New App for Facebook Hi-Res Photo syncing - "Haxsync"

**motsrox** · 02-25-2012, 05:13 AM

For everyone who's been wondering about the permissions HaxSync uses and why it needs them, a little overview.

**jumpinghooligans** · 02-26-2012, 11:12 PM

I enabled the birthday and event syncing in the newest version and it seemed to work but the birthdays show up on my calendar in bright pink, is there any way I can change this color?

**motsrox** · 02-27-2012, 02:38 AM

Hey jumpinghooligans, changing calendar colors will be supported in the upcoming version.

**davidsnoodles** · 02-29-2012, 02:52 AM

Had too many people not syncing over from Facebook, don't know what happened. How to go through manually and match them up to my contacts in my phone book. This happened even with the Fuzziness set to very strong.

**nickpiper05** · 03-01-2012, 03:39 PM

Does this work with MeDroid ICS Rom for the Nexus One? I'm trying to get it to sync now but having issues getting it to work. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

**nickpiper05** · 03-01-2012, 03:52 PM

It does work with this ROM. Just takes about fifteen minutes to sync up.

**Hakimy** · 03-02-2012, 04:21 AM

Thanks for the great app.however I noticed 2 things:
1-not everyone takes advantage of the new social API.meaning that it doesn't show any status update for some of my contacts.
2-even if the app does and some of my contacts get status update in a magazine style,it only happens for the first sync but after that no matter how many times I sync their status won't update.
Am I doing something wrong or those are bugs with the app?

**a tired smile** · 03-02-2012, 10:48 PM

It worked for the initial sync for me, but now the profile photos and status updates won't refresh anymore, even if I sync it manually.

**pauliphone5** · 03-02-2012, 10:59 PM

It hasn't been working for me either lately. Not sure why.

Sent from one of the following: Galaxy Nexus, Bionic or Xoom using Tapatalk.

**Part Four** · 03-04-2012, 04:49 PM

Is there a way to change the default red color of Haxsync calendar event entries? The red is really killing the look for me. It doesn't match my color scheme at all. Great app otherwise. Thanks.

**motsrox** · 03-05-2012, 02:06 AM

Hakimy: the status updates are synced on-demand, i.e. as you show the persons detail view, which might take a while. this is the way google recommends, as always syncing everything would eat away your battery quite quickly.
Profile Photos not refreshing are a symptom of friends with restricted privacy settings - if HaxSync can't access their galleries, it can't read out the photos timestamp and doesn't know when to replace the photo.
Part Four: HaxSync 2.1 (to be released soon) will feature customizable calendar colors.

**Hakimy** · 03-05-2012, 03:25 AM

so what I'm supposed to do exactly? I have some friends with status from 4 weeks and their status haven't been updated since then.I click on accounts & sync toggle on and I choose one of my friends and view his contact updates and nothing happens.and if you have noticed,I'm not the only one having this issue.

another weird thing I noticed which is kinda related to this issue,is that when haxsync works for some of my friends or my "me" profile I can click on a certain status and haxsync will open their status from the facebook app.but for those which haxsync didn't update their status yet,when I click on their old status it shows an error and that facebook had to be closed! :S

**motsrox** · 03-05-2012, 06:50 AM

Okay, that sounds like there is a bigger problem going on in the background. Could you try removing and readding your HaxSync account in "Accounts & sync"? My migration routine from 1.x to 2.x isn't as perfect as I'd hoped and causes issues in some rare cases.

**Hakimy** · 03-05-2012, 07:31 AM

I think it's working now.I guess the problem I had earlier is that I didn't want to use the calendar feature so I didn't accept the new permissions and this one caused those issues with status sync so I guess it was my fault :P
thanks for your help and lets hope that it will work properly from now on

**motsrox** · 03-05-2012, 07:53 AM

Oh, yes, if you don't accept the new permissions, nothing will work. I guess I should write a disclaimer before displaying the authorization dialog. Let's say it was both our fault ;P

**a tired smile** · 03-05-2012, 07:56 AM

Removing and readding the account seems to have worked for me as well.

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**motsrox** · 03-05-2012, 11:47 AM

Hey guys,
version 2.1 should be live soon.

Changelog:

Added calendar color option.
Made syncing the "Me"-Contact optional.
Made both event and birthday sync optional.
Now saving birthday info into contacts. (People-App doesn't show this field, some 3rd-party-apps do)
Optionally only syncs status updates made by contacts themselves instead of their full timeline.
Added italian translation.
Added spanish translation.
Added turkish translation.
Added czech translation.
Various bugfixes.

**ilangoadigal** · 03-05-2012, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by motsrox

Profile Photos not refreshing are a symptom of friends with restricted privacy settings - if HaxSync can't access their galleries, it can't read out the photos timestamp and doesn't know when to replace the photo.

Would it be possible to add an option to manually update a contact's picture to get around this?

**pakraider** · 03-05-2012, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by ilangoadigal

Would it be possible to add an option to manually update a contact's picture to get around this?

+1.. I don't think it's necessarily a Profile Picture gallery permissions issue, because I'm seeing it across the board even with friends whose album I can view on facebook. The status updates do come through fine, but pictures don't get updated at all after the initial sync.

Perhaps an option for a daily force sync, or something? Or if you want to turn on some serious logging, I'd be willing to share logs if that would help figure out the issue.

**motsrox** · 03-05-2012, 05:56 PM

Giving you access to galleries and giving 3rd-party-apps you use (such as HaxSync) access to galleries are two completely separate permissions. A way to force updating pictures may be possible, I'll look into it.

**pakraider** · 03-05-2012, 07:38 PM

Sweet, thanks! As a fellow developer, just a question.. do you know if the built-in Facebook app's syncing (or HTC Sense's implementation) use a different API or so to fetch the photos? Just wondering since I didn't have any issues when using those methods on my old Gingerbread phone.

**motsrox** · 03-06-2012, 03:07 AM

I am pretty sure that Facebook has some restricted API methods only available to them (or huge companies with large purses.

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**ls90** · 03-06-2012, 05:35 AM

please help!!!

i've synced it all accordingly and my contacts are synced together but there is NO Facebook status at all... how can this be fixed?!

**motsrox** · 03-06-2012, 06:20 AM

Is90: Are you using the old or the new API? The new API doesn't show status updates in the contact list, only in the contact detail view. This is the reason I left the option to use the new API, if that disadvantage outweighs all the advantages you get from the new API for you.