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Yeah I ended up I have to remove the calendar and then add it back.  after it syncs for a minute then I'm back in business.

I'm ready to take out an advertisment on the SF Bay Bridge that says:
 "Google phones and Android don't allow you access to past events in your Calendar. Every alternative to Android will".
Shall we start a paypal donation site?

So frustrating. Until this, I though my Android (HTC Desire) phone was finally a good replacement for my Palm Zire.
I have tried a whole bunch of tricks to fix this problem. Some work for while and then fail while some just don't have any effect.

So frustrating. Until this, I though my Android (HTC Desire) phone was finally a good replacement for my Palm Zire.
I have tried a whole bunch of tricks to fix this problem. Some work for while and then fail while some just don't have any effect.

I just bought Samsung Galaxy Tab more than a month ago and started using the Calendar. I tried to sync with my Google web calendar but nothing appears.

Hope Google can sort out this issue immediately.

My primary calendar seems to be syncing OK, but new events on secondary calendars (i.e. my wife's calendar shared with me) are not appearing.

I've seen this twice in the last few days, both times in the same calendar. Neither of the appointments were recurring. I've tried to remove the calendar and add it again to no avail, but copying the event to another of my calendars made it show up in that calendar on the phone too. The phone is an HTC Legend running Android 2.2.

Same for me, too, as of yesterday.  Many of my calendar events simply disappeared on my Android interface.  They show up on the Web calendar.

Same for me, too, as of yesterday.  Many of my calendar events simply disappeared on my Android interface.  They show up on the Web calendar.

I too am experiencing this issue on my galaxy tab.  For me, they are the events I created in Outlook that I synced with Google Calendar.  I see those events in my web calendar, but they don't appear in the Android calendar on my galaxy tab.  Events I create in galaxy tab are visible on my web calendar, and in fact they successfully sync up and appear all the way through to my Outlook calendar.  It seems to be only the events I create in outlook that sync to google calendar.

This issue is not only showing up as disappearing events, but also there are events showing in the Android calendar that do not show on the Web-based Google Calendars.  This specifically affects a "semi-monthly payday" calendar that I created.  All five weekdays prior to the end of the month are showing as paydays in the Android calendar, while on the Web calendar, only the one weekday at the end of the month (which is correct) is showing.  For clarification, the Web calendar is performing the correct behavior.

In my case the day before yesterday all events disappeared on my droid except the one added in web just one day ago. Now newly added events appear in both, but all the events fixed early won't come up in my phone. Pretty annoying. I tried nearly everything - except deleting my account.

I work for a wireless provider and am seeing this issue on multiple devices including my own. My own device issue started about 5 days ago and resolved about 2 days ago. I have other customers who's calendar entries are missing and have been missing from their devices for several days. The calendatr entries are available online. I have forced sync, removed synce then deleted cache and storage for calendar and then initiated re-sync, all without resolution of the issue.

Motorola Cliq xt android 1.6 and google calendar. My calendar disappeared ("the event")and only newly added events show up. Past events and future events added prior to "the event" are not on my Motorola.

This may help, or it may be a red herring.  I had just changed my password on my gmail account before the calendar issue started.  Now the calendar on my Motorola Backflip does not show any recurring events and misses plenty of the static events.  It does show some events, but I haven't found a rhyme or reason yet.

Same issue here, occoured sometime this week.
I have added my shiftrotation until april 2012, and I really do not want to do that again ! Truly very disapointing.

Opened 17208 fro my issue

Hello,
Since upgrading to Gingerbread (SGS) I've been dealing with lots of issues regarding calendar. I'm using few calendars in google (private, public holidays, birthdays, etc.) but when I setup the calendar synchronization I can see only my private calendar and the phone default (My Calendar). I've been reading that a lot of people have this issue so I decided to dig a little bit deeper. Finally I found a solution!

If you have a problem with displaying multiple google calendars in your phone follow this procedure:

Prerequisities:
* rooted phone (you'll need to access system file)
* SQLite Editor - there is an app in android market.

Steps:
1. Make a backup of calendar data (just in case you'll need it in the future).
2. Go to Settings->Application-Manage Apllications.
3. Find following apps and delete their data: Calendar, Calendar Storage, Calendar Synchronization (or similar name).
4. Reboot your phone (not required, but flushing memory is not a bad thing)
5. Go to Settings->Accounts and Synchronization and synchronize your google calendar.
6. Open /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db with SQLite Editor or any other program that can edit SQLite data. (this is path on my SGS, other phones may have different paths)
7. Open Calendars table.
8. If everything is OK you should see a list of google calendars you have. To enable missing calendars edit columns: selected and sync_events. Put 1 to enable synchronization and display.
9. Save changes to the database.
10. Go to Settings->Accounts and Synchronization and synchronize your google calendar again.

