Facebook contact syncing does not work in 4.0.3.
I have read plenty of threads about custom roms that fix it and HaxSync which offers to fix it for a dollar. This seems like a pretty essential feature and I don't know why 4.0.3 seems to block it when it is fine with other things syncing with contacts.
who is to blame here? I also heard facebook did not adhere to googles new policies about contact syncing? So is facebook going to release a new app that will fix this? or will google change whatever blocking they have? or is there an easy fix that does not require a custom rom or some hacky app?
k.electron said:
Facebook contact syncing does not work in 4.0.3.
I have read plenty of threads about custom roms that fix it and HaxSync which offers to fix it for a dollar. This seems like a pretty essential feature and I don't know why 4.0.3 seems to block it when it is fine with other things syncing with contacts.
who is to blame here? I also heard facebook did not adhere to googles new policies about contact syncing? So is facebook going to release a new app that will fix this? or will google change whatever blocking they have? or is there an easy fix that does not require a custom rom or some hacky app?
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Facebook and Google are to blame
A fix has indeed been released for ICS that fixes this.
Without giving you all the nasty details, the problem was, back in Gingerbread 2.3, that Facebook didn't want to abide to Google's Contactlist API policies (they wanted to use their own). So Google blocked the Facebook Contact API. Cyanogen reverted that almost instantaneously though.
Facebook and Google still don't play nice, so it remains a blocked feature.
Greetz
frutelaken said:
A fix has indeed been released for ICS that fixes this.
Facebook and Google still don't play nice, so it remains a blocked feature.
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so you mean one of the companies has caved and there will be an update that fixes it all? or are u talking about haxsync and the modaco rom?
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so you mean one of the companies has caved and there will be an update that fixes it all?
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No, he means that Cyanogen has implimented a fix (reverted to the old code) in their ROMS. Like CM9 ROMS have the reverted code so the FB syncs just as is used to. All STOCK ICS ROMS still block the FB sync feature and will for the foreseeable future.
That's really ****ty. Consumers suffer because corporate dumbasses can't work together.
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k.electron said:
That's really ****ty. Consumers suffer because corporate dumbasses can't work together.
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eh its the dumbasses at facebook really. google has their set rules for contact syncing that everyone else follows. why should facebook be exempt?
shahravi94 said:
eh its the dumbasses at facebook really. google has their set rules for contact syncing that everyone else follows. why should facebook be exempt?
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it shouldn't. facebook needs to follow the rules of the device it makes an app on. its annoying that they won't.
Blame Google
Google wants you to move to Google+ .
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I have two froyo questions to see if the community can answer them before I try to set back to factory and upgrade.
1. URL Parsing
In J6 touchwiz could not parse this url into a hyperlink from email nor from calendar entry.
https://companyx.webex.com/xyz/j.php?ED=156264002&UID=479348601&RT=NCM0
Any idea if froyo can parse this (r-click, copy link location, send to yourself that url in an email to check)
2. edit email replies
In J6 when replying to email I could not edit the original email any idea if this is now possible in froyo?
anyone? I'm hoping I'm not the only one that wishes this was fixed.
bwolmarans said:
anyone? I'm hoping I'm not the only one that wishes this was fixed.
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I think it fixed it email, but not calendar. People were installing stock 2.2 calendar and that fixed it.
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I think it fixed it email, but not calendar. People were installing stock 2.2 calendar and that fixed it.
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Thanks alphadog.
I am bumping this post again because it is driving me INSANE that Samsung can't parse url's and I can't believe more people aren't being driven equally nuts by this. I get webex meeting requests in my calendars constantly and cannot click on them....
I feel your frustration - I want the phone numbers for con calls.
My temporary workaround is Gemini calendar - it has a widget and an alternate the calendar. The alternate calendar parses everything. I don't like the alternate calendar as much, but i do like the widget - so i can click on it and bring up the event and click a link.
I did report the calendar issue to Samsung when the captivate first came out, and actually had a support person log it. So maybe 2.2 will fix it. If not, I will install the stock 2.2 calendar.
I seriously thought I was the only person experiencing this. I'm on 2.2 and still having the problem in email app. The urls look broken up for the most part right?
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Escape311 said:
I seriously thought I was the only person experiencing this. I'm on 2.2 and still having the problem in email app. The urls look broken up for the most part right?
