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I have the exact same issue. I brought it up several time in a few forums but I hardly
got any answers. Hope someone can help.

It is indeed an important user requirement: to have the extra option (in the
settings) of synchronising all events (retaining all events from the past too), and
otherwise to be given the choice of how long the sync should retain the events from
the past (# of months).

When someone reads about this problem the first thing they would do is to login to
google calendar go back a few months and create an appointment to check if it shows up
on their Android phone. This would indeed work.  And that is not the issue.  You should
look for an old calendar entry that you had created a few months back (not a recurring
appointment) and check if that appointment shows up on your phone.  It won't!!

This issue is very important to me because I have sports calendars that I use, and when I need to remember
details about a certain game from the past, I like to be able to go back in time in my calendar to see what
happened.
I agree with giovanni.santin above that there, at the least, should be an option to control how far back the sync
will go. Having Google make that decision for us is not very well thought out. Hopefully they'll correct this issue
soon!!

This is a big reason I got my Droid... I want ALL my info when I need it.

This is a very important issue for me as well. Please add the ability to sync all events.

Hello google android developers. Please address this issue urgently.

Yes, I really want this to work.  It is tedious to have to go to the web version of
google just to check appointments.  Calendar entries are not that large, so store ALL
of them on the phone (a preference for this is fine)

Is the setting of 1 month hardcoded or can it be altered in a configuration file
somewhere?  Is there any file I can edit to change this limit until a means to alter
this is put in the settings GUI?

I agree, this ability would be greatly appreciated

Hello, Everyone.

I, too, have been experiencing this with my brand-new Droid, and had posted about it
in Forums with Google, Motorola and Verizon, before a respondent pointed me here.

(Point of fact:  An otherwise very helpful Level 2 Support Rep with Motorola walked
me through some steps, such as (in separate attempts) clearing Calendar data, and
performing a "Factory Reset" before resynchronizing...none of which worked, but she
(and, I presume, others who work with her) said nothing about this being a long-
standing issue that developers could well be aware of.

I second (third? fourth?) the above comments that said that earlier events
(including one-time events) should synchronize to the Droid so as to be viewable and
manageable there.

Please keep us posted and push a software update soon that addresses this.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Bram Weiser

In my case, the one-month cutoff isn't completely consistent.  A few events get
through here & there on each calendar.  For example, my workout calendar from July
contains 12 events on the web version, but only one came through to my Droid.  Pretty
weird.

It really worries me to see that people have been posting on this topic for four
months now.  There's so much I like about this phone.  I don't want to have to give
it up for a less fun phone that is more reliable.

Google, please please please make this Google-calendar-to-Android sync fix a priority.

Thanks.

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I've had the hero for four days now only to find out about this issue. This is a deal
breaker for me as I still need information from past events.

I tried  erasing my local hero calendar and chose to sync entries via ms exchange. In
exchange there was  actually a setting for how far back you want to sync. I set it to
ALL and synced.

No dice, still only two weeks back.

Any signs for a fix?

Only a few days into my new Droid, but the Google Calendar integration is really disappointing. I too am using
Google Premier and would like my personal Google Calendar to sync completely with the Google Premier
Calendar and to the Droid. Hopefully, a fix is upcoming soon?

I believe that it's not the calendar-date of the appointment that matters in this
issue, but rather its last modification date.

For example: an appointment dated two months ago will sync again if you change its
name. Any new appointment - one you add now - dated two months ago will sync as well.

I'm guessing this was deliberate, to save storage-space / bandwidth. But I agree it
should be seen as a bug and fixed.

Come to think of it, this might also mean that a still upcoming appointment you
planned far in advance, but more than a month before you got your phone, might not be
synced either. This would make the issue a bit more urgent.

But the developers might have taken this into account. I have no means to verify.

 I have had this same problem for a while now and just today had a chance to research
a solution. This is what I had to do:

- From a PC log into your google calendar calendar.google.com.
- Click Settings on the settings link in the upper right (next to sync)
- Under "Calendar Settings" click on Mobile Setup link
(For ME this form was NOT filled out).
- I selected United States and input my mobile number and clicked Send Verification
Code button.
I received the code as a text message in about 10 seconds. There were two numbers
listed, the text message number and the SIX DIGIT verification code.
- I entered the verification code and clicked Finish setup.
This immediately fixed my problem. I do not have to hit the sync button on the PC
google calendar. It syncs right away with the phone.

I hope this helps someone.

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@chashutch

I tried doing this for my Motorola Droid, and had no luck whatsoever. I even tried
clearing the Calendar Storage app's data and re-syncing, but I only got events back
to Dec 1st, save for the one event that I have recurring every Monday. So this does
not appear to be a valid fix.

Another Droid user said that this did not work for him either.  What he said fixed
his issue:

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What I did to get it to work was this:

From the Home Screen I went to settings, then to accounts and sync, then I unchecked
Auto-Sync then checked it again and it works now.
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Seems as if there are multiple symptoms for similar problems on the calendar sync.

@chashutch

That method didn't work either. I tried unchecking Auto-Sync as well as Background
Sync, neither of which had any effect. Restarting the Droid didn't have any effect
either.

@blairallenvt

The only other thing I saw that helped some people (and is in this thread) so I
assume you tried it is:

delete the calendar storage (menu-settings-applications-manage
applications-calendar storage-delete data) to force a new sync.


Also, this makes no difference but, what firmware are you running?  I am on 2.0.1 as
I assume most Droids are.  It seems to me that my calendar sync problem started
around the time that my phone was updated.  Just a thought.  

menu/settings/about phone/Firmware version

If you are not on this version, check to see if there are system updates available
(first menu item in About phone.

Hutch

@chashutch

Thanks for all your suggestions. I have tried clearing the Calendar Storage data
before with no success. Actually that technically makes things worse because I end up
losing data (since the new sync only pulls the last 30 days worth). I am, too, using
Android 2.0.1. I had my issues with the Calendar sync even before the update. It
makes sense, from Google's side, that the calendar app would only pull events from
the last 30 days, to keep network traffic down. However, there needs to be an option
to do an "initial sync" at the very least, so we can get all our calendar events. But
to be completely honest, calendar data doesn't take up that much room anyways. A
really busy calendar, over a year, will only be a few megabytes, which is not a big
deal these days. The major frustrating part about this, and other issues, is that
Google seems to be so far removed from the customer as far as support.

I agree, clearing the storage area seems like a stretch to me also.  As far as Google
being far removed from the customer, I guess we get what we pay for, which seems sad
since so many business and non-profits rely on google apps.  I assume that folks that
use google premier/partner apps will also have this problem with android and google
calendar.

Hi Folks!  Just wanted to share my findings (Droid 2.01)…

1) Disappointing that this defect rates "Priority: Small"

2) The only reason some folks are suggesting to "erase the calendar data in the
phone" is to spawn a re-sync since Google has that listed as a general
recommendation - it is a general recommendation for fixing general sync issues - not
a fix to this specific issue (history older than 1 month), for which there is no
current fix short of hacking into the code - which I'm not going there.

3) My testing shows that the Sync from the Google On-Line calendar to the Google
Android phone IS SENDING ALL THE DATA, BUT the Calendar app on the phone is
erasing/discarding the data older than 30 days.  (On 2.01 after I do the erase
calendar data and re-sync, and go to the calendar for the monthly view and scroll up
to 2 prior months or more, the entries are there for a split second and then
disappear.)

