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birthday field is very necessary!

That's pretty much a given, but, thanks for stopping by ;)

Seconded

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yes, please add.

or better still please explain how it ever got left out...

This is one of the major functionalities Gmail's contacts should have.

birthday is very important gfor users.

Hey, if you edit your contacts online through Gmail/Google Apps, each contact now has a
dedicated 'birthday' field.  The limitation is just that the 'contacts' app in Android
(like on our G1's) doesn't support this field, yet.

Surely there is no excuse now Android devs? Maybe you could make this a milestone for
donut?

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Sergeybe,

If you go through the Gmail contacts list, there is definitely a birthday year field.

Personally, I do not see that birthday field in Gmail (mail.google.com).  I do
however, see it if I go to http://www.google.com/contacts, but this extra information
does not show up in any other google application that I use.

Does the api allow access to more information than is shown in the Android Contacts app?

Is this field coming to Android?

Please add a birthday field

I also would like to be able to manage contacts' birthdays from my phone, and its
integration to Calendar. This is already possible from the web, as

1. you can add a birthday info when editing Google contacts from the web;

2. to add them to your calendar: (i) Go to Calendar's Settings page (on the web, not
on the phone), (ii) select the "Calendars" tab and click on "Browse public
calendars", (iii) then add the calendar "Contacts' birthdays and events".

Once that calendar is selected in the web view. It will also sync to your phone.

Yes the birthday field is very important. Please support the birthday also on the
mobile device.
On my HTC Hero there is a extra field for birthday in the contact details but this
doesn't sync with the google contacts birthday.

Also the Google-Calendar for Birthdays should be synchronized between Google calendar
and the Android Phone!

I too vote for Google Contacts / Android birthday synchronization! Cheers :-)

Agreed that this would be an amazing addition to the Android contacts, especially if
it had an option to sync with with the calender on both the web and the android
device. Maybe put a tick box next to the birth date in the contact which signifies
whether you want to sync that date onto the calendar.

For now I am using the Ebobirthday app and the Ebobirthday contacts sync app to make
sure that my dates are there and that I am getting reminders.

Birthday sync with GMail Contacts, and automagic birthday calendar please.

Apple has done this for a long time for a reason. It's a very neat feature, that most
people find very useful.

It's ridiculous that such a simple feature has been overlooked.

What is the point of having a birthday input field on the android contacts when it is
not updated to the calendar??

I too vote this Greate Enhancement. I think HTC Hero is already doing the same and
Gmail Already can store Birthday and Anniversary. We just need Good Contact
Application which can get Benefit of this out of the Box

This has been asked for since November 2008 and it is still not implemented yet it is
such a fundamental feature. How could google miss it?!

It appears that the Birthday field shows up in Contacts on the G1, however the  
Anniversary field does not. Also, is there any way to have dates from contacts
(birthdays, anniversaries, etc) automatically show up in the calendar? Very
important!

To have the birthdays appear in your Google calendar, see this comment
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1211#c16

I think that this is highly necessary for Android Contacts to be a "full featured"
contacts system.

It is a great way for the contact system to aggregate information useful to apps. I can
imagine apps making good use of birthday information for everyone in your contact list.
Also Synergy services like MOTOBLUR would need to save info from social networks that
always provide birthday information.

1) Google contacts do support birthdays (visible from gmail and voice).
2) A calendar Labs feature will populate a 'Birthday' Calendar with this info.
3) The last hurdle is adding this field to the Android Contacts Activity.

Please keep comments limited to the need for this field in android.(point 3) There
are numerous google groups available for support issues (ie getting the birthdays in
calendar)

Essential!

I think that as francisco.borges explains on #16 it's enought.

needed!!!!

It's not nice to maintain birthdays in two sides (Gmail Contacts and my Hero Contacts).

Google should definitely fix it as soon as possible. It is an essential feature!..

Also needed

Please add the birthday field.  It's stupid that it's been missing this long.

Please

Please add my birthday reminders on my friens page

Needed!

Please don't post "me too" comments on the bug tracker.  It is better to vote for it
by clicking on the "star" to the left of the title.

Comments that don't contain new information that would actually help fix the bug
result in counterproductive email to all the rest of us.  Thanks.

in addition to adding the birthday and anniversary fields, there should be a built in
reminder for these events special events.
Here is a screenshot of a windows mobile app that does something like this

Ben

Google calendar already has a reminder feature for anniversary and birthdays.  All
you have to do is subscribe to the "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar in the
Other calendars section.

