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1.61 - facebook photo sync not working!

facebook photo sync is no longer working since I flashed to 1.61.
anyone else had the same issue?
any way around it?
any help appreciated!!
thanks in advance

Facebook sync is working fine here. Try to soft reset and open the contact app again

Drakknar said:
Facebook sync is working fine here. Try to soft reset and open the contact app again
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does that include photo sync?

I've got the same problem with new contacts from facebook...the old ones seem to work...

Yep. Both photo contact sync and album sync are working. The latter sometimes shows empty pages but after waiting for a while and trying again, I can see all the pics of my contacts

Sorry, but just how to sync facebook with contacts ? I cant seem to find the key to get it to sync.

solved!
I've solved it now!!
It was actually a problem with the data connection.
Its weird because it was working fine for updating people's statuses....
anyways when i checked the connections tab in manila settings, the data was disconnected and when i tried to switch it on, it took me to a random page.
then, when I touched the data connection bit, it gave me the option to set it up, so i chose o2 and ok then it set it up then switched on data.
after that, synced again and everything went swimmingly.
Hope that helps anyone having the same issue

still doesnt work here... I've disabled my providers data connection and only connect through wifi and I have no pictures of my contact from facebook. it worked just fine in older versions but now it doesnt... any suggestions?

Works fine here.
For all those its not working, did you do a Hard Reset after flashing the ROM?
Hope you've NOT restored your contacts etc. via a previous backup.

in my last rom (1.48wwe), after a while...or after some modding...fb album sync didn't work anymore, despite no data services problems. I could sync everythin but fb album in ppl tab never worked. so..I think it was some cab or modding, solved with hard reset

Facebook Sync Experiencing Problems Error

I have the At&t Captivate, but it looks like this is an issue that could stretch across all Galaxy S phones. A quick Google search will bring up quite a few posts/threads on Samsung's Facebook page about it too.
I use the built-in SNS sync for Facebook, which is what Samsung uses under the default Android Account settings.
I've flashed a few ROMs, and at some point (I think it was after trying some of the I9000 ROMs), my Facebook wouldn't sync my contacts anymore. I get the message "sync is currently experiencing problems. try again later".
The things I've tried:
-Flash back to stock & other ROMs
-Clear all cache data in CWM
-Delete SNS Account data under Application Settings
-Delete Samsung Mobile from my applications on Facebook
-Changing my Facebook password
-Tried logging in with someone else's Facebook account, same error with their's
The Android Facebook app loads up fine, but with Samsung, it doesn't sync contacts, it forces you to use SNS for that.
Under Contacts, if I go to the Activity tab, I can see the news feed, but it still errors out and won't pull any contacts over.
Any other suggestions?

Facebook changed how it does authentication, guessing samsung hasnt updated to handle that yet.

Odd that mine works fine. Only time I have seen problems is if I don't log into google account first after flashing. Just flashed to andromeda and everything synced fine.

After you've signed into facebook (settings->accounts) try going into the contact app itself and press the menu button.
2 options might work.
1. "sync sns data"
2. "get friends"
Hope this helps

newter55 said:
Odd that mine works fine. Only time I have seen problems is if I don't log into google account first after flashing. Just flashed to andromeda and everything synced fine.
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I had Google setup since its required for the Market, but I didn't sync anything with it (I use Exchange), so just to try it, I checked for it to sync contacts and tried again and still got the error.
mchimney said:
After you've signed into facebook (settings->accounts) try going into the contact app itself and press the menu button.
2 options might work.
1. "sync sns data"
2. "get friends"
Hope this helps
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I've tried that too, and it just seems to initiate the same SNS Sync and errors out.
designgears said:
Facebook changed how it does authentication, guessing samsung hasnt updated to handle that yet.
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I'm not sure about that since some people seem to have no problems with it. I also tried someone else's Facebook account just to make sure it wasn't a setting in mine, and her's didn't work either.

Stock ROM, Rooted, Sync hang?

I am on the stock ROM rooted. I have a gmail, google apps, facebook app - Not HTC Sense (contacts only) and weather(3 hours) accounts setup. Something seems to hang while syncing and the sync icon stays on for a long time. This will cause emails to be delayed in showing notification.
I cannot figure out what it is that is causing the issue. I am also assuming this is not good for battery life. When it is hung like that I can look at each account on the accounts & sync tab and none of them show active syncing. If I cancel the sync and then sync now they will all sync and complete as expected.
Any one else seeing this? Any ideas on figuring out what account is causing it?

