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HaxSync ICS Sync issue

just downloaded haxsync 1.4.1 and im having issues syncing past the A Contacts
was wondering if anyone has found a fix for this or knows whats up?
the XDA Link from the Android market page is dead

HaxSync issues
I am also having issues with HaxSync and was looking for the developer's thread here on XDA but it seems to be removed.
I am currently running 1.4.3 version of HaxSync on Galaxy Nexus and the first time it synced the contacts everything was fine. Then I swapped batteries in my phone and I am now missing contact pictures. The contacts are still synced with HaxSync, but half the contact pictures are gone.

just updated today to 1.4.3 everything synced but i think i've got some battery drain issues now

billzilla15 said:
just updated today to 1.4.3 everything synced but i think i've got some battery drain issues now
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Yes, I am seeing this as well. Like 2 hours on battery and was at 50%.
Also, if you want to test out my theory, try pulling your battery and when you boot back up I wanted to see if all your contact pictures were still there or not.

correction MAJOR Battery drain issues 50% in 2 hours, had to uninstall
to late on the battery screwed everything up when i uninstalled had to redo all my contacts

billzilla15 said:
correction MAJOR Battery drain issues 50% in 2 hours, had to uninstall
to late on the battery screwed everything up when i uninstalled had to redo all my contacts
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Yep, I am trying friendcaster now, but cant seem to get HiRes photos on ICS

im just going to hold off for now, apparently this facebook sync issue is supposed to be fixed in ICS 4.0.3 whenever that finally pushes out, friendcaster is like syncmypics it works but doesn't allow high res stuff

no drain here guys.
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nikosrs4 said:
no drain here guys.
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wow that's impressive, are you on a rom or something or still stock

billzilla15 said:
wow that's impressive, are you on a rom or something or still stock
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Roman's Xmas edition and stock kernel.
(Now I have minimalistic kernel but it's the same)
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Not being able to sync hi-res pics is a pain
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The hi-res pictures issue is an issue with GMail not allowing hi-res photos. If you notice your contacts with Google + have great looking photos, but the others do not.

rutger1413 said:
The hi-res pictures issue is an issue with GMail not allowing hi-res photos. If you notice your contacts with Google + have great looking photos, but the others do not.
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The contacts that are linked with Google+ in my people app STILL have pixelated pictures.

HaxSync is great... However, since I used SyncMyPix, it actually downloaded the picture and inserted it into the contact that way it was available when I went to my Google Contacts on my desktop computer.
Which brings me to my next point, apparently contacts will use whatever picture is stored on your Google Contacts instead of any service trying to sync over top of it. So now I have the option to REMOVE the pictures completely from the contact and then allow HaxSync to 'faux' sync them or just stick with the low quality version till something more suitable works.
Incidentally, does anyone know of ANY program or extension or anything that will sync the profile pictures from Facebook to Google Contacts? I found one called Google Contact Sync, but it grabs the low quality version instead of taking the HQ one.
Anyway, hope someone can help out with any of that.

Android will use the FIRST photo a joined contact has...
So, if you have low-res photos from Google and add hax-sync on top, then you are stuck with the low-res photos for any auto-joined contacts.
However, the reverse is true... if you have hax-sync contact and then add Google contacts, it will continue to use the high-res photos from Haxsync.
So, the solution is, delete your Google account from "Accounts & Sync," Sync your haxsync account, THEN add your Google account back in.
If you have any duplicates with slightly different names that don't get auto-joined, make sure you start with the Haxsync version of the contact when you do an "Edit > Join" to select the Google version. This will retain the high-res photo.

You can simply chose which pic to use for the contact.
-> chose contact
-> menu -> edit
-> in the edit menu, you should see all the accounts linked to this contact
-> tap on the picture next tu HaxSync
-> chose "Use this picture".
Voila!

^^^^ True, but then you need to do it for each and every contact individually. If you delete your Google account and re-add it, it will automatically keep the high-res pic as the default. Much easier.

nikosrs4 said:
no drain here guys.
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Ummm, it's also used no data, so apparently it's not syncing anything for you.
Did you go to accounts & settings, and add your hax sync account, then go into the account itself and check the sync box? because the app doesn't do anything if you don't do those steps.