I've done this and it works fine on my phone the only problem is that I cannot add a
birthday to my contact from my phone.  I have to log into gmail thru the website to
add bday's and anniversaries.  This is all that they need to add.

It took me a minute to find this calendar under the Interesting Calendars/more tab, but
it worked great. thanks...

Appears anniversaries are not included in the calendar, but it's a good start anyway...

@Ben
But there is one big problem with the "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar.
Notifications for this calendar are disabled in my calendar settings. So this
calender is nice to look at, but useless without notifications.

I agree the contact lists on the android needs some updating it's rather behind the
times of existing contact systems like Windows Mobile. Birthday/Anniversary, and all
the extra fields should be imported otherwise what is the point of having them.

Birthdays also need be able to be entered from the Phone's contact list, not just from
Gmail on the computer!

Also, sports calendars do not show on the Phone's calendar!  That, maybe more than
birthdays, is crucial!

It's interesting I made the comment that birthdays and anniversaries are not showing
up in the contacts.. but now they are sorta.. I have a Sprint HTC Hero which has some
sort of facebook intergration with the contacts. I noticed that I do have a birthday
and anniversary field in my contacts when I edit them, but they do not actually sync
to google. So I'm guessing that HTC must have added these fields to the contacts.

It's still not a perfect solution, as I have to enter all the dates in both gmail
contacts and my android contacts. But the are there.

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this would be a very nice to have.

I also would like this option.

How could you forget this!??? You cant possibly expect me to remember birthdays in my
own head!

Its unbelieveble... Now Im triyng with the notifications on facebook application on
the HTC Hero.

There are two fields on contacts (brithday and annyversary) but cant find the way to
remember me these very importants days.. (Of course, i can enter one by one on
calendar.. but then why exists the fields on contact application? and let you sync
with facebook?) On saturday i will know if at least works with the facebook
integration and notifies me a friends birthday that i sync with facebook.

Its a basic feature!!!

You forgot it? I think that this feature is very important. After I tries to get it
in my phone, I found this issue.

Ditto OPs comments

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Bump

Please don't post comments without any information here. All this does is spam people
who subscribed to this thread. This is not a chat forum!

As a temporary remedy, you can use the free EboBirthday app, which maintains
birthdays, adds them to the calendar, syncs them with google.com/contacts (or
gmail.com), imports them from Facebook, writes them back to the contacts' notes, etc.
Yes, I'm plugging my own app here, but it's really just meant as a interim solution
until there is native support for that in Android.

I'm pretty sure that Google is very much aware of the problem and working on it, it's
just a matter of time. As of now, please do not post "bump" and "ditto" comments, all
you do is spam the 300+ people who will get an annoying email every time you do so.
It won't make the Android team address the issue any faster.

Absolutely necessary, I strongly dislike having to use a third party app to do this.

WinMobile has such common things like birthday

Now Google Can Recod Birthdate and Annivarsary in Contact Book and then you go to

http://calendar.google.com and Attach your Contact Birthday / Anniversary Calendar to
Normal View Immidiately your Calendar in Android will show allk Birthdate Recorded.

But i think they must allowed to add edit that dates from Android too.

on top of anniversary I would include Spouse's name field as well.

The most flexible solution would be to offer any number of additional fields as part
of the contact template, which could be "date", "string", "phone number", "email
address", "URL", "other contact", so that users can add whatever additional data they
want, so you could add "Spouse [other contact]", and for Spanish users, "Santos [date]".

(The only downside to a non-standardized template would be that it is harder for apps
to access that data.)

Please do note that there is a "Contacts Data API"

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/reference.html

Android apps should fully support this before thinking of "additional fields" imho. :-)

And let's PLEASE add Speed Dial!  I don't see what code is used for that (for
instance, in a dialing string).

I just found out (and should not have HAD to on my own) how to put in a PAUSE and a
WAIT in the dialing strings!

Speaking of numbers, PLEASE add encrypted number hiding for dialing codes and
passcodes for PBX use - also with those MUTE DTMF automatically if "hidden", etc.
Even the old K2 does that!