3) The other issue that was driving me crazy was the inherent inability to search
calendar entries - there are free apps for in the Market Place offering a solution
to that dilemma, but of course they don't work when the calendar entry is older than
30 days - since it can't find what isn't there on the phone.

4) I played with using the browser to login to Google Calendar - switch to the
Desktop view (screen says not compatible browser - but let's you choose to "take
your chances" - worked OK on the Droid 2.01), and use the on-line search - clumsy
solution, but it works for free.

5) The solution I settled on for now: Purchased Calendar Companion in the Market
Place for $1.99/US (sorry to mention a 3rd party app here – but I am not the
developer or in any way affiliated with the developer so hope this is not censored
for advertising).  The app offers a simple clean UI to perform a search against the
On-Line Google Calendar so you get back the results for the entire on-line
calendar.  Be sure to adjust the Font control in Settings in the app (easier on the
eyes without the need for glasses :) ).  Also lets you fully edit calendar entries
as well (nice for updating your billing or note records!).

Hope this helps.

@chashutch

  "I guess we get what we pay for"....I think we should be getting more! Yeah
Gmail/Calendar/etc are free services for consumers/businesses alike, but we are
paying $500-600 (MSRP) for a device that relies solely on those services. So I feel
that if they are going to pigeonhole you into a single service, they better make sure
that service is meeting customer expectations, since we are in fact paying for it.

For all Android users, here is a temporary fix that I have been using on my Motorola
Droid for a few days now. It is by no means a solution, but it allows me to get my
calendar data back for more than 30 days previous to the sync time. My thanks goes
out to mhelvens for the suggestion.
  1.) Temporarily turn off syncing on your device. On my Droid I use the Power
Control widget to do this. You can also go to Settings -> Accounts & Sync and uncheck
both the "Background data" and "Auto-sync" options to prevent your device from
sending or receiving changes to your calendar.
  2.) Log in via a web browser to your online Google calendar. Navigate to the date
where your calendar events begin to NOT show up on your device's calendar.
  3.) On the web calendar, open up an event and add a few characters to either the
event "What" or "Description" fields. Save the changes to the event.
  4.) Re-open the event and delete the few characters that you have added in step 3.
Save the event again.
  5.) Repeat for as many events in the past that do not show up on your device as you
would like or that you have time for. A few beers might be handy for this process :)
  6.) Once you are done "modifying" the events, log out of your Google calendar. On
your device, re-enable the "Background data" and "Auto-sync" options. Your device
should begin syncing immediately. If not, force a sync. Once the sync is done, you
should see all those events you modified show up in your device's calendar, FINALLY!

NOTE: I thought modifying reminders or availability would cause the event
modification date to change, but that is not the case. So make sure modify something
like the "What" or "Description" fields, as mentioned above. Again, this work-around
really sucks if you have a lot of events, like me. But for the time being, I am happy
to put in the effort in order to see my past events, especially my sports-related
ones. Also, once you put in a lot of effort with this, be hesitant to clear out your
device's Calendar storage data, as this will nullify all the changes you have made. I
accidentally made that mistake and had to go back and do some 100 events or so
manually again. Good luck!

This is a real problem that I hope Google will address. Have I know of it I would
have chosen Palm Pre

Funny they set it to priority Small.

@drmuradian: Yes, Palm Pre syncs the whole shebang :) - I guess most other phones and
calenders do.

Priority small? That can't be meant serious!

Strange, all of a sudden, without doing anything, I have all my past events synced.  But I do have all my
future ones duplicated.

I hate to spam all those who have subscribed to this but I would like to make the
following point.

All other open issues of priority small (according to my search) have less then 7
stars and this one has 49!  This priority really needs to be reviewed lest this be
passed over in search of lesser bugs with inexplicably higher priority.

Can I also appeal to everybody to pester their OEMs about this.  HTC have said to me
that they expect the calendar app to be improved in Eclair but that's all they would
say.  Please raise the profile of this bug with manufacturers in the hope that they
can get things moving.

Once again, please forgive the spam.

This is a serious flaw. I use my calendar for past record keeping as much as future
appointments.

The Calendar Companion workaround is only a partial solution as it has issues of its
own. It will find all the past appointments, but there appears to be a limit to what
is displayed. I searched my work schedule for my part time job and if I made the date
range small enough it would display all of them. If the date range is not specified
and there are a large number of events it appears to limit the results.

OK I figuted it out.  I mentioned above that I was able to sync ALL events.  To check
if it was a fluke, I deleted my local calendar and did another sync.  Worked PERFECT!

For data sync, I used Exchange Activesync NOT Google.

Hope this helps.

It didn't work for me. I'm not sure if I understand you, though.

I tried activating Echange sync on my Android phone (using these settings http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299 ) but I
got no extra appointments synced than when using google's own sync.

I turned off Google calendar sync first and watched it sync (also tapped "Sync now")
but it seems the Android calendar syncs only approx 50 days in the past using
Exchange sync too. I didn't find a way to delete my Android calendars first, though
(I have about 8 calendars).

there's a setting for exchanges activesync at the very bottom - Calendar Settings.
(settings-data synchronization-exchange activesync-menu/settings)

I have that option selected to all events. (again I'm using a hero).

Just to put more detail:
My secretary inputs all events in a PC via outlook.
Her calendar is then synced to my online google calendar using google sync
i sync that Google calendar to my handset using Exchange Sync.

there's a setting for exchanges activesync at the very bottom - Calendar Settings.
(settings-data synchronization-exchange activesync-menu/settings)

I have that option selected to all events. (again I'm using a hero).

Just to put more detail:
My secretary inputs all events in a PC via outlook.
Her calendar is then synced to my online google calendar using google sync
i sync that Google calendar to my handset using Exchange Sync.

Thanks again! Just tried it - no luck :(

I have Android 1.6 (default for Tattoo) - and seeing Sync Now button in Exchange
ActiveSync I pressed Menu and got a settings button - then scrolled all the way down
and finally found the 'Sync events for past' (not at all easy to find).

But I still didn't get more than the usual 50 days in the past. I even tried 'Past 6
months' - no difference. Perhaps Android has a limit. I don't think the Google
servers limit the sync since Palm Pre syncs everything (takes ages but when it's done
everything works).

This was a really good work-around suggestion though! Might as well have worked.

Tried using Active sync but all it did was duplicate the events in my calendar. No
improvement in syncing older events at all. Now how do I get rid of the duplicates!!?!

Is there a configuration file for either the calendar or the sync manager on the
android? Tried searching on my Modaco ROM hero but no luck so far. Google too didn't
bring anything up.

After updating Palm Pre to v1.3.5.2 it too stopped syncing more than 3 months in the
past. Now Palm WebOS and Android syncs are both crippled :( - I don't think it's a
Google calendar limitation but a choice made by the developser. On Palm Appstore you
can get an app the searches your _entire_ calendar - tapping on a result brings up a
blank day in webOS. Let's hope Android becomes smarter.

