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Friend Stream painfully slow?

Haven't seen much written about this, so thought I'd throw it out there - for those using Sense, is your Friend Stream painfully slow when it comes to loading comments, posting comments, loading people's pages, etc? I love it for the widget and how easy it is to see twitter/FB posts on the home screen, but as for actually using it interactively (pretty much anything beyond just reading posts), it takes FOREVER and drives me crazy.
I'm still running stock, so maybe it runs better on rooted Friend Stream? Idk, I'm just perplexed by why it's so slow since most everything else is blazing fast. Every time I try to comment on a post through Friend Stream it makes me want to just use the FB app or the mobile site. Anyone else?

I use LauncherPro Plus and the "Friends" Widget, which works great.
Occasionally, if there is any issue with it not refreshing (which is not very often, but does happen) I just "restart" launcher pro and then trash and replace the widget. Always fixes it.
Maybe if your using Sense just trash the widget, force stop Sense, re-add widget?

$pitacular1 said:
I use LauncherPro Plus and the "Friends" Widget, which works great.
Occasionally, if there is any issue with it not refreshing (which is not very often, but does happen) I just "restart" launcher pro and then trash and replace the widget. Always fixes it.
Maybe if your using Sense just trash the widget, force stop Sense, re-add widget?
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Thanks for the reply, but the problem isn't that the widget doesn't refresh, it's that when I click on a post and then it takes me to the friend stream app, the APP is really slow. Takes like a minute or two for things to process. The widget has been updating regularly.

I'm on rooted stock rom and I feel your pain. Friendstream is horribly slow when you want to do anything other than read posts in the widget. I always end up using the FB app. Sucks, but I like the FS widget.
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Onefast said:
I'm on rooted stock rom and I feel your pain. Friendstream is horribly slow when you want to do anything other than read posts in the widget. I always end up using the FB app. Sucks, but I like the FS widget.
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You just described exactly where I am with the whole thing. Love the widget, but have to use the FB app for interactive stuff. It's not a data thing b/c the dedicated FB app always refreshes and loads like *that* - but the friend stream app doing anything is...like...*thaaaaaaaattttt* (i.e. really slow). In a perfect world the widget and app would be one and the same, but oh well.

I'm having the same problem with mine friend stream app. The widget is fine but the app itself is dreadful!

Lol well at least it's nice to know that I'm not the only one. I guess that's why I started the thread, to make sure I didn't have a bad apple...well that and the hope that maybe someone would have a 'fix.' Oh well, I guess we just really have to treat is as ONLY a widget.

Does anyone have issues with Facebook no longer being an option to sync on the mytouch.
I have a black mytouch and I only have the option to sync Flickr and Twitter to my friendstream and I know for a fact that you could have Facebook because it worked on my white mytouch
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carmeng4evr said:
Does anyone have issues with Facebook no longer being an option to sync on the mytouch.
I have a black mytouch and I only have the option to sync Flickr and Twitter to my friendstream and I know for a fact that you could have Facebook because it worked on my white mytouch
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You should definitely be able to stream FB through Friendstream. I only use it for FB and Twitter. Not sure why it wouldn't recognize it.

Yeah I factory reset and everything and still no go.
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(Update camera!)Details about the gingerbread leak 5/16 (now with video)

Update: imoseyon has released a new kernel that fixes the camera issue you can find it on jcases gingerjane thread under camera fix.
I see in the three gingerbread threads questions about changes so I thought Id do a quick write up so this info is easy to find.
Notification Pulldown: Now has a Quick settings Tab which gives you toggles for : wifi,wifi hotspot,mobile network, bluetooth, and gps. and a shortcut to all settings. HTC loves to be redundant
People App:On the bottom Slider there is a webcam icon , when selected it shows Video call at the top and the window says No recipient available for video call?
Dock Mode: Visually stunning LOL... This has a small flip clock and rotates different wallpapers. displays the weather and rotates through your friendstream updates. also has gallery music and calendar at the bottom and a button to adjust the brightness.
Friendstream widget now displays a thumbnail of uploaded photos instead of just a photo icon.
App drawer: one downer for me is you cant fling to the bottom of the app drawer it goes page by page. The drawer now has a slider on the bottom that has ALL, Frequent, and Downloaded
While in a call there is a pulldown to show something from friendstream also not sure what content it was trying to show it was a brief conversation.
Thats all Ive noticed so far .. Have you found anything else?
Also I have downloaded from the evo forum the sense 3.0 lockscreen . it will show the music widget, and alarm widget. and displays a huge mms icon when you receive a message.
VIDEO PREVIEW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDeOQmJjII&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Where can I download the Sense 3.0 lockscreen?
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I hope this all gets worked into our custom roms.
I'm sure it will.
Can't wait.

