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Sync Phone with Google Calendar

Hello everyone,
I have an O2 Xda Orbit, onto which I have installed the marvellous ROM created by Tom (Version 4.1). Since I have now left my old job, I no longer have the luxury of an Exchange server to store my calendar appointments.
I discovered that I can use Google calendars, and give access to everyone to see where I am, but I cant find a usable application to run on the phone that will keep the appointments in sync. let me explain.
Most of the apps offer a "free" version that will only sync 3 days ahead, good for testing, crap for normal use. In addition, I use Re occurring appointments, which dont seem to be copied over to google.
Does anyone know of a good app that will sync in both directions between my phone and my online calendar. If I had to move away from Google and use hotmail or similar, then thats fine too.
Thanks guys, youre all great

one week ago I started to use GooSync. It works very well. Take a look....

Emm, i think it was OggSync..

kakainis said:
Emm, i think it was OggSync..
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Both are google calender apps
Goosync worked well with me. I have my shift pattern programmed, so it's always recuring with no issues
I think both have a free version if you only use one calender
Hays

Google Calendar Sync
As long as you are happy to sync using your PC then ...
5 March 2008 Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
You can now access your Google Calendar account from your mobile phone! Just visit mobile.google.com/calendar/ with your phone's web browser and once you're logged in, you'll see your list of upcoming events with date and time information in an easy-to-browse format.
Cheers
Tom

Various calendars in Google , Outlook format
In case you are interested www.addadate.com has loads of sports and social calendars in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal and Lotus Notes format. Ideal to sync with your Orbit includes Formula One, Tour de France, Moon phases etc etc

"Yahoo! Go" is a free app if you have a yahoo account, it syncs calendar and contacts, gives you access to local news, your yahoo e-mail, stock market, yahoo maps, weather and flickr. it's a pretty solid app, if you can put up with Yahoo!. I use it to save my contacts when i hard-reset. havn't had any problems yet.

Various calendars in Google , Outlook format
In case you are interested www.addadate.com has loads of sports and social calendars in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal and Lotus Notes format. Ideal to sync with your Orbit includes Formula One, Tour de France, Moon phases etc etc

[Q] Best Google Docs App?

What is the best google docs editing app in your opinions?
im currently using GDocs and it works good although i wish the UI was better.
any suggestions?

I know ThinkFree office supports google docs, never tried it.... you should check it out.

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I know ThinkFree office supports google docs, never tried it.... you should check it out.
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It would be nice to have a program that actually allows you to edit Google Docs from the site rather than download them, change stuff, and upload them, or worse like GDocs does, just links you to them and opens up your browser. I have bookmarks if I want links! Useless apps, seriously.
I don't know if ThinkFree office seamlessly integrates with Google Docs or not, but it would be nice.

Have you guys tried going to Google Docs on the phone's browser? They updated the site a few months ago to allow on-phone editing...

Documents to go is supposed to have excellent Google Docs support. I just can't bring myself to pay that much for it. Wish the trial supported it but that feature is locked. I don't need a full featured office app on my phone or I might consider purchasing.
Same thing with Quick Office, but I haven't heard if that one is good or not.
Google is well aware that we want an Android editor for Docs.
But until then I'm stuck using GDocs, which isn't very good, or stable.
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Offline GDoc App

Hi,
Any suggestion for an offline gdoc reader. Search many google doc app cannot sync the existing gdoc in my google drive. The GDoc by Wildart doesn't provide search function.
Any suggestion from you?
thanks

The official app allows you to save a doc for offline usage.

google docs is now called google drive
just use their app, it opens google docs files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs&hl=en

manmad said:
google docs is now called google drive
just use their app, it opens google docs files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs&hl=en
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Google Drive can do the offline. Want to get an app that can search include the doc content. I tried an app call "Onote", it is fast and simple. But has bugs to be fixed.

Outlook Sync?

Any suggestions for an app that will sync MS Outlook (Calanedar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, etc) from an XP/Win7 machine? I wouldn't cry if it also replaced the native Calendar and Contact apps... which imo, are pretty weak. Not concerned w/ email.
Btw, new to the Nexus 7... this is one cool machine!
Thanks,
Geoff

Calendar, Contacts, and Mail (if you do want it anyway) can be synced natively through Android, with the AOSP e-mail app.
For the other exchange tools, you could find one by searching Exchange ActiveSync on the Play Store.
In the odd case that this WASN'T your answer, and you aren't using Outlook for Corporate purposes, I'd imagine the way to sync your contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes would be to export them through Outlook itself and importing them into Google's services.
Contact export is simple in outlook, all major mail clients support import/export anyway. Calendar I'm not sure if you can set a URL to synchronize on Google Calendar or not, but you could probably export it, too. Same with tasks, and notes, but if those two fail you could probably copy and paste.

Microsoft office is currently in the works for android and iOS believe it or not. Release early next year.
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Thanks Asovse1. I'm not Exchange/Corporate based. Searching the app store, I hit on the likes of VC Organizer, mOffice, Android-Sync, Local Sync, Deja Office, etc and was hoping for some user reviews.
Wonder if MS Office will include Outlook? or just the Word, Excel, Powerpoint components?
Geoff

I use Touchdown for our company Exchange users on Android. It integrates fully and synchronizes with Exchange and Outlook good. Closest to Balackberry Exchange services on the market.

gcorth said:
Thanks Asovse1. I'm not Exchange/Corporate based. Searching the app store, I hit on the likes of VC Organizer, mOffice, Android-Sync, Local Sync, Deja Office, etc and was hoping for some user reviews.
Wonder if MS Office will include Outlook? or just the Word, Excel, Powerpoint components?
Geoff
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I have used VC Organizer Pro. Its been a while though. I originally bought it because it syncs everything including tasks. I have since moved on to Linux, gmail and the native Google tasks.
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I use this on a daily basis MyPhoneExplorer for Outlook on XP/Droid on JellyBean combo which puts a client on both the PC and Phone/Tablet. It just works.

I'm using Moxier Mail for about 2 years now and it is one of the best Microsoft sync tools available. It is syncing everything you listed in the first post.
The only draw back is that is quite expensive (it is by far the most expensive app. I have on my android devices ).
This is how it looks on my N7 ...

Yalp questions about Google sync, location, Google terms of service

Was thinking of using Yalp or some other alternative store with Lineage for more privacy and possibly improving performance/battery life and ditching google playstore framework but I have some questions:-
- does syncing work with apps like contacts, email, calendar with my google account?
- will map gps/navigation apps work the same or will it only be able to access device gps only location and will not have playstore information like last known location and location updates?
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html
- is it infringing the Google TOS for using google sync for (built in Lineageos) email/calendar/contacts without installing google playstore framework?
- has google banned accounts for infringing their TOS for people using paid apps downloaded from Yalp. Is there a workaround for this?

barrack1 said:
Was thinking of using Yalp or some other alternative store with Lineage for more privacy and possibly improving performance/battery life and ditching google playstore framework but I have some questions:-
- does syncing work with apps like contacts, email, calendar with my google account?
- will map gps/navigation apps work the same or will it only be able to access device gps only location and will not have playstore information like last known location and location updates?
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html
- is it infringing the Google TOS for using google sync for (built in Lineageos) email/calendar/contacts without installing google playstore framework?
- has google banned accounts for infringing their TOS for people using paid apps downloaded from Yalp. Is there a workaround for this?
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I think most of these are microG questions. Look at shadow53.com or nanoDroid.
And yes, there are rumours of banned accounts.