Do NOT download the Calendar update

[anon(123856)]

There is a workaround for the time being. This is from the comment section of the front page article. This works, I tried it.

PaulKinslow1 says:

Add an event by tapping on a time slot in "day" view and add it that way. To avoid the crash, avoid hitting the + symbol until they get this fixed.

 

[David P2]

I found trying to edit an entry crashed it as well and I deleted one but it still reminded me afterwards despite going in the bin.

 

[brunoadduarte]

Didn't download, thankfully. As soon as I read the post and some comments, I decided immediately not to update. It's just a number on my store tile, right now.

 

[EwingMCSE]

It's sad that something so obvious got past QA, but the workaround is very easy and functional in the meantime.

Using the plus sign on my Lumia Icon also crashed Calendar (but not the phone) while adding an item from the 1 day view works like a champ.

 

[drachen23]

You try making an app and making sure it is perfect. What's really going on? Probably one single digit is off and because of that, it's trying to find something that isn't there and crashing. Yeah, a single digit is probably causing us all issues, we're only human, sorry folks. Heck, maybe this is the wrong version that got uploaded, happened before on a game when it was first released (they released a beta version, not the true release, again, only human). Give Microsoft a little bit of a break, probably a day, and let them figure it out.
Good luck Microsoft!

Professional programmer here. I won't/can't give MS a break on this one. It's completely unacceptable. At my job, every piece of code of code I write gets tested and verified by our QA team or it doesn't go out to where consumers can use it and I have to fix it. I've written WP apps and submitted them to the store. There they are tested by the QA team at MS and if the app fails one of the tests, it is rejected and I am notified. I get that programmers make errors. I've made hundreds, if not thousands of similar ones in my career. QA is not perfect (nobody is) and some bugs always make it past, but they usually catches the obvious ones. An app crashing if you hit one of the main buttons on the home screen is a REALLY obvious one that should have gotten caught in QA at MS or in the store approval process. This is shockingly amateur.

 

[elmacho]

Broken after the update on my L520

 

[joanzen]

Same problem here. I have an Icon running the DP and cannot add any new calendar entries. I tried the Native app, as well as Simple Calendar and Cal. Nothing works. I did add entries via outlook.com and they were sync'd to my phone, however.

 

[gunghu]

same here with my L925. app crashes when adding events, etc.

 

[Shad0wguy]

Another 925 reporting in with same problem.

 

[omgitsnick]

It also broke the live tile.

 

[Rickosw]

so did anyone contact MSFT about this ?

down on my L1020 ( Super Calendar ) also not working

 

[SAM 77]

shame maybe it works if you have cyan installed

 

[neo158]

so did anyone contact MSFT about this ?

down on my L1020 ( Super Calendar ) also not working

According to the story on the front page of Neowin, yes, they know about it and are working on a fix.

 

[jleebiker]

I spoke too soon. Got an update this morning and it broke it. I'm in the same boat as everyone else. On a 928 here.

 

[Christian Holmstedt]

Same here.
Crashes when adding an event.

Lumia 810, WP8.1

 

[khonjeja]

Too late. updated yesterday

 

[Pierre Blackwell]

i've never added appointments to the directly to the native calendar, but I do from appointile. Then I have the appointile live time open direclty to the native app, so the update doesn't effect me. What I have noticed is you can use Cortana to upload appointments and it shouldn't crash. I also noticed that as far as the weather for each day, it appears much faster.

 

[Keith Wallace]

I installed it, and I never use the Calendar, so I should be fine, haha.

 

[migueli2]

Updated on my phone and all goes well.

 

[AndyFZ1S]

Totally broken after update