Galaxy Nexus ICS ROM restores Facebook contacts sync

Facebook and Google may have fallen out over contacts sync, Google stripping support for adding Facebook friends into the Android address book back in the Nexus S days, but that has not stopped modders from adding it back into Ice Cream Sandwich. A newly released MoDaCo ROM includes contacts sync support once more, along with some relatively low resolution contact photos that show up for each user.

By default, although the Facebook app is available for use on Ice Cream Sandwich handsets, it does not support integration of Facebook friends with the new People app in Android 4.0. Officially, that is down to Facebook not falling in with Google data policy, with the fact that the previous behavior created a false sense of data portability as contacts were updated with information but those details could not then be exported off the handset.