Speaking of DTMF - PLEASE add user ability to change speed output of DTMF bursts!
Some systems do not handle those speeds, and in not-so-good calls, the bursts just
dont "get through" to the other end.  I can't tel you how many times I have had VISA
and AMEX call me back as a "courtesy" only for me to sheepishly admit that I am using
a new phone that just can't handle such a simple thing.

clcdan -- you should start a new topic, your post has nothing to do with this one...

This is stupid not to have this.  

I think the whole vcard standard should be implemented, the wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard is easier reading than the official rfc.
If done right it could easily be extendable to support the common extensions like X-
ANNIVERSARY, X-SPOUSE, etc.  Simply filter out the X- and lower the case of the rest
and display it in both google contacts and the contact field of the android address
book.  Then we could easily add additional fields using X-WHATEVERWEWANT and just
make the contacts apps on google and android display these additional fields.  The
KDE Address book uses X-PARENT and X-CHILD (Or somehting like that) so you could put
in parents, children, etc.  I come from two large families, my mother and father
both had 6 siblings so that makes 14 children from their generation and say an
average of 2 each I have ~28 cousins, then some married and had average of two kids,
my two kids have 40-50 cousins.  So I have close to 50 contacts of just the family
members I'm close to and 50 or so others that I can't remember how they are related,
those parent/child fields would be a big help when I see someone in the family group
that I can't remember how I know them.
The GEO field would be interesting to integrate with Latitude so someone with
another phone thats using latitude their location could come back down to their
contact on my phone.

Keep contacts birthdays in sync with Android Contacts and Gmail (Google Mail)
contacts is a must! The calendar link is a desire.

This request may need to split depending on Android version.  From the comments it
appears its not supported at all in some versions but 2.0.x does support birthdays,
i.e. if I put in a birthday in gmail contacts and it shows on the phone, just need to
add the ability to edit on the phone and the ability to link it to the calendar on
the phone rather than having to go to the google calendar web site.
Anniversary gets trickier since its not a standard vcard field (which most contact
systems are based on).  The anniversary and spouse fields are usually implemented as
X-extensions.
Anniversary also gets trickier if you have a contact for both spouses and have a
calendar display the anniversary you will get it twice.  We worked around this in the
KDE Address book by use of the X-spouse fields to link spouses together then would
use that to join the names and eliminate the duplicates.  So it looks like this in
the underlying data:

FN:Spouse1 Lastname
X-Anniversary:2010-01-01
X-SpousesName:Spouse2 Lastname

FN:Spouse2 Lastname
X-Anniversary:2010-01-01
X-SpousesName:Spouse1 Lastname

Then the calendar would display:
Spouse1 and Spouse2 Lastname's Anniversary.

I've been digging through the contacts source code, just adding the fields is easy
enough, just treat it as a couple additional fields, one with a date, one with text,
the joining would be done by whatever code does the calendar display.
The other half then is opening the same request on the gmail side to duplicate the
same fields on the gmail contacts side.
An additional feature would be when filling in the spouse field allow it to be typed
in text for cases where you only have a contact for one spouse, but also allow to
bring up a contact chooser to pick an existing contact and somehow make that dynamic
since it could be possible for a user to associate the spouses prior to changing one
of the spouses last names then have have the spouse data break due to the name change.  

That is a great idea. I think really it would be easy to implement as it should be if
your contact's birthday/anniversary whatever is put in it just auto adds that to
calendar instead of linked records.

Birthday yes

Its very important, YES!
ANDROID(HTC HERO) PHONE WITHOUT BIRTHDAYS IN CALENDAR...

Integration that's what we want.  Google provides almost everything app-wise now just
get them all to talk to each other.

Very important feature for me too, maybe the most important concerning contacts.

have been trying to figure out how to do this for two days.  this needs to happen.  i
was looking forward to automatic alerts for friends' birthdays because i am totally
incompetent when it comes to remembering by myself.  

editable field is needed, also on milestone 2.0

please add

To everyone who feels it appropriate to add a comment just saying "me too":

Please consider why you are posting a comment. One of the key ways these issues are
prioritised is by how many people have starred these issues. Members who have starred
this get alerts when people add a comment, and it is starting to get silly reading
the number of comments saying "I need this, please add" but do not add any valuable
information.

If you want the issue to become more important, but have nothing to say other than
that, please star the issue. If this issue continues to get more unnecessary comments
then people are going to unstar it which will actually make it look LESS important.

Thank you.

birthday field is very very very necessary!