I had the same issue as well. on top of that issue i as well could not sync some
current issues. My school posts our schedules via Google calender and shares it with us
so it syncs with ours..... "i go to a very small school" my android (samsung Moment)
would not sync those events neither past or present but would sync the birthdays that
the school added?????? strange i know! but the going into application management and
clearing the calender data did fix the problem. But theres more. I have to do this
every time they update my schedule... not cool Google!!!!

I'm experiencing the same issue with my Sprint HTC Hero...and am very upset.  No way
would have I have left WinMo if I had known - I would have waited until the bug was
fixed.

I tried a third party apps - CompanionLink - it let me go a little farther backwards
into history, but then created duplicate calendar entries.  

I also depend on the historical data in my calendar for many things.  I was able to
sync it up to Google Calendar from my WinMo device so the Google Calendar does have
accurate information...but I can't get more than a month or so of data onto my
phone.  HELP!!

interesting all the talk of "older" posts not syncing or being lost. I'm getting
daily adjustments to the calender. Example, while I've been researching this issue
and reading this thread, I made calender adjustments (those that I lost from earlier
today) in the pc and shortly thereafter, they were gone. I track work schedule and
job numbers and 90% of the time, put it in the calender via the app on the mDroid. A
little bit later, there gone. I'm not getting anywhere with this.

First of all, this is a real issue.  I could not get my Hero to display more than
one month or so of calendar entries.  This was a frustrating and HUGE issue as I use
my calendar history to track many personal and business items.  From Palm to WinMo
to Android I have maintained calendar history since mid 1997 (I did lose 1996 moving
from Palm to WinMo...I survived but it still bothers me....)

So here's what happened for me:

1. I made sure that I had a good export of all my calendar data to a clean CSV file.
2. Then I wiped /deleted the entire Google calendar and cleared the calendar files
on my Hero (both)...the lion's share of the data was in
com.android.providers.calendar.  This file was about 8MB.
3. Uploaded the CSV to Google.
4. I disabled background sync at first (Data Synchronization - Google) unchecked
Auto-Sync..then selected Calendar with WiFi on.  At first I got only the first month
and a half of appointments.  I was frustrated.  
5. Then I turned on Auto-Sync, kept all items checked, then left it on overnight.

The next morning I had all appointments on my calendar - the entire history back to
1997.  

Before turning in for the night I turned off my auto backup program so that the
process would not be interrupted.

I suspect that the issue was that I had a lot of data.  But the situation eventually
resolved itself with time, clearing all data in both sources (Android and Google,
both Android files and keeping a good connection available.

I don't if this applies to anyone else, but I think I found the problem with my sync
issues. I had downloaded the Google Calendar Sync and synced to my Outlook. When I
did so, I selected the "2 way" option for syncing. I found out that when I would make
changes to the calender via the phone or through Google site, when it came time to
sync with Outlook, it would take the older Outlook version of the calendar and over
write any changes I was making. I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it with 1
way option (since I don't edit in Outlook) and now all changes made are syncing and
staying. Even older posts though I've only been using the calender for a couple of
months.

I hope this helps someone.

I initially loaded my 11 year iCal calendar onto Google
Calendar 12/31/9 when I got my 1st Droid. The entire calendar
loaded flawlessly. That phone had a problem & was replaced
under warranty,  & Droid #2 also loaded flawlessly.   My work
had issues with potential security issues & asked me to delete
my Google calendar,  which I did, & I returned my Droid to
Verizon.  When I subsequently got clearance to use Google
calendar,  I reloaded iCal identically to Google, & got Droid #3.  
It only partially loaded the info from Google calendar, in a
patchy fashion, about 1/3 of the info, even on the same day,
going back 11 years. On the same day, 2 or 3 of 8
appointments would load, but not the rest, even when I forced
it to sync.  The Droid does not have a way to clear calendar
data under settings >applications >manage applications,  so I
wiped the phone & restored the Droid to its original state to
reload.  Even less data loaded.  I wiped it again & didn't add
any apps to be certain they weren't interfering,  but again
found less data, only recurring events from the past.  The 2 or
3 of 8 appointments were no longer loading on those days
previously seen.

Curiously,   my wife also got, returned,  & repurchased a Droid,  
& shares my calendar.  Her initial Droid loaded everything,  but
the new one only loaded the recurring events like mine.

Obviously I don't know for sure, but it appears as if there is an
archive bit on the calendar entries on Google that tells the
system if it's been synced,  and unless it can be cleared, the
system thinks its been sent already.  The technique of
modifying, then unmodifying an entry would clear that archive
bit, hence it gets sent to the Droid.   For me, 11 years of
calendar, a file 7.5 MB large, this is impossible to do, & it takes
days for iCal to upload it to Google.

Any other thoughts/ideas?

My Droid is running the latest android system,  I guess 2.1, and
the firmware version says 2.0.1

@greg.dr

1) Firmware 2.0.1 is Android 2.0 (not 2.1) - Verizon has not released a 2.1 upgrade
for the Droid - only way to get that loaded is to hack the O/S which voids the
warranty - and not sure that would help at all.

2) I think whatever very good luck may have allowed all history to be stored in the
droid at one point has passed.

3) I am not familiar with iCal - so I am speaking only of Google Calendar.

4) Although I can think of ways to cause a mass modification on all the Google
calendar entries (export entries from Google Calendar, erase Calendar, create
calendar, import entries, and sync), it won't last without consistently repeating
the process every month - and who wants to do that?

5) No doubt 11 years is a lot - even if you have them all loaded - what do want to
do?  I'm guessing "Search for past appts by keyword or something" as opposed to
what "What was I doing on a given day 10 years ago"?  
-- Android calendar does not have a search function (at least on the mDroid)- but
3rd party apps can do that if you get all the history loaded.  
-- I'm having great luck with Calendar Companion for $1.99 from Android Market
place.  It searches the entrie on-line Google calendar packaged in a handy UI.  
-- You could also just use the Browser to login the Google Calendar to do the same
(sorta clunky).  

Hope that helps.

Thanks for your reply.

I considered wiping and reloading Google Calendar, since the first time it only took 2 or 3 days to load it on
the server, but the second time it took over a week for my computer to upload it, and I thought that might
have been related to the problem.  Again, it doesn't make sense that 3 separate droids worked the first time,
but not the second, with both droids having the same gaps the second time as well, so it seems to be an issue
of the info on the cloud as opposed to a device issue.

Since the export file is so large (7.5MB exported from Google), I haven't been able to import it using the
Google Calendar import command.  Instead, I've had to just keep iCal running to upload it.

In terms of what I use it for, I keep all my client appointments and brief notes for each visit, so I can use
Aurora to search for a client name.  On the aforementioned working droids, this app would give me a
complete listing of each encounter recorded and allow me to select each one to refresh my memory of the
visit.

So perhaps I'm just exhibiting superstitious behavior, but it does seem the problem with our Droids loading
from Google Calendar is some attribute attached to the individual entries on the Google cloud.

Don't think google is interested in solving bugs like these. They are busy
growing....like a cancer cell.

Device: Droid 2.01
Carrier: Verizon
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So, when I first got my Droid 10 days ago, all Sync'd up: calendars, contacts, gmail. Then, recently, it stopped
Syncing my local calendar. It Syncs Gmail and Contacts no problem every time- even right now it did as I type
this.

