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"Fake event to work around calendar issue"

I've got a Samsung Stratosphere running Android 2.3. When I search in the Calendar app for an event, it always first briefly shows a list of all events, then shows the search results. Inevitably, at the top of the list of all events is one that says, "Fake event to work around calendar issue." It is set on 01/01/1975 from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, with no repeats and no alarm. When I go to that date on the calendar on the phone, there it is, listed on the calendar linked to my e-mail account; but when I check my online Google Calendar, there is no such event on that or any other date on any calendar.

There seems to be no harm in leaving it there, and I wonder if there'd be any harm in deleting it. A quick Google search showed that this is an event that shows up on many Android phones synced to Google Calendar, sometimes with repeats or alarms. (For example: https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/607134#607134; http://forums.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-x/45510-problems-google-calendar-fake-event-work-around-calendar-issue.html.)

Has anyone else here experienced this? Has anyone successfully deleted it?

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demmo86rt

I find this mildly humorous. I'm thinking it's a Motorola thing, as I have no such event on my Rezound (even jumped to that day and, nothing). This may also explain why it doesn't show up on your gmail calendar online. Do you have an option for which calendars to show? If you have one called phone, you may be able to disclude (un-include?) it so that it, at least, doesn't bother you.

Dave-in-Decatur

Well, I've got a Samsung, so you can't blame Motorola for this one.

Good idea to try un-including the phone calendar (called, very confusingly, "My Calendar" on this device). Unfortunately, that doesn't do it. The event still shows up, saying that it's on the calendar linked to my e-mail address. Yet it doesn't appear on my Google Calendar. Weird.

demmo86rt

Very weird, clever workaround on whoever's part for whatever though. And, I could have sworn you had were talking about a Moto in your other calendar thread... whoops. So maybe a Samsung thing then?

Dave-in-Decatur

My little Google search showed it occurring for at least a couple of years now across a spectrum of Android devices from various manufacturers. Which suggests that somehow the big G is responsible for whatever it is. The version history for a 3rd-party calendar app maker suggests that this "bizarre event ... that Google Calendar puts in at times" might be "Bug? Google programmer forgot to remove debug code? Weird kludge by Google Programmers?": http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/PimlicalAndroidVersionAndSlipstreamHistory.htm (scroll down to the bottom). Frankly, striding forward to conquer the world while never getting around to fixing rubbish from years ago seems like Google's M.O. these days.

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