Actually in my Nexus One I already have a b-day field and it even synced with GMail :)

I actually don't see this in 2.1 (on Nexus One).
The ideal functionality would be to

a) have bday fields
b) integrates with GMail calendar
c) sync's bdays from facebook and stores them permanently--i.e. they will be there
without facebook being logged in (unlike pictures).

I would revise your 'ideal' functionality as follows:

b) integrates with Gmail calendar if Gmail contact OR Corporate calendar if
Corporate contact

I would also say that having a combined calendar is also critical.

@half of the users who commented above: As for example reevery has already explained:
this is a bug tracking system. - If you haven't to add something new and
constructive, don't complain here, because right now 566 people will get an email
every time you do this. And as you've starred this issue, people already know that
you want it to be solved.

Bottom-line: In fact you're not helping at all, because every comment has to be read
by the developers. In other words, the more useless comments will be posted, the more
time the developers have to be spent to read through these comments. Maybe because of
the flood of complaints, fruitful ideas will not be seen. Moreover, it consumes the
developers' time and this will result in later bug fixes. Or in other words, you're
just annoying other people.

@Google: Maybe you could think about a separation of the notification and the vote
for bugs in the future. - I've starred a few of these 'Oh my god, I feel so bad,
because this feature is not working' and think of, as reevery said, unstarring these.

An approach of

 - full notification (on every comment, status-update, etc.)
 - notification on status update
 - or no notification but still having the possibility to vote

would be very helpful. - Thanks!

I hate to add another comment that doesn't contribute to the solution of this
problem, but I think this will make everyone happy.

You don't have to receive updates on the issues you star.  In the upper right corner
of the Google Code page, click Profile.  Then click the settings tab.  There you can
elect not to receive updates on issues you star.  Boom.

UNSTARRING -

KNOCK OFF WITH THE COMMENTS ALREADY ! I no longer give a $$$$ if this ever gets fixed.

@grassman20: true, but I meant to have control over the type of notification
individually for every threat (or an rss-feed - that would also do the trick)...

Windows mobile has had this capability for years, literally and it is sad to see such
capability absent in Android. It doesn't matter that Android is still young.

A contact should have a birthday field. Entering a date into the field should sync
with whichever account the contact belongs to. This should then integrate into the
calendar associated with the account that the contact resides under. A yearly event
should be made on the calendar. As a bonus, the person's age should be visible. Hey,
not trying to be like Windows per se, but it's a nice touch.

The current non-existent implementation on the phone is unacceptable. Furthermore,
the method of entering the birthday via the website and then subscribing to the
birthday calendar is sloppy at best. That is another calendar I have to subscribe to
and another calendar that I can't add reminders or notes to, sending me back to the
web to copy the event to my main calendar if I want to set a reminder or edit the
event. Come on google, let's focus on the obvious things before adding more "pretty
stuff" to Android.

I definately think integrating the birthday field in contacts should integrate with
google calendar. I would also like to see a better integration with facebook
contacts and calendars in google calendar for android.

People, if this is a life or death feature to you, how about you FIX THE PROBLEM?
Android's source is open, you can make the change yourself. If you're just stopping
by to tell us how much you need this feature and that your first born child will die
if you don't get your contacts birthdays syncing with Google calendar, DON'T. All
you're doing is annoying those of us that subscribed to this issue. The more people
subscribed, the more attention the issue gets. The more whining and complaining in
this thread, the more people who are going to unsubscribe. So if you care about this
problem, subscribe to it (click the star), but don't bitch and moan about how
unacceptable it is that this feature is not implemented.

Because I bought a $530 phone

Ok, I'm unsubscribing from this issue because tcostasouza is moron with an
entitlement complex.

At least I'm polite

ok, you are a polite moron, -2 starts, thanks to tcostasouza being a real pain in the ass

Please, calm down dudes ;) I don't think the comments here are intended for
flaming...(@velo&//chris)

Correct. They are intended for constructive input to a bug report or feature request.
You can see why few companies run public bug trackers.

chrisrico is totally off with his logic.
He is saying if a surgeon (during the surgery)
leaves a scalpel in his stomach, he will open
his stomach and remove it himself!!!

 I agree with tcostasouza that I spent $530 for the
device (not just phone) and as a customer I have certain expectations.
For example, if I buy a car I assume that the brakes will be applied
when I depress the pedal.

This feature is such basic feature for a PDA device (as it is advertised,
not only phone) they charge hefty price for that not only one time,
also monthly fees.