ArcanaXVIII said:
You can simply chose which pic to use for the contact.
-> chose contact
-> menu -> edit
-> in the edit menu, you should see all the accounts linked to this contact
-> tap on the picture next tu HaxSync
-> chose "Use this picture".
Voila!
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Ended up doing this for all of my contacts. :l
Also, is there anyway to actually SAVE the pictures into the Contact so it's ALWAYS there? Or will I have to wait for SyncMyPix to do it.

matt2053 said:
Ummm, it's also used no data, so apparently it's not syncing anything for you.
Did you go to accounts & settings, and add your hax sync account, then go into the account itself and check the sync box? because the app doesn't do anything if you don't do those steps.
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yes, I've set it to sync every 12h. it always looks like that..

using a nexus without google-account?

Hey guys,
i am using all my android phones for a while with all the gapps provided. i really like them, but there are some things that make me angry and really would like to get rid of them.
let me start with the contacts syncing.
contacts app is fine, especially the way u can attach pictures to your contacts, which will be displayed in nice looking hd quality when getting a call.
so far so good. lets sync with your google account. oh well... picutures really look bad now. and each time you sync with it... it will be bad again, no matter what
(i know, the problem is the googleservice itself. we cant do **** here)
but how to handle this? if there would be another way to safe my contacts in a easy way, i would like to hear it.
so first point: no need for contacts sync
next point is gallery. i dont need the sync for it. google does not need to know anything
next point, music app. its fine, but there is no need for me attach it to my google-acc
calendar is nice and will be used. but even with this, i do not need it on other devices.
last two points are the market and maps. here we get a problem
i do need both of them. is there a way to avoid using a google account?
this could be a workaround for ppl who dislike using a google account in future maybe... if it is even possible. i dont know right now

You can disable account-wide sync for all the apps that you've mentioned. Gallery is a little tricky especially if you are using G+ but it's possible. In fact, you can skip signing into a Google acocunt completely should give you a clue.
You will only have problems with the market. As far as I know, you have to have a google account to download apps from the google market. But you could always install 3rd markets like Amazon appstore, Slideme and GetJar, off the top of my head.

the biggest problem i have is the contacts.
is there a way to easy backup them and restore, maybe when switching roms or whatever?
some for my calendar. how to restore it without signing in?
ps: i am not using g+
pps: if someone would know if there is a data folder or whatever, where the contents of my contacts and sms and calendar are saved, that would be enogth for me.
coz then i could just cut it off there and place it in my new roms

Your problem with contacts is bad picture quality..? Then don't put pictures on your contacts.. Google isn't looking at your pictures either. If you want to use the market you need a Google account. None of the information is stored on your phone so there is no folder on your phone that will let you back these up.
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You can completely disable all syncing to your Google account if you want, but you're really just making it harder on yourself than it needs to be.
I realize there are some little niggles that are annoying about how its working right now, but I think its a bigger hassle to completely turn it off and do it all manually with a mishmash of other services.

if there would be a solution to have high quality contact pictures, i would use it. no problem with it
but it seems really ugly. dont you have that ****?
just as an example i found on the internet...
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this is what any contact picture looks like after syncing my contacts.
if i just attach one without sync enabled, it looks awesome. after syncing, its like the picture
there must be any workaround for this problem...?!?

definator said:
if there would be a solution to have high quality contact pictures, i would use it. no problem with it
but it seems really ugly. dont you have that ****?
just as an example i found on the internet...
this is what any contact picture looks like after syncing my contacts.
if i just attach one without sync enabled, it looks awesome. after syncing, its like the picture
there must be any workaround for this problem...?!?
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You just said it yourself.. don't sync your contacts. You aren't forced to sync anything. If you get pictures from Facebook there is an app called Haxsync that will give you high quality pictures.
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thats the point, where to get my contacts if not syncing when switching the roms?
and no, i dont use any social network

