iphone4 synch problem with outlook calendar

Thanks for that

(1) On the iPhone calendar app, if you click Calendars do you see that Birthdays is unchecked? (My thinking is that you want to make sure it's the Outlook birthday entries you're seeing and not the iPhone-created entries.)

Ticks are on both calendar & birthdays. And on the top it shows "hide all calendars" if i remove the tick from birthdays I get NO calendar entries

2) Am trying that now ...

I don't think you're getting any calendar entries coming across from Outlook, not even birthdays. (I don't know where the iPhone cute-little-wrapped-box birthdays come from; I've never looked into it. Seems superfluous so I keep mine unchecked.)

Just tried syncing again & it comes up with OutlookSync Client has stopped working (ALL I want is a working iPhone with full sync features - is that too much to ask?)

Prior to this it just kept saying "preparing to sync"

In the details it states:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: com.apple.Outlook.client.exe
Application Version: 17.89.0.10
Application Timestamp: 4cb91bf4
Fault Module Name: StackHash_a9bb
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: 80000026
Exception Offset: 74f6c9f1
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: a9bb
Additional Information 2: a9bb9f781993608ceaacdb23e3a541c4
Additional Information 3: cf2a
Additional Information 4: cf2adf33d02fa91ac1bf93177619993f

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Google "Application Name: com.apple.Outlook.client.exe"
and you'll find threads of people running Windows 7 and Outlook with similar issues. Whether there's an answer in this modest pile of search results, I don't know, but it's a place to continue the quest.

I'm on a Vista machine and have never experienced an error with the sync process. My result was always a sync that would take a long time on calendar entries but wouldn't actually sync any of them. Our symptoms aren't the same, though the underlying cause may be. I'm not sure what to tell you at this point except to search for solutions or at least clues by googling your error message.

It's a sorry state of affairs that so many are having sync problems with calendar entries, in some cases for many months. I don't know why Apple doesn't get this fixed. It doesn't seem to like it's rocket science. We all make sizable investments in hardware/software from Apple & Microsoft and our work suffers because of problems like this.

utilajeff:

I wish I had a spare iPhone, spare computer, and spare TIME to play with this problem (well actually I wish Apple would fix it .... ;-/ ) but anyway.

I believe that there are several problems with calendar sync:

1) If a single event repeats too many times it blows things up.
I have an uncle born in 1915. His birthday got added to my calender in Outlook when I entered his birthday in his contact record. This created a repeating event that started 1915 and repeated with "no end". This single event blew up calendar sync.

2) When I first got my iPhone I started adding my repeating meetings mostly weekly stuff. I took the defaults of repeat with "no end". I had maybe 20 events in there and the calendar sync. broke. Apple suggested that my PST database was corrupt. In attempting to trouble shoot that I found that if I deleted the first 10 events it WOULD sync. .... ah-ha ... one of the last 10 events that is corrupt... well after a considerable amount of screwing around I found that it would sync. roughly 15 of my events (as I had input them). It did not matter WHICH 15 so it seems there is some "total" number of event ceiling as well.... very frustrating....

Tried option 2 no joy at all! And our issues are similar as the outlook client closed issue only occurs sometimes

Most of the time iTunes takes ages syncing the calendar and nothing gets synced but with me the birthday entries do!

Tried the same on my vista machine contacts sync so do notes but no calendar entries at all not even 1!!!

Even did another scanpst just in-case and used that new file but still no luck! If thus continues I will just be getting the htc at least android don't seem to have these petty issues. Apple needs to sort this out as we've all paid £'00's for the equipt and for a few hours of their time they can't sort out this sync issue once and for all!

WOOHOO, it appears to work. At least for now. What I did was...
1/ Found I couldn't open iTunes on my computer, so downloaded again and selected Repair.
2/ in Outlook, I went thru all my recurring appts, deleted some unnecessary ones, and changed those which were "No end date" to 3 or 5 or 10 or whatever. I also removed the Reminder option.
3/ I synced and came up with +80 conflicts, selected resolve conflict according to Outlook. Asked to sync again and it actually synced both ways, and not just with the recurring events.
BUT unfortunately, 2 of the recurring events were doubled or tripled.

That does seem to be the issue - see my thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2732958&start=15&tstart=0

Post 15 - all i did was remove the end dates by entering a period say 10 yrs from now & all now syncing ok

the 3gs sync worked too 🙂

After 2 month of searching for a synch issue between my G4 iPhone and Outlook 2007 I finally got it to work! The problem was caused by a bug in a recurrent appointment. I opened the concerned contact, discarded the birth date, saved the contact and it worked. It took me half a day to find out which contact out of 3000 was causing the issue. I would suggest you give it a try by first deleting ALL recurring appointments (keep them in the deleted items folder), then try to synch. If it works, you can move half of them back to the calendar folder and try to synch again. If the corrupted appointment is back in the calendar folder the next synch attempt will fail, and you will have downsized your search by half. It might take some time to narrow down to the guilty appointment, but boy am I happy I found it! Hope this will help some of you guys. 🙂

I've been up and down this thread and tried almost every suggestion - none has worked. I'm geeting desperate and have already wasted hours on this one. I'm pretty sure it's happened since I updated to the latest version (4.3.1) of the iPhone software around a week ago.

Did not work..