Social Contact Photo Sync
Just try this app. It allows to link local contacts with social contacts and to keep the local contacts automatically in sync with a linked social contact.
It supports:
GooglePlus
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook (only with ROOT and the original facebook app)
WhatsApp (you have to force whatsapp to download new pictures by opening a contacts picture in whatsapp, the rest is handled by the app)
Viber (still in there, actually, this is currently not really usable, you can just link a contact with a viber picture, but you can't sync with new picutures)
The app tells you in more detail, what you have to care about, if you want to automatically sync your contact pictures...
Any feedback or suggestion is appreciated.
The app is completely free, the in app purchase just removes the adds. Functionality is free
Get the app from the playstore: Social Contact Photo Sync
Guide/Tutorial: http://www.michaelflisar.com/social-contact-photo-sync-general/
how can i force the app to automatch the contct sync???
Start the batch auto sync setup dialog and click the headers of the groups (like 90 to 100% and so on, all the way down to 0 to 10% if you really want that), this will select the complete group at once. This way you can select all your contacts and use the best match as auto sync contact...
I still advice you to once look through the list and disable or correct all the wrong matches... Afterwards my advice would be to scroll through your contacts and only look at the ones withaut an auto sync contact and if you know you have this friend in one network, manually set up those contacts one by one... This is my prefered way to do it...
PS: a complete guide is online here: http://www.michaelflisar.com/social-contact-photo-sync-general/
Is there any place where I can download older versions? Becuase I wanna test if I am doing something wrong (even if I believe I do the same as earlier) or the last 2 versions are buggy in importing facebook friends via csv copy - getting error code 14.
this error code comes from using the root method normally - just change the root method of facebook to method 3, this one should work (click on the facebook card on the home screen and click setup facebook)
If you really just want to import the csv and don't have a facebook app installed and are not rooted, then just send a feedback via the app after something went wrong...
prom85 said:
this error code comes from using the root method normally - just change the root method of facebook to method 3, this one should work (click on the facebook card on the home screen and click setup facebook)
If you really just want to import the csv and don't have a facebook app installed and are not rooted, then just send a feedback via the app after something went wrong...
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I am on Android N Preview 3 which is not working with the root method. And meawhile, I realized that the fault is mine, not the app's. I opened the csv file with a different text editor (Solid Explorer's), not with that one which I used earlier (MiXplorer's text editor) and somehow it showed in a different format I guess which I copied and the app didn't like that. I reinstalled MiXplorer, opened the csv file with it, copy paste and now it's importing fine again.
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I am on Android N Preview 3 which is not working with the root method. And meawhile, I realized that the fault is mine, not the app's. I opened the csv file with a different text editor (Solid Explorer's), not with that one which I used earlier (MiXplorer's text editor) and somehow it showed in a different format I guess which I copied and the app didn't like that. I reinstalled MiXplorer, opened the csv file with it, copy paste and now it's importing fine again.
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thanks for the info...
prom85 said:
Social Contact Photo Sync
[*]Facebook (only with ROOT and the original facebook app)
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any way to avoid the dinosaur-official fb app?
Either use the non root method or just deinstall the Facebook app again after my app has imported the contacts
Opened WhatsApp image bt nothing happened.
The app says we need to manually open WhatsApp image then share it to this app then select which contact to be changed.
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@prom85 Could you please let me know where all the pictures are stored (exact location)?
jerryn70 said:
Opened WhatsApp image bt nothing happened.
The app says we need to manually open WhatsApp image then share it to this app then select which contact to be changed.
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The new WhatsApp changed in the way that there is no local image I could use anymore... so this new integration is all I can offer...
perce_ption said:
@prom85 Could you please let me know where all the pictures are stored (exact location)?
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Don't know what you want to know... my app only stores the images directly in your contacts...
prom85 said:
Don't know what you want to know... my app only stores the images directly in your contacts...
