ContactSyncDuck for Facebook
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About ContactSyncDuck for Facebook
NOTE: Many users put the photo-id of a particular photo from Facebook and complaining not synced. Please ensure you read the FAQ to understand how to find and check correct facebookid. You may also watch the video showing how to set it up: https://youtu.be/qEippatYDtU
Please at least read the FAQ in order to understand how this app works.
Starting with May 2015, Facebook permanently removed the ability to retrieve the complete friend list. So most of the apps used to sync Facebook profile photo are broken.
This app does NOT retrieve your friend list. It uses the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact to sync profile photo (which you need to put it by yourself).
The format used is:<Facebook>id:facebookid</Facebook>
where facebookid can be in numeric form and abbreviation form after version 1.3.7.
e.g. The Facebook profile page of David Beckham is: https://www.facebook.com/Beckham
and the Facebook ID of David Beckham is 84218631570. Therefore, I put <Facebook>id:84218631570</Facebook> in the "Notes" field in contact, then this app will download the profile photo in the next sync.
Note: As request by user, version 1.3.1 onwards add support for the IM field with format facebookid@chat.facebook.com which is used by Empathy XMPP client.
Version 1.3.3 onwards add support for upload the photos back to Google Contacts. Just choose the sync type as "Google" to use this function. Please pay attention that the original photo on the Google Contact will be overwrite by this app if you choose "Google" as sync type.
FAQ
1. Why no contact is synced?
This app uses the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact to sync profile photo and you need to put the Facebook ID to the "note" field in your contacts first.
2. How to find the Facebook ID of a facebook user?
If you "view the source" of a facebook user's profile page, you can find the Facebook ID by looking up "profile_id". Anyway, I highly recommend to use the service provided by http://findmyfbid.com/ to find the Facebook ID for you. It is much more easy for general users.
3. How can I check if I get the facebookid correctly?
You may check if the facebookid is correct by browsing to http://graph.facebook.com/facebookid/picture.
For the Beckham example, you can browse to http://graph.facebook.com/84218631570/picture and you will find that you can view the profile picture of Beckham.
4. Do the contact need to be my Facebook friend in order to sync the contact photo?
No. All you need is to put the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact. Even the contact is not your Facebook friend, the sync still works.
5. Is my connection and account secure?
Yes, this application uses a secure connection (HTTPS) and stores nothing outside of your phone.
6. Do I need to setup the facebookid one by one?
Unfortunately, yes. Facebook does not allow any application to the your friend lists via graph API after 30Apr 2015. So all of the apps used to sync Facebook contact photo are broken. This is the best method to make contact photo sync possible.
However, if you used to have using a HTCSense device, most probably HTCSense had done for you.
Please at least read the FAQ in order to understand how this app works.
Starting with May 2015, Facebook permanently removed the ability to retrieve the complete friend list. So most of the apps used to sync Facebook profile photo are broken.
This app does NOT retrieve your friend list. It uses the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact to sync profile photo (which you need to put it by yourself).
The format used is:<Facebook>id:facebookid</Facebook>
where facebookid can be in numeric form and abbreviation form after version 1.3.7.
e.g. The Facebook profile page of David Beckham is: https://www.facebook.com/Beckham
and the Facebook ID of David Beckham is 84218631570. Therefore, I put <Facebook>id:84218631570</Facebook> in the "Notes" field in contact, then this app will download the profile photo in the next sync.
Note: As request by user, version 1.3.1 onwards add support for the IM field with format facebookid@chat.facebook.com which is used by Empathy XMPP client.
Version 1.3.3 onwards add support for upload the photos back to Google Contacts. Just choose the sync type as "Google" to use this function. Please pay attention that the original photo on the Google Contact will be overwrite by this app if you choose "Google" as sync type.
FAQ
1. Why no contact is synced?
This app uses the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact to sync profile photo and you need to put the Facebook ID to the "note" field in your contacts first.
2. How to find the Facebook ID of a facebook user?
If you "view the source" of a facebook user's profile page, you can find the Facebook ID by looking up "profile_id". Anyway, I highly recommend to use the service provided by http://findmyfbid.com/ to find the Facebook ID for you. It is much more easy for general users.
3. How can I check if I get the facebookid correctly?
You may check if the facebookid is correct by browsing to http://graph.facebook.com/facebookid/picture.
For the Beckham example, you can browse to http://graph.facebook.com/84218631570/picture and you will find that you can view the profile picture of Beckham.
4. Do the contact need to be my Facebook friend in order to sync the contact photo?
No. All you need is to put the Facebook ID in "Notes" field in your local/Google contact. Even the contact is not your Facebook friend, the sync still works.
5. Is my connection and account secure?
Yes, this application uses a secure connection (HTTPS) and stores nothing outside of your phone.
6. Do I need to setup the facebookid one by one?
Unfortunately, yes. Facebook does not allow any application to the your friend lists via graph API after 30Apr 2015. So all of the apps used to sync Facebook contact photo are broken. This is the best method to make contact photo sync possible.