I have a big calendar of old Palm data going back 10 years. And I had it all sync'd. I have now tried all the
tricks I can find with no luck (stop and start sync manually, reboot, pull battery, erase local calendar off
phone) and the Calendar sync icon just spins forever and nothing ever happens to sync my local calendar (the
one I update the most) with my online Google calendar.

As my last attempt, I backed up my Calendar events locally today with a cool backup app, I then erased my
Calendar Data (by going into Applications in Settings) on my phone and then, viola.. I saw a sync!!!!! My phone
pulled "some" content off the Google Calendar - BUT oddly only back to Jan 16 - 30 days from when I did this
- and that won't do - and then nothing more! I also noticed, for a split second, you could see older data and
then it was just gone. only 30 days worth. Well, that was neat to see it sync BUT my Google calendar is not up
to date and my phone is so I NEED my phones calendar data more than the out of date Google calendar data.
So, I used the app to restore my Calendar data locally - it erases what is there and puts the backup data in
place - and there it all is.. All my calendar events are back BUT as before, no sync. NOTHING I change on my
phone shows up on the web and sporadic things I changed on the web shows up on  my phone. The icon
spins away and still only reports a sync from 4 hours ago when I wiped my calendar data and since then after
putting my data back in... no sync. Argh!

well yesterday I started to notice a 1 way sync!! items put in Google Calendar show up in phone Calendar
pretty immediate, but in all that time nothing in phone Calendar shows up on Google Calendar.

Recap:

1. I see/get the 30 day issue others do
2. gMail and contacts sync perfect and immediate for me and always have
3. tried power off, clear calendar data, reboot with battery out, manual sync
4. went from syncing perfect day 1, to not syncing any calendar events, to now only syncing from google
calendar down and not phone calendar up
5. last local phone calendar sync date is way off

I will no be wiping or factory reseting my phone to get my calendar to sync is that is no fix nor explains the
issue.

It is not acceptable to get calendar entries synced to the phone by random, not
really reproducible.

I have the following issue:
One of my personal calendars had been synced ok when I started using my Andoid
phone. But since a few days, all entries, past as well as future, are gone from my
phone (they are still there in the calendar web). If I enter a new entry on the
phone, this is synced to the server, and vice versa. But still the previous entries
are missing.

To have no control about what is synced really annoyes me !

arreglar lo de sincronizar el google calendar

I have just "possibly) found a solution to the "missing old dates" problem:

1) Make a back-up of your calendar
2)export Google Cal to a file (for me I used iCal format)
3) delete the calendar on Google (from the settings page)
4) Re-import the file
5) Sync

Right now as it's syncing I can see all the dates appearing, but who knows, maybe they'll disappear once it's
done...

@v.batman - that will work - but you will have to repeat the procedure every 30 days

using Droid. Same issue now.. only sync 30 days of data... Still no solution?

I just recently replaced my blackberry by nexus one - only to figure out that the
calendar is not much better and that past entries are deleted on the phone...

In my opinion this has to be fixed - the software of the phone should offer an
option like it is today on the blackberry and like it is standard since ever on
every Windows mobile device....

Sometimes I really have the feeling that programmers of smart phone software do not
have any clue about the requirements their users have...

Eichhoernle

Hi Google, Please fix this bug. Allow user to sync at least 1 year of calender
information on the driod phone. WinMo can sync 6mths..

Ditto.  Everything worked fine with my Moment until about a week ago. Now it won't
synch at all.  Very dissapointing.  I'll give it a week, then I'm going for another
app.  I miss my Treo already.

Have been a Palm user since 1996. Changed to Android as the Pre was not available in
the UK for a year after "launch". Initially my whole calendar was available on my G1
and remained there when I upgraded to a Milestone (Droid). The upgrade from Android
2.0 to 2.0.1 came through a few weeks ago and since then I have no calendar entries
older than 45 days. WTF? Do I need to go and buy a Pre now?

@graham wilson:

Unfortunately the Pre has gotten the same limitation recently (it happened in webOS
update 1.3 - they called it to "Speed up the calendar") - or perhaps it's google's
server (sync API) simply not allowing more then 45 days sync.

i have the same issue please fix thanks

Same issue as described above on Motorola Droid / Verizon. When I initially got the
Droid, sometime late January, all of the calendar data synced with Google and all my 12
years of history was present. Recently had to do a factory reset because the Droid was
hung up on something in "Android System" and draining the battery in about 2 hours.
Yesterday, had occasion to look for a past event and discovered the 30-day problem. So,
it could be an "archive bit" problem or something, but there should be an option to
completely re-sync.

OK I finally figured this out.  It is a stupid hack but it worked for me and so far my
data is still intact.

1. From home screen hit menu and go to settings.
2. In settings go to Accounts and Sync
3. Turn off the background update and autosync.
4. Go back to main settings menu and go to Applications.
5. Go into manage applications.
6. Press menu button again and select Filter and then All.
7. Find Calendar and select it and delete all data (it will warn you about losing all files
just hit OK).
8. Do the same for Calendar Storage.
9. Go back to main Settings menu and scroll down to Date and time.
10. Turn off Automatic and then set date to January 1st 2009 and hit set.  (I tried to go
all the way back to 2006 on my first try and it just kept rolling the date back to the
current one)
11. Wait a second and make sure date remains set to the date you selected.  Then
select Date again and select your desired date (should be before first entry on
calendar.)
12. For good measure I then shut the phone off and then powered it back up after
about 5 minutes. (Don't know if it was necessary but I wasn't taking any chances this
time.)
13. Go back into Settings menu and select Accounts and sync.
14. Select the Calendar to sync and then go into calendar to ensure its all there.
15. Once it is you can then safely turn on auto time and date again and let all apps
auto update in background.

It's a pain in the a$$ but it worked for me.  I hope it works for everyone else.  It would
be nice if the Calendar had the ability  to auto download previous months as you
scroll to them.

Wade

Wade,

YOU ARE THE MAN!! My hat's off to you. Now that I see it, it's such an obvious work-
around. Just have to remember it if I ever swap out or factory reset my Droid. I was
resigned to wait until Google added a "sync all" feature to Google Calendar.

Elliot

@Wagebo. Your method worked! Thank you! Finally I can store a couple of semesters worth
schedules on my android phone.
And no thanks to Google or the nitwit who decided that this was a "Priority-Small"
defect.

thanks!

@wagebo: Thanks so much. It _almost_ worked. Perhaps if I try it again. I use HTC
Tattoo (same CPU as Hero - or newer I think).

The manual sync took 15 minutes and ended at 12 MB calender storage data (2 mb
before). The spinning sync symbol never disappeared. Just froze. Perhaps I should
have waited an hour and not touched it to see if the symbol disappeared.

Did your sync symbol disappear or freeze?

The calendar app crashed/requested force close 4-5 times after the procedure. Often
it waited 30 seconds before reacting. I have appointments starting from 2003
seperated into 7 calendars since 2006 and it seems some Calendars didn't get synced
the whole period from 2003 to today. The calendar I use most is missing quite a few
appointments this present 2-3 weeks.

