I just upgraded to iOS4 - I connect my iPhone to an Exchange server - mail and contacts work great - my calendar seems to show the right account info but the calendar is totally blank. Nothing on it at all. I even removed it and added it back and its still all blank.
@Jason,
I'd love to get
any response from Apple as well! But when I look back at my last major issue I had with an Apple product, caused by a firmware bug for my Airport Extreme router, I don't have any high expectations (just look in the discussion boards for "Airport Extreme and Windows 7"). Apple sometimes has the tendency to wait until errors fix themselves "magically".
update. upon completely deleting my yahoo account from my phone and re adding it my mail no longer has any no sender no subject emails however the calendar still does not sync. also, anyone expecting an answer from apple on these threads you should know now you will not receive one. To apple these threads are for users to help each other. I know that apple will read over them sometimes but i have never once seen an apple support employee comment on any problems or solutions in these support threads... just a heads up.
The Apple support engineer i spoke to directed to this thread...so Apple is aware of it...at least here in France. I have asked if they would bring that up to software engineers...they said yes.
Again the only way to fix this issue for me was to restore as a new iPhone forgetting my last back and loosing all my app records and SMS..not sure i want to do that. Apple needs to fix this ASAP!
Xav, I already did a complete restore on my phone since I urgently need full Exchange support on my phone. It doesn't help me either, though there seem to be some people that where helped by that.
another update about my yahoo calendar. my main yahoo calendar shows up in my phones calendar list but doe not display any of its events. i went into yahoo calendar on my pc and created a new calendar and called it ***4ole... my feelings toward apple atm. anyways, i added an event in that calendar called test. checked my iphone and sure enough it showed up... tried to create a new event in my main yahoo calendar and that one does not show up on my phone. im thinking that for some odd reason the iphone is not syncing the events from any calendar created prior to the ios4 release.... ugh, the conclusions from my experimenting are just making me more frustrated with Apple. Such a stupid bug...
OKAY! fixed my yahoo calendar, hopefully the following can help with the exchange and google calendars as well. I deleted the test calendar i made (see my last post). Using my PC, I then went to my main calendar on yahoo, exported the events to an .ics file on my pc as a backup. I then deleted all events from my yahoo calendar. Then, i renamed my main calendar. Following renaming, i uploaded the .ics backup that i created earlier... problem solved... everything is syncing again. so..
1)export all your calendar events to an .ics file on your computer
2)after backing up your events, delete everything in your calendar
3)rename the calendar
4)import the .ics file that you exported in step 1
5)exit the calendar app on your phone (if it is already open) and then reload it.
6)i know this will work for yahoo calendars. I think, and hope that a similar process will work for getting google and exchange calendars to work
Unfortunately you cannot delete the 'main' calendar in Exchange, therefore this fix will not solve the actual problem.
Interesting to hear that deleting and renaming does something though. As i mentioned earlier, I have added a test 'sub' calendar on my Exchange account and that syncs fine, but still nothing shows in the main calendar.
Even adding a second Exchange account has the same issue. Our Office account has several sub calendars on it, and these sync fine. But again the 'Main' 'Calendar' for the Office Exchange mailbox shows blank.
Definitely something wrong with the way iOS4 is synching...
im not saying to delete the main calendar. i said to delete all of the events in the calendar. you can not delete the main calendar in yahoo either. delete ALL events after exporting an .ics file. so.. once again..
1)export your calendar events to a .ics file on your pc
2)delete ALL EVENTS from your main calendar
3)Rename your main calendar
4)Import the .ics file
5)exit and re-open the calendar app on your iphone (if it was left open)
Interesting its showing up on yahoo since as far as I know they don't use exchange, though I could be wrong. The calender issue is sounding more and more like something going hoke related to date/time relative to installation of iOS4. I think the email issue of not letting you send comes down to iOS4 overriding the email address that is typed in with one created from a combination of loginName@domain.rootUrlOfExchangeServer. Which would explain why GMail was able to get past the problem as they do not use a domain at all.
Had this issue since the update to iOS4 - eventually tracked it down to the firewall blocking the SSL traffic from upgraded phones. Also found previously unreported problems accessing Outlook Web Access over https:// in ie8 - once the firewall rules were relaxed in the regard, all is working again.
On my side it is still not solved...and really causing issues to me.
To me it does not make sense that if i do a hard restore (as new) the exchange calendar is back...while if i use my back up data it will not work (whatever i tried...).
It sounds like OS4 is buggy when backing up OS3 data.
Xavier
Drwster, I see what you mean...for me it worked the second time I restored...but again I don't want to loose some of my data/SMS...Apple has to find a solution.
I do not think it is the mailbox size. Mine is always cleaned up so i only get the daily messages I receive. The others are on PST folders so not on the exchange server and therefore not on my iPhone.
Xavier
