[Q] Will Facebook be fixed ever? whose fault is it anyway?

[k.electron]

Facebook contact syncing does not work in 4.0.3.
I have read plenty of threads about custom roms that fix it and HaxSync which offers to fix it for a dollar. This seems like a pretty essential feature and I don't know why 4.0.3 seems to block it when it is fine with other things syncing with contacts.

who is to blame here? I also heard facebook did not adhere to googles new policies about contact syncing? So is facebook going to release a new app that will fix this? or will google change whatever blocking they have? or is there an easy fix that does not require a custom rom or some hacky app?

 

[Soy_Filipo]

Facebook contact syncing does not work in 4.0.3.
I have read plenty of threads about custom roms that fix it and HaxSync which offers to fix it for a dollar. This seems like a pretty essential feature and I don't know why 4.0.3 seems to block it when it is fine with other things syncing with contacts.

who is to blame here? I also heard facebook did not adhere to googles new policies about contact syncing? So is facebook going to release a new app that will fix this? or will google change whatever blocking they have? or is there an easy fix that does not require a custom rom or some hacky app?

Facebook and Google are to blame

 

[frutelaken]

A fix has indeed been released for ICS that fixes this.

Without giving you all the nasty details, the problem was, back in Gingerbread 2.3, that Facebook didn't want to abide to Google's Contactlist API policies (they wanted to use their own). So Google blocked the Facebook Contact API. Cyanogen reverted that almost instantaneously though.

Facebook and Google still don't play nice, so it remains a blocked feature.

Greetz

 

[k.electron]

A fix has indeed been released for ICS that fixes this.

Facebook and Google still don't play nice, so it remains a blocked feature.

so you mean one of the companies has caved and there will be an update that fixes it all? or are u talking about haxsync and the modaco rom?

 

[santeana]

so you mean one of the companies has caved and there will be an update that fixes it all?

No, he means that Cyanogen has implimented a fix (reverted to the old code) in their ROMS. Like CM9 ROMS have the reverted code so the FB syncs just as is used to. All STOCK ICS ROMS still block the FB sync feature and will for the foreseeable future.

 

[k.electron]

That's really ****ty. Consumers suffer because corporate dumbasses can't work together.

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[shahravi94]

That's really ****ty. Consumers suffer because corporate dumbasses can't work together.

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eh its the dumbasses at facebook really. google has their set rules for contact syncing that everyone else follows. why should facebook be exempt?

 

[k.electron]

eh its the dumbasses at facebook really. google has their set rules for contact syncing that everyone else follows. why should facebook be exempt?

it shouldn't. facebook needs to follow the rules of the device it makes an app on. its annoying that they won't.

 

[Shark_On_Land]

Blame Google
Google wants you to move to Google+ .


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