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The problem we are discussing is the URLs, phone number, address not being "clickable" like in other places. Touching a URL should launch a browser; touching a phone number should launch the dialer, etc.
Since 2.2 is a beta, it is hard to say what it is supposed to do.
Gemini calendar doesn't parse any better
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Gemini calendar doesn't parse any better
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Did you go into settings and tell it which items to parse? It works 100% for me. I can click on everything - phone, email, www and map links.
Happy to provide screen shots if you can't find settings.
Thanks ... you have just saved me a lot of frustration every week.
This is amazing on several levels.
One) that it seems so very easy to fix.
Two) that in all the other email and calendar programs I tired including touchdown, it is not fixed, not in the calendar nor in email.
Three ) Given number one, that it just seems so very very odd to me that there are so many thousands of these phones out there and not more people are complaining on xda-developers in particular of this completely messed up feature. I feel like a lone voice prehaps.
I wonder if this is purely a messed up thing on Captivate and not on the other galaxy variants?
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Did you go into settings and tell it which items to parse? It works 100% for me. I can click on everything - phone, email, www and map links.
Happy to provide screen shots if you can't find settings.
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Thanks ... you have just saved me a lot of frustration every week.
This is amazing on several levels.
One) that it seems so very easy to fix.
Two) that in all the other email and calendar programs I tired including touchdown, it is not fixed, not in the calendar nor in email.
Three ) Given number one, that it just seems so very very odd to me that there are so many thousands of these phones out there and not more people are complaining on xda-developers in particular of this completely messed up feature. I feel like a lone voice prehaps.
I wonder if this is purely a messed up thing on Captivate and not on the other galaxy variants?
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It is broken on others as well - I tried the i9000 2.1 ROM months ago -when i first go the phone - hoping it was a captivate bug.
I think that that most people buying the phone are not using it for business - so calendar items don't contain much data, and they don't miss the functionality.
The iPhone was missing this until version 3.x - so it took apple almost 2 years to add it as a function. I am surprised Samsung overlooked it. But, if 2.2 comes out and it is missing, i will install the stock Froyo calendar and be all set.
BTW - it is an easy fix - but for some reason they did what apple did - although the calendar data is available - they treat the location and body fields like untouchable text - you can't even copy what is there. It is just a matter of telling the calendar app, that these fields are readable and to parse for phone, url, email.
I hope you send a bug report to their customer service email or something. The more people that complain the more likely they fix it.
I would hope that they have 1000's of reports of this already.
But assuming they don't or don't have enough to form a critical mass where the bug gets fixed, I am willing to add another.
What is the procedure for submitting a bug report to Samsung or do I submit it to AT&T?
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It is broken on others as well - I tried the i9000 2.1 ROM months ago -when i first go the phone - hoping it was a captivate bug.
I think that that most people buying the phone are not using it for business - so calendar items don't contain much data, and they don't miss the functionality.
The iPhone was missing this until version 3.x - so it took apple almost 2 years to add it as a function. I am surprised Samsung overlooked it. But, if 2.2 comes out and it is missing, i will install the stock Froyo calendar and be all set.
BTW - it is an easy fix - but for some reason they did what apple did - although the calendar data is available - they treat the location and body fields like untouchable text - you can't even copy what is there. It is just a matter of telling the calendar app, that these fields are readable and to parse for phone, url, email.
I hope you send a bug report to their customer service email or something. The more people that complain the more likely they fix it.
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I have not found a formal method. I emailed their "contact us" link on their web page, and posted to their twitter and facebook accounts.
Like i said before, it took 2 years for apple to fix it - even others at work that were iPhone users didn't mind it as much. It just depends what you are fixitated on. GPS works OK for me - not perfect, but not a show stopper. Others feel differently.
Twitter and facebook - search for samsungmobile.
Is there any way to fix it without using third party apps?
Another one with the same problem. Even a third party app would be fine for me... Any suggestion?
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Another one with the same problem. Even a third party app would be fine for me... Any suggestion?
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Its not broken. The Official Facebook application doesn't support Android 4.0 just yet so you will not be able to sync your contacts to your device. The only method is to use third party applications. I use Friendcaster Pro and it works really well.
