be really appreciated.
I have the same issue with my Exchange 2007 account. I ended up having to go back to sense on my evo to get that ability back. I will report back if I figure something out.
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cheers,hope to hear from u soon

[RE-SOLVED] Gingerbread ActiveSync Calendar Sync Issue -UPDATED FIRST POST 23/08/2011

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...

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