Android Calendar Question

[Doofus]

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S8. If I set an event in the calendar with a reminder for, say, 10 minutes before the event, then it dings, and tells me of the upcoming event.

Except on the weekends.

I have a reminder set for every single day to give the dog his medicine at 9pm. Monday to Friday, my phone tells me, at ten to nine, that he needs his drugs. On Saturday and Sunday it says nowt, and I can't find a setting which might rectifiy that.

Any ideas?

[Kes Arevo]

I have something simar, and just use the reminder setting, and apply to every day, and it does every day.

Do you have a setting elsewhere, such as do not disturb,that applies at weekends?

[Doofus]

Kes Arevo said:

I have something simar, and just use the reminder setting, and apply to every day, and it does every day.

Do you have a setting elsewhere, such as do not disturb,that applies at weekends?

I don't know (!)

The event is the same for every day, and the reminder is set for '10 minutes before'. But is doesn't do it on Saturday or Sunday.

I've looked at my calendar settings, and there's no way to deselect certain days.

[Corso Marche]

Probably easier to comment if you can say which Calendar app you are using? Samsung's Calendar app, Google Calendar, A.N.Other etc etc

[Doofus]

Corso Marche said:

Probably easier to comment if you can say which Calendar app you are using? Samsung's Calendar app, Google Calendar, A.N.Other etc etc

I don't know. The Samsung one, I guess... It syncs with Google.

[jdoubleu]

Doofus said:

I don't know (!)

The event is the same for every day, and the reminder is set for '10 minutes before'. But is doesn't do it on Saturday or Sunday.

I've looked at my calendar settings, and there's no way to deselect certain days.

Do not disturb settings would be at the phone level not the app level. So check in settings app, notifications, do not disturb.

Failing that, perhaps try installing the Google calendar app alongside the Samsung one. See if it acts the same regards to notifications.

[Corso Marche]

Presuming you have a Google Search pill/dialog on one of your home screens I'd suggest the following might be the easiest way forward;

Tap on the search box, and type "Set reminder for 9pm daily" and tap on Enter.
Follow the dialogs/prompts which follow.

Hopefully it works for you.

[Doofus]

Corso Marche said:

Presuming you have a Google Search pill/dialog on one of your home screens I'd suggest the following might be the easiest way forward;

I don't.

[Corso Marche]

Open your app drawer. Find the Google App* and launch it.
Type into the top search box as outlined above, and then complete your way through the dialogs/prompts which follow.

It's the one with the colourful G icon, simply called Google.

[bigpriest]

When setting reminders for a calendar event there is a "daily" and "every weekday" option under More Options. Could it be as simple as your event being set to the weekday option?

[Doofus]

Turns out it's not weekend related; it's just ste amn only works when it wants to.

POS

[Kes Arevo]

GIVE DOGGIE MEDICINE!!!

[Doofus]

Kes Arevo said:

GIVE DOGGIE MEDICINE!!!

Thank you. Done now.

Same time tomorrow, please.

[Corso Marche]

Would you not just disable the Samsung Calendar and use Google Calendar instead, just for the simplicity of having something which works?

[Doofus]

Corso Marche said:

Would you not just disable the Samsung Calendar and use Google Calendar instead, just for the simplicity of having something which works?

Perhaps. But my question was about why the Samsung one doesn't work reliably.

[LunarOne]

Here's a link to Samsung's guide on "Do not disturb" and how to change the schedule. I'll bet you have a schedule set to silence notifications at weekends. If it's not as described in this guide, you may have installed a third-party app which controls the schedule.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00077...

[Doofus]

No DNDs are set. Today, the reminder didn't work. Last week, it did.

[Doofus]

EmailAddress said:

https://thedroidguy.com/galaxy-s8-calendar-app-not...

Thank you. I'll read through that.

Incidentally; why does Android insist on giving its releases candy bar names on the internet, but numbers on the devices acfually running the fking software?

[Corso Marche]

Doofus said:

Perhaps. But my question was about why the Samsung one doesn't work reliably.

My default reaction with Samsung software is to ditch it immediately if it doesn't work reliably. Life's too short. Posting this from a Samsung device. And spent a few years in S.Korea dealing with their domestic operations and their many subsidiaries.

If it doesn't work reliably ditch it and move to something which does work. Keep it simple.

[LunarOne]

EmailAddress said:

Doofus said:

Incidentally; why does Android insist on giving its releases candy bar names on the internet, but numbers on the devices actually running the fking software?

Settings / About / Tap on the Android version a few times and it'll pop into an image of the version.

I think they've stopped naming Android versions after sweet things. I think it became a bit long in the cavity.