I get all the calendars listed on the phone but it's it has always had two extra
calendars ('My Calendar' and 'Outlook') that I simply don't have on my desktop Google
Calendars (my default calendar is renamed). But I think the problem here is simply -
Google never tested / designed they calendar to be used extensively - for more than a
couple of months of synced data. Palm Pre handled it perfectly (though kinda slow).
Android simply breaks.

Thanks again, though. I think I'll give it another go!

I'm running 2.1 update 1 on a Nexus One, sadly the setting-date-back method no longer
seems to work, it won't sync the calendar at all and the only calendar in the
calendar app is "default", when I hit "sync" in the accounts screen it puts up the
sync symbol which spins for a second then goes still and never moves again.

This is really annoying.  Who on earth thought that a one-month sync with their own
calendar would be sufficient...  I've got entries going back to January 2009 for a
reason.  And still this is regarded as a minor issue by Google, and no Google reps
are around to comment.  If there's one thing you can say about Google, it's that
they're never there to listen or if they are, they keep very quiet about it.

I'm not sure if this will help with the Nexus One, but i had trouble doing this on my Droid the first few times,
because it still kept correcting the date, even after turning off the Automatic setting.  Eventually, I was
successful, butto accomplish it, I put the phone in Airplane Mode, so the GPS & CDMA receivers were disabled,
then turned back on the wifi connection & forced it to sync over the wifi.

My calendar goes back to 4/98, and I was able to capture everything as far back as 1/06.  I tried 4/98 as a
date, but it kept correcting to the current values (not sure where, but I assume from the Internet somehow),
and I incorrectly remembered the successful date from the above technique as 1/06)

Anyway, 4 of 12 years is better than 3 months of historical data, but it remains to be seen if the Droid will
maintain what I loaded today, or if it will evaporate as time passes.

Google MUST get the message that this is all unacceptable.  I keep my calendar so I can retrieve the dates and
topics of my client contacts!!!

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work for me, the time still
got corrected when I started the sync, not sure what's correcting
it, airplane mode, auto set off, time set to Jan 1st 2009 but once
the sync started the time was reset to today's date. I'll try again
a few times at a later date.

Rats.  Sorry that didn't work on the Nexus.  

I did it again this a.m., and SUCCESSFULLY loaded my entire calendar, all 30 mb, back to 4/98.

So, to Wagebo's instructions in comment 66, I add the following suggestions, and slightly different order::


1.  Switch to Airplane mode to disable phone and GPS (because if you get a call or sms during the process, it
corrects the time), then re-enable wifi so you can sync.
2.  Go to main "Settings" menu and scroll down to "Date and time."
3.  Turn off "Automatic"  then set date to your earliest appointment and hit set.
4.  It is not necessary to restart phone.
5.  In "Settings" go to "Accounts & sync"
6. Turn off the "Background data" and "Auto-sync."
7. Go back to main "Settings" menu and go to "Applications."
8. Go into "Manage applications."
9. Press menu button again and select "Filter" and then "All".
10. Find "Calendar" in the applications list, select it and delete all data (it will warn you about losing all files
just hit OK).
11. Do the same for "Calendar Storage."
12. Go back into "Settings" menu and select "Accounts & sync."
14. Select the account, then tap the calendar to sync.  Do not sync gmail or contacts.  I suggest plugging into
a charger so the phone battery doesn't die.
15.  Be sure the date it lists for the last sync is the date you selected, and you may want to hit sync once or
twice more to be certain the sync was completed.
16. Once it is you can then safely turn on auto time and date again and let all apps
auto update in background.

It took about 3 hours for mine to sync.  

Thank you to Wagebo for figuring this out.

@goo...@tarcus.org.uk
I followed Wagebo's instructions on Nexus One running Cynogen 5.0.5.3. - worked
perfectly for me. I needed to sync from 01/01/2006 onwards and now I have all my
appointments since then on my Nexus. Not sure why it did not work for you.

Sadly still not working, followed the instructions like a newbie and still I get the
same thing, the sync icon at step 14 rotates for about a second then stops.  I
fiddled around a bit more with various combinations such as new dates, deleting
calendar but not calendar storage and vice versa, and so on, but nothing useful.

At some point I'll install a log viewer and will see if I can see if there are any
errors being generated when the sync icon stalls.

The solution of Wagebo and greg.dr worked fine on my Nexus One.

@wagebo and greg.dr: Thanks for working this out :-)

It's really frustrating to see that Google thinks that this is a minor issue. For
professional business users a working calendar which keeps also old appointments is a
must and not a nice to have option...

My calendar (on Tattoo) is crashing sporadically (and it can't sync - says last sync
was in 2002) after syncing back to 2002 (28 MB Calendar Storage) and switching date
back to 2010.

The calendar worked nicely until I set the correct date. Perhaps because after it
finished in 3½ hours I tried to sync again manually to see if it would take 10
seconds but after 30 more minutes I powered off and switched the date back to 2010.

I guess I have to delete Calendar Storage again.

When my calendars are exported from google in csv format their total size is 6 MB
(unpacked/uncompressed). In android the same calendars are 29 MB, though (though
peaks at 48 MB during sync).

What takes time doesn't seem to be the huge downloads (that happen over and over
again), but the processing of them. The connection (if it's merely a half-decent one)
is not the bottle neck, I guess.



I found that compared to the other versions of the procedure in this thread I could
skip these steps:

Keep Airplane mode Off
Forget Airplane mode if you want to use wifi. You can't turn on wifi when airplane
mode is on (on Tattoo). I don't think you can turn off the mobile/phone network but
the changed/wrong date seems to stick nicely when auto date is off - even when wifi
and/or phone network is active - I haven't received an SMS/text while having the
incorrect date though. You could pull out the SIM card to be safe.

Keep Background data On
You can't manually sync the calendar on Tattoo unless you turn on "Background data"
so you must leave it on to be able to sync at all.

Don't change Filter
It seems all applications are shown per default. No need to search for the filter
setting. Calendar Storage (and Calendar) shows up without changing the filter. You
might want to sort a-z though to easily spot Calender Storage (and Calendar) - you do
this by pressing Menu, then Sort by Size, press Menu again, then a-z.

Don't delete Calendar data
If you tap Calendar and delete its data you'll loose your settings (default reminder
time, which calendars are shown, week start day etc). The sync hack procedure worked
for me without deleting it. Even deleting 'Calendar Storage' might be unnecessary.
Perhaps manual syncing with year set e.g. 8 years back is enough.

It's finally working without crashes! YEAH :) Thanks wagebo.

1) I nudged the date forward from 2002 only by a few months (sometimes weeks) at the
time - and it had to "think" about it a minute every time. For each nudge I checked
the calender still worked. If the calendar was still empty even after a waited for it
to catch up, I nudged the date back a little and usually it cought up. If it didn't  
I forced closed the calendar using ASTRO and re-opened the calendar - and it seemed
to catch on.
It seemed the longer nudges the longer it thought/froze in the calendar app. Perhaps
I could have simply set the year instantly to 2010, forced closed it, re-opened and
wait for an hour or two but it seemed to think forever and crash all the time unless
I did it in nudges.

2) Afterwards (took half the day) when I turned on auto-sync synced for an hour with
the current/correct date (and seemed to freeze unless I let it sync uninterrupted).

