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I'm using Google Calendar on my desktop computer. It seems to auto-generate birthday entries for my contacts in Google Mail. Unfortunately these entries show up twice in "My calendar" in the generic Calendar app (version 1.1) of Android 4.0.4. How can I avoid this?

I don't see any duplicate entries in other calendars, and the calendar list only shows "My calendar" once.

Written on my Samsung SII :-)

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You are using Google Calendar app on your phone from the Play Store, correct? Or are you using a ROM based Calendar app (Sense, etc.)? – Bryan Denny♦ Dec 10 '12 at 14:17
@BryanDenny I'm using the one which came with the phone, not a downloaded one. It's simply called "Calendar" (version 1.1 according to the "App info" page). – l0b0 Dec 10 '12 at 16:22
What phone do you have? – Bryan Denny♦ Dec 10 '12 at 19:22
@BryanDenny Samsung S II – l0b0 Feb 18 at 10:41

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It's possible that the calendar app is showing the birthday in the "My Calendar" and also from the "Contacts' birthdays and events" from google calendar (which you can set up from the website, birthay is in the more section of "Interesting Calendars"). If is the case they should show up with 2 different colors. You can turn on of these calendars off in the 'Calendars to display' options (from the menu).

The other option is that merging/linking contacts (i.e. if a contact has an exchange account and birthday info) ends up in duplicate birthdays entries added to the My Calendar, and show with the same color. So far I delete those by hand.

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They actually show up with the same color and title. I checked in the app, and they both belong to the "username@gmail.com" calendar. – l0b0 Feb 18 at 10:41
@l0b0 If you go to calendar.google.com, are there duplicate entries as well? – frozenkoi Feb 19 at 0:20
As mentioned in the OP, no. – l0b0 Feb 19 at 6:36
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is it possible your Calendar app is synced with more than one account? If it is, the birthdays which were copied into your calendar from account A may have now been backed up onto account B. You can check this by going to Accounts and un-syncing all but one of your calendars.

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I have only ever had one account, so no. Also, I only see duplicates in Android, not on the Google Calendar web site. – l0b0 Dec 26 '12 at 21:17

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