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Yes, you can sync data through the cloud, yes pigs can fly!

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MacLinDroid

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I cut my teeth on Nokia Suite using a USN cable or even Bluetooth. It worked, worked, worked.

I just left Apple because of numerous issues including a messed up iCloud sync of Notes, Contacts & Calendar.

My contacts list holds only 24 entries and my calendar is no more bloated than that. I also have some tasks.

As I have bought my first Android phone less than a week ago, it is disheartening that I already had suffered various sync issues as the systems seem to break themselves while I am sleeping. Am I snoring too loudly?

The contacts sync was fixed but my Calendar sync between my Google account and my Android device simply is not working. I want the data on my laptop as I have bad eyesight and reading on the phone is a strain. I need it on the phone as I need to be reminded to take medication following several stroke incidents and heart attacks. It is essential that my devices are 100% reliable.

Right now, it seems that Android's trade union OK'ed my device an illegal strike, or what else could cause it to disappoint so badly?

Perhaps I should have bought an Asha and lived with the limitations of S40. Jelly Bean is not to be trusted with one's life, it seems.

As to me, it may make the difference between life and death.
 
What device are we talking about?

Look in your main settings under Accounts, then to your Google account and make sure that syncing calendars and tasks are not disabled.
 
Sometimes auto sync seems to get stuck in a either a locked (on or off) or undetermined state - all have happened to me over the years with Android.

What fixes it for me - turn auto sync off, reboot phone, wait a few minutes for all processes to stabilize. Turn it back on, reboot immediately.

If still stuck (and I had this recently with my calendars and call log of all things), verify that your contacts are on your Gmail account from a PC browser, go to settings, Apps, All, find your contacts app or service, go into that and clear data.

That's going to erase your apps and also clear any database errors under the hood (locked invalid state or stale database lock, either way).

Then go to Accounts and command for a sync update.

Somewhere in the above tree is your likely fix.

Last place to look is available app (not SD or emulated) storage. If that's pretty full, it may be running out of space to complete temporary processes. If you have lots of texts, clearing those can help.

If you're not rooted, take the ultimate step - back up everything you can with Helium Backup (it's free), do a factory data reset, and restore your backup.

If you are rooted with a custom recovery, go clear cache and Dalvik instead.

PS - no need to be touchy when asked about user settings. :D ;)
 
I have found basic Google services to be very reliable. My wife and I for the last few years have both run our businesses using Google calendar, Google contacts, and Google Voice for out business phones. That includes scheduling hundreds of appointments, hundreds of contacts, and handling thousands of phone calls and voicemails. We also use Gmail for some things, have always used Android phones and even have Google Fiber gigabit internet + TV service. Point is, your experience so far is certainly not typical. Millions of people successfully depend on Google services.

As EarlyMon suggested, likely something is just needing tweaking in your settings, or possibly your internet connection is iffy. Not likely to be Google itself.
 
Thanks for all the advice and sorry if I appeared edgy. I contracted diabetes and due to the freakin phone did not take my meds on time; it is bound to cause mood deviations.

The procedures above had been exhausted two times before I started posting, so please understand me being in a sombre mood. We have a buggy roving about on Mars and footprints on the lunar surface, we split atoms and fly around the globe without giving it a second thought, in a machine that weighs over 400 tons and that requires 6 tons of precious Jet A-1 to brake it, all forced through turbines in a few short seconds. We transplant hearts, knees, livers and we perform surgery via remote control, but we cannot get a few calendar entries to sync seamlessly.

I will repeat the routine tomorrow and see if there is any success. I own a domain that has a calendar in Horde; may I should do it the hard way and try to set that up.

Imagine this.....I retired from ICT in 2000! My entire Sunday went into trying to resolve this issue and I only went public when it was well beyond sunset on my shores.
 
I have also been using it for years, but I have never seen sync hiccups as much as I have seen lately. I am not alone, either, as you will see on Apple support, Macrumours, etc. I came to Android because the only way that my Macbook Pro and my iPhone would sync correctly, was via Google.............

Now Google is the one giving trouble. ?
 
No worries and I meant no disrespect teasing about your mood. It's in my nature to try to lighten the vibe when facing adversity, nothing personal. :)

I rely on my phone for work and keeping my calendars, contacts, mail and everything else synced asap and all of the time. I'm mega sensitive to any of these glitches and how to cure them.

So I can dig your frustration here for sure.

Let us know how you make out.

By the way - I personally don't trust my built-in calendar.

Check out "Business Calendar"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netgenius.bizcal

I also log all of my calls.

Check out "CallTrack"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.calltrack

Can't guarantee that they work on every device but I swear by that combo.
 
Btw - Google can have problems just like anyone or anything else.

