iPhone Calendar problems

[DanielCalladine]

Hello,

I am having problems with my iPhone (ios5.1) being subscribed to a gmail calendar.

It doesn't seem to fetch updates from my gmail calender for hours sometimes if at all.

Also is there anyway of making a gmail calendar a default calendar, so that new appointments will be made to the gmail one rather than the iPhone's default calendar (called "Work" in mine).

Regards, Daniel

 

[DefBref]

Settings - Mail, contacts and calendars - scroll down to calendar section - Default Calendar

 

[DanielCalladine]

Settings - Mail, contacts and calendars - scroll down to calendar section - Default Calendar

That doesn't appear on my phone, isn't that something that was there before ios5?

 

[DefBref]

It appears on mine and I'm upto date with 5.1.1.

How have you 'subscribed' to your gmail calendar?

 

[DanielCalladine]

It appears on mine and I'm upto date with 5.1.1.

How have you 'subscribed' to your gmail calendar?

Good point, I'm not sure, it just appears on there as a subscribed calendar, I don't know how it knows about it.

Is there another way that I should be adding it?

Thanks, Daniel

 

[DefBref]

I have my gmail account set up as an exchange account and choose to sync mail, contacts and calendar.

http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

 

[DanielCalladine]

Thanks for your help DefBref you've fixed it!

I've added the calendar via the Microsoft exchange wizard and turned off everything apart from the calendar.

I think I must have been seeing the gmail calendar via iCloud because my laptop was subscribed to the gmail calendar in iCal.

So have you turned off calendar in iCloud?

 

[DefBref]

Never had my gmail calendar subscribed in icloud, was using exchange method before icloud came about.