STOP
We are forced to sync! Ok one can avoid it if you now what options to be checked and which not. But in first place everything is synced to somewhere. You have to some kind of "pro" to avoid it completly
I had all my contacts accidently synced to google after android "stole" my thunderbird contacts claimed that they have to be googlemail.com contacts and then after an accidently removal of an small hook evrythink went to google.
The best was that my thunderbird then all contacs removed as well, because my phone said "all contacts in the homeaccount have been deleted"
###Just to have my anger put at least somewhere###
To come back to the orginal poster:
Now it works all perfectly well with birdiesync (i read somewhere but havent tried thta MyPhoneExplorer would to the trick as well), i have only an google account for market access reasons. I dont use gmail (as google reads all mails in order have the right advertisement for me) but k9. Just deactivate syncing under settings.
But i cant so far confirm that the contact pics arent downsized. Because i dont really care...
Bye
ateshga

Sync Birthdays from Contacts to Calendar.

is there a way to Sync all the birthdays in my Contact to my stock Calendar??
Galaxy Nexus 4.0.4
Root
stock

sync your contracts to Google contacts and use google calendar to bring up custom calendar for birthdays in the web interface, or use pure grid calendar from the market
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leonironchef said:
sync your contracts to Google contacts and use google calendar to bring up custom calendar for birthdays in the web interface
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I have my contacts sync to Google, but when I visit Google calendar via web interface I can't figure out what your talking about how to add contacts birthdays to my Google calendar. Can you explain please?

leonironchef said:
sync your contracts to Google contacts and use google calendar to bring up custom calendar for birthdays in the web interface, or use pure grid calendar from the market
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yes i have google sync to my contacts.
do you mean create calendar?
because i dont see where i can add birthdays from contacts.
in the web google calendar.

Lw00d said:
yes i have google sync to my contacts.
do you mean create calendar?
because i dont see where i can add birthdays from contacts.
in the web google calendar.
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Same here. Can anybody explain this to us? Or maybe its not possible and leonironchef is mistaken?

It syncs my Gmail contacts' birthdays into the calendar without me doing anything

EddyOS said:
It syncs my Gmail contacts' birthdays into the calendar without me doing anything
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Must be nice!!!!

Sorry for the hasty response, was at work
Go into Calendar Settings (the top right corner cog wheel) > then Calendar > down bottom click Browser Interesting Calendars > More....and simply add, it may take a while to sync so keep refreshing!
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leonironchef said:
Sorry for the hasty response, was at work
Go into Calendar Settings (the top right corner cog wheel) > then Calendar > down bottom click Browser Interesting Calendars > More....and simply add, it may take a while to sync so keep refreshing!
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thanks for that.. but you missed a couple of steps..

here is the steps i did..
on computer with internet browser open up google calendar
click on gear emblem settings
click setting
click on calendar (blue color)
click Browse interesting calendars »(blue color)
click More (blue color)
on Contacts' birthdays and events ..click subscribe
than on your Device
open up the calendar app
hit the three dots
hit Calendar to display
put a check , Contacts birthday and events
hit Calendar to Sync
hit ok
then your done

Thank you so much! That worked great for me!
Also I was able to sync all the Alabama football games!! ROLL TIDE!
It's cool that it does sports, hell that should get its own thread.

Lw00d said:
here is the steps i did..
on computer with internet browser open up google calendar
click on gear emblem settings
click setting
click on calendar (blue color)
click Browse interesting calendars »(blue color)
click More (blue color)
on Contacts' birthdays and events ..click subscribe
than on your Device
open up the calendar app
hit the three dots
hit Calendar to display
put a check , Contacts birthday and events
hit Calendar to Sync
hit ok
then your done
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I do these steps lots of time and it's doesn't work, why? I 'm using galaxy s 1 with: 4.2.1 and CyanogenMod 10.1

And if you want an free and open-source alternative (syncing from your phone contacts, for example imported vCards):
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=birthday&fdid=org.birthday adapter

[Q] Dropbox photos not displayed in gallery

It's been just a few hours since I got my NoteII.
I've added my dropbox account but photos in dropbox do not shown in gallery.
I'm connected to wi-fi. When I check cloud settings, photo and video sync is enabled. But when I click on my email on this screen, it says sync disabled.
Any ideas how I can see dropbox photos in gallery?

