Google Contacts Sync crash on KitKat [$5]

[ale5000-git]

Google Contacts Sync (GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk) crash when syncing.

The analysis here (died link removed) show that it doesn't request android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS but it request com.google.android.googleapps.permission.GOOGLE_AUTH and com.google.android.googleapps.permission.GOOGLE_AUTH.cp

Possibly related to #144.

[ale5000-git]

@mar-v-in: I have retried with recent versions of GmsCore and apparently it doesn't crash but still fail.
Possibly the HTTP status code 301 Moved Permanently isn't handled correctly.

Here the log from 2 versions of GmsCore:
GmsCore 0.2.4-30 sync error.txt
GmsCore 0.2.4-39 sync error.txt

[mar-v-in]

@ale5000-git can you point me to the exact version of ContactsSyncAdapter you use? It should not try to reach to google servers via http (which is the reason for the redirect) because that will leak the access token when in public wi-fi. Better disable that ContactsSyncAdapter for now for security reasons!

[mirh]

Sorry, how is this different from #222?

[ale5000-git]

@mar-v-in: I have extracted ContactsSyncAdapter from here and installed manually in the system partition.

@mirh: I'm asking to get the official contact sync apk working with microG instead #222 ask to reimplement the contact sync completely.

[Lanchon]

my contact sync doesn't crash and i sure hope it is using SSL. why the hell would you use a contact sync from 2011?? go get the most up-to-date pico gapps for your platform and extract the file(s) you want from there.

also, try to install gapps as regular apps. contact and calendar sync both work without having system permissions. see #222.

[ale5000-git]

@Lanchon: This problem is specific to KitKat.
Also I want to find a contact sync apk that works on all Android versions.

[Lanchon]

in the unlikely event that you find it, it will probably stop working across all android soon enough. or it will not work well. or it will be exploitable.