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Google Calendar Sync Problem

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Dec 30, 2010
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I have the Droid 2 R2D2 edition, my wife has the HTC Incredible.

We each have our own gmail accounts, and have linked our calendars together so each of us has full permissions on the others calendar. (On my PC, when at the calendars settings, hers shows as 'my calendar' with my own, it is not listed in 'other calendars' like the US Holidays one is.)

On my Droid 2, if i input an event on my calendar, it is not written to the calendar on my PC or on my wifes phone. In order for it to update to my PC, while in Calendar on my phone i must open the menu, More+, Calendars, click the calendars so theyre not 'synced,visible', and then reclick them so that they become 'synced,visible'.

Why isn't this done automatically on my Droid 2, and is there a way to do so? On my wife's HTC Incredible, if she inputs an event, it is instantly viewable on the PC's Calendar.

Every time i google this, i get some answer about adding a second account on your phone and then deleting it, which then gives me in the 'My Accounts' page the ability to click 'sync calendar'. This isn't the answer i'm looking for.


Can anyone help?


edit: i guess i should note my GMAIL fails to sync up automatically as well. I must manually sync it up to get my latest gmails to my phone.

edit2: solved my stuff! i added the power widget to my desktop so i can turn eveyrthing off and save battery life. my 'sync' was turned off.
 
On the phone, are you creating Google Events? Or Phone Events? Google events will sync, Phone events will not.

Mine does the same thing, it used to be sync all the time but in the last couple months it has stopped. I also have to do what the above poster does to sync.

As for creating a Google or Phone event, mine is all google events linked to my g-mail.
 
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I have google calandar sync from Outlook to Google working consistently. And a calendar itme entered on my phone syncs back to Google and Outlook. But some items that have synced to Google Calendar don't continue to sync to my phone. I've discovered that if I open a offending item in Google Calendar (one that successfully synced to there from Outlook) and make a small change then save, it will finally synchronize to my phone. A bug in the Google calendar to Android synchronization that somehow is affeted by the source of the calendar entry?
 
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