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How can I stop some calendar entries from disappearing
For some reason. most of the appointments I make for my massage therapist, disappear. But only if I make them at the clinic. When I am there, I enter the next appointment.I then check to see if it is in the calendar. And it always is. However, every one of them (except once) disappear a few days lat...
For some reason. most of the appointments I make for my massage therapist, disappear. But only if I make them at the clinic.
When I am there, I enter the next appointment.I then check to see if it is in the calendar. And it always is. However, every one of them (except once) disappear a few days later.
I am not deleting them. even accidentally because all other entries are always good.
Is there a way I can stop this from happening?
Note - the mobile reception there is dicey. I have Samsung **Note 20** and **Business Calendar**
Rohit Gupta
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Nov 17, 2022, 03:02 AM
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My Samsung tablet events (not Samsung Calendar) not syncing with Google Calendar
This is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE 5G running Android 14 and One UI 6.1. An app for a meeting I'm attending has the option to sync their calendar with my device's calendar. I don't get to choose which. In my Samsung tablet, it syncs with "My tablet -> Events"; see the calendar checked in blue in the...
This is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE 5G running Android 14 and One UI 6.1. An app for a meeting I'm attending has the option to sync their calendar with my device's calendar. I don't get to choose which. In my Samsung tablet, it syncs with "My tablet -> Events"; see the calendar checked in blue in the following image.
This seems different from both my Samsung Calendar and my Google Calendar, and I'm honestly confused as to what it is. More importantly, I'm incapable of syncing it with Google Calendar.
Does someone know how I can do that?
This seems different from both my Samsung Calendar and my Google Calendar, and I'm honestly confused as to what it is. More importantly, I'm incapable of syncing it with Google Calendar.
Does someone know how I can do that?
Ben
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Mar 14, 2025, 12:18 AM
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How to get all old Google Calendar events on a new phone
My Google Calendar has events going back to 2009. However, even after syncing to my phone, I can only see events back to June 2022. I cannot search or reference or even see any event prior to this on my phone. Using the web version as a workaround is non-viable. This has been an issue for as long as...
My Google Calendar has events going back to 2009. However, even after syncing to my phone, I can only see events back to June 2022. I cannot search or reference or even see any event prior to this on my phone. Using the web version as a workaround is non-viable.
This has been an issue for as long as I can remember. There must be a way to solve this issue, as not having my calendar on my phone makes the Calendar feature all but useless.
Turkeyphant
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Aug 3, 2023, 08:51 PM
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Google Calendar Android search function does not see old, restored entries
I only recently (February 2025) discovered the sync deficiency of Google Calendar for Android (I'm running Google Calendar for Android current Version 2025.06.1-[bunch of numbers] on recent model Samsung phone. Last year with this new phone, I used Smart Switch to transfer as much from the old phone...
I only recently (February 2025) discovered the sync deficiency of Google Calendar for Android (I'm running Google Calendar for Android current Version 2025.06.1-[bunch of numbers] on recent model Samsung phone. Last year with this new phone, I used Smart Switch to transfer as much from the old phone as I could. I didn't know until recently that Google doesn't sync Calendar entries older than two or three years to the Android version. They don't even give users the option, which is infuriating.
However, I found Android StackExchange user [Turkeyphant's solution](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/253557) that worked for me and apparently hundreds of other users. Unfortunately, after restoring all the old entries, some over 10 years old, to my Google Calendar for Android, I found that the Calendar app's Search function will not locate those older entries! It's great to have the data on the phone, but it's almost no help if the information can't be located easily.
So, the question is, does anyone have a solution to how to force Google Calendar for Android to search and locate keywords, search strings, for old, restored (imported) entries?
Bentley2700
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Feb 25, 2025, 02:15 AM
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What are the differences (if any) between "task notifications" and "calendar notifications"?
It is possible to customize the notification sounds for Google calendar for Android cellphones. For example, a ***task***-notification can sound like a windchime playing and and a ***calendar*** notification can could sound like a car horn. Are ***task*** notifications a subset of of ***calendar***...
It is possible to customize the notification sounds for Google calendar for Android cellphones. For example, a ***task***-notification can sound like a windchime playing and and a ***calendar*** notification can could sound like a car horn.
Are ***task*** notifications a subset of of ***calendar*** notifications?
Are ***task*** notifications mutually exclusive from ***calendar*** notifications?
Suppose that there is a Google Calendar ***event*** at 1:00PM on Monday.
Will the ***event*** notification play the ***task*** sound or will the ***event*** notification play the ***calendar*** notification sound?
IdleCustard
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Dec 30, 2024, 12:36 AM
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How to send Calendar invite links in email(Gmail)?
I would like to send Calendar events through mails to a group of people. I can currently share links from my Calendar but that just opens up a browser windows saying 'Untitled Event'. For example, If my event is Quiz No. 2 on 12th Nov at 4. Then the link should re-direct to(preferably in the Calenda...
I would like to send Calendar events through mails to a group of people. I can currently share links from my Calendar but that just opens up a browser windows saying 'Untitled Event'.
