I can't seem to find a way to sync my phone with FB.
Calendar sync options doesn't seem to exist at this point of time.
Running modaco stock
Also, is it me, or is there a BIG LACK of custom roms for this phone?
Big lack? That's a bit ungrateful. Anyways, it's rather new, and hasn't even been released in the US yet.
Download FB for Android. There's an option in there to sync.
May seem rather elementary but make sure you have the Facebook app installed and then go to accounts and sync in settings and try adding it there. Again pretty obvious but just giving advice. Hope Facebook sync isn't blocked in this phone like on the nexus line. Any input on this Paul?
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Sorry if I'm a bit impatient, but I've been so used to having lots of roms on other android phones.
I do have facebook app on my phone. It's just that I want to sync my facebook calendar to the phone calendar. The option isn't available.
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randy_khoo said:
Sorry if I'm a bit impatient, but I've been so used to having lots of roms on other android phones.
I do have facebook app on my phone. It's just that I want to sync my facebook calendar to the phone calendar. The option isn't available.
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ahhhh sorry I misunderstood your question. Not sure about facebook calender sync, as I have never used/tried it. Good luck though.
generalagony said:
ahhhh sorry I misunderstood your question. Not sure about facebook calender sync, as I have never used/tried it. Good luck though.
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sorry for the mis-com, i meant in quantity!
The Quality from paul is top notch.
I came from legend and a Captivate, so when i was using the modaco rom for legend, i knew how great his roms are...
But i do feel a certain lack as other modders just modify from paul.
YES, i know it's hard work to do the modding, but i really wish i could see something more on the Optimus 2X.
On facebook syncing, i've flashed FR12 stock but don't seem to have this feature. Might try the vanilla one just to find out.
Maybe it was not built it? not sure...
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For the life of me I can't get some of my contacts to sync to google, instead of just being phone contacts. Any idea how to do this? I'm trying to get the contacts of a 2.1 sense ROM to sync to google so they will appear on my AOSP 2.2 setup. Thanks in advance.
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I haven't used 2.1 since before summer, so I'm rusty with it, but when you edit a contact, can't you change whether it's saved to the phone or Google account?
I haven't seen that option anywhere. Ive been using aosp but nanded back to see why I was missing contacts and didnt see that option...
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stayclean said:
I haven't used 2.1 since before summer, so I'm rusty with it, but when you edit a contact, can't you change whether it's saved to the phone or Google account?
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I am in the same boat...haven't used 2.1 for quite awhile, but I know there is an option somewhere. Positive.
One other way, if you absolutely can't get them to switch doing it on your phone, add them online and delete them from the phone (the ones that are phone contacts). But I know the option is there to change them somewhere. Maybe I will flash back just to find out where
Give those contacts a email address, even if its a bogus one. They will sync once you do that, or at least they did on mine.
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Thanks for the info folks
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I'm only just beginning to test, but a new app seems to have been released:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.watto.program.android.sync.facebook&feature=search_result
Figured it might be useful to those that want to see contact details (not just the pictures).
So far the app seems to work perfectly with only one exception... it sync's the birthday info as "Event" in the contact account instead of "Birthday".
The issue with that is that apps/widgets that track/display birthdays don't pick it up properly.
I sent an email to the dev, new app so may be something he will quickly fix. If not, the source code is actually available on his site, which is nice.
Yeah, I'm using it now, it's working well the only thing is... to keep the pictures synced completely you need to "join" contacts with the Facebook contact being the primary contact. Which usually means that my contacts all have stupid names because I have stupid friends.
So I'm using Sync my pics as well.
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my contacts all have stupid names because I have stupid friends.
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LOL!
/morechars
Thanks will give this a try.
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Dev has already uploaded a fixed version for the Events/Birthday issue and emailed me about it.
Super responsive and is still working perfectly.
Warning. This app eats battery life. It doesn't close. I'd much rather run syncmypix every couple days then have this running constantly, it was at 26%!
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Warning. This app eats battery life. It doesn't close. I'd much rather run syncmypix every couple days then have this running constantly, it was at 26%!
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Hrm, sure you're talking about the right app? This sets up a sync service, there isn't a standalone app or anything. It syncs my data and then doesn't do anything for 24 hours (you can pick the frequency).
Anyway, no such issue on my device at least.
That hasn't been my experience. Set it to sync less often
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I've seen quite a few fixes for ICS's Facebook sync issues, and have been trying lately to adapt them (specifically, fixes for the Vibrant and Galaxy Nexus) to the Captivate, but I've had no luck with my current method, which is moving various APKs such as ContactsProvider in to the .zip for the ROM that I'm using (TeamHacksung ICS build 14). How do the other fixes actually work, and would it be possible to adapt one of them to the Captivate?
-_- this has been answered, use the search function.
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-_- this has been answered, use the search function.
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Tired of seeing these lame elitist answers. If you know then answer him, if not then don't reply. Simple as that.
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-_- this has been answered, use the search function.
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All I'm getting from the search function is a wall of results from the same thread, none of which work, as far as I've seen.
PS: HaxSync or any of those other apps won't work. I only want FB sync for the phone numbers, which only the official app provides, as far as I know :|.
FriendCaster is the app you are looking for.