Now you should see list of all your gogle calendars and you can add events to different calendars.

Hello, I have an HTC Hero and have had no problems with future and past events on my google calendar until Friday May 27th. In the morning everything was fine with an up-to-date calendar, then in the evening, all events past, present, and future are gone on my phone. I will have to go on my computer to see any events that have been added prior to the afternoon of the 27th. Unless I go into the calendar on the computer and modify the event prior to Friday, will I then see it on my phone. All events inputed (on either the phone or the computer) after the afternoon of the 27th are the only events visible on the phone. I have spoken to my mobile service provider and HTC support, and both have no answers for me except to make a comment on this site.

Please fix the problem as I am a therapist and book appointments on my phone and need not to double book my patients.

Thank you

google is mostly hobby paid by ads and subscriptions

I am the same as a few other users on here. I have had no problems until the 27th May. This is HUGELY annyoing for me and definately a reason not to buy another Android phone again if this is what happens.

I use my calendar daily and without it, its pointless me having the phone to be honest, my old K800i can do everything else almost as well!!!

please help. same issues as above with samsung galaxy deleting all calendar entries

WHAT.IS.HAPPENING.

This has got to be the most frustrating issue ever, it's like going back 1980 - no reliable electronic calendar on your person at all times.

Please vote on this and change the priority to High.

I posted comment number 10 above.  I come back to say that somehow, for some unknown reason, this issue stopped being a problem for us.  All calendar entries I make anywhere are synced all the way down the line and back again.  AND, for the first time in the "digital era", my work and personal calendars are fully synced and available to each other (outlook to android, desktop to galaxy tab and back) in a way that is truly remarkable.  So, Google/Android, you have made our family a bunch of happy campers!

My issue it appears to stop at a rolling approximate year on my HTC desire, there must be a way to make it go longer Google surely!

Sucky Suck Suck. Same crap here.

I have the same problem :-(

I have found a solution to my issue, if you change the time forward 1 year, or just before your calendar stops working, then sync, then set the time back it seems to work fine for me fine for all the way up to the date I set plus 1 year

I found the solution for my particular case as well. The calendar that woldn't sync correctly was my birthday calendar, only containing full day events recurring every year. None of the entries appeared on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2 w/Gingerbread), but when making a minor change in every event, such as adding a dot to the end of the title, they showed up on the phone. I only had 20-30 entries, so for me this was a feasible job.

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I disabled sync.  Cleared the cache and powered down the device as soon as I did.  When it booted up again I cleared the cache again then re-enabled the sync.

This worked for me.  I was thinking this approach might better completely clear state in the Calendar app.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S

When you "Manage Applications" you'll need to switch your filter (under options) to All.

Hope this helps,
Chris

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Same problem on my HTC Incredible. All day events that are changed to specific times are not updated correctly on the device. The Title and description update fine but the time is still showing ALL DAY even after I changed it to specific time slot.

Very frustrating!

Seems to work now!  Thanks to those who worked and corrected this problem!  (Motorola Backflip using OS 2.2).
-scott

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Started having this issue recently, help!

Having this issue since 1 week ago. Calendar working ok on web, but appointments from some calendars cannot be seen on Android Calendar unless they are modified one by one on Web Calendar and then synced again (HTC Wildfire, Android 2.2.1).

I first noticed that some but not all of my secondary calendar entries were missing on my phone ever since I updated my sim card.  I ended up duplicating the missing events on my desktop version of google calendar then deleting the original.  Now those previously missing events show up both on my desktop and phone.

I've used Windows 6 and prior phones for years. Never any problems syncing Outlook calendar and contacts to the phone and back. With all the hype about Android I guess I got suckered in and just switched to the Samsung Charge as my old phone had gotten too old! What a mistake. Based on all the threads I've seen here and elsewhere it doesn't appear there is any hope of getting help from Google on solving our problems. It'll cost me to convert so soon to a Windows 7 phone when they're available but I may have to do it to retain my sanity. Seeing their base running aware and losing market share will likely be the only thing Google understands. I found that when I needed help from Microsoft (and I'm not a fan) I did get it including help with a recent serious issue with Win 7 on the PC. They actually logged onto my system and fixed it. It was not under warranty but it was their problem and there was no charge. Since my first PC (Apple) in 1980 I've had to deal with many hardware and software companies to resolve issues. I've never seen anyone as bad as Google. Sorry, but this is ludicrous and I had to vent my frustration.

