Issues with "Event Flair" and Google Calendars

If like me you set up the labs "Event Flair" option and wondered why it never works (just sits there displaying "Select an event to add flair") then these are the reasons I know of:

1. It doesn't work in Agenda view, it will display them but not let you set them.
2. The above point obviously means you can't search for the item to then allow you to change it.
3. It doesn't work when editing the calender event.
4. It doesn't work for all day events, turn that off, add the icon and then set it up again!
5. It doesn't work for events that span midnight

Hope that helps as a Google search shows that many people are having problems but not much detail is known.

I suppose I may as well go on and mention other issues I've noticed:

1. Not many icons available
2. Can't add your own icons
3. Flair not visible on my Android phone (2.1).

Optus Blocking Android Access to Paid Apps... Surely Illegal?

Hi,

Just a warning for anyone looking at a carrier for their new Android. Keep in mind that Optus are blocking access to any paid apps in the Android Market because they are trying to set up their own (and they talk about competition).

If you have a choice you probably want a different telco.

Android's Search City

Hi,

One of the things that is getting really annoying on my Android v2.0 phone is the fact that when google displays a search button this is mostly (always?) titled "Search City", this gets really confusing when searching the market or contacts but sometimes while searching the market it does search the web instead!

The search settings are under "Search City", not a single option for searching the city to be seen...

When I search contacts I'd like to see a button called "Search Contacts", when I'm searching the Market then perhaps "Market Search", "Web Search" for a web search, "City search" for a city search and for a generic search "Search"!

If you search contacts and then select one of the matched entries and then click back you are not taken back to the search results but back to the full contact list!!!!! As far as I can see it is also not possible to filter the contacts by the groups I so carefully set up, so I have to see all my work contacts etc when I'm searching for friends or family. Anyone would think Google had gone out of the search business...

Also saved market searches don't search the market but search the web! Maybe I'm going insane but can't get it to do that now... Market search is the one of the few (perhaps only?) place where search queries are remembered as "shortcuts", Rather that invoking the search immediately, I'd rather it populated the entry field allowing me to refine it, rather than the phone making me type out a near identical query again!

Anyway thats my rant for the day :-)

The Android Market Place is way too hard to use

A lot of things in Android are very well done and others are extremely "average", the market place and its integration into the phone is one of these where the implementation is lacking...

Note that while "http://www.androlib.com/" shows whats in the market place and itself could use improvements, I'm talking about in this post is the phone and its online market place.

If you look through the market place you will see that there are some rough categories of applications, once you are in one of those you will note that:

1. You can't sort apps (for example by # stars)
2. You can't search that category for apps (search looks through whole market).

For a company making a lot of money out of searching, the search engine is near useless, it badly needs an advanced search and I'd like to suggest that the simple search not find matches in the user comments etc...

My Download list if not sorted in any way I've managed to work out, its just one huge list of everything (randomly ordered) I've downloaded at any time (and not in categories).

If you look at this application "Note Everything" (quite good notepad that imports palmos memos) you will see that its in the category "Applications > Productivity". Once downloaded to my phone it just gets dumped uncategorised in any way along with all the rest of the apps and games (and not even always under the same name). To put it on a home page I need to first find it, it would be better if firstly it was categories on my phone and secondly clicking the notification shouldn't start the app but "locate" it (I'm perfectly capable of clicking on it myself).

A lot of apps don't even say what they do (they list last change details) and no screen dumps. I'd like to suggest that a bit of quality control over the listings wouldn't hurt any...

Anyway I could go one but I won't :-)

Can't Sync Android v2.0 (Milestone) with Google Apps!

Hi,

Who would have thought that you can't sync documents with google apps!

On my Motorola Milestone "http://gears.google.com" reports: "Your browser is not currently supported" and refers you to a list below which does refer to Android as supported! I'll have to do more research but this isn't a good look...

So basically I'll be able to edit documents while "online" but not otherwise. I've found an application called "GDocs" but you loose all formatting if you save/modify a document and can only view it as plain text also (and manual sycing).

Pretty annoying... Let me know if you have a solution! Thanks.

Android WI-FI Settings - Can't Configure Proxy!

Hi,

I've had my Milestone for a day and its got the 2.0 firmware, and I have to say in general I'm pretty impressed. One area badly lacking is in the Wi-Fi Network configuration:

1. You can't change a network once its created so if you got your password wrong you may need to remove the existing entry and retype other info (Enterprise WPA2) and then hope you don't make a different mistake (if it fails you can't even view the seetings). Surely google employees don't enjoy typing on a mobile that much... Note that some networks at least have a "Change password" option.
2. There is no Proxy support so although I can connect to work's intranet, it is impossible to get out onto the internet! This must must be a serious issue to some people (or at least to anyone rolling out android phones within a company), I'll use 3G (and pay for it)...

This wasn't at all well thought out...