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Accepting Microsoft Outlook calendar Invites on Calendar

Aug 2, 2011 6:22AM PDT

I can't seem to find this anywhere but my wife is a consultant and gets many Outlook invites for meetings and calls. She has Samsung Charge and can't accept them on her Comcast or Gmail account. She has to manually enter the appointment on her Google Calendar. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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Link, comment.
Aug 2, 2011 7:29AM PDT
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There is a work-around
Aug 18, 2011 6:12AM PDT

I was having this problem with my Charge as well<span>. I found a small app in the Market called ICS Bot 2 which seems to add incoming meeting requests automatically to my Google Calendar on the phone. After installing, meeting requests are automatically added to the calendar just like they would be in Outlook. In order to accept or decline the request, you have to open the item on the calendar and there is an option to indicate whether you are attending or not. When you select your response (yes, no or maybe), Gmail generates an email response to the requester. It's a clunky workaround, but at least she can accept appointments without having to <span>manually enter them in her Google calendar. The one thing it doesn't seem to do, however, is delete rejected appointments from the calendar...that you have to do manually. Google really needs to release a fix for this issue - I just switched from a Blackberry to the Droid Charge last weekend, and this has been one of the only two disappointing things I've found with this otherwise awesome phone. I used my BB with Google Calendar for everything and the integration was pretty much seamless. The other issue is that it won't connect to the Bluetooth in my car, and between that and the calendar problem, I still haven't decided 100% if I'm going to keep the phone. I'm at about 90% right now because it's just such a cool piece of technology, but still.

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Known issue in Android
Oct 10, 2012 1:33AM PDT
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android samsung charge outlook invites issues
Jan 23, 2013 3:56AM PST

I cannot find the apps listed and continue to have the problem with invites

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I clicked on the link and there the app was.
Jan 23, 2013 4:03AM PST

Only one app. Not "apps."

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app for microsoft outlook samsung charge
Jan 23, 2013 5:10AM PST

What is the app. It does not seem to work for ics 2 android

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Sorry but it appears I can't help you.
Jan 23, 2013 5:27AM PST

The app was at the link given. If that link is dead for you it could be the app is not available in your country.
Bob

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accepting outlook invites on samsung charge
Feb 5, 2013 6:01AM PST

I have a Samsung charge. I have installed ics bot 2 and I'm still unable to see have the invites posted to my calendar. Is there another app or should I use another email program than the default email on my charge

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Try other apps?
Feb 5, 2013 8:54AM PST