Goog is search and ads. The rest of their productd are hobby. Wouldnt trust their cloud with my business.  Hobby maybe.

To comment #38: lucky you! I had lots of issues with Windows Mobile 6 sync with Outlook, so I'm not returning to Windows Mobile any more. In fact, I returned to my old Palm Zire instead.

I prefer this one-time bug of Google Calendar, as there is an easy workaround: deleting temporary Calendar data on setup, and letting it sync again.

I've deleted my previous entries saying it was fixed on my mobile. NOT fixed....

HTC Desire..... have done 3 factory rests but after a while it stops syncing.  Calendar not syncing at all.....only has data that sync'd on set up. Gmail does not PUSH either.....only pull.

Please......anyone.......can you help?

I've deleted my previous entries saying it was fixed on my mobile. NOT fixed....

HTC Desire..... have done 3 factory rests but after a while it stops syncing.  Calendar not syncing at all.....only has data that sync'd on set up. Gmail does not PUSH either.....only pull.

Please......anyone.......can you help?

The core issue is that in the thread http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3672

That is - Old entries migrated to Google Calendar do not show up on Android.  For us old Palm users, this is incomprehensible.  I/we do not want to constantly update old stuff, we just want it synchronised once, then have decent search facilities so that we can check our memories and activity when on the road and in a hurry.

Still not sorted? :(

This is a "must work" for me. I am an Android fan, but if I can't rely on Google, and trust my calendars are in sync, I'm going Apple or RIM. I am afraid it is simple as that! Regards, Tom

My issue appears to be fixed in 2.3.4.

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I'm on 2.3.4 on a Samsung Galaxy S, and still the other calendars don't show up on my phone (but works perfectly in browser).

To be precise, it works (that is, the subscribed calendars show up) in the classic browser version (desktop) run on my Android device, but NOT in the mobile version of the browser on the device.

for me repeat events setup on google calendar show correctly on that calendar but not on the android calendar synched to google.

Have cleared data on andoid calendar, checked empty, resynched, android picked up the data but showed the identical missplacement as before.

The entries are my work shift pattern that repeats on a 4 week cycle, notice the android calendar doesnt seem to have an option to suit this repeat, weirdly it gets most the pattern OK but some days within a set are missplaced by a couple of weeks while other days are correct.  Happened on the shipped android 2.1 and the 2.2 now upgraded to.

Am a newcomer to smartphones on an Orange San Francisco(ZTE blade), amazed by the fancy things it can do, equally amazed Android cant cope with something so basic and seems to be a long term unfixed issue.  
 

Recurring events simply are not sync'd to Android. A fix is needed; this is horrible!!!!!!

After several attempts clearing down calendars at both ends appear to have solved my problem by entering each day indivually rather than in block
e.g. rather than creating one entry for days Mon - Thur as a block with a 4 week repeat created one repeating entry for Mon, then another for Tues, another for Wed, etc.

I also had some recurring appointments missing.
What worked for me is to disable the calendars to sync, hit OK. Than select your calendars to sync again and hit OK again. All my (recurring) appointment are available again.

In my HTC Desire google calendar entries do not sync either way and removing and readding calendars don't help. Recurring entries done ages ago appear in the calendar but since then the synchronization has failed and no new items sync from browser to android or android to browser. On my ipad things work well. Needless to say this is more than a bit embarrassing for Google. One would expect them to fix this quickly.

The comment #54 did fix my issue. At least for now.

I am experiencing this issue now. Fix #54 has not fixed my issue. I have one calendar (shared) on which repeating events will not show. Repeating events on my calendar (local to my account) will however show. This started occurring when I updated to android 2.3.

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same problem as many people described:
caldendar entires that have been modified (reschedule) do appear in the web calendar, but obviously do not sync on android phone.. they simply disappear (Samsung Galaxi SII, android 2.3).
As a workaround, I have to clear all data from my android calendar every day, then sync again and by magic, I then see the modified entries that had disappeared...
It is quite annnoying to have to do this every day...
When will this problem be structurally solved ?

Goog is a search business.  Calendar is one of many hobbies for goog. Dont expect a reliable cloud.