I ended up with 30 MB of Calendar Storage (though it says 50 MB while syncing) and it
still seems to sync for very long periods (showing the frozen sync symbol in the
Settings menu / Data synchronization / Google / Calendar) but the calendar responds
acceptably though somewhat slower. I hope the long syncs stops soon. I never deleted
the Calendar data btw - only Calendar Storage.

But it's great to finally be able to search my old appointments :)

I wonder why Google didn't simply make searching and opening old appointments through
the cloud possible even when they aren't synced. It's nice, though, to be able to
both actually browse old appointments and search through them.

the one BIG issue I see with the The solution of Wagebo and greg.dr is that this makes the bad assumption your
online Google Calendar is the most up to date calendar. If it is not, and your phones calendar is more up to date
than the online calendar, the moment you do step #10 & #11 you just lost all that data!! so be careful with this.

in my case, I have phone access all the time so I always have that as my most up to date calendar. I cannot try
this trick - at least, not the steps #10 and #11 - without losing a ton of data that is not on my online calendar
since they stopped syncing months ago. but that is an issue posted about elsewhere :(

the one BIG issue I see with the The solution of Wagebo and greg.dr is that this makes the bad assumption your
online Google Calendar is the most up to date calendar. If it is not, and your phones calendar is more up to date
than the online calendar, the moment you do step #10 & #11 you just lost all that data!! so be careful with this.

in my case, I have phone access all the time so I always have that as my most up to date calendar. I cannot try
this trick - at least, not the steps #10 and #11 - without losing a ton of data that is not on my online calendar
since they stopped syncing months ago. but that is an issue posted about elsewhere :(

Are you saying that older appointments created on your phone aren't synced to the cloud?

I haven't experienced that and if it's true you've found a serious bug - a real showstopper. Are you
sure?

Dismissing this issue as "Priority-small" is arrogant. People have handheld calendars
not only to plan the future, but to keep track of the past. This is a serious flaw in
the corporate world. If android is to be taken seriously by corporations (and
demanding end users).

@Wade
It worked!! Nexus one running CyanogenMod 5.0.6

Wade and jingyaokajohn: Didn't your calendar become unstable and slow?

Seriously, this is a basic function for any smartphone OS that wants the business market. Apple even has this
right with iPhone - selectable intervals up to and including "all" dates. How fundamental is this? I am increasingly
disappointed with Google.

Hello,

My calender is in many was my diary!!! I was most dissapointed to find the
explanation of my missing old events in the calender in android to be by design. I
second comment #86, have all old meetings/events in the phone is a must in business -
I need to be able to determine who and when I last had a meeting with for a specific
customer.
(I had a T700 non-smartphone SonyEricson before this - and it could keep a backlog of
+1000 meetings/events going back +5 years).

Please fix this!

Same problem on Android 2.1 Eclair (just installed it from xda developers on my htc
Tatto / Click).

No calendar search either ( not even on the http://m.google.com calendar ) - issue
2518

The problem is not only with appointments 1 month back in the past, but also with
appointments created a while ago !!

Today I encountered a missing event occuring next Wednesday not being synced to my
Milestone. I created this event a long time ago...

This is absolutely not acceptable !! I cannot verify manually if all events are
synced correct to my smartphone !

And what more events am I missing on my Milestone actually ??

Google, this is an emergency prio !!

I followed some how to's from this topic.

I turned off auto sync and auto date.
Removed al data from calendar.
Changed year to 01/01/2007

and synced my phone again with Google Calandar.

All events from the past are finally synced with my hero!
There should be an option to choose the amount of weeks/months/years you would like
to sync....

wardwygaerts: Does it work perfectly? - The calendar on my htc Tattoo became slow and
unstable - and its OS is even newer than the Hero's (v1.5 vs v1.67).

I didn't noticed anything. Maybe because my whole Hero is a little bit slow...

It's time for a reinstall, but I'm still waiting for the official update.

I posted on this four months ago(comments #45 and #47) when first migrating from
Windows Mobile to my Sprint Hero.  Exporting the data to a clean CSV and synching
worked to get all my appointments to my phone - that's data since since 1997; -
everything continued to work fine.

Recently I flashed 2.1 to my Hero and knew I would face this issue again because all
the calendar data would be wiped from my phone.  

After flashing the ROM (Damageless 2.07x)I did NOT enter my gmail account
information - first I followed the steps mentioned in this thread:

Unchecked Auto-Sync
Unchecked Automatic Date & Time
Set the phone's date back to 1/1/1997
Turned the network off, used Wi-Fi (on the Hero be sure your Wi-Fi settings in the
Menu>Advanced>Wi-Fi Sleep Policy are set to Never Switch from Wi-Fi to Mobile)
Enabled Background Data

Then I entered my Gmail information and started the sync.  The hard part was walking
away..but everything came back.  So this works on older ROMs AND on 2.1.
 
Changing things up a bit -

To those of you with a long history of data and primary/most accurate copy of data
on your phone and not in the cloud (@gillotti?) try a one-time PC sync, then create
a CSV file from your phone data. You can do this by syncing with Outlook once, then
exporting the data.  (If you want to get really fancy, do an export of the online
Google calendar and do a compare to see if you are missing anything.)  Merge/clean
up/do whatever you need to create a clean calendar file, then wipe the online Google
calendar, wipe all your phone calendar data and upload your clean data...then use
the methods on this thread to sync.

Sounds like a lot of work, but worth it to get all your data backed up to the
cloud...

...at least that's what I would try!

I maintain critical history of medical information/history in my calendar.

The inability to sync my full history (without hacks that may stop working at some
future date) is a deal breaker for me.

Is there any other way to contact the development team (such as sending an actual
letter) that we can get their attention that this is a critical issue for many people?

I just got a droid incredible, and I agree, this is a huge problem. I'm shocked that
google would decide what parts of our calendars are important -- what the hell are
they thinking? I was able to transfer my entire palm calendar (of almost 8 years) to
my blackberry, but I can't transfer it to my droid???

And I'm shocked that only 106 people care about this!

If someone knows of another way to contact the development team please let us know so
we can all join in.

Google is being so dumb to hardcode the 1 month period.
Past events are as important as future events!!!

Please go here and star it (Google says this is the wrong forum):

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=4d54201a9dff8730

Ah no need - the Google developer clarified about calendar issues:

"general bugs in the Calendar app itself can definitely remain in the bug tracker.
Issues related to Google's tools that sync your Google Calendar to the phone would
belong in the Help Forum [though]."

Ah no need - the Google developer clarified about calendar issues:

"general bugs in the Calendar app itself can definitely remain in the bug tracker.
Issues related to Google's tools that sync your Google Calendar to the phone would
belong in the Help Forum [though]"

I have been in possession of a new Droid for 7 weeks now and have been following
this (and other similar) threads regularly. I have a BlackBerry Storm that I wanted
to get rid of - but this calendar issue IS the dealbreaker for me. I MUST have old
appointments in the phone so that I can check the last time I visited a customer and
what I did there. I am reluctantly sending the Droid back unactivated. Too bad - it
could have been a BlackBerry killer.

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I have just updated my HTC Magic with the new ROM (HTC SENSE). My Google calendar has
worked perfectly until now. I have always been able to see all my old appointments.
Now, I have the same problems as most of you guys with the calendar not being able to
show more than one month of appointments at the time. I am a little confused, if this
is a decision made by Google, how come I have been able to sync the previous calendar?