So they better put their act together or Windows will win the battle!
In other words, market will speak! Just doing the STAR does not help
it seems cause the issue is around since day one and nothing is happening.

At least BB Storm I had, I used to get quite a few update to the software
fixing issues. This phone does not get that. Not sure what they are busy
with????

Everyone posting, you are sending messages to 687 people.  As now I have for which I
profoundly apologize but hope this will let people understand.  The 687 people you
are complaining to are not engineers for this product (for the most part) but rather
people like yourself that would like to know if/when this is fixed and show their
support for its importance

Complaining here doesn't solve anything other than spamming 687 people; the comments
don't help this move up in priority but rather drop its importance as people drop
off.  Please stop.

Thank you.

--Cori

Please include all fileds (including birthdays) in sync with android devices.

Wow...in about fifteen minutes I figured out how to get the contacts birthdays and
anniversaries to show on the calendar.  I also noticed that if you click on the birthday you
can set a reminder.  Don't on how it works yet but I bet I does fine.  Even with Palm I had to
choose the reminder...it was not automatic.  AND...I like that I can access the calendar from
any computer with web access, not just with Palm Desktop.

I am also happy to see the various Holiday calendars among the choices.  That feature was
not automatic with Palm.

Overall, after getting over the differences, I think Google has done a great job.

Desirable

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kaallison: I got the contact's birthday calendar too, but there's no way to activate
reminders.

Are you using an HTC device? - HTC have changed Android on all their phones and
perhaps might have Birthday Reminder to your phone. Google's Nexus one might not have
it since they are not using HTC's changed version of Android.

Wish to have reminder/Notification along with the contact's birthday calendar too..

Very necessary.

Has anyone been able check the status of this issue in froyo ?

See cooment #44 to add your birthdays to your calendar.

This should be in the preferecnes screen on the Google calendar, and not have to be found several layers deep.

This very function on Windows Live Calendars is done automatically, and seemlessly.

Now lets see if it goes to my phone

How to delete an Event from a dead contact?

Ok, i find.
In Calendar (of Sense 2.1), you can choose event Calendar for ur contact, press menu, delete and add...
Bye

Seems a strange for this not to happen, pretty much a given requirment

Yes I hope they include this feature in the future.

Please count me as another requester of this feature.

Errm, you can add a "Birthday Calendar" to your calendars in Google Calendar that's automagically filled with entries from your contacts' birthday and anniversary fields. It can be selected for syncing in Android just fine.

This issue doesn't exist. Unstarring.

This feature should be easily available thru the phone

So everyone agrees it needs to happen. When is it going to happen?

@pernegger is correct, but it cannot be managed on the phone.

Please do it.  Some of us have have poor memories, and some "friends" get annoyed you forget their birthday!!!

It already happened.
Like pernegger said, you can subscribe to the contacts calendar, you'll need to do that on the web interface and it will work as requested.

Yeah i do agree with the issue,its very annoying to add each persons birthday to calendar and create the reminder for each.
i would like develop this application any further guidelines can be provided by anyone in the above concern.

Another vote for this.

Another problem: If I do not enter the year of birth of somebody (sometimes I simply don't know it and don't want to ask) when creating a contact on my gmail account, the birthday isn't shown on my android calendar (galaxy s).

I may be wrong, but I added the Contact calendar as described, and they show up on the web, but not on my phone (Android 1.6).
Any hint?

The lack of integration of contacts and calendar is fundamental disadvantage of android. There should be ability to copy contact name and phone number to new calendar event in an easy way (e.g. during making an event). Then when the reminder is shown I can just tap displayed phone number in order to make planned call. This is partially resolved by third party app Contact Event (paid), but such a functionality was offered five years ago in Nokia s40 series.

I think the fact that birthday field is missing is a Major bug, not an Enhancement.

I'm struggling with some anniversaries linking correctly between contacts and the calendar. All the birthdays seem ok, but two of the anniversaries appear two days later on the calendar than as they were entered on the contacts. Any clues on how to solve this?

Paolo,

I went to the calendars link in my google calendar on my android, unchecked my contact birthdays and event calendar for sync and visibility, shut down my phone, rebooted it, and then rechecked the sync and visibility and it worked!

To summarize what's being said above and to try to make it clear to anyone who has to find and fix this issue:  

The android 2.1 framework and the underlying sqlite3 database DOES support Birthday, Anniversary, and "other" as a ContactContract.Data record with the mimetype vnd.android.com.contacts.contact_event.

