[SOLVED] Calendar events dont ring nor show after installing Sailfish OS: Reason was that events are set to "Remind me: Never" by default

General
1

REPRODUCIBILITY: reproducable
OS VERSION: 5.0.0.77 (but similar in all Sailfish 5 updates)
HARDWARE: Xperia 10 II
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: No sound/alert for calendar events

DESCRIPTION:

No event scheduled in my calendar shows at the time of even (no screen wake, no sound). Notification on the events screen “before” the event is there, saying event “will come”. But at the moment of the event: Nothing happens

PRECONDITIONS:

Paid Jolla licence. No apps from any other stores than Jolla Store.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Set a calendar Event

  2. Wait for the moment it should show and ring

  3. Event does not show and does not ring

EXPECTED RESULT:

The usual event ring + screen wakeup

ACTUAL RESULT:

Nothing. Like if the event wasnt scheduled at all

MODIFICATIONS:

None

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

I scrolled the forum for such bug but coulnt find anything relevant…
Basically its like if the function of waking up the phone to show and ring for the event in the calendar was missing.
Obviously i didnt tick a “do not disturb” mode or anything like that.
I was wondering if any update in the Sailfish 5 cycle would help, since i flashed that Xperia 10 II a year ago, but nothing changed across that year of use.
Tried to play with calendar settings and so on, no success

2

Calendar events work fine for me, have you looked in the settings of the ambience / theme you have, is there a sound for calendar? Do you sync the calendar from somewhere?

I saw you wrote “didnt tick a “do not disturb” mode or anything like that”, but have you checked the docs?

3

Works also for me and I also have Xperia 10 II (paid), currently using early version of 5.1 but didn’t have any issues with 5.0 prior either

4

Let’s try to see where the issue come from:

  • timedclient-qt5 -L should give you the list of current alarms (all of them, clock, calendar, whatever).
  • The timedclient-qt5 tool is from timed-qt5-tools package.
  • The calendar alarms are created by application APPLICATION = 'libextendedkcal'.

This lists only future alarms (already past ones are not shown). If you have events with reminders in the future, you should see them. If not, there is an issue in mkcal when saving an event with an alarm. If yes, there is an issue with timed that don’t show the alarm when triggered. In either case, we’ll have to investigate further.

1 Like
5

Thank you but yes i double checked all of that

6

So timedclient-qt5 -L gives only the list of alarms from the clock app: APPLICATION = ‘nemoalarms’

7

Did you actually tick the option to have a notification/reminder on the calendar event?
I think it is very dumb to have the default to be “never” - and the only setting for it to be whatever you used last.
This gets me every time i switch phone.

1 Like
8

Okay, yeah, exactly. So that was my issue. Not a bug per say actually. Just that by default its “never” and i couldnt get what is wrong.

All solved now.

Thank you all.

1 Like