Calendar/contacts help

[jd20902]

Hey guys, new to the forum as I just got my first android device (came from Blackberry). Running into an issue that's been a bit of an annoyance that I can't figure out:

Originally I had all my contacts sync'd with an old gmail account. This contact info included birthdays of my contacts. I decided to make an additional gmail account for work/personal reasons, and I went ahead and exported all contacts from the original email to this new account.

I deleted all the contacts in my phone and set it to sync with the new email account. Everything looked okay at first, but when I look at my calendar I now have two events for every birthday coming from my "People" calendar. If I delete all my contacts on my phone and look at my People calendar, it shows a single event for everyone's birthday.

This leads me to believe that when I initially deleted all my contacts, the calendar kept all the events. So now when I sync with my contacts on the new account it adds an additional event for everyone's birthday. Is there any way to delete all calendar events? I'm thinking if I could do that and then sync, it should correctly show one event for each birthday.

FYI, I deleted the old gmail account entirely from my phone, so it shouldn't be that it's syncing events from both accounts or anything.

Thanks all for the help, really enjoying the android experience and this seems like a good community here!

 

[icebike]

Did this phone ever know about the old Gmail account?

If so, you should get rid of that account or it will just sync back again.
You can go into accounts and sync, and turn off syncing, but sooner or later you will
make a mistake and get a mixing again. Best just to delete the old account.

Contacts and Calendar pollution is one reason I don't use multiple Gmail accounts on Android. Since i have to check mail from multiple Gmail accounts, I use K-9 Mail to handle all my non primary accounts. It works better than Gmail app, because it does not leak those accounts to the phone itself.

As for calendar clean up, the easiest way to do this is to go to your computer at Calendar.google.com and make sure there is only one event for each birthday.
Make sure it has no linked calendars.

Then go to Accounts and Sync on the phone and make sure there is no other account that contains either Calendar or Contacts. Kill off any HTC account or AT&T account that holds contacts pr calendar so you just have the one calendar account.

Is it possible that you have duplicate contacts? If so some of those dups may contain the birthdays. Use dots menu in Contacts (People app) and tap Manage Contacts and use the Merge option to have it look for any duplicates.

Did you ever export contacts to the Sim card or phone anywhere along the line?

Make sure you don't have facebook or any other app that can leak contacts or calendars.

(At this point it might be a good Idea to change the password on your OLD gmail account
to trap any unknown leakage path.)

Then sync with your new Gmail account.

 

[jd20902]

Thanks for taking the time with all the suggestions. Unfortunately, it seems the issue seems to be that when I deleted all my contacts from my phone, it did not delete anything in the calendar associated with those contacts. Thus, when I imported the contacts again, it duplicated all the birthday events in my calendar.

I completely deleted all accounts from my phone and only have the one new gmail account left. For whatever reason, my phone doesn't let me manually delete birthday events from the calendar (at least I don't see an option to anywhere). Lastly, the only calendar being displayed at the moment is just my "People" calendar.

If there is a way to go one by one manually deleting the individual events, I don't care! Just don't want my calendar flooded with birthdays which is what it looks like when I go to the agenda tab.

 

[slowmomomo]

go to Settings --> Apps --> All --> Calendar Storage --> Clear data

This erases all calendar information stored on your phone.

Then sync new with your preferred gmail-account.

hope this helps.

 

[jd20902]

That did it.. thank you!