The problem is that the contacts app that comes with the Droid 1 (and probably others) will SHOW you the dates (if added externally such as in gmail), but it doesn't give you the ability to add/modify/delete them when you EDIT a contact.

The Incredible DOES allow you to add/edit/delete dates in your contacts but i'm assuming that this is 3rd party software that replaces the "vanilla" android contacts.  So the bug isn't that these dates are not supported by the framework, it's just a bug/missing feature in the vanilla contacts app that doesn't allow you to add/edit/delete the dates.

I can't speak to the Calendar app portion of the request.  Hope this helps.

It gets synced, but is not editable and could be implemented in less then half an hours coding time, right? What's the holdup? Just add it, please.

Would also like to have extension number included in phone number. This is important for storing company numbers.

Also would like to have ability to add individuals under Company major heading. Where the Company is the major sort field and multiple contacts can be listed. Include information like extension, department, location, title, manager...

on htc desire with android 2.2 there is a field for the birthday of a contact, and it gets also synced online.

however, there seems to be an issue with syncing the "contacts birthdays and events"-calender. It shows only the next birthday of each contact at the time of the first activation of the calendar of the phone. Not past birthdays and not future ones, only the next. Changes on a contacts birthday AFTER the first activation of the birthday-calendar on the phone are not synced to the phone at all.

In the browser the calendar shows ALL birthdays of the contacts properly.

It's as usual a major mess made by those freaks at google... who the hell forgets the birthday field editing in the contact application ? Only google can hire such freaks...

Anyway, I don't even have the birthday calendar available to be enabled on the web gmail calendar, which - even if it worked - would be another stupid workaround to get a 1st class device to work as an old sony ericssonn from 7 years ago. How the hell can I enable it if it doesn't appear under 'Other calendars' to add ?

A extremamente importante termos a data do aniversário do contato, pois assim temos que controle essas datas para nós. Assim como encontramos em outros sistemas operacionais de celulares. Isto é meio que básico e jamais poderia ficar fora!

A calander without birthdays and notifications on birthdays is as useful as a car without a motor.

@Google
Please implement the integration of birthdays in the calender and the contacts!

Next month this issue will be two years old. :-O

A friend commented that Google seem to treat Android development as some kind of hobby. This would seem to confirm that.

Rather than "only" add the Birthday field, perhaps the (apparently very scarce) development time could be spent adding an "anything" field by which we could add Birthday now, and any other forget field later without having to repeat the two year wait?

Why is this still open. I thought there is a birthday field, but calendar integration would be nice.

contact sync from mobile to gmail still doesnt work, does it? if i change some contact information on my mobile and sync it afterwards with gmail, it gets overvritten by gmail's old contact info's. am i right, that this isnt fixed yet?

regards

It's very important to enter and edit birthday on the mobile. If I met a person, shoul I enter his/her phone number on the fone and write his/her birthday on a paper?

I think it's very necessary to add/edit contact's birthdays

Not only would I like to see a birthday entered into a contact show up on the calendar, but I would like the reverse integration.

If I add a calendar event, I would like name options to appear the way they do as I enter a "name" into the phone dialing, and it brings up a list. Subsequently, I would like the "appointments" that I have or had to show up in the contact card.

This means that instead of searching the calendar to see how many times and when I met with Angela, I can look at my Angela contact card and see how many times I met with her and when.

This feature was in Apple's Newton from 15 years ago. Why can't we have this feature today?
I love the Android OS on my HTC Incredible and feel that calendar/contact integration would make Android better than iPhone!

Well, guys - common! Two years past, and still no change in phonebook? Is it so hard to implement? Why should I go to the calendar and search for particular contact each time I want to see his important dates?

I am operating on a LG GT540 version 2.1 update 1 and this is working for the birth date but not birthdays (ie yearly reminder). In the calendar under more options, there is a field to turn on "Contact' birthdays and events" but it seems this does not create a recurring calendar entry, only the original date. Is it simply a matter of making birthday and other anniversaries by default to be annually recurring events? I would also like it to show the age/years in the calendar reminder if possible

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I don't have this problem in eclair.

For anyone interested in this bug, can you try the following steps.


Add birthdays to contacts in Gmail.

