Perhaps I am the only one that is very very frustrated by this problem but here goes anyway.
How do you enter birthdays into the calendar and set them to repeat on the same day every year. They are All-Day events not appointments. If I set them as appointments or reminders I can set them to re-occur at the times I set. Why can't you set an All-Day event to re-occur? Every other calendar program I have ever seen has this function, why not the P800? Ericsson's R380 model (the predessor to the P800) could do this. I have noticed too that any re-occuring All-Day events that I have programmed into Lotus Organizer or MS Outlook do not synchonise with the P800. The P800 just ignores those events like they didn't even exist. Perhaps there is an update to the calendar program..... (My phone has firmware R2F, bluetooth R5A, Organiser R2B03, and CDA R4A02, if that helps).
Please help. Thanks.
Yep, it's really annoying, but the P800 doesn't support it (and neither does the P900). You need a separate application such as HandyDates, SmartBirthdays or dateMate. These will do this for you. I've used all three and each of them seems to do as good a job as the other. You synch with Outlook\Organiser and then use the app to import all the birthdays from the contacts database. The app will then create reminders for all the birthdays. You can also use them to create other recurring events such as public holidays or anniversaries.
It still won't be an all day event though. Just repeating reminders on the correct days.
And are you sure about the R380? I thought it had the same problem with recurring all day events. Though I might just be miss-remembering. It's been sat in a draw in my desk at home for the last 15 months!
there's also a feature that lets you add Birthdays to your contacts through VITO Quick Contact... give it a try
Take a look at the new version of aquacalendar. It's got a new category specifically for birthdays.
Is aquacalendar synchronizable with other PC applications like the default calendar program? Will I be able to synchronize it with Lotus Organizer?
Thanks
I dont have this problem! I use MS Outlook as my PIM.
For birthdays 'appointments' I use the following recurring settings:
Start time: 12am
End time: 12am
Duration: 0 mins
Yearly, every (date)
Showtime as 'Free'
Hope this well for you as well.
demnos wrote:Is aquacalendar synchronizable with other PC applications like the default calendar program? Will I be able to synchronize it with Lotus Organizer?Thanks
Setup "Synchronize birthdays" in L&F Settings, and synchronize your Contacts.
AquaCalendar should be running in background. For all contacts which have Birsday, appropriate Birthday in AquaCalendar will be created.
Also, you could press "red birthday button" on AquaCalendar Contacts toolbar,
all birthdays will be imported too.
What does "synchronise birthdays" synchronize with? And from where does "import birthdays" get the information?
Is there any documentation on version 2? The aquawell website only documents 1.5.
About Lotus Organizer. I use 6.0 and so far Aquacalendar does a good job of synchronising data. It does not synch categories, and I'm obviously still trying to figure out birthdays. One glitch is that sometimes marking a task completed tasks on Organizer doesn't always complete it on the phone, and vice-versa.
Bassey wrote:Yep, it's really annoying, but the P800 doesn't support it (and neither does the P900).
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And are you sure about the R380? I thought it had the same problem with recurring all day events. Though I might just be miss-remembering. It's been sat in a draw in my desk at home for the last 15 months!
Yes, I am still using an R380 (or I was until today when an unfortunate accident totaled the screen!) and it handles recurring all day appointments very nicely. I was thinking about going to a P900 but maybe I'll try to get mine repaired instead- it does all I want (though admittedly quite slowly...).
I just bought my p910 thinking it would synchronise at lest as good as my old z600 but recurring events dont synchronise in the p910.
The Sony Ericsson support site helpfully says that the problem is solved as follows: It doesnt work now and there is no intention of fixing this problem in the future...... some solution when one pays this much for a phone!!! im seriously thinking of taking it back to the shop. the main reason i bought it was to sync with outlook contacts and calendar!!
woiff wrote:I just bought my p910 thinking it would synchronise at lest as good as my old z600 but recurring events dont synchronise in the p910.
The Sony Ericsson support site helpfully says that the problem is solved as follows: It doesnt work now and there is no intention of fixing this problem in the future...... some solution when one pays this much for a phone!!! im seriously thinking of taking it back to the shop. the main reason i bought it was to sync with outlook contacts and calendar!!
If that really is the main reason you bought it, then I would return it immeadiately. The synch software is appalling and if you synch with Outlook\Exchange on a regular basis you WILL lose appointments, get duplicate appoinments and contacts and generally have a nightmare of a time. The P900\P910 is the best smartphone on the market today, but it is completely useless if you wish to synch with Outlook\Exchange on a regular basis.
What really upsets me with this whole thing is that this is such a common and stupid thing to leave out. Ok, so I can't control the space station with my phone. I can live without crazy functions like that but what dumba** engineer thought to himself, "Now why would anyone want to enter a recurring all-day event? Its not like people celebrate their birthdays on a yearly basis and holidays certainly don't fall on the same day every year." Now that guy should have been fired, but the morons that let the same dang thing slide with the P900 and the P910, they should be locked up. Also, what on earth is keeping them from releasing a software update that fixes this? Isn't this made by Sony? One of the biggest and wealthiest electronics companies on the planet? Obviously they are one of the stupidest too.
Anyway, other then some blindingly obvious problems such as this, the phone is great. I really love the ability to control my TV with my phone (with Total irRemote).