Google's grand scheme, I have heard, is to "organize the information of the world", and certainly calendar information is pretty important, so I doubt that they would like others to be providing all those links for them. But I agree it is mystifying that such issues don't get solved, and that no support feedback is available (at least here in the cloud).

Google's grand scheme, I have heard, is to "organize the information of the world", and certainly calendar information is pretty important, so I doubt that they would like others to be providing all those links for them. But I agree it is mystifying that such issues don't get solved, and that no support feedback is available (at least here in the cloud).

Thousands of Google employees so busy working on their 20% time projects that they forget to care about what their customers really need. See above for a (very important) example of what's wrong with that company.

The ability to see back into my calendar (diary) has always been critical to me.

I will return my new Android phone and continue to use old calendar apps until Google can correct this serious issue.

I am a surgeon and have all my surgeries on Google calendar.
It is critically important for me to be able to find the past surgeries in my calendar.
I am not always online and I need to have a copy of all past appointments on my android phone.
It worked well on windows mobile HTC HD2, now I have moved to android - what a disappointment.

Reply to 65, that's not really a sync issue. Your issue is still a problem, though... the calendar app should have a setting where the user gets to decide how far in the past and future the events from Gcal are synced to your local phone. This is a no-brainer. Instead, it's undocumented and unusable. I have no idea what the timeframe for syncing is.

The correct setup, after allowing a customer to set up their own timeframe, would then have a search feature where:
- You can have a setting to determine to search only the phone or the web.
- If searching only the phone and events not found, you'd get a message "search the web too?" (obviously worded prettier!)

These seem like important things to add. But they just aren't in there. Sad.

Actually installing the Calengoo software solves the problem mostly - both
syncing the date range and searching.
You can even search for a part of a word, a thing that is not possible in
the google calendar on your PC/Mac.
So we pay for a service that shoud be free.
But at least we get a solution.

Reply to 67: thank you! I was not aware that there is a solution, I will pay the few EURO and hopefully the calendar is now reliable.

Google:

Today's date is Sept 13, 2011.

Since 2009 (see enclosed link) customers have presented, discussed, and provided what they believe to be work arounds regarding the ongoing issue of the Droid phones failing to display past calendar items beyond a month. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3672

I am ensuring our university is aware of this "glitch" in order to slow down migration from groupwise to google. Professional after professional has alerted Google to this situation to no avail.

What is Google doing specifically to address this issue today? When will Google provide a fix? This should be an immediate front and center issue.

Lou

any news on the sync issue? I also have this problem on galaxy tab 10.1 with 3.1...
i just purchased it after using iOS for 1 year... that was better.

I also have issues with sync. Its best described as unreliable. Random events will simply not show up on my android after I add onto my google calendar or vice versa. Clearing the cache does help but its annoying to keep having to do so. Please fix google.

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I also had no luck whatsoever with any attempt to clear any cache, clear any data, uninstall, uncheckmark and recheckmark sync options. removing and adding calendars, yada yada yada yada YADA.

Then I unearthed a post submitted back in January 2011 on another forum that suggested that SOME repeating entries with no end date made up the bulk of the entries that didn't appear on Android calendars (this includes Business Calendar, Smooth Calendar and the standard calendar, in my case).

It was a HUGE pain, but I went through ALL of the repeating entries that I'd previously created on the web google calendar and put in a 1/1/2100 end date, saved, then synced up the phone calendar. This worked for me.

Another variation that the Jan 2011 post didn't address was for repeating entries that were created by other people and sent to my google calendar online, but that I hadn't explicitly accepted and saved (because even if you don't explicitly accept an invitation, it conveniently still shows up on the web calendar, and I'm an inherently lazy person!). None of those appeared in any of my Android calendars until I accepted, saved, and then synced up the phone calendar for. Another huge pain, but at least these are also in both places now.

For both of the above painful exercises, I went through an entire year of comparing entries between my web calendar and my Android calendar (so, Oct 2011 through Nov 2012), in the hopes of catching every possible item there was to catch.

Yet another variation, and one that doesn't seem to have been solved yet, is that a random few repeating entries with explicit end dates on the web calendar still show up on the Android calendars after that end date - one of these for me shows on the Android calendar for about additional 6 weeks after its web calendar specified end date! This is annoying, but not devastating, since if I HAD to pick having extra entries over no entries, I'd pick extra entries every time. But still, that is something that doesn't seem to have even a cumbersome workaround to like the other two items I described.

