While we’re pretty much in love with virtually everything Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brings to the table, many may be bummed that Facebook contact sync is not available for the Galaxy Nexus and hasn’t been sync Android 2.3.3. Well, if you’ve got a Galaxy Nexus on hand, you may be happy to hear that the latest custom ROM from MoDaCo has successfully enabled the feature.
We can understand why Google would choose to integrate Google + contact sync instead of Facebook into Ice Cream Sandwich, let’s face it, Facebook makes more sense for the consumer. Luckily, this is a pretty easy feat to gain access to, as long as you don’t mind rooting and flashing a custom ROM on your shiny Galaxy Nexus. Once the ROM is flashed, when setting up the Facebook application you’ll be presented with the contact sync screen and you’re good to go. From what I’ve seen so far with the ROM, updates won’t show up within the people application but I could be wrong.
The MoDaCo ROMs are based on the official Ice Cream Sandwich builds but with under the hood tweaks. Even CyanogenMod looks heavily customized compared to these MoDaCo ROMs, so you don’t need to worry about getting accustom to new ways of interacting with the phone. We have our doubts that Google and Facebook will come to some sort of data sharing agreement anytime soon, so this seems to be the only way to go at the moment.
The only one catch is that it seems that the feature is currently only in MoDaCo’s kitchen. The kitchen is only available for paid users, which will allow you to choose what goes into the ROM you’re going to flash and leave certain applications you don’t want out. If you think you’ll be flashing a lot of ROMs on your Galaxy Nexus, the money is well spent.
Hopefully Google and Facebook will lighten up at some point so we can get the official Facebook contact sync back but this is good enough for us right now.
[Via: MoDaCo Forums, SlashGear]