This can be a malformed time zone, some funky From what I read, some will get anĮrror when importing back in, and then it will state the line number The solution (also found after *lots* of googling):ġ) Log into your google calendar on a PC in a browser.Ģ) Go to calendar settings and export the whole calendar to an ICS-file.ģ) Make sure you have the ICS-file (open it in a text editor)Ĥ) Delete your calendar (or all events in it if it’s your mainĥ) If you have more than one calendar, repeat steps 2-4Ħ) Import your ICS-file back to the google calendarħ) If you have more than one calendar, repeat step 7įor me this solved everything. In the new, it gets real sadĪnd the whole calendar application crashes. Googling, I finally found the cause: At least one of the events in theĬalendar is “corrupt”, and in earlier Android versions this has been Soon as I enabled sync of my google calendar. Not sure if all are necessary or just the last one.Īndroid 4 and Calendar crash | MortenCB's blogĪfter I got a new phone with Android 4 (ICS), my calendar crashed as I will update if it doesn't continue to work. The crash is always the same: 'TimeFormatException,Unexpected character 0x5a at pos=8. Here's specifically what I've tried to do to fix this and what happens:ġ) Disabled syncing of my 2 gmail accounts to this calendar.Ĥ) Verified there are no events shown on the calendar UIĥ) Opened calendar and either wait a bit, or pull down to refresh.Ħ) Receive 'Unfortunately, Calendar has stopped' I live and die by my calendar, so this is a gigantic problem for me. I have not installed any new apps or done anything 'interesting' other than receive the VZW update. Even with my all accounts set to NOT sync with Calendar and my calendar data cleared, it STILL crashes constantly. In short, my Google Calendar is now crashing every time I refresh it in the calendar (i.e., pull down on a calendar day). I have a strange problem here which cropped up shortly after taking the most recent update from Verizon.

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