I also have this issue, can't understand why its not working :/

I was trying to work this out with Le3ky yesterday, my settings are exactly the same as his screenshots, but mine works....(even if I turn off and on again)

serotizm did you sign into your dropbox account during sign in on your first boot of the phone?

serotizm said:
It's been just a few hours since I got my NoteII.
I've added my dropbox account but photos in dropbox do not shown in gallery.
I'm connected to wi-fi. When I check cloud settings, photo and video sync is enabled. But when I click on my email on this screen, it says sync disabled.
Any ideas how I can see dropbox photos in gallery?
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Sorry for asking a stupid question, but have you enabled "Camera Upload" from the Dropbox app?
Also, try clearing the data & cache of the Gallery app. You need to go to the "Applications Manager" and select the "All" tab for getting the Gallery app. Restart the Gallery app and I think it should detect the Dropbox photos.
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JulyDerek said:
Sorry for asking a stupid question, but have you enabled "Camera Upload" from the Dropbox app?
Also, try clearing the data & cache of the Gallery app. You need to go to the "Applications Manager" and select the "All" tab for getting the Gallery app.
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I have it enabled yes.
Cleared the cloud service, gallery and dropbox apps, rebooted, still no good

Dropbox files are in the cloud. They have to be on your phone for the Gallery to detect them. What if you make those photo files as "favorites" in the Dropbox app? All "favorites" are stored on your phone. But I remember when I first started my phone, I had numerous Dropbox photo albums on my phone by default. I just deleted all of them.
Will go home and check it out.

No your wrong.
The Note2 has a cloud service that can pull dropbox pictures into the gallery app (by syncing them) they are not stored locally, they are on a cloud!
you can get to these settings via menu > settings > cloud
It has nothing to do with the dropbox app, its a separate service samsung have setup using the dropbox api.
EDIT:
sorry, it does save them locally, but it is still treated as a sync, if you delete from there it will delete from your dropbox
they are saved in /sdcard0/cloudagent/cache/root

JulyDerek said:
Dropbox files are in the cloud. They have to be on your phone for the Gallery to detect them. What if you make those photo files as "favorites" in the Dropbox app? All "favorites" are stored on your phone. But I remember when I first started my phone, I had numerous Dropbox photo albums on my phone by default. I just deleted all of them.
Will go home and check it out.
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This feature doesnt display photos on your phone, it displays photos that are in the cloud aka the picasa and facebook features. IUt doesn't seem to be connecting to the cloud or reading from it correctly for me

It's working for me. Pics show up in gallery under "Camera Uploads"

Not sure why, but everyone who said it's working so far added dropbox account during the set-up wizard, and those with issues added it after.
It shouldn't make any difference, but it is the only link I can find between those that are working and those that are not.

I have added my dropbox account in setup. Also upload photos turned on.
I think issue is about with the size of my dropbox account. I have 75GB space on Dropbox and 27GB pics/videos.
Sometimes cloud service forcecloses.
I have installed Dropsync app. Now downloading all my pics to my sdcard.
I couldn't find another way
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I also tried clearing cache settings for gallery. No luck.
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serotizm said:
I have added my dropbox account in setup. Also upload photos turned on.
I think issue is about with the size of my dropbox account. I have 75GB space on Dropbox and 27GB pics/videos.
Sometimes cloud service forcecloses.
I have installed Dropsync app. Now downloading all my pics to my sdcard.
I couldn't find another way
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Ok so that's interesting... I have 95gb and at least 50gb of images... I've also noticed the cloud service FC as well... Wonder if it's the number/size of images...
For those who have this working, how many photos do you have? Maybe logs would help??
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Note 2 Dropbox Sync
It was working on my galaxy note 2 initially but then I removed dropbox and reinstalled and the gallery sync etc had stopped. The quick fix for me was to go into settings - cloud then there is an option called Contents Sync (with dropbox) which when activated asks to give permisson and after this all works great again. Hopefully this helps picture attached

I am now almost certain those with issues is due to having too many images in dropbox.
Samsung make a local copy of all the pics on your sd card, if you have more than 15gb (very maxiumum!) imagesi n dropbox it won't be able to sync as it cannot save them all, the app has not been programmed to allow some and not others therefore cloud-agent just force closes.
It doesn't seem to check for .nomedia so the only way to fix is to remove the images from dropbox, or turn sync off and just use the dropbox app.