Thanks for all the advice..

Regarding comment 74 greg.dr and the earlier one 66 wagebo, I synced as you guys
suggested, but only my main calendar appeared.  Do either of you, or anyone have
suggestions on how to fix??  Thanks for all your help. Droid Incredible.

I have the same problem with my HTC Desire. I've being using Palm since 1998 and only
switch to Android this month, I don't expect to sync all my appointments from 1998,
but I would want to see atleast three years of past appointments. I really think
Android should find a solution to this problem, as only having appointments from the
past 2 month is NOT ENOUGH!!!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I gues  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I gues  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I gues  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Just got the Evo and "discovered" the sync bug.  I too am amazed Google's calendar won't sync all events to its own OS.  It is maddening. I switched from the Palm Pre which, as mentioned, synced all events flawlessly and quickly.  I am afraid to try the remedy mentioned for fear of losing my cloud calendar, but I guess  I must.  Google, are you getting this?? Priority small, my eye!

Same here with HTC Desire.

Amazing - I finally decided to upgrade off my Palm Treo 650, and I find that not only did it do a better job of syncronizing an EAS calendar over edge (!) but the fact that this thread was started almost a year ago, brings quite the concern.

I'm seeing some signs that the calendar is actually resync'd via a replace method, because my events actually come and go on my calendar. One minute I'll have all 12 appointments, the next I'll have none. Doubtful that this will be fixed before my 30-send-back trigger :(

I guess we need to wake up and realize that GOOGLE wants to lock us into them, they are starting to look more evil than Microsoft....

For all their brilliance at building a great search engine, its clear that they deliberately built android with the deliberate intention of forcing us to be locked into google.  They don't make google data backup an "optional backup method", they make it the only usable method.... and then cripple it.

Who ever heard of a phone that can only hold calendars on the internet, and can lose all your data at the whim of the provider (google) who is simultaneously protected with a long and strong "no liability for lost data" USER AGREEMENT?

#74 worked for me. HTC incredible.

Being a long time Palm user I seriously can't grasp why 1) the calendar app is so unusable 2) all the data is not synced
I mean, it's not like we are forced to have an Internet connection just to get one month worth of appointments...

C'mon !

:-(

"Comment 66  by wagebo"

Works like a dream on my HTC Desire.

Thanks.

Wake up Google... people both want and need this functionality. Oh well who listen to us, we are only their customers.

Again thanks Wagebo  

My Palm TX holds events going 5 years back, and it's only got 128 MB of system memory.  My droid has 2 GB on board and 16 in the card - there is no excuse for not letting me carry my life's history in appointments in my pocket if that's what I want.  The TX is years out of date - new stuff should be better.  

tank

This is really atrocious -- especially with the other known issues (hidden calendar display) that basically force any marginal power user to delete calendar data and resync every so often.

Full history synced fine on my initial load (Droid Incredible/2.1), but today I had to do my first delete/resync.  Sure enough, everything more than a month old is gone.

Google, I've heard of being future-focused, but this is ridiculous.  History matters.

Google PLEASE address this issue. I've been using a PDA for over 10 years, and a Smart Phone for 7 years. Even the Samsung i330 in 2003 had this functionality. Having handheld access to ALL of your calender data is a must for mobile business people. What's the point of carrying a mobile calendar if I can't access old appointments? Do I have tell a customer during a sales call that I'll get the information to them when I get back to the office and check it on my computer? Come on Google. Put this in Froyo, so it is there when my EVO gets the update. I'm really not a fan of the fruit phone, but if this is not fixed, I am going to give them, and the next generation of WinMo and WebOS phones a serious look.

Android has some great phones, and the software is quite good, but this issue needs to be fixed for Android to be considered a serious business device. I love the Google-goodness of Android, would hate to leave it for this one issue.

Just realized to my horror that I don't have any records of past non-recurring events on mySlide!! Google, please, if you are a little confused on what business people need in terms of syncing between comps and phones, check out what Palm has been providing for the last decade! Here's what we need:

Outlook <-> Google cloud (ALL calendar events, contacts, tasks, notes);
Google Cloud <-> Android (ALL calendar events, contacts, tasks, notes);

and as a bonus:
Outlook <-> Android over USB (ALL calendar events, contacts, tasks, notes).

Truly unbelievable that Google has yet to address this.  It may be enough for me to return my 5-day-old Droid X for a Palm Pre.  I am really dissappointed in Google.

I am going to try wagebo's method, but really cannot believe that this is what it's come to.

Any suggestions...I can't get my MyTouch to change the date.  It's changed in the date settings but not in the sync settings.

Wade:

Thank you sooo much for your method.  Worked great for my N1.  Really appreciate it.

This issue seems to have also been reported as issue 36909692 and issue 36910899 which are currently listed as medium defects.

I'm having the opposite problem. I have a Drea 100 (Android) which has synched all of my data for the last 5 years . . . and that's wreaking havoc with the space on my phone.  I just want it to synch the last year, but I can't find anywhere to set that (the way I used to be able to on my Palm). Where can I set the amount of data in the past that I want to be synched with the Android?

Really disappointed with lack of action taken Android team (more than a year ago). Ability to see ALL calendar entry is a must for enterprise.

wagebo's solution (comment #66) worked for me - old dates appear but most importantly future dates which I had added to Google Calendar some months before I bought my Samsung Moment now appear, also.

#74 worked for my Droid X, migrated Sony Clie datebook from 2003 to present into Evolution then into Google, followed the dirtections,now all history is available on the Droid. This is a serious issue, it is why I bought the Droid because I knew I could move all my history into Google and hence into the Droid. Salesperson did not know of the flaw and I never thought to look for this as a defect before I bought it. Google should address this and fully resolve it.

Hello.

I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and I've tried the wagebo trick. My problem is that I can't put airplane mode and after that enable wifi.

I have disabled automatic date and time, and I set it manually. But when I enable wifi, the date is automatically corrected to today. Damn!

What can I do?

Thanks.

On my Xperia X10, I have tried to disable wifi and enable GSM, and it doesn't auto-update the date.

But when I enable 3G (to use it instead of wifi), the date is automatically updated again :-(

Anyone knows how to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Maybe my problem is that Xperia has a NTP client, so everytime I connect to Internet the date and time are updated.

Maybe using a firewall to block NTP traffic... I've seen that exists Droidwall to confiure iptables, but I would have to root my device.

Any idea?

For the moment, the only way of making my Xperia X10 not to automatically update it's date is to configure my ADSL router to block NTP traffic (TCP and UDP port 123).

Also I have to block on my ADSL router port 5228, which seems to be used by Market (and updates the date).

I had done (and posted in the help forums) before I came across comment #66:

Problem is the calendar won't come to my phone prior to 9/1/2010. I have several years of data (at least) across 4 calendars. Changes made on the phone go up to the calendar. Change made online (new or edit) show up on the phone.

Deleting the phone calendar data and re-syncing did nothing. I did not try totally resetting the phone and the restoring all the apps.

My solution to get it on the phone was to export the calendar data. You get a zip file, inside is each calendar as an ICS file. I went in to each of these files and changed every "LAST-MODIFIED" date back 1 year. This is easy to do in notepad (if a small file) or wordpad/write if larger. Importing this file back in (and sometimes resyncing) gave me all my entries back into the phone w/out duplicating the entries in the online calendar.