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I am just looking for the way of removing all pictures at once. Or sync-forcing (with overwritting of old pics).
perce_ption said:
I am just looking for the way of removing all pictures at once. Or sync-forcing (with overwritting of old pics).
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Whereever your Android contacts app does save it. Normally it's a database.
You can force my app to auto sync all contacts without checking if an image was changed though, go to general settings, click on advanced settings and click on the last entry in the dialog that pops up... afterwards an auto sync will overwrite an contacts image with an active auto sync without checking if the images has changed or not
I just purchased the pro version! I have had android for seven or eight years but never really had correct contact photos so thank you for this wonderful app. It makes it so easy. I noticed this app's logo shows the linkedin logo but syncing with the linkedin network isn't obvious to me. How can I do this?
LinkedIn is not working anymore. I had a root method that worked once, but then they changed their app and now this method is not working anymore.
Official LinkedIn integration is not possible either (via login to LinkedIn), I already tried it but they won't accept my app. As a primary business network they do not accept apps that access data in background without direct user interaction, this is against their usage rules.
I'm still getting the {"code": 403, "error_type": "OAuthForbiddenException", "error_message": "You are not a sandbox user of this client"} when trying to add Instagram. Just wanted to know if everyone else is still seeing this?
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I'm still getting the {"code": 403, "error_type": "OAuthForbiddenException", "error_message": "You are not a sandbox user of this client"} when trying to add Instagram. Just wanted to know if everyone else is still seeing this?
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Everyone should have this error... LinkedIn changed their usage rules at 01.06.2016, so I had to submit my app again and currently am waiting for approval... I'm not sure if they will though...
I have the same error code.
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Honestly sounds like a good idea..
Myself I decided to go for a while without any gapps and any other "store" installed on my phone.
My contacts are imported from a .vcf file which i update manually when needed.
I also have installed AFWall+ and i blocked the internet access to pretty much all the other apps including the system ones.. (everything i could get away with basically )
This could be a solution as well but it's rudimentary one at the moment.
nutpants said:
Personally I think the contacts provider (and other providers)in Android is a huge security risk. Every app and it's brother wants full access to your contacts so they can mine them for usable information. This can be just to add easy links to friends or to spam them with advertisements or offers to identity theft.
I've started using a pim manager that does not access Androids contact provider, calendar provider , tasks or other providers in it's operations.(And I really wish it was open source)
I have already removed the Google sync apks from my device and have removed contacts, calendar in the past. But not the providers.
It might cause some badly written apps to crash.
But I can't forsee any other serious problems.
Ideas? Thoughts?
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I already don't have Google apps on my device.
Everything blocked with afwall+ using profiles so things only get net when I'm using them on the net.
Fdroid is where I get 90% of my software and from the internet for much of the other 10%
I have a old phone with nothing on it personal at all. Which has play store for the 3 or 4 paid apps I need, it does updates for them and a few free ones. I copy the apks over to my daily driver.
I constantly hound developers on play store to support offline devices and not to implement features that break the app when there is no internet. Even app I don't use lol.
(I have 2 tablets and far too many old phones.only two devices are online(some are local lan only))
Someone should start a offline foundation. But being online it might be ridiculous..
I too removed contacts by using /system/app mover from f-droid. It was unintended as I wanted them as a user application but they wouldn't work like this and the icon vanished, that was fine with me for a long time. The other day I wanted contacts for signal (and telegram also won't work without them). I restored the application files from a backup,
For reference in /system/app/ the missing files were
SecContacts.apk
SecContactsProvider.apk
Other contacts programs like Simple Contacts can't run without a system permission called com.android.contacts and without those files in /system/app the permission doesn't get created at boot. The result being that no contact creation is possible.
What I would really like is a modified version of the system app that passes contacts data to the calling program depending on individual contact entry permissions with regard to each calling app; one list for telegram, another for signal etc. I gather that recent android versions above 6.0.0 have functionality to check calling application certificates so something along these lines should be possible. For earlier versions it might be necessary to switch between multiple contacts databases before starting the messaging app and also removing it from the autoboot list.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/defining
Hi,
I know it's against Google's philosophy but I'd prefer not to give up my privacy, e. g. my contacts, in exchange for free software. Almost every app from Playstore wants to access (and exploit) my contacts.
