Help! My google calendar disappeared from my phone. The only calendar that is syncing is the Jewish Holidays calendar. Mine, my husbands, holidays not appearing on the phone. Tried adjusting settings, etc, will not sync. Complete calendar still appears online. Calendar was working fine until about two hours ago.
Saw this in another thread: "Well, I saved the calendar from Google, deleted it on Google, then reimported back to my Google account, and whala, it showed up with all the appointments intact. Kind of a roundabout way to get the calendar back but it worked."
What does "saved the calendar from Google" and "deleted it on Google" mean? I have no idea how to do any of that. Can anyone help? I'm lost without my calendar and reminders on my phone!
Edit, January 28, 2014: Please note that the following procedure is only if you are syncing your Calendar with your Google calendar account. If you are not syncing your calendar, and have calendar events stored only on the phone, DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE. If you do, you will lose all of your calendar events.
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Try this:
From home:
- settings->accounts & sync. Tap on your Google account and uncheck the calendar sync. Back out to:
- settings->applications->manage applications. Wait for the list to refresh, then tap on "
Calendar Storage" (that may be easier to find if you press menu->sort by size and then menu->sort a-z.) For people running Sense on Android 2.1, note that this is "calendar storage" and not "calendar" (there is one of those, too.)
- In "Calendar Storage", tap on "clear data".
- back to settings->accounts & sync. Tap on the Google account and re-check Calendar syncing.
You can then go back home. This will cause background sync services to repopulate all of your calendar data. Wait for the sync to finish (you should see an icon that looks something like a circle in the status bar, near the signal strength meter). When the sync is complete, hopefully all of your calendars will be repopulated.
Google discovered a problem with security with calendar and contact data and they said that they were patching it, and I wonder if that's what caused this problem (because others have reported the same)? See
Google is patching the Android security hole | ZDNet for more info about that security issue.
Anyway, let us know if this procedure works.
[EDIT] - I am adding this info from post #27 below, because this started happening to me yesterday as well. And, to recap the problem, what seems to be happening is that the events on your primary Google calendar are not showing up in the Calendar app in your phone if you are running, in particular, the stock Eris software, though this appears to be affecting other 2.1 based phones and some of the rooted custom ROMs for the Eris that are also close to stock. However, any other calendars that you create in your Google Calendar account - you can have many, not just the primary calendar for your account - and any subscribed calendars do not have this particular issue. So, the solution I post below will walk you through exporting your current calendar from Google Calendar, creating a new secondary calendar, importing the events from your old primary calendar, and the deleting the events from your primary calendar - to avoid duplication when you look at your Google Calendar on the web - in a few simple steps.
Ok, last night I saw this for the first time.
My solution? I'm going to create a new calendar and move all of my events there.
It's actually quite simple to do.
In Google calendar, go to settings. There is a link under "My Calendars", after the list of all of the non-subscribed calendars, called "export calendars". This will create a zip file to save on your PC. If you unzip that file, you will see an .ics file for each of the calendars you have listed under "My Calendars".
Back to Google Calendar, Create a new calendar, give it a name. Now click on "import calendar", choose the .ics file that corresponds with your main Google calendar that you unzipped before, and import it into the new Google Calendar that you created. (You may have to refresh the Google Calendar page to see it in the list.)
Then, when you are sure that you have the events in that calendar all set, there is a "delete" link next to your primary calendar - you can click that to mass-delete all of the now duplicated events in your calendar.
You may also want to go into the settings for that calendar to change notifications, etc.
Inelegant, but this works for me.