Unfortunately, Till Facebook adds compatibility to the official application... you will not see your contacts sync to your device
Nope, the issue is between Google and Facebook, so we won't see contact sync fixed until Google and Facebook make an agreement or until a custom ROM fixes is. I forget the whole story, but I think Facebook doesn't use Android's contact API so when you sync Facebook contacts with your phone they all stay with Facebook and aren't stored locally on the phone. If you uninstall Facebook all your Facebook contacts go to. Google doesn't like that FB doesn't let you control and keep your FB data on your phone so they revoked Facebooks access to the API.
EDIT: heres an article about it: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/
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Nope, the issue is between Google and Facebook, so we won't see contact sync fixed until Google and Facebook make an agreement or until a custom ROM fixes is. I forget the whole story, but I think Facebook doesn't use Android's contact API so when you sync Facebook contacts with your phone they all stay with Facebook and aren't stored locally on the phone. If you uninstall Facebook all your Facebook contacts go to. Google doesn't like that FB doesn't let you control and keep your FB data on your phone so they revoked Facebooks access to the API.
EDIT: heres an article about it: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/
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You sorta proved my point. More or less its not compatibility with Android 4.0 but its the Nexus S. Once again Facebook will have to upgrade the application in order to make it compatible with the Nexus S. Only difference between what I said is instead of Android 4.0 its for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus
Facebook contact data will continue to appear within the Facebook app. Like all developers on Android, Facebook is free to use the Android contacts API to truly integrate contacts on the device, which would allow users to have more control over their data.
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You sorta proved my point. More or less its not compatibility with Android 4.0 but its the Nexus S. Once again Facebook will have to upgrade the application in order to make it compatible with the Nexus S. Only difference between what I said is instead of Android 4.0 its for the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus
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Facebook never updated the app on Gingerbread. Facebook sync was included in custom ROMS because developers enabled it. Nothing to do with official support from Facebook. Until Google and Facebook sort this out, vanilla Android won't support contact sync, unless Facebook starts using the regular contact API
Friendcaster is not allowing me to login (whitepage)... Is it really compatible with ICS?
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Friendcaster is not allowing me to login (whitepage)... Is it really compatible with ICS?
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i would also like to have this verified, hehe, before i spend the $5 for this app!
def would like to see some sync action to my ICS rom... having no pics on the contact face is hard!
try syncmypix
try syncmypix, works good for facebook pics
Thanks! This worked
If you are OK with 3rd party apps, take a look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20477937#post20477937
Hello, I recently updated my infuse to CM 10 and have been mostly enjoying it.
I have one huge problem however, which is that I can't sync my facebook contacts
I don't fully know why. I can get my gmail and g+ contacts, but not my facebook, and seemingly, more than half of my original contacts came from facebook (I'll be sure to fix that).
I need a fix to this, if anyone knows what to do to get it working. I'm not sure why it wont, I've tried redownloading the fb app, deleting its cache, and even removing all phone contact accounts and re adding the, but to no avail.
Can someone please help?
That has not worked since ICS. It was disabled by google I believe..
You can try Liquid Smooth which has a hack to allow fb sync.
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There is also Contact Sync for Facebook in GooglePlay that can be used.
Try friend caster. It has some cool features that the Facebook app doesn't have
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if you ask me that contact sync feature is a huge privacy violation. having the facebook app give facebook your phone number, and anybody who also has your phone number can see you in the freind finder on their facebook app. when started seeing people i used to work with and other people who i had no buisness seeing their facebook account in the "people you may know" or whatever i deleted the app and let a few of those people know who probably would want to stay anonymous so that they could do the same.
at this point i'm not sure why i still have a facebook. but i probably wont for long. google+ is no better. i'll stick to the traditional google services in the future, ya know the ones that only allow me to see what's going on in my life.
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There is also Contact Sync for Facebook in GooglePlay that can be used.
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This one doesnt sync phone numbers which I find pointless. It will however bring over all your friends as contacts to your phone with their pictures attached... still pointless if you cant call/txt them.
hollywood528 said:
Try friend caster. It has some cool features that the Facebook app doesn't have
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Friendcaster has a built in fb to contact sync and from what I can see that doesnt import numbers either.
Did 4.4 KitKat by a chance add some way of syncing Facebook contacts with the phones contacts. Or people app I should say. Or do we still have to use third party apps like haxsync?
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Nope. That most likely will never come back.
Ubersync does a fantastic job of doing it though. Been using it since 4.0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
I've used HaxSync for forever now, but I wonder if it's still the best solution. I haven't synced my N5 yet.
neok44 said:
Nope. That most likely will never come back.
