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Bloo 1.5 W/ Facebook Chat

i just want to start off by saying that "Bloo" is one of the best app for facebook out there. the developer had decide to either let bloo die or make it open source.
please respect hes work and show support if you want "bloo" to survive.
visit hes website "fbandroid.wordpress.com" or on the market. and let him know how you feel.
By the way he has release a "Preview" of the new Bloo 1.5 With Facebook Chat. (REMEMBER IS NOT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE) everything seems to be working fine for me. but there should be some bugs.
****The only way to download this app is either by downloading "ASTRO" on the market. and download it straight from your SD Card****
**BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE NEW VERSION, PLEASE UN-INSTALL WHATEVER BLOO VERSION FROM YOUR PHONE FIRST**

thanx, been waiting forever for this!
Edit: Loving it already!

I like it but I hope there is a way to hide the notification icon for Chat in the 'official' release

support the dev though....
the developer of this app has realease a big statement on hes blog.
about either letting bloo die for good and leave it as it is ,
SO SHOW SUPPORT AND LET HIM KNOW THAT U ENJOY USING HES APP SO THE UPDATES CONTINUE. AND BLOO WONT DIE OR ELSE THERE WONT BE ANY GOOD APP FOR FACEBOOK. the official facebook app SUCKZZZZ, "bloo" is the best facebook app out there hands down for android, it gives the experience that IPHONE DOES.

aalopez10 said:
support the dev though....
the developer of this app has realease a big statement on hes blog.
about either letting bloo die for good and leave it as it is ,
SO SHOW SUPPORT AND LET HIM KNOW THAT U ENJOY USING HES APP SO THE UPDATES CONTINUE. AND BLOO WONT DIE OR ELSE THERE WONT BE ANY GOOD APP FOR FACEBOOK. the official facebook app SUCKZZZZ, "bloo" is the best facebook app out there hands down for android, it gives the experience that IPHONE DOES.
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Absolutely, I have posted on his blog before to tell him how good Bloo is. I really hope he does keep it going. Like you say, the official app is pretty poor.

3Shirts said:
Absolutely, I have posted on his blog before to tell him how good Bloo is. I really hope he does keep it going. Like you say, the official app is pretty poor.
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I have to, every time he announces a new release. I also paid for Bloo about a yr ago and have used it ever since.
I wouldn't mind him goin open source and see what other devs can do with Bloo.

Tried downloading this app directly to my phone and the download type isn't supported

Brajin said:
Tried downloading this app directly to my phone and the download type isn't supported
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Common issue with apk's. Typically means that the server is presenting the web client with an incompatible MIME type and Android is really picky about those.
Install Astro file manager and enable "Enable browser download" in its preferences and it will likely work. What's happening is that Astro tells the system that it can handle virtually any MIME type so the system will let you download it.

Not as clean and fast as the official app, but a good effort nonetheless. I can't figure out how to "like" something, any ideas?
Not for me so far, but I'll never say competition isn't good!

i love the bubble style chat on blow wish i can use the exact same one for sms and no i don't mean like handcent i like exactly how cartoonish bloo is.

Ok so I am confused about the chat feature... is it just enabling it in our browsers or is there something I am missing?

darx said:
Not as clean and fast as the official app, but a good effort nonetheless. I can't figure out how to "like" something, any ideas?
Not for me so far, but I'll never say competition isn't good!
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You long press the item you want to 'like'
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Ok so I am confused about the chat feature... is it just enabling it in our browsers or is there something I am missing?
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When you start up Bloo, you'll see it in your notification bar just go to it and it should start up the FB chat .. tested it out and BEAUTIFUL!!
BTW, aalopez10, where did you find this? I've been looking for it and couldn't find it lol

Thanks loving the update and deff will support Bloo

Sick thanks! It was only doing the chat enable/disable thing in the notification bar before but its working now.

xidominicanoix,
one of the developers have release a public beta but its not the official yet so you wont find it anywhere in the market or anywhere at the moment.
one of the developer have said that he would make a facebook fan club called "SAVE BLOO" and it will have the PREVIEW APK that i provide for people to try it out.
hes not sure if he wants to continue working on this app due to the time it takes him as he only does it on the side besides hes real job. so he wants to make hes final decision either to leave bloo die or keep working on it.
support hes blog. and join the fan club on facebook so we can keep bloo alive and received more features for bloo and facebook chat and show to the "OFFICIAL FACEBOOK APP" that they suckkkk on updating there official app.

