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

[Enraged Medic]

First off, this is one hell of a contacts sync app! I've loaded a beta ICS ROM onto my EVO and the facebook app wouldn't play nice and sync with my contacts. I read about this app in XDA and I will say it's well worth the 99 cents!

Here is my question to you: I see that the newest version released yesterday V 1.6.5 removed the dependency of the official facebook app. Does that mean I can now go into account settings and uncheck the official app from syncing contacts? In other words, it's redundant to have HaxSync and facebook sync with contacts, correct?

[vudin]

There must be an option to buy this app from the countries which can not reach paid apps on Market (for ex. Turkey). I would love to use this on my G-Nex, but only because I live in Turkey, there's no option to buy it

There could be a free version with in-app payment for all features.

[motsrox]

vudin, I've sent you a PM.

Enraged Medic, well, the FB-App syncs some things HaxSync just can't sync as FB doesn't allow 3rd Party Apps to sync them (e.g. phone numbers/email addresses.) If you need those, I'd recommend you leave both running in parallel.

By the way, the next version will bring a few big changes, one of which is detailed [Only registered users can view links. ].

[d4lloyd]

HaxSync is a great sync app. However, not all of my contacts sync up with Facebook (mainly to get the high res images and posts updated). I can't see that these contacts that are not syncing are stored any different to my others that are... I have even tried setting the 'Fuzziness' preference to Very strong but no joy...

[motsrox]

@d4lloyd: Is it possible that those contacts disabled access by 3rd-party apps in their privacy-settings?

HaxSync 2.0 was just uploaded to the market and I think it's the biggest and best update yet. Here's the short version of the changelog, for the fancy version with lots of pictures [Only registered users can view links. ].

Merges contacts itself instead of relying on People-App => No more duplicate contacts!
Reads <HTCData> fields and uses them when merging contacts.
Syncs Events you're attending to calendar.
Syncs Birthdays to calendar.
Uses new Social APIs for touchable status updates with comment/like count and thumbnails (4.0.3+ only)
Syncs data to "Me" Card.
Added German, Croatian and Hungarian translations.
Completely reworked settings interface.

[karfam]

thanks for the update!
i have sent you a request to your email
just a paste here

Here in greece we use to write in greeklish.these means greek characters converted to english.
so lets say the name “Γιαννης” is “Giannis” .
so your application has a trouble assigning the phone contacts with the facebook contacts so to sync high quality pictures.

do you thing you could add some better logic of assigning names?
i could help and give you all the 24 assigments of greek letters to english?

thanks again for the great app
thodoris

[Genetic_Bloom]

I sent an email but maybe you'll find it easier here, I don't know.

Either way, is there a way to disable contact birthday sync? It really clutters up my calendar and there's no need for me to see everyone's birthday. It also shows the bday of EVERYONE I'm Facebook friends with which I really don't care about. I disabled calendar sync as well as searched in the people sync settings to look for an option and neither worked. I'd really appreciate it if there was a way to disable the birthday sync, as it's very inconvenient to see everyone's birthdays in my calendar all the time. Otherwise, I really dig the app and think it works perfectly.

Edit: Mathias emailed me back and I found out how to solve the problem in case anyone else runs into it. In case anyone else has the question, I had to go to the "Calendars to sync" button and then check HaxSync birthdays, and then go back to the "display" tab and uncheck it there. For some reason it doesn't show up unless you choose to sync it then unsync it.

[tony bag o donuts]

I noticed if I have contacts on the phone not merged (names for skype vs phonebook entries) it won't update those user's images to a higher res and their most recent photo.

[motsrox]

tony bag o donuts: I think that's just a coincidence, but there is indeed a case where the pictures are lower-res and not updated correctly:
If the contact doesn't allow 3rd-Party-Apps access to his/her galleries (in his/her privacy settings), HaxSync can't access the high-res version of the image and the corresponding timestamp.
In those cases, it'll fall back to the lower-res image available without gallery access. Unfortunately, this doesn't provide a valid timestamp, so HaxSync doesn't know when to update the contact image.

karfam: I'll see what I can do, but to be totally honest I have quite a few higher-priority features in mind right now.

[drxk]

Thanks for the app motsrox! It works great, however I have noticed that ONE of my facebook friends is not being synced, not even with a low res photo. When I select "Additional friends to sync" and it gets a list of my facebook friends, the list is complete except for this one person. Is this the same problem that you suspect d4lloyd and tony bag o donuts have, or something different?