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Contact syncing

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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FB Calendar sync

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...

[DEV] [TEST] Facebook Sync [Possible Solution]

Quite a few of you have asked me about the Facebook not syncing with 2.3.4 since Google decided to make it a no-no...Below is a link to a compiled .apk file that, hopefully, fixes the syncing problem.
*ContactsProvider.apk* TESTING ONLY and not responsible if something bad happens!! What I can say is that I have been running this on my phone with no problems but since I don't use Facebook..maybe someone else can let me know.
- Lastly, do NOT sign the .apk
- push to /system/app
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SyncMyPix works well

I can't wait to see it working on my Xoom. I really hope your solution will be universal.
Also, I cannot test on my Nexus S, as CM7 has already the sync working.

So, is this a working solution?
I just picked up a NS4G and would love to get this working.

same here. as a matter of fact, why did google decide to go against this?

kashb91 said:
same here. as a matter of fact, why did google decide to go against this?
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They wanted the data to be synced to the contact so that it would be on Google's servers... i.e. their picture is uploaded to the server, and no longer requires Facebook sync for the data.

Yes those are the rules for using Google's contact API. The philosophy is that the user should be able to export and have control over data his contacts have shared with him. Facebook wants all that data to stay in the Facebook system. They do not want to allow you to export or own or have control of your friends contact info outside of Facebook.
The rule has always been there and Facebook has always violated it. This is Google's way of letting them know they are not happy about it even though they continue to let it slide on pretty much all other devices.
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Any news on this app would like to resync them again thanks

I've been using an apk called syncmypix and it works wonders..
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It sync's the pix, there are dozents of tools like that...we need a data sync tool which sync's fb data, not only pics, with the phone contacts...

I've been using Contapps (also on the Android Market) to get around this issue.
Works great.

Actually, Contapps is a good app and can sync with social networks,including Facebook.
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Maybe someone clever enough should just have a look into Cm7 source code or just ask the team. They have the answer and I am sure they are willing to share.
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profete162 said:
Maybe someone clever enough should just have a look into Cm7 source code or just ask the team. They have the answer and I am sure they are willing to share.
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The Facebook app package name just needs to be added to the various unrestricted packages lists. Then its free to do whatever with your data, ignoring Google's restrictions.
I will try and find out exactly which parts of code it requires changed some time this week, I believe its XML only.
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Or....
Go here: http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/10/synchronizing-google-and-facebook.html.
Install on your PC. Run. Log in. Boom, synced.
Thanks to Koush.

That's not the same thing as what the Facebook app does. Koush's app just takes the photo from Facebook and updates the photo in your Google Contact entry for the person. That photo is then permanent until you manually remove it on the Google Contacts website.
The Facebook app only stores the photo in the person's contact on your phone, but not in the actual Google contact entry. The advantage of this is that if you remove Facebook, the pics go away as well. It keeps Facebook and Google Contacts separate. This is how Twitter, Last.FM, Qik, et al do it.
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oldblue910 said:
That's not the same thing as what the Facebook app does. Koush's app just takes the photo from Facebook and updates the photo in your Google Contact entry for the person. That photo is then permanent until you manually remove it on the Google Contacts website.
The Facebook app only stores the photo in the person's contact on your phone, but not in the actual Google contact entry. The advantage of this is that if you remove Facebook, the pics go away as well. It keeps Facebook and Google Contacts separate. This is how Twitter, Last.FM, Qik, et al do it.
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I know. I like that better. I did not like syncing photos, then I log into Gmail Contacts and all the photos were gone. I like to have the photos in Gmail too.
But my post really was in reply to another user who suggested another 3rd party app to sync the pictures. I meant to quote his post but I did not.

du5t3r said:
Quite a few of you have asked me about the Facebook not syncing with 2.3.4 since Google decided to make it a no-no...Below is a link to a compiled .apk file that, hopefully, fixes the syncing problem.
*ContactsProvider.apk* TESTING ONLY and not responsible if something bad happens!! What I can say is that I have been running this on my phone with no problems but since I don't use Facebook..maybe someone else can let me know.
- Lastly, do NOT sign the .apk
- push to /system/app
*link removed*
-D
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Link removed?

the7thson said:
Link removed?
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does not work ;D
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Borky_16 said:
does not work ;D
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Gotcha, thanks. Afaik, CM and some other chefs have the requisite info to bypass goog's restrictions and allow syncing. Maybe we can reach out to them and they'll be kind enough to share the solution?

Facebook Sync Solution

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.

Spittal said:
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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wetrabbit444 said:
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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how to sync facebook birthdays and holidays to your google calendar

im not sure if a thread has been made on how to do this. but i finally figure out how to get all my facebook birthdays to sync into my google calendar. i followed what they said here on this web page http://mashable.com/2012/02/21/export-facebook-birthdays/ it works good and its a nice little slide show, so it should be noob proof. lol. anyways i just wanted to share my findings just encase someone is trying to figure out how to do this. it also synced all the holidays to my google calender as well. i posted a few pics to prove it. even though i wouldnt waste my time lying about some like this. lol

Don't holidays already show on the calendar?
Good to know. I used HaxSync to get all my FB birthdays and events. (As well as join like google and fb contacts)

What is that first calendar?
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Censura_Umbra said:
What is that first calendar?
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Its an app called android pro widget. Here is the link to it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdr.widgets.core. in order to theme it like that, u have to buy the key which is 2.50. But its worth it.
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PcFish said:
Don't holidays already show on the calendar?
Good to know. I used HaxSync to get all my FB birthdays and events. (As well as join like google and fb contacts)
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My Google calendar didn't show anything before. Never heard of haxsync. I will check it out later. But I've been trying to get my fb birthdays to sync to my google calendar and I could never figure it out till I found that website that shows u how to. If it helps one person then it was worth posting lol
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I use haxsync too, works really good too
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