Anyone having issues with Bloo 1.5 and Froyo? It seems like my chat doesnt go through sometimes or i have to log into chat twice... just seeing how everyone else was doing with this app...

remember that anyone who downloaded froyo manually, based on google is was a "Froyo Built test" It was not the final froyo 2.2. so that means theres some bugs. and the apps is nothing to do with the development of froyo because is not the final realease. when google realease the final froyo 2.2 and apps are updated to work for 2.2 everything should work flawless.
****all APPS have to be updated to work for FROYO so BLOO has nothing to do with it at the moment till its updated. but for now hold on and wait because "froyo" is still new OS and developers have to update there apps to work for "froyo 2.2".*** but for now enjoy

Anyone seeing issues with the chat not saving your permissions? Other than that, excellent app, loving it. Thx for throwing out the beta. Looking forward to a final release.

Great app...loving it!

I wrote an app to control my phone through google talk

Hey guys!
I developed TalkMyPhone, an open-source app that enables you to control your phone from google talk. It's like android-notifier on steroids, since it brings almost the same features and you don't need wifi/bluetooth enabled.
I can't post links since I'm new here. Google for talkmyphone or look for it on the market.
Developers: I'm open to contributions
Users: please use the issue tracker for suggesting features
I don't have many non-french users since the info did not spread very well outside of french blogs, so I'm posting it here. I hope someone will find it useful and write something about it.

chm.duquesne said:
Hey guys!
I developed TalkMyPhone, an open-source app that enables you to control your phone from google talk. It's like android-notifier on steroids, since it brings almost the same features and you don't need wifi/bluetooth enabled.
I can't post links since I'm new here. Google for talkmyphone or look for it on the market.
Developers: I'm open to contributions
Users: please use the issue tracker for suggesting features
I don't have many non-french users since the info did not spread very well outside of french blogs, so I'm posting it here. I hope someone will find it useful and write something about it.
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Do you need multiple GTalk accounts in order to talk to it, or can you "talk to yourself" ?

Niice Idea

sweeeet thx

Doesn´t work on my SGS. After trying to to login the app closed. And now i can´t open it again. Even every other app wont start.
Only a restart helped. Uninstalled.
But the idea is interessting. maybe i´ll give a try again later.

khaytsus said:
Do you need multiple GTalk accounts in order to talk to it, or can you "talk to yourself" ?
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The 2 solutions work. Talking to yourself is possible in gmail, but you cannot initiate the conversation, so in this case, best is to use a third party client like pidgin. Otherwise you can set up a second account. Any standard jabber account is possible.
Accounts delivered at jabber.org are *very* easy to get. You don't need to give your email address, you don't need to sign an agreement. You just have to fill a captcha to prove you're human.
Doesn´t work on my SGS. After trying to to login the app closed. And now i can´t open it again. Even every other app wont start.
Only a restart helped. Uninstalled.
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Weird. Some unlucky people experiment bugs like this one. I don't know where this comes from, and I try to improve the code. It works 100% of the time for me, so all I can do is look at 'adb logcat' traces users leave on the bugtracker. If you wish to do so, it might improve your chances to see this fixed

giving it a shot
you may try changing your preferences.xml to the attached (just because of english, just change .zip to .xml)
i have to find the other file, because i noticed some other grammatical things. no worries tho
and, 'additional settings', in the xml has too many 'n's, lol

timothydonohue said:
giving it a shot
you may try changing your preferences.xml to the attached (just because of english, just change .zip to .xml)
i have to find the other file, because i noticed some other grammatical things. no worries tho
and, 'additional settings', in the xml has too many 'n's, lol
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Thank you, I'll update that in the next release.

Pretty Neat
I was able to go on Google Talk on my PC and send messages to my phone. The copy:text feature I can definitely see myself using so that I don't have to type long URLs in the browser. The other functions seem like they would be nice if you lost your phone or if it was stolen. Overall a pretty neat app! Thanks!
Rob
HTC Incredible
Virtuous Rom 2.7

So I have the app running and logged in. (Phone is logged into [email protected])
On my PC I have [email protected]. I message from PC to phone (John to Paul) and nothing happens.
I tried "where" "ring" etc, but the app doesn't respond. What am I doing wrong?

