Stock calendar inaccurate - Galaxy Tab 10.1 General

My stock calendar sometimes shows the wrong date. For instance, today is Monday, Aug. 15, and my calendar widget is showing Saturday, Aug. 13.
Some days the calendar is in sync, some days it is not. But this is the first time it has been off by two days!
Anybody else experiencing this? If it was showing the wrong date every day I would think that I have the settings wrong. But, as a said, some days it is correct.
Anybody know how to fix this?

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What firmware are you running? Some firmwares have possibility to take date from network in the date and time settings, others not etc.
Is it the tab showing the wrong date as well or just the widget, or calendar and widget? Does the lockscreen show correct when the other thing(s) are wrong?

stinky73 said:
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What firmware are you running? Some firmwares have possibility to take date from network in the date and time settings, others not etc.
Is it the tab showing the wrong date as well or just the widget, or calendar and widget? Does the lockscreen show correct when the other thing(s) are wrong?
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I don't have my tab with me right now so I don't know the firmware. But I've had it only for about three weeks.
The tab shows the correct date and time, and when I open the calendar, it shows the correct date. The lockscreen shows the correct date and time. Only the widget shows the wrong date.

cameraz said:
My stock calendar sometimes shows the wrong date. For instance, today is Monday, Aug. 15, and my calendar widget is showing Saturday, Aug. 13.
Some days the calendar is in sync, some days it is not. But this is the first time it has been off by two days!
Anybody else experiencing this? If it was showing the wrong date every day I would think that I have the settings wrong. But, as a said, some days it is correct.
Anybody know how to fix this?
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Same issue here. My exchange calendar and email widget's both have this issue of not updating properly. Once the app is open the widget's seem to update immediately after and then go back to not updating. Have not found a fix.

Mine's the exact same way. Calendar widget is very inaccurate. I'm on my 2nd Tab and it's not any better. The calendar itself updates almost instantly like it should, as well as Gmail. I think the widget doesn't have/get instant updates from the calendar itself, the widget directly talks to Google's servers for its updates, and/or the widget has a long update interval... like 2-3 hours or something like that. I think that explains why the calendar widget can get 1-2 days behind if you don't have your Tab and the Wifi on most of the time. I've noticed that if I use it heavily or leave the Wifi on all the time, the widget doesn't lag behind the calendar as bad as if I only use the Tab a couple of quick times a day.
Yet something I hope gets fixed in HC 3.2 or ICS.

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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.

calendar widget only showing one event

When i first set it up it showed 2 events, and now it is only showing one. Any idea how to fix?
Is anyone else experiencing this?
i am having this problem as well. did you resolve it? my calendar widget used to show as many events as would fit in the box but now it;s only showing 1 no matter how large i make it.
i tried downloading a third party calendar widget and it also would only display 1 event so i am thinking it's something i messed up with the phone itself or google calendars.
if you've resolved this please let me know how. thanks!
The widget is still broken for me. Samsung fixed it in the Israeli 3.2 rom but not the US one.
I now use an app from the market called Wizz. It has awesome Widgets including a multi day agenda widget.

KF3 and contact's birthday countdown

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.

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