Breezer23 said:
Where can I download the Sense 3.0 lockscreen?
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Goto the theme section and into the Sense 3.0 thread.

Lots of ppl reporting very low speed tests...i clocked in at 2.5mbps tops...tho dls seem to be much faster than 2.5

There's a new trends widget too.
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aostl said:
There's a new trends widget too.
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Nice, thanks
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bowtieduece said:
Dock Mode: Visually stunning LOL... This has a small flip clock and rotates different wallpapers. displays the weather and rotates through your friendstream updates. also has gallery music and calendar at the bottom and a button to adjust the brightness.
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This sounds interesting, can you explain it further? Is this when your phone is plugged in and charging? Or is it something else... Is there a video out there showing this feature (couldn't find one)?

I want gingerbread so bad, but that broken camera is the dealbreaker.

ipawd1 said:
I want gingerbread so bad, but that broken camera is the dealbreaker.
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The camera doesn't seem broken to badly. With included kernel preview works but doesn't save and with the test kernel it saves but preview is broken lol
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Is the main menu (when you hit menu on the soft keys) inverted, where it's a black background with white/gray letters, like CM7, or is that only an AOSP thing? Just curious, thanks.

I could deal with a wonky camera but gimped 4G is a dealbreaker for me
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Just to be clear... these changes are all Sense 2.1, not gingerbread per se. (Not sure about the dock mode though).

The battery usage screen is new also, it shows graphs for each processes being used.

mdeblaz said:
This sounds interesting, can you explain it further? Is this when your phone is plugged in and charging? Or is it something else... Is there a video out there showing this feature (couldn't find one)?
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There is an actual app in the app drawer called Dock Mode, when you click it, it will launch it. The other cool thing I noticed about the dock mode is that you can edit what photos are showed as the walpaper (it is a slideshow) it will allow you to select one photo, a group of photos, a whole folder, or all photos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDeOQmJjII&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Just made a quick video of some off the new features. It's made with shootme so quality isn't top notch. 4g speed isn't that bad for me..around 6mps. I can deal with that it still streams hd content without buffering.
As you can see my battery is running around what I've been used to.

ipawd1 said:
I want gingerbread so bad, but that broken camera is the dealbreaker.
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Camera does work but previews don't work with Imoseyeons GB kernel in his kernel threads.

Adrenalyn , butch and team released bamf 1.7 alpha. it includes the 3.0 lockscreen and mms. Gotta say all this 3.0 stuff looks polished. can't wait for more goodies!
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bowtieduece said:
Adrenalyn , butch and team released bamf 1.7 alpha. it includes the 3.0 lockscreen and mms. Gotta say all this 3.0 stuff looks polished. can't wait for more goodies!
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Gotta check that one out, thanks.
Oh, and the GB port looks good so far.

where did you see BAMF 1.7 alpha
edited: found it in the 1.6.3 thread

Firefox 10

Pretty sure this hasn't been posted yet, but Firefox 10 has just been released for Android, and it is in my mind close to the perfect browser.
I've been dying for an Android browser that is GPU accelerated like Opera and Dolphin, but has scrolling constraints in the vertical plane. Meaning if I zoom in and flick to scroll down, then it doesn't scroll minutely left or right. Firefox 10 does this perfectly. It's also very fast now and on par with Opera/Dolphin.
Also, unlike Opera, it doesn't spaz out when you change the LCD density to 240 and change the interface to tablet mode that makes it impossible to use the menus.
Only small things, but they were driving me crazy on Opera Mobile and I'm now happy there's a solution.
If you haven't already, I'd suggest giving it a lash.

Also, now it starts instantly, has support for add-ons and it synchronizes nicely (bookmarks, history and some settings) with the desktop version. And the logo is a classic.

It's "good" enough i guess, but still no flash. It's a no go for me.

LordManhattan said:
It's "good" enough i guess, but still no flash. It's a no go for me.
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True, I forgot to mention no flash. I don't use flash at all so it was not a consideration but many others probably do, so thanks for the reminder. Youtube videos still play embedded properly though for anyone wondering.

its definitely doing great even for the mac too

Here's Firefox 11 alpha 2 Aurora WITH flash support and much more.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22082430
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Cheers LM, I'll check it out.

Is there a way to set the user agent so that one can decide to brows as desktop and not as mobile, like in dolphin one can do?
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Go into Settings, Addon tab, then search and install "Phony" addon. After the browser reboot. In the main Settings menu should have option to change user agents.