What next...
When you start the app on the phone, make sure you input your google information and then start the app. If you have Google Talk up on your PC, it should pop up a window for you to type commands into (talk to/control your phone). It did for me anyway. Type a "?" to get a list of the commands...
Rob

khukman said:
When you start the app on the phone, make sure you input your google information and then start the app. If you have Google Talk up on your PC, it should pop up a window for you to type commands into (talk to/control your phone). It did for me anyway. Type a "?" to get a list of the commands...
Rob
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Hmm, I did all this. Let me see where the issue is:
My phone's Google account is set to [email protected].
I put in [email protected] and my password into TalkMyPhone.
I start up TalkMyPhone and it logs in -- successfully.
I go to my PC and log into gmail on [email protected].
I message from my PC ([email protected]) to my phone ([email protected]).
I get the message but nothing happens with TalkMyPhone.
Can you tell me where the issue is?

i entered in all of my information too and nothing seems to work, the app says loging in .. then that its successful. but then nothing can be done from there.

i cant even log in
i always get the message: "login failed" and then "stopping service"
i tried setting it on "use the phones account settings"
then i turned that off, and manually put in my gmail-settings - still didnt work

Same issues over here... Got it all connected, reciving messages from the phone works fine, too (welcome, battery, incomming callings) but sending commands doesn't work for me.
Got a HTC Magic/Sapphire with CM6 (2.2) running on it.

I had the same problem. I changed the GTalk Port to 5222 and entered my ****@googlemail.com instead of ****@gmail.com

Works perfect on my HD2 (Android ) Thank you!
When I log in on phone i get this gTalk message on my pc from my own account:
Welcome to TalkMyPhone. Send "?" for getting help
Battery level 78%
Works just perfect...

EggL said:
I had the same problem. I changed the GTalk Port to 5222 and entered my ****@googlemail.com instead of ****@gmail.com
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i changed @gmail.com to @googlemail.com
and it logs in now....
but i dont get any messages....
do i need to have the real gtalk installed on my computer?
doesnt applications like trillian for windows work?

I tried Pidgin and it works but I use the GMail-Chat because it's my info hub
Anyways, great work chm.duquesne, this is a really great application.
Now there just needs to be a way in GTalk to turn off the chat notification in Android for a single contact
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The "where" feature is really awesome, mate.
Nothing serious but the reply feature does not work for me. When I received a SMS and I type "reply:This is my reply" it answers "No match for "+491234567890" (the number being the correct number, of course).

RazorHail said:
do i need to have the real gtalk installed on my computer?
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I use gTalk and it works.
Is it possible to get some kind of ping button on the phone, that opens the conversation window on the pc? I cannot figure out how to open a conversation with myself in gTalk.

Better Facebook app?

Hi guys,just wondering whether anyone can help to create a better Facebook app?The official Facebook app is great but just some issues with it.I can't seem to view photos that doesn't come with a album and sometimes,the Birthday of some people aren't shown.Lastly,maybe a function to be able to view your mutual friends with a certain someone would be great! This Facebook 'part' I unfortunately feel that the iPhone Facebook app is actually better...So please,any app developer for a better Facebook app???

AsherChua said:
Hi guys,just wondering whether anyone can help to create a better Facebook app?The official Facebook app is great but just some issues with it.I can't seem to view photos that doesn't come with a album and sometimes,the Birthday of some people aren't shown.Lastly,maybe a function to be able to view your mutual friends with a certain someone would be great! This Facebook 'part' I unfortunately feel that the iPhone Facebook app is actually better...So please,any app developer for a better Facebook app???
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Bloo 1.5, not available on market, but you can probably find it at any of the popular file charing websites (mods: its a free app, so im not promoting warez)...or if youd like i can upload the .apk for you to download and try out
It has chat, notifications for EVERYTHING (including wall/status posts, photo comments, etc.), birthday alerts...pretty much everything

Great!Can you upload the .apk please?

Enjoy....let me know what you think....and dont forget to slam the "thanks" button, glad to help

I just tried this but I can't get facebook to give me the six digit code I need. I gives me an error to try again later. I guess I'll have to do that and see what happens.
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elvyrorie said:
I just tried this but I can't get facebook to give me the six digit code I need. I gives me an error to try again later. I guess I'll have to do that and see what happens.
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a lot of people have this issue. i pulled this from the developers blog (http://fbandroid.wordpress.com/), give it a shot, and report back
Update: Kate from the comments provided some instructions to get the 6 digit code! Thank you Kate!
1. In your browser, enter in http://m.facebook.com (this will bring up the mobile site)log-in to your facebook account.
2. In the “Search” box at the BOTTOM of the page type in “Bloo for Android” and click on “Search”.
3. Click on the application “Bloo for Android” (NOT the group).
4. Then click on the button that says “Allow”. This will link your Facebook account with Bloo.
5. Now, from your phone go to your Bloo application and click on “Get Code” and it should take you to the code page!
6. Enjoy!
*Note* I used the m.facebook.com site directly from my PC, I didn’t try it on my phone… so if it doesn’t work on your phone, try it on your home computer.
I hope this helps out a lot of people!