However, if you used to have using a HTCSense device, most probably HTCSense had done for you.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
1.3.8
- Migrate from Eclipse to Android Studio (Nothing change for user)
- Optimize with Facebook Redex, leading to smaller app size and better performance (claimed by Facebook)
1.3.7
- Upgrade facebook api version, thus at least another two working years
- Bugfix for downloading all profile photos unnecessarily on every sync
- Try to support abbreviation form facebook id again
- Try to support more incorrect formats facebook id tag
1.3.6.2
- Bugfix on download error handling
1.3.8
- Migrate from Eclipse to Android Studio (Nothing change for user)
- Optimize with Facebook Redex, leading to smaller app size and better performance (claimed by Facebook)
1.3.7
- Upgrade facebook api version, thus at least another two working years
- Bugfix for downloading all profile photos unnecessarily on every sync
- Try to support abbreviation form facebook id again
- Try to support more incorrect formats facebook id tag
1.3.6.2
- Bugfix on download error handling
Version update ContactSyncDuck for Facebook was updated to version 1.3.8
What are users saying about ContactSyncDuck for Facebook
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I hit sync now on my HTC One m9 and all of my contacts were synced with face book again. Happy days. Great app thanks. Now if someone can get my fb notifications pushing back on to the notification bar I'll be over the moon.
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Might take some (alright quite a lot of) user work. But once setup it syncs perfectly and for the people who hate blank profile pictures this sorts you out in style.
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It's Facebook that's removed the two-way flow of info. Would love it to pick up other public info too eg. Birthdays. Even better if it used normal ID in IM field (ie without XML).
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Got it to add images, but they aren't all syncing back to google. Did run full sync a few times. Eventually gave up and it fixed itself overnight. Once over the setup hurdles, it seems to work well, though!
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It found 99 contacts for me without me inputting ids so it's a win for me.. I may take the time to input the ids for other important contacts.. Thanks for a great app. Facebook is who stopped the data flow so don't blame the developer.
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The application does sync anything. It never synched a single photograph and was filled with a lot of excuses and lengthy explanations on why it can no longer sync photos from a few popular services. I like the idea of the application and believe that if it did work it would be quite popular, but the developer is definitely not competent enough or lacks the resources to fulfill the challenge.
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Unlike Sync.me, this app requires a lot of effort (which is ironic because you want to diminish effort by downloading these kind of apps lol). Now that sync.me has issues and is no longer free, I suggest for the developers of this app to make it more user friendly and easy to use. This app will probably top the market if that happens.
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I understand how the app works. It worked fine for a sometime. Today I noticed it stopped working completely for no apparent reason. I already put all the information in other notes and it was working fine. Not sure why it quit today. 2/17/2017
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The App for flawlessly. 4 stars because it requires to enter tags. If you could remove them so we can enter only the ID without them. Also update the About page with Beckham example, its still with custom fb id, not numeric, so it may confuse someone.
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Was using sync.me, but it wasn't synching correctly & had tons of annoying ads. With this app, it takes a little time finding the profile ID & inputting that into the notes of each contact, but it works even if that contact isn't friends with you on Facebook.
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It keeps saying 0 contacts synced. Damn is there ONE app on this market that actually works? How are all these developers sneaking in all these fraudulent apps?
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Works as described. Especially if you have the facebook IDs already in your contact list. Just lacks the feature that will help you with the facebook IDs.
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Took my old HTC Sence data and added pictures! Wonderful. I only had to do it by hand for a few contacts.
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So I gave to go through each contact and add each fb ID. One person at a time?
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Takes some work getting the id's entered. But the app does what it's supposed to do. The upload to Google isn't quite right, but that could be a setting in Google.
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This is a clever workaround/fix for the contact picture issue.
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Not perfect but better than nothing
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It does nothing.
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Doesn't work f'ing sucks!!!!
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"Waiting for starting"
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Once all set up works wonderfully.
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doesn't work
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Sucks ASS
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No workey
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Love it
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Works perfectly and luckily uses same metadata as HTC used to so many of my contacts were already "linked". Love that it works even if we aren't friends as well; great for those few contacts you never got around to adding on Facebook. Thanks for a great app!
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Very long winded way to get around a Facebook related problem that shouldn't exist. But it does work. Very impressed.
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Best FB sync app
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Works good indeed
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Now just says 'unfortunately contactsyncduck has stopped' :-( Thanks for fixing it so quickly. It's now working again! Lol
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It only synced 55 of my contacts. I've tried putting the Facebook ID in the "notes" section of my contacts...to no avail.
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Any chance you could change this to use a custom field called 'Facebook'? (Or allow either?) It's a little tedious with the copy pasting of ids having to get the exact xml string (with the 'id:' part as well. A simple custom field named 'Facebook' which contains only the number would likely be easier to parse from your end too? Hell, if the code's on github or somesuch I'd throw a pull request your way!
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This app is simply amazing. I really hate having no picture for a contact-- I like seeing their picture when I text them, get a call from them, etc. This app really helps with that as most of my contacts are on Facebook, and it pulls their profile picture flawlessly. My favorite part is that syncs that picture back to the Google Contacts website, so it'll follow you across any devices that also sync with Google Contacts.
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Does nothing at all... waste off space
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This app is more of a hassle to set up with my contact pictures than anything. FB needs to just settle with a universal API already!
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It really works man. It really works!!!! Awesome... Though u have to do some works manually but after that all the works pays off. For the users: Do read the 'about' section of the app. Otherwise u won't know how to work.
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A bit tedious, but it worked great. This is the best way to sync Facebook profile pictures to contacts.
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Great app and succinct FAQ. Giving it 5 stars because they make it easy for me what Fb made so much hard since they reworked their APIs.
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After trying a few other sync apps. This one is the only one that worked for me And with little effort as well. Good work.
by X####:
Great app, with a bit of footwork. Works pretty well for most my contacts (very satisfying). However there are a few contacts that are stubborn to upload the contact picture like the rest did, flawlessly i might add... tried a couple times with no luck. Wamp wamp.