How can I use two contact books, one containing dummy entries (or may be the public phonebook of my city or university) plus a private one for my real contacts? Apps with contacts-read permission would only see my 'public' contacts while my dialer and messaging apps would have access to my secrets.
Is there an app for this?
TIA,
toshibashi
I have been looking for the same thing!
Favourite Contacts finds out the top contacts by monitoring the SMS activity from your device. Based on how much and how often you contact a person, this app determines which contacts should make it to your home screen for your facility.
I claim that this app can be used as a must have widget for those users who text frequently. I have personally used this algorithm long before I could make apps, only using the good old Tasker app and the results were extremely good. Now it is a full fledged app, and that too, unprecedented; Because I could not find a similarly working app on play store.
The app offers three different algorithms to suit the needs of different users.
The widget can be configured to open the contact, open the dialer, or to compose the SMS.
There can be 5 contacts on a widget.
There is an option to ignore the contacts which you do not wish to see on the widget.
Feel free to send feedback on [email protected]
Download from Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsbyusman.favouritecontacts
Just sent an update to the app. This should conserve lesser battery.
In the Google Messages app, there are options to either "archive" or "delete" conversations. It looks like archiving them doesn't really do anything to the system SMS data and just hides them from the main screen in this particular app (ex. but other SMS apps will still see them as normal texts, and any SMS backup apps will still back them up normally). Deleting conversations, on the other hand, looks like it does just that and once deleted, they're gone and not available for other apps.
This is all based on just a quick test I did, so I was wondering if someone else could confirm I'm understanding this correctly. It would be nice to archive a bunch of my older conversations so I don't have to see them every day, but I don't really want to delete them. It looks like Messages will do exactly what I want, but I want to be sure so I don't end up permanently deleting things.
Also, does Google Messages back up my texts to my Google account? It's hard to keep track of which Google app does what with each specific "type" of message (ex. Hangouts, Allo, Messages, etc.)
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In the Google Messages app, there are options to either "archive" or "delete" conversations. It looks like archiving them doesn't really do anything to the system SMS data and just hides them from the main screen in this particular app (ex. but other SMS apps will still see them as normal texts, and any SMS backup apps will still back them up normally). Deleting conversations, on the other hand, looks like it does just that and once deleted, they're gone and not available for other apps.
This is all based on just a quick test I did, so I was wondering if someone else could confirm I'm understanding this correctly. It would be nice to archive a bunch of my older conversations so I don't have to see them every day, but I don't really want to delete them. It looks like Messages will do exactly what I want, but I want to be sure so I don't end up permanently deleting things.
Also, does Google Messages back up my texts to my Google account? It's hard to keep track of which Google app does what with each specific "type" of message (ex. Hangouts, Allo, Messages, etc.)
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The conclusion gathered from your quick tests are correct. Archiving a conversation just hides it within Google Messenger only. But it'll still be visible to any other SMS app you have installed.
Deleting though, deletes it for all your installed messaging apps. So don't delete the ones you want to keep. Archive them instead.
Google Messenger doesn't offer any kind of backup functionality (the last time I checked).
It's the Hangouts app that offers syncing to your Google account so you can have all your messages available on multiple platforms.
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The conclusion gathered from your quick tests are correct. Archiving a conversation just hides it within Google Messenger only. But it'll still be visible to any other SMS app you have installed.
Deleting though, deletes it for all your installed messaging apps. So don't delete the ones you want to keep. Archive them instead.
Google Messenger doesn't offer any kind of backup functionality (the last time I checked).
It's the Hangouts app that offers syncing to your Google account so you can have all your messages available on multiple platforms.
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Sorry for the (very) late reply, but I just wanted to say thanks for your feedback, that's what I was hoping to hear
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