SO.. after 1-2 hours of my husband and me trying to look at every phone option to figure out what "I" did wrong with my calendars, plus another 6-8 hours of combing message boards to see what the deal is, and about another 3 hours of searching for and updating about a (seemingly) million calendar entries later (because I put EVERYTHING on my calendar), I now have a calendar on my phone that I think I can depend on again.

Hopefully my rambling post helps someone else get a bit more reliably synced up. And hopefully, too, another freaked out bug like this doesn't get introduced again in the future!

Have his issue especially with repeating events. When I chose repeat every 2 weeks, only the first gets synchronized. Had this from version 2.1.1 till 2.3.7. Had to manually export whole calendar, delete it and then re-import it to be able to sync it. By then it are no longer repeating events, but all individual. Very unpleasant.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Fit phone with Android 2.3.4 and have exactly the same problem. It is a very serious problem if you use your Android phone for business purposes. You are unable to rely on entering appointments into your Gmail account using your desktop computer and then trust to be reminded on your phone when you're out of the office.

Please fix this issue ASAP!

I had many issues with stock calendar on Android.
However now I am using CalenGoo and it is very reliable and very versatile.
You can sync 10 years back - no problem.
Also never had a problem with repeatin events.

See also issues #17792 and #16904.

These issues also seem to be fixed in the latest Pimlical desktop and android versions, which use Google Calendar for their synchronization. The web site is http://www.pimlicosoftware.com
Jack

I have version 3.1, galaxy 7500. When i make a new appointment or change one on my galaxy, it don't show on my desktop computer. From desktop to android works.
This is a very importent bug because you can't trust the app any more!!! I have noticed remarks about this sort of problems more than a year a go and still not fixt!

OK, so far I've suffered in silence. Now I must "Star" this issue as well.

I keep records of my Clients appointments with "Notes" recording payments made and time used, Owed, etc (I often sell blocks of time to clients).
I've used this method with little problem from an early Palm PDA, to a Casio(!!), to two different Windows mobiles. I was always able to 1. Access 5 or more years of data, and 2. Search the Calendar by ANY field, including NOTES. This was all Synced to Outlook on my Desktop, backed up regularly.

Then came Android & Google Calendar.

DISASTER!!!! I started with the G1 on it's initial release day. At this point no-one knew about the inability of the Google Sync to go back past a month.

I SPENT THREE WEEKS TRYING TO SOLVE THIS (no help was available, no-one knew the system at that time, we were all fumbling in the dark with no help from Google or the Phone vendors). I SPENT MANY WORKING HOURS ON IT, LOSING THE INCOME I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GENERATING. I LOST TWO CUSTOMERS DUE TO INACCURATE BILLING. IT LOST ME MUCH "FACE" WITH MANY OF MY LONGEST CUSTOMERS WHEN I HAD TO ADMIT I COULDN'T TELL THEM THEIR BILLING STATUS BECAUSE MY CALENDARS WERE TRASHED BY NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS TO SYNC OUTLOOK <> GOOGLE <> PHONE!

I finally got my Outlook fixed up from backups, and beat Google's Web Calendar into some semblance of order. (and don't EVEN say the word DUPLICATE to me, I'll go postal on ya!) I had to rely on Web Calendar to check my info (very slow  and shaky on the G1, in those days before 3G was really widespread, or even worked at all).

I love so much ELSE on Android that I hung in, hoping one day ~TA-DA~ Google would wake up and FIX this after so many complaints. Silly me.

Same thing on my Samsung Galaxy S, and now on my Galaxy SII and Asus Transformer!

I finally created a Word Doc with all the "fixes" people have posted, and am about to try once more to trash {~AHEM~} FIX my Calendars so I can actually get some work done in the field, not spend my time explaining to Clients that I have to access their records in the office to update their billing! See you in three weeks.

WAKE UP GOOGLE! People have had multi-year Calendar Sync since we killed Mastodons with spears! FIX THIS!!!!!

I have seen events that I create on my Razr Maxx disappear after a few minutes.  I went over this with Verizon support and after reviewing all my settings they were baffled.  I modified an event on my phone and after a few minutes it went back to what it was before the modification, which never showed up on my Google calendar.  Frustrating!  So I went to the Apps playstore and downloaded Business Calendar FREE, with over 1,000,000 downloads and 4.5 star rating.

Considering business calendar and Google calendar use the exact same database I can't see how comment 81 is relevant at all and is possibly spam.

Saying something is spam because the same DB is used but different code is saying "Browser X works instead of Google Browser" is spam because both are using Android OS.

