Help can't create calendar entry

[billrosenblatt]

I can't create a new entry in Calendar. When I long-click on a time and select New Event, it says "You must synchonize a calendar before creating a new event."

OK, so I try syncing to my Google account. But when I go into Settings in my Google account (Settings, Accounts, Google) I only see Sync Contacts and Sync Gmail. (Gmail syncing works fine.) I don't see Sync Calendars.

Furthermore when I go into the Calendar app on the Droid 2 and select More, Calendars, no calendars show up.

So I think there's something missing. I don't see a way to add the calendar to my Google account on the Droid 2.

Any suggestions?? Thanks so much.

 

[Super_Six_Two]

Do you have a Google calendar set up? Log into your gmail account on a computer and click on the calendar tab.

 

[billrosenblatt]

I hadn't been using Google Calendar but I noticed that there is a calendar linked to my gmail account (which is active and syncs with the phone no problem).

So I just tried putting an entry in to the Google calendar on my PC, but . It's possible that when the Droid 2 set up my Google account, it saw an empty calendar and so did not create a calendar on the phone. That's the only explanation i can think of.

Anyway, I still get the error message when trying to add an entry to the phone calendar. It seems a little weird that the phone calendar has to sync to some other calendar... on my old Blackberry i just had a local calendar there.

 

[realwirehead]

You may have to do factory data reset. Be sure to backup or make sure your have contacts backup and know your gmail address and password.

 

[billrosenblatt]

Yes, this is in fact what I ended up doing. I tried deleting my Google account in order to re-create it, and the phone required me to do a factory reset. Then I was able to create my Google account and it found my calendar.

Now I have calendar sync working to the Droid 2 through Google Calendar Sync. But I am disappointed to find that Google does not have a Contact Sync -- at least not one that actually works. There is a beta version but it doesn't actually sync incremental updates; it only does the original batch upload. I have to purchase Sync2 or equivalent. Google does offer a sync utility to be used with Google Apps, but that doesn't help individual users like me.

- Bill.

 

[avi_ach]

is there any way avoiding a factory reset pleaseee????

 

[Saikusus]

When my calender wouldn't sync, I set up another gmail account (in addition to the original one which was tied to my phone). Once I synced to both accounts, my calender allowed me to sync to my main. The other one I just deleted immediately afterwards.

 

[rpack]

This happened to me when I first set up my Droid 2. If you go into the calendar app, hit menu>more>calendars, it should look like this....



Make sure its set up to sync and be visible like in the pic.

Hopefully this fixes your problem and you don't have to do a factory reset. =)



Edit: Oops! Just re-read the original post. Looks like you already knew that. Sorry I couldn't help!