Stupid google has a daily limit on how many imports you can do in a day and the fail message is totally cryptic - something about a server error.

If this is the case wait until the next day to continue. If you have a ton of entries you will have to carve up the ics files into pieces so that you don't waste your precious import entry count on entries alredy imported the previous day.

Ok, we are 142 posts into this thread. So far NOTHING has helped me. All of these are just work around things that may or may not work depending on the level of skill of the user. As a new user mine isn't high, and it's disappointing to think it has to be just to get my phone to keep appointments. The obvious elephant in the room is that this sucks for anyone who bought a Droid thinking that they had a phone smart enough to keep a calendar for them. Is there NO direct way to contact google and complain or request a fix, other than hope someone from Google who cares reads these forums? I've been scouring the internet and find nothing but frustrated users but NOT ONE WORD from anyone at Google who admits this is a problem or whether or not it is going to be addressed. At this point I would be happy if anyone could just point me in the direction of finding out where to ask a question and get a response from someone at Google, or if anyone knows whether or not this IS being addressed in the future.

This is totally unacceptable. I just got a brand new Galaxy S from sprint and if you enter appointments on the phone calendar it doesn't sync. I can send mail, everything else works, It syncs all my calendar entries that are entered on my PC, but I need to enter them on the phone!

I agree with all others on the thread -- this is a major bug.

But by now, Android has lots of 3rd party vendors, and I know that there are a couple of other calendar programs out there. Have folk checked these other apps to see if they have the same problem? E.g. Jorte?

1. Go to the web on google.com/calendar
2. Go to settings of "My Agendas"
3. Export your agendas, you get an iCal zip with all the agendas separately
4. Re-import the agendas, but for a first try you could use a separate "test" agenda to import one or more agendas. Agendas are not duplicated (but not sure, because I have a small agenda).
5. It will resync to your mobile (my Galaxy S does).
6. Don't know if the agenda is lost again after 30 or 50 days again...

I agree. This is annoying. I had 6 years of history on my palm that I searched regularly for information.  C'mon Google, lets at least be able to interact well with other google apps

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all these comments, but yet no fix???
i too have calendar 1 month issue..
i input my mileage/whereabouts for my expenses, which i do monthly,
if i forget/am off on holiday, to claim 1 month, i do 2 lots the next..

i cant see where ive been as i only have 1 month of data on my phone.

really irritaing bug.

This is what worked for my EVO - a modified version of posts 66 and 74 (mucho thanks to Wagebo and greg.dr).  I had to sync for each year manually.  

1.  From the home screen hit menu and go to Settings - Accounts & Sync.
2.  Turn off the Background Data and Auto-sync.
3.  Switch to Airplane mode to disable phone and GPS (because if you get a call or sms during the process, it corrects the time), then re-enable Wi-Fi so you can sync.
4.  Go to Settings - Date & Time.
5.  Turn off Automatic then Set Date to your earliest appointment year (e.g. 1/1/97) and hit set.
6.  Restart phone.
7.  Go to Settings - Applications.
8.  Select Manage Applications and choose All.
9.  Find Calendar in the applications list, select it and choose Clear Data (it will warn you about losing all files just hit OK).
10. Do the same for Calendar Storage.
11. Go to the Calendar application. Choose Menu - More - Calendars and select All calendars.  Make sure each calendar type is checked.
12. Go back into Settings - Accounts & Sync.
13. Select the Google account, then tap Sync Calendar to sync.  Do not sync gmail or contacts.
14. Be sure the date it lists for the last sync is the date you selected, and you may want to hit sync once or twice more to be certain the sync was completed.
15. Once sync has completed for the year selected, choose Settings - Date & Time.  Change the date to Jan 1 of the following year (e.g. 1/1/98).  Complete steps 12 - 14 for the new year.
16. Repeat step 15 for each year until the present year.
17. Once complete go to Settings - Date & Time and select Automatic.
18. Go to Settings - Accounts & Sync and turn on Background Data and Auto-sync if desired.

I ended up with 7.10MB in my Calendar Storage database and it took about 30 minutes for this process.  Hope this helps until Google fixes this glaring problem.

Dear Google,

I ordered a Motorola Droid 2 the day it was released. OK, so that phone malfunctioned had to be replaced. But I like many features on my DROID 2. The calendar isn't one of them.

I have now had to go buy a little POCKET-SIZE calendar, because the Google calendar on my phone won't show data further back than a month. I use my calendar to record my doctor appointments and make notes on health changes, meds and lab tests etc.

I MUST have access to my past medical history while I am at a doctor's office. (Google Health doesn't print much/any profile detail, so no help there!)

Please increase the priority of this calendar issue and include an option for users to specify how much data to sync.

I am really missing my Palm about now.

Palm did it 10 years ago...
Windows Mobile does it (although it's the crapiest mobile OS in he world)...
BlackBerry does it...
iPhone does it...

Why Android isn't still able to sync calendar at full range?

@mauricejrichard

THANK YOU SO FREAKIN MUCH!!!!!!!! you have no idea how badly I was searching, reading, trying for the past couple of hours on a fix for this. I ended up going back to 2007 in my calendar :D

Again at mauricejrichard,
thank you very very very much!!! This was the only thing that helped until now. I hope that Google will fix the bug soon. Otherwise they will loose customers, I'm afreid.
Cheers

to:   comment 150  mauricejrichard,

THANK YOU!!!!!  THANK YOU!!! This worked for the droid incredible.  

I can't believe Google doesn't have a fix for this.  Good thing we have this forums with answers that actually work.

To post #150: Does this work "forever"? I encountered the issue, that the older entries again disappeared after one month or so....

It seems to work when I tried export and import my calender.

Here are my steps:
- Go to Calender Settings
- Click Calenders under Calender Settings
- Click Export calendars, download the file
- Extract the .zip file, the calendar file will end in .ics
- Click Import calendar, choose the .ics file and click Import

Hope this works for everyone... and let's hope Google will give us an option to sync old events in the next Android update.

alex1971w post 156

So far so good on my EVO, older entries have not disappeared yet.  I'll let you know if anything changes after 11/5 - my one month point after performing the procedure in post 150.
 

Basic functionality that is needed. This issue is over one year old and should be part of the basic function.

What will happen first?
1) Google lets us see our past calendar events again on android phones
2) Apple lets us buy iphone through verizon
3) Someone develops an android calendar/PIM app that works (please, pocketinformant, make it happen)

Place your bets!

This is a basic function that was part of the droid phone os I bought in January 2010, otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it. It disappeared after an "update", but I don't know why it would take an android update to restore it. Please fix it...

I was a Palm Calendar user for 10 years.  I finally converted my calendar to Outlook and then to Google.  I had all 10 years showing up on my Google desktop calendar, and my Google calendar on my Ipod Touch and on my droid X.  After the 2.2 update, my Droid X only shows events from Septmeber 1 forward.  The events are still on my ipod and desktop but I can't get it to show up on my Droid.  Called Verizon and Motorola and no one seems to have an answer.  If anyone has found a solution, please let me know.  I need to refer to past appointments!