Did you check the given workaround mentioned in comment 81? If the workaround works it is no spam but as I already said: a valid workaround.

I also agree that it is spam. Saying "hey try this 4.5-star FREE app" is spam, plain and simple. It's not a solution for this issue.

My comment 83 comes from experience:
I had one major issue with CM7. I was unable to send and receive MMS with the default google messenger app. I tried a different one from Google Play and it works. Now maybe we have another workaround for malfuntional google apps.

The whole calendar app is messed up! There are several thinks that do not work properly:
- Deleted events are not synced correctly - they still show up in the calendar app
- Edited events are not synced correctly - if you move an event (change date/time) it does not affect that event in the calendar app

Wiping the calendar app data and syncing is not a solution, since I don't want to repeat this anytime I change something in the Google cal!

By the way, this appears on my HTC One X with Android 4.0.3

Is a developer from Google answering to this or what??? So many people having the same problem here and no one cares. Do you guys call this customer relationship?!

Just bought a Samsung Stratosphere Galaxy phone.  Similar issue to above - some of my preexisting google calendar events would sync over, some not.  Tried many work arounds suggested above. None work so far.  

Interesting --- the events that sync all end before midnight. I have shift work and many shifts span midnight, 18:00 - 04:00 or 15:00 - 01:00.  Those events show up as events but not in the grid view - far more helpful when trying to plan.  They do show up if I make them all end at midnight and then make a separate entry the next day starting at midnight.  A colossal pain in the a**

This did not occur on prior LG Ally android

who fixes this?

possibly time to take the phone back and switch to Apple products?

thanks

Looks like Google can not come up with a solution. But there is a solution from Microsoft!
Basically it syncs your Android Phone to Hotmail Calendar and your Hotmail Calendar to Outlook. In both directions of course.
See this Thread:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/337012-we-can-now-synchronize-outlook-android-without-3rd-party-app-exchange-server.html

Keep in mind that it can take 30 minutes to sync the Hotmail/Live Calendar to Outlook.
Note: you may need to install the Hotmail app on your Android phone. But you do not need to use it. See thread above.

I Have tested the above method and Calendar syncing is back to normal on my HD2 running Hyperdroid.

I have tested one recurring event and it synced fine, even after modifying it.

Many thanks to RazzMaTazz

Seeing this issue with my recent upgrade to ICS from samsung galaxy s2 phone.

I can't find a similar issue so this seems to be the best place. I use google calendar across the web, my ipad2 and my Galaxy SII (epic 4g touch). When I create events on the iPad they will not sync to the phone. I don't believe I have issues the other way and have resynced the calendar on my phone but it still won't appear. I don't receive any error messages, just no event. Any help? And it used to work, but I just received the update to 4.0.4 and now it doesn't.

I've had two different phones and neither has shown "Appointment Slot" entries. I can see Events on both the web browser and phone, but I can only see Appointments on the web browser.

My old phone was Windows Mobile and used Activesync.

My new phone is a Galaxy S2 and I am logged into my Google account on both the computer and the phone.

Neither phone ever showed Appointment Slots on the phone's calendar. As a test I also tried on a Tablet running Honeycomb. Same thing.

For me, it makes using the Appointment Slots completely useless. So I just put in everything as an Event. Not sure what the point of Appointment Slots is. Maybe this is by design. (Why?)

Shared calendars are not presenting themselves properly still.  Samsung Fascinate.  All my shared calendars appear on the web, but are not even in the list of available calendars in the Android calendar.

Issue is intermittent.  I've been using this system for over two years and it has failed twice.  It cut out out for about 3 weeks a year ago and it has been down for about two weeks now in my current outage.

I have installed "Google Calendar" in my phone and now all my events have been correctly synchronized in minutes, even the very old ones.

In "What's new" section says "Time range for synced events extends from one year in the past to one year in the future." but it have synchronized all my events.

This app Requires Android 4.0.3 and up, :-(

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII, v4.0.4

I tried installing Google Calendar (now called Google Agenda), the feature you mention is not included yet. For the time being I could only sync one year, since January 2012.
There really is something missing here... That's sooooo lame from Google (come on Panda, index Google + lame)!

The app that solve the issue is "Google Calendar" (in spanish is "Calendario")

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar&feature=nav_result

I don't know what "Google Agenda app" is.

Solution: Export from Google to file (CSV). Installed on the PC application Calendarscope (trial) + HandySync ™ for Google. Import CSV Calendarscope it. Sync with Google Calendar. Now everything is in order.

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