I subscribed to the "Contacts' birthdays and events" in Google Calendar:
Under "Other calendars" Add > Browse
Select "Interesting Calendars"
Select "Contacts' birthdays and events"
This gives me a calendar in Google Calendar with my contact's birthdays.

Add the calendar in Android:
Open the Calendar app > Menu > My Calendars
Menu > Add calendars
Select "Contacts' birthdays and events"

I can push webpages but not keep bookmarks syncd? Thats silly.

birthday field is very necessary

This feature is part of PalmOS (Yes, the old OS on the Palm TX, not talking about WebOS on the Palm Pre), so why is it missing from Android?  The Facebook app manages it.  I know Google do some really cool stuff, but missing the basics is simply weak.

over 2 years this feature is requestet by many people ...
the only thing that happend is that you can add at the website a birthday and this one gets synced to the phone but you cant edit this on the phone or add the birthday on the phone.
what is so difficult that this feature cant be ported to android contact app?
i and many other people think that this isnt an enhancement to the contact app - its an fundamentally feature
please can you fix this?
some feedback from the developers would be nice

it ridiculous how every other cheap cell phone has this feature and android doesn't...

yeah cheap cell phone has this, why not android?

This was working through the Google Calendar settings and subscribing to the "birthday" calendar (same as weekdays or day of year) and it showed up at my android phone. since roughtly a half year, this doesn't work anymore! Why???

Yea, I try adding the birthday (subscribing) to my google calendar and it worked great. Then when I have new contacts and started adding more birthdays then it just seem not to work anymore.

So in my phone I have some birthdays there and some not. Removing and re-adding made all the birthdays disappear. Needs to have better integration.

Please add Birthday & Anniversary Date Fields to the contact!

Please add this

Please Please Please Please add Birthday & Anniversary Date Fields to the contact!!!!!!

I'm shocked to realize that google has not added bithday edit or sync with the complete contact details from google contacts in Android.  Windows Mobile had it, Windows Phone 7 had it.  And ever PIM utility that I've used since symbian has had it.  Why do they torture us?  I don't want an app for it.  At a family gathering I'd like to update my relatives birthdays, anniversaries etc. and have it sync to my computer.  I guess I can email the info to myself and update it on my laptop later.  Please fix this.

I agree.. Essential requirement I think...

Birthday information is very necessary in adressbook

Wake up Google! It wont be long before you guys sink for such a pathetic response to your customers!

It's crazy that you can SEE birthdays in the Contact app BUT YOU CAN'T EDIT THEM.

Makes no sense at all. Google, pls fix.

It's crazy that you can SEE birthdays in the Contact app BUT YOU CAN'T EDIT THEM.

Makes no sense at all. Google, pls fix.

I came from a windows phone and miss this feature. It is nice to add a contact and enter all information from one app. Please add this!

Hi,

I have a new Samsung Google Nexus S, sync with my Gmail account. No problem, it's works fine.

What I need it's to be able to modifiy/add contact's anniversarie/birthday on my mobile. Under Android Gingerbread 2.3 it's not possible. You can only see it.

Only on Gmail account under contact we can do that.

I wish that will be added on next update ?! Please, thank you.

i also miss that feature. please add it on froyo or gingerbread.

WOW... for a user like me who is slowly moving from Outlook to Gmail, it's quite unbelievable to realize that Google's team has not thought about this issue before!!!

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) lets users add and modify the contact event field to support editing of birthdays, anniversaries, etc on the device.

Since the original issue also requests direct calendar integration, I'll modify the issue summary and subcomponent to just focus on that remaining piece.

Gabe, its funny that you mention that Honeycomb allows users to do this! Customers / Users are STILL not clear if Honeycomb will be available for Mobile phones and more importantly WHEN!!

If the code is available, why not just roll out an update to fix it!!!

Such an update is most customer/user UNFRIENDLY, to say the least, and does not show the spirit of Google which we all loved. Off late this spirit seems to be diminishing day by day!

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So there now (for some honeycomb is still years away, if ever) is a way to edit event fields, but those events are not synced with a calendar?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for (integrating) progress. But seeing as updating a mobile OS is still a long way from updating a program or app, wouldn't it be far more desirable to add the synchronization as well To "finish" the feature?

Is there a simple way for the Android team to incorporate feature on current Andriod platforms. After all, Honeycomb only accounts for a small % of current users, right?

#170, does Honeycomb really fix this? I just tried to create a contact in the emmulator contacts app and still found no way to set a birthday...