Google Calendar no alarms on Evo

[gianthobbit]

Coming from the Palm pre and already had my calendar in the cloud but a little confused on why I am not getting them on my phone.

I have a reminder set for 1 hour, Maill.app notifies me but my phone never does. So i went into HTC calendar app, edit, add alarm, defaults to the 1 hours that I set. Then go to Google Calendar, where the 1 hour pop was already set, refresh the same, still there. The alarm then goes off fine on my phone.

So I then remove the alarm on the HTC calendar, refresh google calendar, pop up is gone. Add it via the browser, no alarm on phone.

I know that sounds really confusing but this is insane, why is it not working?

 

[curthibbs]

I'd like to know too (I came from a Palm Treo and absolutely relied on my alarms). Like you I'm still trying to figure out the behavior so I can get by until Iambic's Agendus for Android is released.

In the meantime I discovered iRT Calendar (iRT Calendar - Android app on AppBrain) which at least has a better display than HTC Calendar (but doesn't solve any of these issues). I also tried DejaOffice, but couldn't get it to work.

 

[curthibbs]

Looks like if I want reminders I have to either create the calendar item on the phone, or create it on the web and then edit it on my phone to add the alarm.

 

[c_dub]

same deal here - no alarms showing on my phone - this issue with reminders is a joke - how can reminders created google calendar not be appearing on my EVO . . . is there a vehicle to get these bugs documented, or are we relying on programmers to pour thru these forums

 

[Examiner19]

They work fine for me. Check your settings - In calendar, Menu->More->Settings->Reminder Settings.

 

[inhops]

email vs Popup alarm setting

I was having a problem where I would add events on my Google Calendar with an alarm for 10 minutes prior. I would then get an email with the alarm, but it did not alarm on my android phone - HTC Hero. When I changed my Google calendar alarm default from email to Popup (Calendar Settings --> Notificaitons), I now get an alarm/notification on my phone. And to take it back one step further, when I create an event on my Palm Desktop with an alarm and use Companion Link for Google to sync it, the alarm now comes through on my phone - with the Google Calendar default as Popup.

 

[mmhhc]

The built-in reminder capabilities of Android phones are not very good. Missed Call is a good reminder app. It reminds for missed calls, upcoming meetings, and sms. It sometimes continues to remind me even though the alarm was dismissed, but that's the only bug that I've found on my EVO.

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