That wireless flawlessly. You saved me alot of time later on trying to figure that out. There is one option I see missing. The search option. I don't want to scroll through all my friends just to get to one of their pages.
Edit, I figured it out how to do it.
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elvyrorie said:
That wireless flawlessly. You saved me alot of time later on trying to figure that out. There is one option I see missing. The search option. I don't want to scroll through all my friends just to get to one of their pages.
Edit, I figured it out how to do it.
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well you can either use the side scroller, or long press your phones menu button to bring up your keyboard, and it searches as you type
or if your phone has a search button, just press that
One more thing: keep in mind this app isnt flawless, it may suck your battery a little bit....and also ive noticed that if you get multiple notifications in a shrot period of time, it might skip over some......other than those two things, its certainly good enough that ive been using it since its release

Does it let you edit and post comments?
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elvyrorie said:
Does it let you edit and post comments?
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no editing......yes it lets you post

Guys I need help.I can't seem to view photos of myself or other people.It says there's no album.And events are not shown too...

You cant easily click a photo on the facebook apps stream and have it point you to the photo, usually it dumps you to the profile instead...
Sort of on topic sort of off topic...
I don't think people should have to make better alternatives to the Facebook app.
I think facebook should get their bloody act together and give us a suitable app that:
Has all the features of the utterly fantastic Iphone one.
DOES NOT RAPE BATTERY.
If everyone rates it 1 star we will get an update. simple as that...
Personally I have uninstalled Facebook, wiped it from the system folder, I use SyncMyPix for contact photos and I use Tweetdeck to pull in my facebook updates. for anything else I need on facebook I use the touch site...because what the app carried on sending you to anyway...
Ive noticed ive gained 3hours per charge since uninstalling all traces of facebook. It is just poorly coded, poorly presented, crippled bloatware.

The new F-plus on the market is pretty good. Offers push notifications and news feed now. Doesnt have chat. Go facebook chat is pretty good though.

I definintely like f+ better, I think I'll keep it and use it.
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I want to publish my stupid app, but I cant!

I made the world's lamest app because my wife won't let me squish spiders... She wants me to take it outside. I called it Spider Squisher.
I signed up for a Google developer account about 1 month ago and now I am trying to upload my app. When go to https://market.android.com/publish and try to publish an app. I
1. select the app by clicking browse
2. click upload
3. receive the following dialog box pop-up
Unable to parse response. If you have a browser extension or add-on installedwhich changes the JSON response, please disable and refresh this page.
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Then
4. when I click back, I get a dialog popup that says
Unable to process the uploaded file. Please check if it exceeds the size limit.
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and it's only 13Kb!
5. I click back again after clicking OK on the dialog and I get to my developer console.
6. I click "edit profile" or "Setup Merchant Account" and it takes me back to the Android Developer Console (basically refreshes the page Https://market.anrdoid.com/publish/Home)
I have tried using the following
Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 computer 1:
Firefox
Firefox in safe mode (firefox -safe)
Google Chrome
Windows computer Windows 7 home 2:
Windows Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer in safe mode
Windows 7 Starter Computer 3
Another Windows internet explorer
Ubuntu 10.10 netbook Computer 4
Another firefox
My Phone- Samsung Captivate running Andromeda3 (Android 2.2)
My phone webkit
Windows XP Home Virtual machine 1
Windows Internet Explorer
Windows XP pro Virtual machine 2
Windows Internet Explorer
Nothing is working! I still get the errors above
I opened up a java console and see a whole bunch of errors relating to border-radius, align, cursor, zoom, user-select, and filter on the market.android.com/publish/gwt/*.css... about 20 warnings in all. Nothing I can point a finger at though.
What's going on? I'm flipping out here... I just want to publish this stupid apk file myself.
I have my receipt to the android market. It's linked to my google account. It's been over a month and I'm still receiving this message
Your Registration to the Android Market is still being processed.
You can upload applications to the Android Market but you cannot publish until your registration is completed.
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Attached is the "Spider Squisher" apk file. I would like to publish this myself.... Is there something wrong with my APK?

Yes this is a hello world app... Please tell me I didn't just download a virus.
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No, it is not a virus. I am frustrated with the google publishing process. It won't let me upload!

AdamOutler said:
No, it is not a virus. I am frustrated with the google publishing process. It won't let me upload!
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The market is pretty buggy at times, last weekend i tried for 3 days to update an app without success.
I had the exact same error you had, after sometime i just said f*** this and went to sleep. Sometime next day it worked.
Don't give up hope!

K... I've been trying for 2 days now.