However, while posting the above, I got a short call. It was logged to my calendar reserved for that, and then synced to my phone - it's one of the purple bars shown for today in my monthly widget -

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Point being, at least as of right now, Google is operating as expected.

Hope this helps. :)
 
I have long successfully synced multiple Google accounts, including calendars, contacts, etc. on our phones, tablets, Linux and Windows PCs with almost - but not quite - zero problems.

Google is not the problem unless it's a temporary thing. If a simple manual resyncing fails, try just waiting a few hours. If still no go, EarlyMon outlined procedures that should correct things.
 
Thanks for the advice and suggestions, I am sure to check (and try) them out! :D

At least you are another earthling who uses a phone for something productive. To some, it is just a mobile theme park.
 
MacLinDroid said:
To some, it is just a mobile theme park.
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Honestly, I sometimes look forward to the day when I can join their ranks! :rofl:

But yeah - when it's firing on all cylinders, Android is a power house business tool.

I created a vCard of my contact info and I always MMS or email that to new customers.

Android or iPhone, they tap it and boom, I'm in their contact list.

Btw - you can set up public calendars in Google and let your customers or co-workers see your schedule if you need to - and Business Calendar has no trouble with managing multiple calendars under your Google account.
 
I've been meddling with the calendar earlier today, I'm going away in a few weeks and thought it was a reasonable test to schedule all my assorted transport timings and places, maybe 50 or so events in total. I started on the PC, switched to my Nexus 7 tablet part way through, went back to the PC then reviewed on the Nexus 4.

Couldn't fault it; perfect. Added another different entry for next week (gas safety check at home) using the Nexus 4 on a mobile connection, was on my PC before I had time to put the phone down.

Basically this just confirms my general feeling that Google's sync works pretty well, but I still don't use it for anything vital. My network connections are nothing special (I'm in a rural area) but if the network is working I find that Google usually is too.

Your problem has got to be related to your location/networks rather than Google's infrastructure - unless Google are giving me special treatment here in rural Lancashire to compensate for the pathetic "broadband" performance I have to live with.
 
The internet backbone varies by country and state for land lines and by carrier.

Not out of the question for a server access problem to hit just one region - that's not unheard of at all for the large distributed services.

Good news is that sufficient load balancing and cross checks are in place to keep it to a minimum.

But - it does happen.

I recall one region losing access to the Play Store for a few days. Pretty sure that was in 2010 (and it was the Android Market back then).
 
That's basically what I was saying, that the problem seems to be geographic rather than a fault in the design of the Google sync system or we all would be suffering from it.

I was also making the point that it doesn't require a super-duper connection either, just one that works.
 
I have installed those apps and really like what I am seeing there, thanks again for the nudge.

"Android phones have more RAM." True, because they need it.
"Android phones have faster CPU's." True, because they need it.
"Android phones have bigger screens." True, because they need it.
"Why do the need bigger screens, then?"
"Because they need bigger batteries."

Here we are.......learning to drive a different kind of system, one thing about gadgets is that nobody will get bored! :D
 
Aaah! Lancashire in the US, not the "awethentik" one in the UK, then? So that is why you are getting preferential service from Google. A shorter cable, an act of patriotism and most definitely not discrimination against a freshly droided geek in relapse across the Atlantic pond :D
 
Gosh, it would be easier to sync by taking the next passenger liner across the Atlantic and lug my laptop along, but I will miss the sunshine! We have at least 11 hours per day and a night sky filled with uncountable stars. Or is the correct word innumerable?

That reminds me of another point: if our data is sync-ed through the cloud and if natural disasters increase, causing scary snowfalls such as in the USA in over the past winter there, how will we connect if similar events happen in the UK & Europe? I often wonder what level of ubiquity is at hand and how we will cope here when others have an inconvenience in their back yard.

Google was placing thousands of balloons to distribute broadband across the southern hemisphere, in the stratosphere, but we have seen no evidence of service delivery yet.
 
John Bean said:
Certainly not!

Here I am: Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire
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Fine, no problem. Check out "Property Finder UK"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.tech.propertyfinder

:D

MacLinDroid said:
Gosh, it would be easier to sync by taking the next passenger liner across the Atlantic and lug my laptop along, but I will miss the sunshine! We have at least 11 hours per day and a night sky filled with uncountable stars. Or is the correct word innumerable?

That reminds me of another point: if our data is sync-ed through the cloud and if natural disasters increase, causing scary snowfalls such as in the USA in over the past winter there, how will we connect if similar events happen in the UK & Europe? I often wonder what level of ubiquity is at hand and how we will cope here when others have an inconvenience in their back yard.

Google was placing thousands of balloons to distribute broadband across the southern hemisphere, in the stratosphere, but we have seen no evidence of service delivery yet.
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It's true -


More complex systems have more features, more redundancy, more backups - and more failure points.
 
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