For example,
If my event is Quiz No. 2 on 12th Nov at 4. Then the link should re-direct to(preferably in the Calendar app rather than a browser window) a event title 'Quiz No. 2' and the time must be set to 4. The person receiving the mail just has to click add event.
Can this be done?
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I am able to send the link but it opens up in the browser. Is there any way make it open up in the Calendar app?
Yashbhatt
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Nov 10, 2017, 06:43 PM
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Edited descriptions of multiple events and now they are gone
Using a Samsung Galaxy A30s and the Google Calendar version 2022.48.2-494681027-release. I have a weekly recurring event until July 2023 with two more persons. In order to add more specifics, I edited the description of each (from now until the end), saving "This event" as the next image shows [
Initially, everything was showing up fine and they received emails with the updates.
But now I don't see the text in the description. The same happens in the Calendar of the other two persons.
How to proceed to get back the descriptions in the events? Ideally I wouldn't have to do it all over again...
Initially, everything was showing up fine and they received emails with the updates.
But now I don't see the text in the description. The same happens in the Calendar of the other two persons.
How to proceed to get back the descriptions in the events? Ideally I wouldn't have to do it all over again...
Tiago Peres
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Jan 1, 2023, 08:40 PM
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Shared Google Calendar, but contacts are now also shared
I shared my Google Calendar with my family member, and he also shared his with me. Now, however, all of our contacts are also shared with each other. I don't want our contacts shared. He has a lot (400+) and I don't want to see all of his contacts mixed in with mine. Other solutions I have checked i...
I shared my Google Calendar with my family member, and he also shared his with me. Now, however, all of our contacts are also shared with each other. I don't want our contacts shared. He has a lot (400+) and I don't want to see all of his contacts mixed in with mine.
Other solutions I have checked into don't seem to address this situation specifically. There has to be a setting somewhere that says 'don't share my contacts', but I can't find it.
I have a Samsung Galaxy A42 and my family member has a Samsung Galaxy A25.
Kathy Keil
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Aug 30, 2024, 05:28 PM
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How to access the URL field used by the macOS Calendar on Android?
I use the calendar application that's built in macOS. Events created there have a URL field. How do I access that field from an Android phone? --- A sample event with an URL created on macOS, exported from Google Calendar: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DAT...
I use the calendar application that's built in macOS. Events created there have a URL field. How do I access that field from an Android phone?
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A sample event with an URL created on macOS, exported from Google Calendar:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210324
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2
DTSTAMP:20240410T225451Z
UID:179C1961-1EA6-439E-BD91-774CDEFB6CE9
URL:https://android.stackexchange.com/posts/256767/edit
CREATED:20210309T184613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T191532Z
SEQUENCE:1
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:How to access the URL field used by the MacOS Calendar on Android?
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
d-b
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Apr 9, 2024, 05:28 PM
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How can I jump to a given year on the Google Calendar application on my Google Pixel 6 phone?
I use the Google Calendar application on my Google Pixel 6 phone. Sometimes I want to look at some event a few years ago. How can I jump to a given year on Google calendar?
I use the Google Calendar application on my Google Pixel 6 phone. Sometimes I want to look at some event a few years ago. How can I jump to a given year on Google calendar?
Franck Dernoncourt
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Nov 7, 2022, 01:00 AM
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How can I make my Google Calendar make sounds when an event is about to begin?
I have OnePlus 3 running Android 8.0 (OxygenOS 5). It currently just shows one notification for every notification I add in the app for an event. How can I make my Google Calendar make sounds when an event is about to begin? This is the notification settings for Calendar notifications: [
onionknight
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Jan 15, 2019, 10:23 PM
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How do you sync from one calendar account to another?
I am trying to migrate from a broken calendar account (no remote sync access, but the phone has all the data cached locally) to a [self-hosted CalDAV calendar][1] (connected to by [DAVx][2]). Both calendar accounts are in DAVx, and both are visible in calendar apps. Question: How do you export an ex...
I am trying to migrate from a broken calendar account (no remote sync access, but the phone has all the data cached locally) to a self-hosted CalDAV calendar (connected to by DAVx ). Both calendar accounts are in DAVx, and both are visible in calendar apps.
Question: How do you export an existing calendar to another calendar on the device? I have both the "Google Calendar" app and the default Calendar app that comes with LineageOS, but neither appear to support export/import---or at least I cannot find the option. There are _lots_ of calendar events, so we need to do it in bulk.
With contacts, it is simple: you can export a .vcs to a file and import the .vcs to another contact account with the "Contacts" app. But with I can't figure out how to do the same thing with a calendar account.
Ideas?
KJ7LNW
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Dec 20, 2023, 02:26 AM
• Last activity: Dec 20, 2023, 04:30 AM
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Google Calendar event reminder sound is too short and I can't hear it
One of the main Google Calendar's functions is to remind people their events, with a scheduled sound alarm. The problem is that this sound, [I know how to change it][1], only lasts for 1 second, so I don't hear it. Instead, when they call me, the sound lasts for very long until they hang up the phon...