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You are incorrect.
Search on google: android 4.4 facebook contacts
Go to the page called "Know your mobile".
palacetux said:
You are incorrect.
Search on google: android 4.4 facebook contacts
Go to the page called "Know your mobile".
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Can you provide a link to this? I am unable to find the page you mentioned.
Using Haxsync on my Nexus 5 with no issues.
Nisarga said:
Can you provide a link to this? I am unable to find the page you mentioned.
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It's just a link talking about the new features of 4.4 and that's it. Or that's all I can tell because I didn't do the ADVERTISING SURVEY REQUIRED to view the article.
People just trying to get you to complete surveys and garbage. I thought XDA was free from troll accounts and bots.
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Using Haxsync on my Nexus 5 with no issues.
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Haxsync or any other sync app does not work anymore...
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Haxsync or any other sync app does not work anymore...
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Works fine as long as you're not expecting status updates in the contacts app. Syncs images,.email addresses, addresses etc
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I cant find HaxSync in Google Play, just the JB work around... Is it not available anymore?
opazo said:
I cant find HaxSync in Google Play, just the JB work around... Is it not available anymore?
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Looks missing...
opazo said:
I cant find HaxSync in Google Play, just the JB work around... Is it not available anymore?
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same here. i now downloaded it from pirate bay but it does not work (v2.5.2). When I add the HaxSync account in the settings, I can login with my Facebook credentials, then facebook asks for permissions and when I click to proceed, just a white screen appears and nothing happens.
A question to the guys with a Nexus 5 and HaxSync working: which version do you use?
Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
Previously I had HTC One X and I loved that integration with facebook. I have noticed long time ago that HTC puts facebook tag data for every contact (note field) so that can easily connect my phone contacts with facebook profiles any time.
Is there any way to use that data to do the same with N5 (or any other device)?
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Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
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have you tried the link before posting it? It says "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.".
Tenhi said:
Previously I had HTC One X and I loved that integration with facebook. I have noticed long time ago that HTC puts facebook tag data for every contact (note field) so that can easily connect my phone contacts with facebook profiles any time.
Is there any way to use that data to do the same with N5 (or any other device)?
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I know exactly what you mean. And the answer is: No. Unfortunately not. I have already spent hours to restore and relink the HTC facebook tags on other HTC and non HTC phones. Nothing is working.
I now found the app Contacts+ and it seems to have everything I was looking for. Recommendable so far.
It seems that haxsync can use htcdata tag and sync your contacts, but unfortunately it is removed from the Play store because of some issues with Facebook Platform Policy Team .
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have you tried the link before posting it? It says "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.".
I know exactly what you mean. And the answer is: No. Unfortunately not. I have already spent hours to restore and relink the HTC facebook tags on other HTC and non HTC phones. Nothing is working.
I now found the app Contacts+ and it seems to have everything I was looking for. Recommendable so far.
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Works for me, hence why I posted it. I also have it installed on my phone as I bought it ages ago
One of my favorite features was being able to sync my contacts from Facebook to my phone in Jellybean so that all of my contacts used their Facebook photo for my contacts on my phone.
Either I am not seeing how to do that in Android 4.4 or that feature was removed.
My Facebook account is synced to my phone and when I go to it under accounts in my settings, it doesn't have anything in there.
Can someone point out how to do this?
That was never part of Jellybean! You must come from an device with UI like touchwiz or sense..
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That was never part of Jellybean! You must come from an device with UI like touchwiz or sense..
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Wow. Yeah, i had an HTC One X+. Sad face.
I guess I had just assumed that was how all android phones were. Dang.
So does anyone know any way to do this then? Maybe a 3rd party app or something?
Sync.Me
Blackfireball5 said:
Wow. Yeah, i had an HTC One X+. Sad face.
I guess I had just assumed that was how all android phones were. Dang.
So does anyone know any way to do this then? Maybe a 3rd party app or something?
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Download the app Sync.Me. I've been using it for a while now and it seems to do a pretty good job at syncing Facebook contact pictures. Can also do LinkedIn, if you have one.
Ubersync works well and you can choose the quality
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
As I don't know the name but only that it exists, you can google for it as good as i could.
So check it out yourself. There are some apps who can do what you want ! (ofc not as good as it is implemented in sense)
Download Haxsync - best app there is for syncing contact timeline information and photos
I'm gonna give Sync.ME a try. Thanks everyone!