Mine does this too. I'm rooted, running Perfect Storm v1.0. I also did the 'Kernal/OS tweaks'. I'm not sure what caused it, but it's been doing this on and off for a couple days. I also had that ooVoo video app installed and when I uninstalled it, the sync indicator went away. (I had previously set the ooVoo sync to off). I'll post if I find anything.

I selected each account and disabled sync for each one and it still showed the sync icon later on. Do we know what all triggers the sync icon?

Any one else having this issue?

I was having the same issue. No idea what was causing it, I thought it was Facebook, but I froze it and it still was popping up. I did install advanced radio tools in settings from Jcase and leankernal from Imoseyon...

Yeah I am unrooted still and have this same issue with gmail delay. I can send an email to my self and watch it pop up almost immediately on my old eris connected to wifi but actually have to launch gmail to get the email on the thunderbolt. WTF!? Thats basic stuff. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it works fine on the granddaddy eris but not on the grandson TB. I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account. The only difference in the phones (other than the obvious massive power difference) is 4g so I wonder if this 1st gen 4g device wasn't polished enough back at the HTC labs?

n2imagination said:
I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account.
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I have 1 of each account type as well. What about other of you having this issue?

I've been experiencing this all day. Won't sync my g-mail accounts. I froze HTC Sense, could that be the cause?
EDIT: Unfroze sense and it still won't sync my g-mail. Syncs my contacts fine, just not my calendar or my e-mails. I deleted data and it did nothing except remove all of the e-mails that I had on my phone. Still wouldn't sync so I booted up my backup, and it STILL is not syncing. Please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.

[Q] Syncing bookmarks

I've been unsuccessfully trying to sync my Chrome bookmarks with the GT 7+ for the past week. I enabled the sync, tried clearing caches and force closing both bookmark sync and browser, rebooting, etc... Not a single bookmark. Looking under accounts, it shows last sync date as my initial date I tried, and has the in-progress circle that I can't get rid of.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a ton of bookmarks and it would be a PITA to have to set them up manually...

I'm having this same problem and have yet to have found a remedy. Which is unfortunate since it would make things quite easy

I have the same problem, but eventually it will sync a few bookmark from your Google Account.

Same problem - -"
1st time i got some folder in my goggle account before force close.
i have tried set default and do it again, but 2nd time unfortunately nothing happen except force close - -"
Any Idea?

has anyone figured this out? I bought the tab today and everything has been perfect except the bookmarks refuse to sync

so i was googling around to find more information about this, apparently this is what we can do http://www.galaxynexusforum.com/forum/galaxy-nexus-help/631-sync-browser-fail.html
There seems to be a data error. If you're getting the exclamation mark do the following.
Untick Browser Sync on your GN and close the browser.
Go to Google Dashboard (google.com/dashboard)
Scroll down to Chrome and 'Stop sync and delete Data'. Fresh the window after a few minutes to make sure it says there is not data/empty.
Go to Chrome and login for sync. Wait a few minutes then go back to Google Dashboard. See if the sync got picked up.
If so, go back to Browser Sync and tick the box. Open op the browser app and there should be a pop up that shows your Gmail account is logging in/syncing and the folders should appear slowly.
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honestly I have not got it to work yet, but if you guys figure it out, let me know how

Syncing on Firefox
I am using the sync with firefox and it is working great. I actually have Waterfox on my laptop so I can run 64-bit, but firefox on my GT 7+ is working great, and pics up all synced bookmarks and even open tabs on my laptop.

I enabled bookmark syncing yesterday evening; it finally completed about 24hr later. My PC Chrome bookmarks first showed up on the tablet this morning, and just now the tablet's browser bookmarks showed up in my PC Chrome browser.

[Q] Sync Bookmark Problem!!

Hi guys, I'm having problem Syncing Bookmark between my GTab 7.7 P6800 with SkyHigh 3.6 and Chrome for Windows.
The tab just can't sync it, and it's quite annoying... The fact is that sync bookmarks works like a charm with Chrome for Android, but nothing at all with the stock browser... I would use chrome, but I really need flash for browsing
I checked on settings/account and sync/google account and i found the source of the problem: it seems that the sync function has stop working, in fact there's a "sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly". But the "shortly" has last a moth now!!!
I've tried to delete the google account and log in again, but still not working... So I tought it was a chrome for windows problem, I whent to google dashboard and deleted the sync setting from there... but still not working.
The problem occur even with my Galaxy Nexus!!!
So I'm guessing that the problem is not on the GTab, but in my google account...

This is simple to fix.
Go to your sync settings page. Click on menu button and select "remove account".
Then go back, and "add account".
So basically you need to remove your account, then re-sign-in.