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Private contact and calendar sync for Android.
https://signal.org/blog/flock
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contacts not available in whatsapp, viber, etc #50

Closed rhodey closed 10 years ago

rhodey commented 10 years ago

Source >> http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/8239285-contacts-not-available-in-whatsapp-viber-etc

"I am trying out flock for syncing my contacts to my android 4.4.2 phone

I've transferred all contacts to flock and deleted contact information from my google account. I have also stopped my Google contact sync with my phone.

However now I am facing a peculiar situation. I use some apps which pick up contact information from my phone (like WhatsApp, viber, vonage mobile). However since I installed and started using flock as my primary syncing mechanism, these these apps are unable to see my contact list.

When I open these apps to chat with someone, the contact list is blank, this is preventing me from using these apps.

Is there any way I can get the original functionality back? "

rhodey commented 10 years ago

Flock adds contacts and calendars into the Android OS just like Google or any other contact and calendar syncing app. After switching your contacts over to Flock you may need to ask WhatsApp, viber, etc to "refresh" its contact list in order to see the new list of contacts.

In WhatsApp the process to refresh contacts is as follows...

  1. tap the "+" icon to create a new message.
  2. tap the menu button (the three vertical blocks icon thing).
  3. tap "Refresh"

I tried this out with my WhatsApp account and the WhatsApp contact list was correctly filled with the contacts from Flock that had WhatsApp accounts. The process should be similar for other apps like viber and I think that if you give them time they will likely refresh all by themselves.

If you can see your Flock contacts in the Android "People" app, then any app that that requests the "read contacts" permission at install time will also be able to see your Flock contacts-- they might just not be programmed to refresh/check for changes too often.

Sorry for the issue, please let me know if this solves the problem.

rhodey commented 10 years ago

Harindra Singh's response:

"Hello

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9500) running Android 4.4.2 (rooted)

I tried the steps for refreshing contacts information in whatsapp. Unfortunately it did not work.

The moment I start using google for syncing my contacts, whatsapp is able to automatically populate contact information.

But when I disable google sync (actually removed the google account) and turn on contact sync using flock, the contacts slowly vanish away from whatsapp"

rhodey commented 10 years ago

closing, will reopen if more info comes up.