One of the main Google Calendar's functions is to remind people their events, with a scheduled sound alarm. The problem is that this sound, I know how to change it , only lasts for 1 second, so I don't hear it. Instead, when they call me, the sound lasts for very long until they hang up the phone, so I realize I'm being called. I would like if the alarm sound lasted longer, how to do it?
By the way, I have the same problem with Google Keep reminders.
I imagine some people like short sounds because they don't want to get disturbed, and they probably get reminded when they check their phones and see the notification. I want to know if it's possible to make it work like I specified, a longer loud sound like a call.
Santropedro
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Oct 12, 2016, 11:45 PM
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Google Calendar: how do I create a new calendar in Android?
I was wondering how to create a new calendar with dates in Google Calendar. I ask because I have gone to settings but only see the following page (with no buttons to add, view, or modify): [![calendars][1]][1] Thanks. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/VPNTIl.jpg
I was wondering how to create a new calendar with dates in Google Calendar.
I ask because I have gone to settings but only see the following page (with no buttons to add, view, or modify):
Thanks.
Thanks.
Joselin Jocklingson
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Oct 24, 2023, 08:17 AM
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Birthday in Contacts app not showing up in Google Calendar
I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone. I have a few people with registered birthdays in the Contacts app (the default Contacts app that came with my phone). However, these birthdays are not showing up in the Google Calendar app. Why is this? What can I do to have Google Calendar automatical...
I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone.
I have a few people with registered birthdays in the Contacts app (the default Contacts app that came with my phone).
However, these birthdays are not showing up in the Google Calendar app.
Why is this?
What can I do to have Google Calendar automatically show birthdays from my Contacts app?
Thanks.
Joselin Jocklingson
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Oct 24, 2023, 08:01 AM
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Google Calender: Prevent the notification of an event disappearing after the event time?
Say, I have set a monthly event at a specific time and date on Google Calender. I have enabled "1 minute before" notification for it. The notification shows up at the expected time, but if I happen to be doing something else and think I will do the event later, after that time, the event notificatio...
Say, I have set a monthly event at a specific time and date on Google Calender. I have enabled "1 minute before" notification for it. The notification shows up at the expected time, but if I happen to be doing something else and think I will do the event later, after that time, the event notification automatically disappears from the phone, even though I have not swiped it out. This sometimes makes me forget that I should do the event.
Is there a way to make the event notification NOT go away even after the time of the event, until I manually swipe it out?
Damn Vegetables
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Aug 30, 2021, 07:58 AM
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Turn of Google Calendar event sounds
I recently upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S23. I previously had all sounds off on all previous devices. I have checked this phone and no sounds are on anywhere on the phone. But every time I get a Google Calendar event notification, it plays a damn tune. I cannot figure out how to turn this off! I hav...
I recently upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S23. I previously had all sounds off on all previous devices. I have checked this phone and no sounds are on anywhere on the phone. But every time I get a Google Calendar event notification, it plays a damn tune.
I cannot figure out how to turn this off! I have tried everything.
Nikki Dale
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Sep 9, 2023, 04:16 PM
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New Google accounts don't show up in Calendar app
I added a Google account to my phone and turned on calendar sync for it. When I went to the Google Calendar app, that new account is missing from the list and also missing in the "Manage calendars" settings. How do I get my calendar to show up for the new account?
I added a Google account to my phone and turned on calendar sync for it.
When I went to the Google Calendar app, that new account is missing from the list and also missing in the "Manage calendars" settings.
How do I get my calendar to show up for the new account?
eComEvo
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Jun 26, 2023, 10:54 PM
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Link events (birthdays/anniversaries) from Google Contacts to Google Calendar in Android
In my contacts app, I have birthdays and anniversaries saved for most contacts. On most birthdays, I get a reminder 3 days before and then on the day of the birthday at 10 am. I have not created this setting but I'm good as long as I get a notification - so no complaints here. However, for some birt...
In my contacts app, I have birthdays and anniversaries saved for most contacts. On most birthdays, I get a reminder 3 days before and then on the day of the birthday at 10 am. I have not created this setting but I'm good as long as I get a notification - so no complaints here.
However, for some birthdays and all anniversaries, nothing like this happens. I get no notifications whatsoever.
When I tap on a contact's anniversary, I am redirected to the calendar app where I can see an event for that contact's anniversary in the year that anniversary first occurred. However, for subsequent years, no such event is there. This same problem also happens for some birthdays. This is only happening in the Calendar app on Android. On opening the Google Calendar in a browser tab on my laptop, I can all birthdays and anniversaries populating properly.
So my question is: What do I have to do so that such missing events are populated on Google Calendar so I can get a notification on my Android phone?
thisisYashaswi
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May 16, 2023, 12:12 PM
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Reminders in Samsung calendar?
Whenever I add a reminder with Google (either from web interface or through assistant) it gets a reminder into my google calendar, which is not visible in Galaxy's calendar. How can I see these reminders in both Google and Samsung calendar apps?
Whenever I add a reminder with Google (either from web interface or through assistant) it gets a reminder into my google calendar, which is not visible in Galaxy's calendar.
How can I see these reminders in both Google and Samsung calendar apps?
Daniel
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May 2, 2023, 11:52 AM
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