Don't forget you can also run the bleeding edge nightlies alongside the other versions.
Its totally different to v10

what about removing status bar?
Just found it - type in "full screen" in the add-ons search..... doh!

i use Firefox 11 alpha 2 Aurora and it nice i think

I like the Chrome Beta better
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LordManhattan said:
Here's Firefox 11 alpha 2 Aurora WITH flash support and much more.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22082430
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Why don't they provide this on the market? The firefighters I have had a completely different UI and performance
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Because it's an alpha and it would get 1 star by noobs.
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Caillin said:
True, I forgot to mention no flash. I don't use flash at all so it was not a consideration but many others probably do, so thanks for the reminder. Youtube videos still play embedded properly though for anyone wondering.
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Flash will soon be terminated and support allready stopped (no updates anymore), html5 is the future

interface is nice and useable on 3g and wifi. but if ur on a slow connection and want pages loading with lower data usage, opera is still the one. (gprs/edge)

[APP] Facebook 1.9 update

just a new update for FACEBOOK 1.9
soooo smooth. go grab ur update!

Just got 2 new shortcuts, a bit of UI changes and the speed got improved a bit.

I'm not to big for the extra icons added but luckily I'm using another app for camera that isn't labeled camera like the one included with the update. Noticed the speed boost too
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But.... Could we un'installazione the old messenger?
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ubas90 said:
But.... Could we un'installazione the old messenger?
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Yes you can.

keynith said:
I'm not to big for the extra icons added but luckily I'm using another app for camera that isn't labeled camera like the one included with the update. Noticed the speed boost too
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Just hide it.
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ICS contact photos sync?
Now when linking FB to contacts, I now get contacts photos syncing correctly on the Galaxy S2 running stock Samsung ICS 4.03. Before the 1.9 update it wouldn't display a picture (though it did work on Gingerbread). That was the only thing bugging me since upgrading to ICS. I've heard that on the stock Galaxy S2 roms Samsung had removed the ability to sync to FB, just like on the Galaxy Nexus. So i'm not sure whether its due to FB finally using the new API's or whether it just works on Samsung ICS firmware. Anyone know?
Liking the speed boost and the new notification settings.

And the $1million dollar question for today is, naturally:
How to get rid of those extra shortcuts, cam&msgr???

To hide the new icons, use a launcher that will let you hide them. LauncherPro has this feature, as does 360 Launcher. Not sure who else.
Now where's my $1 million? Haha.
Facebook 1.9 is okay... there are some UI tweaks around the app, nothing major though. Commenting on an image seemed a little more straightforward, and the comment box looked different.
If you want an ICS-themed Facebook app, look up Fast Facebook. It was just featured on Lifehacker yesterday, but I got it a week or two ago here on XDA. Should be able to find it in this very (sub)forum. I don't care for the UI but it is faster.

Heh, AWD Launcher here.... any other tweak??
TI backup cant see them.

Oh this really annoyed the hell out of me.if I wanted to install Facebook messenger I would have I I wanted to use a camera that links directly to facw book and crashes every time I open it I'd install a separate app.
Facebook needs to split the apps out and let us install the ones we want.
I'm hopefully not the only one but I've just uninstalled the app and bookmarked their mobile site in my browser and installed someone else app.
I'll have to use something else to sync photos

mez, you can use haxsync to sync photos if you are in ICS.
BTW does this version sync your facebook contacts (with their pictures) correctly in ICS?

Thanks. Haxsync has been mentioned before. I think it'll be one of the first few apps that I buy. I don't want to put my credit card on Google checkout just like I haven't on Xbox or iTunes or my wii yet I can still buy paid content of all of them
Android needs gift cards.
I'm using tweetdeck for fb and contact photos seems to sync with my contacts from Gmail anyway. They don't update but its a start.
I can live without the fb app for now.
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Nice update, but friendcaster is still a lot faster ;-)
... And is holo themed

cyberlion17 said:
BTW does this version sync your facebook contacts (with their pictures) correctly in ICS?
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Anyone able to answer that?
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not different

_kolle_ said:
Nice update, but friendcaster is still a lot faster ;-)
... And is holo themed
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I recommend friendcaster also! Bet facebook app out
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No other lockscreens?

Are there really no other options for lockscreens other than the stock one? Wheres 4-tab? Hopefully someone makes a good rom with all the lockscreens.

If you just mean the photo displayed, use the gallery, hit the settings button and choose use as lock screen.
Also fyi the gallery does a poor job with the wallpaper, it doesn't crop it the way it should.
If you use the image viewer in esfile explorer however, it will work fine.
I read your post again....and no, there's not. I tried an app or two from the market, but didn't like any of them.
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Try out GO Locker. It seems to work pretty well.

I use widgetlocker and it looks amazing.

allprogrammed said:
Try out GO Locker. It seems to work pretty well.
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GO Locker means you have to use GO launcher, though.

Yeah I dont like any of the GO products

Use MIUILocker from Play Store.
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Didn't like miui unlocker