Rant/Cry for help time. Maybe the answer is out there, but I
can’t find it, and it’s not for lack of trying. Problem, I noticed that the calendar
wasn’t syncing, no not with Outlook, I know those nice folk at Google turned
that off, but with, wait for it, Google’s on-line calendar, the one that come
with Gmail.
Fantastic, I have a bunch of medical appointments for some
poorly relatives to manage, and Android strikes again. This is why I recently posted
a comment, prior to buying the Sony Xperia Z2, lovely hardware, shame it’s got
that crapy Android on it, or words to that effect.
So I dig around and find the problem, there’s a ‘Device Calendar’,
showing up as “SYNCML-ORPHANED”, the latter part of that seems to indicate that
this is not how it should be, ‘ORPHANED’ is hardly a calendar name one would
use for something that works.
So I Google ‘phone calendar "syncml-orphaned"’ and
end up at:-
Which sends me to an idiots guide, is it in Airplane mode?
Is sync on?
Grief.
I couldn’t change the calendar, from ‘Device Calendar’ (the
ORPHANED one) on the events I had put in, so I had to enter them all manually on
my desktop to my own calendar. Worse still I can’t disable the “SYNCML-ORPHANED” device
calendar, I can’t even make my calendar the default for adding new events.
Yes I killed both calendar related process, deleted their
data, re-synced, but it just doesn’t make a difference. So now I have to
remember to change calendar every time I add an event. Maybe there’s some deep
setting buried somewhere, but I can’t find it. However adding a few appointments has now resulted in the default becoming my Gmail account. So at least it now all 'works', I'll just ignore the Device Calendar.