Somewhere i also read that he had the same message, which was very misleading because he got it as he was not yet fully unlocked to use the market.
Seems you are not either? Maybe this could be it too.
They wire you some cents money, which you have to type into a field to complete registration, did you do that?

Dark3n said:
Somewhere i also read that he had the same message, which was very misleading because he got it as he was not yet fully unlocked to use the market.
Seems you are not either? Maybe this could be it too.
They wire you some cents money, which you have to type into a field to complete registration, did you do that?
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That is for a sales account. I did not set that portion up. I am not accepting money for this. However, I i tried, and It's doing the same thing as clicking on my account which I mentioned earlier. The market appears to be fully broken and inoperative here. I just don't understand. Who can we call about this?

No one.
You can probably fill out a form somewhere, thats the google way im afraid.
They don't support phonesupport.

I can't find the form... that's why im here on the forums. I could not find a form or email address.

Can anyone help me? Where do I contact google market?

Here is the form http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/request.py?contact_type=publishing
Litterally, within 1 minute of hitting submit, I received an email apologizing for the delay.
Now when I log into the developer console I see
Your Registration to the Android Market is approved!
You can now upload and publish software to the Android Market.
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And I can upload apps!

Interesting, must be their cunning plan to cut down on the amount of junk apps that just aim to get ad clicks.
(Not saying yours is - I like the sound of it lol)
Have you made a Boss Spider with your wifes face on it yet

Windows Phone 7.8 Rom 1.4 Working

I'm just making the theme,installed on mine,works fine,im not responsible for dead devices etc.
ROM version: WP7.8 CUSTOM ROM Beta
Language: simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English
Release date: September 19, 2012
Model: SAMSUNG Focus I917 v1.4
Driver version: 2424.11.11.2
System: 7.10.8835.35
Ultrashot fully unlocked
Nokia apps & driver
EGO File manager
Download link http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=60375&uk=1560742738 , mark the file,download with the arrow button on top , install & enjoy , hope for future development on this one

sweet!!
will give this a go asap
Download is going a bit slow so I will try and upload it onto a faster Mirror.
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Nevermind, there already is one, http://www.mediafire.com/?nf31ff33iwh68
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Installed and booted fine, seems to be working all good!
Now to dig through it and see whats working and whats not haha
Not found anything that does not work yet... but then again Im probably not testing things that other people ma use.
MMS is working for me no problems, I have installed many many games/app's and they are all working.
Comes with Nokia Camera Extras/contact share already installed.
I installed Nokia Drive no problems.
If anyone wants me to test something specific, let me know.
:EDIT3:
Ok, one thing thats anoying me slightly, is that I cant get it to sync with Facebook in Settings/accounts...
just errors when I enter the password.. hmmmmmm

facebook won't sync but facebook app works anyways

vandal4e said:
facebook won't sync but facebook app works anyways
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Yeah the app works, but I want all my facebook contacts/numbers etc to sync together haha
hmmm I wonder why it doesnt work

Everything seems to be fine however like the others said Facebook is not working

vandal4e said:
facebook won't sync but facebook app works anyways
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Has this issue been resolved? I'd love to test this ROM out and Focus 1.4 gets so few ROMs anyway.
Another important feature for me is the option of "Static IP". Can the OP confirm its availability?

shishirdbhat said:
Has this issue been resolved? I'd love to test this ROM out and Focus 1.4 gets so few ROMs anyway.
Another important feature for me is the option of "Static IP". Can the OP confirm its availability?
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The Static IP option in the Wi-Fi section is there matey.
Not sure on the FB issue though, I cant see any later versions of anything :s

facebook sync been resolved yet?

vandal4e said:
facebook won't sync but facebook app works anyways
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For the Facebook not syncing issue, can anybody try this out and confirm whether this method works?
"link your Facebook account with your windows live account from inside the people hub"
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905225&page=2

shishirdbhat said:
For the Facebook not syncing issue, can anybody try this out and confirm whether this method works?
"link your Facebook account with your windows live account from inside the people hub"
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905225&page=2
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Didnt seem to work for me, I get the same oops error.
I take it by this you mean go to people hub, then open bottom menu/Settings then click Add facebook?

Keefo said:
Didnt seem to work for me, I get the same oops error.
I take it by this you mean go to people hub, then open bottom menu/Settings then click Add facebook?
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I am not sure what it means, since I don't have the ROM installed. I am waiting for this sync issue to be sorted out; it's a deal-breaker for me.
Even I understood it the same as you, perhaps you're in a better position to understand the discussion in that thread (link). Check out the last post in that page.