Yeah I think that's the issue too. Those who it doesn't work for so far have large drop boxes with many images on. Those who it works for (so far) are the opposite...

Lennyuk said:
No your wrong.
The Note2 has a cloud service that can pull dropbox pictures into the gallery app (by syncing them) they are not stored locally, they are on a cloud!
you can get to these settings via menu > settings > cloud
It has nothing to do with the dropbox app, its a separate service samsung have setup using the dropbox api.
EDIT:
sorry, it does save them locally, but it is still treated as a sync, if you delete from there it will delete from your dropbox
they are saved in /sdcard0/cloudagent/cache/root
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ANSWER...!!! :good::highfive:

thanks
Thanks for your answer. Its also work in my Galaxy S4

serotizm said:
It's been just a few hours since I got my NoteII.
I've added my dropbox account but photos in dropbox do not shown in gallery.
I'm connected to wi-fi. When I check cloud settings, photo and video sync is enabled. But when I click on my email on this screen, it says sync disabled.
Any ideas how I can see dropbox photos in gallery?
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You install directy the latest update https://www.apkdroid.com/dropbox-3-0-5-16/ for apk dropbox ?

[Q] Gmail or SAMSUNG MAIL stock App ?

Hi to all.
I have 3 emails on gmail. Need to use all of them.
Would you recommend to use them all in Gmail app ? or All in Stock Samsung mail app, or 2 +1 /1+2 ?????
Any advantages , disadvantages , battery life , data usage etc ?
Please help to decide
Thank You
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Forward them all to a single gmail account, authorise it to be able to send on behalf of each account. Gmail app, 1 account

Seedyh said:
Forward them all to a single gmail account, authorise it to be able to send on behalf of each account. Gmail app, 1 account
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Why on Earth would you want to do that?
I have 3 Gmail accounts (2 Apps for Domains, 1 regular Gmail) on my phone and use the Gmail app for them all.
Regards,
Dave

gmail app sync's emails every 5 minutes.
what about Samsung Mail app ?

foxmeister said:
Why on Earth would you want to do that?
I have 3 Gmail accounts (2 Apps for Domains, 1 regular Gmail) on my phone and use the Gmail app for them all.
Regards,
Dave
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I only have to set up 1 email account on my phone (I change roms a lot).. when on desktop I don't have to swap accounts to check mails. All in one place and it just works.

benzas said:
gmail app sync's emails every 5 minutes.
what about Samsung Mail app ?
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If the stock app is set up by Exchange Active Sync then you'll have push notifications.
'Swyped' from my GT-N7100

Stock app..
I would go for the stock app. The problem I have with the gmail app is the font size. I tried my best but u cannot zoom text in and out. Landscape mode of stock app has nice email list on the left and email on the right. nice.
I use 1 exchange, 1 gmail and one normal pop3. So in other words I had no other choice
(No i do not want to combine them.)

rdee said:
I would go for the stock app. The problem I have with the gmail app is the font size. I tried my best but u cannot zoom text in and out. Landscape mode of stock app has nice email list on the left and email on the right. nice.
I use 1 exchange, 1 gmail and one normal pop3. So in other words I had no other choice
(No i do not want to combine them.)
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The latest version of gmail allows you to pinch to zoom, but you have to enable it in the app's settings. I'm using the gmail app but only because I have modified the app's DPI settings using the xposed framework and the appsettings apk. This allows me to have a split screen mode in landscape mode just like the stock mail app.
If I was unrooted, I'd probably go with the stock mail app. It's natively optimized for our phone and plays nice with the s-pen.

Google completely disabled .zip file attachments in Gmail app on Android..
for me zip files are crucial , FOR THAT REASON HAVE TO STICK WITH STOCK MAIL APP

benzas said:
Google completely disabled .zip file attachments in Gmail app on Android..
for me zip files are crucial , FOR THAT REASON HAVE TO STICK WITH STOCK MAIL APP
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Why not just upload that zipped file to your Google Drive account and link to it in the email?

Gmail set @240dpi with Xposed Framework = WIN