Nvm. I am gonna leave it at that.
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FriendCaster is the app you are looking for.
Nvm. I am gonna leave it at that.
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Doesn't work :V.
That was the fix that everybody has been using. Have you actually tried FB?
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That was the fix that everybody has been using. Have you actually tried FB?
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Yep! It's on the list of available accounts, but if I press it, it doesn't get added to the list. Friendcaster does load up the contacts and pictures, but IIRC, the official app is the only thing that can get the phone numbers, which is really all I care about in this case. And yes, I'm certain that the official app doesn't work for sync, and that Friendcaster isn't getting phone numbers.
I would try asking in the ICS Rom's Q&A thread, in Q&A subsection. If you are using the ICSSGS then use their Q&A, if on TeamHackSung's then use theirs
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I would try asking in the ICS Rom's Q&A thread, in Q&A subsection. If you are using the ICSSGS then use their Q&A, if on TeamHackSung's then use theirs
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I've asked there, but from what I've seen, TeamHacksung's official line is pretty much LOLNOPE WE'LL WAIT FOR FACEBOOK TO FIX THE APP. Seems like a dumb strategy to me, considering there're fixes for this issue on many other phones, including other Galaxy S variants.
I guess I'll see how they respond anyways!
Well it is something that Facebook has to do, TeamHackSung can't change the API for the Facebook app. It has nothing to do with their ROM, it is Facebook's fault for not updating to what Google has told them they have to.
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Well it is something that Facebook has to do, TeamHackSung can't change the API for the Facebook app. It has nothing to do with their ROM, it is Facebook's fault for not updating to what Google has told them they have to.
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So how have all of the other fixes been done, then? I've seen quite a few ROMs that fix that functionality, somehow. I'm trying to figure out how they managed to do that.
IDK, hope you figure this out!
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IDK, hope you figure this out!
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Welp, my initial strategy actually ended up working, after a clean wipe. I used the patched Contacts and ContactsProvider APKs from the Vibrant ROM that I found, and it's syncing everything but photos now. Exactly what I wanted :3!
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Welp, my initial strategy actually ended up working, after a clean wipe. I used the patched Contacts and ContactsProvider APKs from the Vibrant ROM that I found, and it's syncing everything but photos now. Exactly what I wanted :3!
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link or more info?
Fissile said:
Welp, my initial strategy actually ended up working, after a clean wipe. I used the patched Contacts and ContactsProvider APKs from the Vibrant ROM that I found, and it's syncing everything but photos now. Exactly what I wanted :3!
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Can I please request some more info on this "vibrant" ROM you speak of? I am in the process of decompiling apks...not just copy and pasting from other ROMs cause they have all been put together differently from what I have heard?
I have synching working but only some pics which is ****ting me. So any help would be great
What's the best way to have facebook sync? A custom ROM or something like HaxSync?
I tried flashing "flavours" from Matthew Huie (super_paws around there) that incorporates the "hidden" Facebook Sync but I didn't achieve anything (no contacts were sync'd, I don't know why, but gah... ).
I used for a while an app called SyncMyPix, only good for syncing contact photos (not rly good, tbh... the images were pixelated and sometimes not very useful).
So, last week I installed HaxSync that IS rly a beast: contact (both photos and status) infos are synced in a veeeeeeeery good manner and it does everything automatically. I think that with a few bucks you get a goooood app for the stock ROM. (it works on any rom ofc, but others may have a sync option enabled yet...)
my 2 cents
Where do you find hack sync? I've never heard of it. But I want to check if out.
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idelgado782 said:
Where do you find hack sync? I've never heard of it. But I want to check if out.
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Haxsync.. In the Market.
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Definitly Haxsync, the way it sholud be sync with fb.
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kvaju said:
Definitly Haxsync, the way it sholud be sync with fb.
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Aside from the inability to link an account like we used to be able to do with the official FB app..
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Aside from the inability to link an account like we used to be able to do with the official FB app..
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What I like most are not status updates, but hi res pictures of contacts.
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I figured out its just the contacts.apk. find a from with it enabled an copy it over to what ever from u like that doesnt
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Can you disable status update sync with haxsync? Also, does it try to sync ALL of your fb friends?.. personally, I'm just looking for a nice hi re contact photo solution.
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For HaxSync, how do you guys get the contacts to merge because some people I didnt have their last name in and it came in as a separate contact. But now I added the last name and now i have one with the number and another one with the fb status/pic
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For HaxSync, how do you guys get the contacts to merge because some people I didnt have their last name in and it came in as a separate contact. But now I added the last name and now i have one with the number and another one with the fb status/pic
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Select first contact, edit, menu, join, select contact u want to join with... or if u want to actually merge into one, you can do it thru Gmail (select contacts from the left side), or Google.com/contacts
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I think question says it all. That's main reason for not using other Rom s.
Our am I stupid?
PeeHoo said:
I think question says it all. That's main reason for not using other Rom s.
Our am I stupid?
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yes i know, I was pretty disappointed by the lack of facebook integration when using Cyanogenmod on my htc one x. I used Haxsync from the playstore, this app does a great job to sync your facebook account to everything on your phone.
I think there is an xposed module that patches this back in.