Comments on: FAQ: Add Birthday & Anniversary Dates To Contacts

By: Afterlife

Afterlife — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:43:58 +0000

I have a Pearl 8110 and I have a problem: I registered some anniversay dates in Outlook, I syncronize with BB, the date is imported correctly in my BB contacts but it does not show it in my calendar, nor notifies me of it. How can I solve this?

By: Greg Myers

Greg Myers — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:33:15 +0000

Hi Catherine,
Upcoming BlackBerry OS (4.5+) does have a Birthday and Anniversary section in your contact list.
Going on the strength and stability of the current OS 4.5 Beta’s then an official release won’t be too far away.
KR
Greg Myers

By: catherine

catherine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:56:29 +0000

My Blackberry Curve does not have the section to enter birthday (or anniversary) in the contacts section. is this a bug?
It does however transfer the information from Outlook (if I have the opportunity to enter the birthday in Outlook – which is infrequent).

By: alex

alex — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:23:54 +0000

Hey,

You can just add a full day event which is repeated yearly. That way, no matter how you see the calendar, you will see the anniversaries. Also, by doing this, you can sync it with any software(google calendar and outlook included).

Cheers,
a.

By: JNHohol

JNHohol — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:00 +0000

I was syncing with Outlook but it puts the Birthday under notes on the device and I was getting multiple Birthdays showing up on the same day. So I just deleted all but the top one.

Now with OS 4.3+ I’ve added them under the contact in the address book.

One thing that I do now though, is change the time from an all day event to an hourly event. That way it shows on the Today Screen, otherwise you only get the reminder as a notification.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:02:06 +0000

I have an 8330 with 4.3 and I can add birthdays and anniversaries. As for updating I add them on my home computer and sync using desktop manager I have it set to sync when I connect my BB. Fyi I’m not on a bes so its not locked out.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:26:53 +0000

If you go to Calendar Options > General Options, you can change the “Default Reminder” time to anything you want.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:30:15 +0000

Dunno if it’s “better”, but I do it in Outlook and they’re updated each time I sync.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:45:57 +0000

I add all important birthdays to Google Calendar then use the sync program Google offers to keep it synced up with my berry. It works great, if you want to change the reminder, you can do it while entering the data into Google Calendar. I also use it for any tasks I have to do, etc. It works like a charm