[Q] How Do We Get Facebook Push Notifications Working Properly? - HTC Sensation

Hi All,
First, I wanna say that you guys are so freakin awesome! I've been an xda lurker for a while, but figured it's time for me to join and interact with my fellow HTC Sensation-ers.
It'd be a good chance for me to contribute to these forums, as well as getting some help for my Sensation problems. Glad to be a part of you guys now
Question: Why doesn't Facebook for Android push notifications work on my Sensation 4G?
Background Info: Private Messages in Facebook get pushed, but regular notifications (e.g. wall posts, comments, likes) do not get pushed to my device.
Went into facebook settings, and everything it's at its default values (never touched a thing). Notifications are on.
Other information pertaining to situation: Background data is ON. Always-On mobile data has been tried on and off. Same results both ways.
Can you help a brotha out?
Thanks, guys! I look forward to being a part of your community.

I read that if you sign in on a blackberry it fixes that for android due to a permission that Facebook for bb gives. I don't know if its true but worth a try I guess
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fr0zenblood75 said:
I read that if you sign in on a blackberry it fixes that for android due to a permission that Facebook for bb gives. I don't know if its true but worth a try I guess
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Hi fr0zenblood75,
Thanks for the response.
I also have read that before. I actually went far enough to borrow my friends Bold 9780 without him knowing
Alas, it did not work
Does every Sensation user have this issue? Or am I in the minority with this?
Also, I've restarted my phone, factory reset, uninstall and reinstall app....nothing works.

Facebook kinda sucks. You try another app like friendcaster?

LPChris47 said:
Hi fr0zenblood75,
Thanks for the response.
I also have read that before. I actually went far enough to borrow my friends Bold 9780 without him knowing
Alas, it did not work
Does every Sensation user have this issue? Or am I in the minority with this?
Also, I've restarted my phone, factory reset, uninstall and reinstall app....nothing works.
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Your welcome. Ohh that sucks well I sometimes get notifications and sometimes I don't its random they should fix .
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newter55 said:
Facebook kinda sucks. You try another app like friendcaster?
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Thanks for your suggestion, newter55!
I'm not familiar with friendcaster. Is it a facebook for android alternative and does it do push notifications? Thanks.
fr0zenblood75 said:
Your welcome. Ohh that sucks well I sometimes get notifications and sometimes I don't its random they should fix .
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So at least it's not just me
Anyways, I appreciate the help fr0zenblood75! Nice to meet you

Yes its an alternative that works much better. Afaik, the only thing it doesn't do is chat.
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I noticed push notifications randomly work, Right now they seem to be working great for me..... i used to have a blackberry also....

newter55 said:
Yes its an alternative that works much better. Afaik, the only thing it doesn't do is chat.
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Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks again, newter55
supercobaltss said:
I noticed push notifications randomly work, Right now they seem to be working great for me..... i used to have a blackberry also....
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It sucks that the Facebook app is garbage
I guess the developer has no incentive to get the app working properly for everybody, seeing that it's not ad-supported.

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[game] words with friends

Out now in the market, but has major issues right off the bat, notably no sound or notification settings. Sort of ridiculous to launch without those!
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[EDIT] - Here's the link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zynga.words
Hopefully they'll work out the kinks soon!
I don't see it in the market (searching the web version anyway)
Do you have a link?
kalipedia said:
Out now in the market, but has major issues right off the bat, notably no sound or notification settings. Sort of ridiculous to launch without those!
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Where is it, Could you supply a market link please?
Yeah it needs some work I think. I set up a new task under tasker to lower the media volume to 1 when I'm in the game and then restore it back to 4 when I exit.
To find it search under words with friends zynga
Notifications do work though.
Here this the market link for anyone that needs it
Words With Friends
Opps wrong link! Sorry! Should be the right one know!
I'm sure there will be updates soon. If someone wants to get a game going just add me. Diplomat2387
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AndyCr15 said:
Notifications do work though.
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They are not for me - did you turn that on somewhere? I do not even see a configuration screen...
...update: did finally get notified but it wasnt my turn...? Buggy
kalipedia said:
Out now in the market, but has major issues right off the bat, notably no sound or notification settings. Sort of ridiculous to launch without those!
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[EDIT] - Here's the link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zynga.words
Hopefully they'll work out the kinks soon!
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Mine has sound and notifications... Try turning up your volume while in the main menu.
I get notification bar updates pretty consistently. On CM7 nightlies on my G2.
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anyone else having an issue where it isn't seeing all of your contacts? it is bringing them all up except like 4-5, and of course those are the people I want to play against.
I HATE the full screen pop up ads.
I hope they release a pay version soon.
Also...I'm getting a lot of fc's and it lags and delays when its changing turns.
Yes...buggy like crazy. I expected much more from Zynga. Especially since they have great work on the i-devices.
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stevo11 said:
anyone else having an issue where it isn't seeing all of your contacts? it is bringing them all up except like 4-5, and of course those are the people I want to play against.
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I'm guessing that it only does your e-mail contacts, because the same thing happened to me and it seemed to coincide with people that I've e-mailed instead of people that I have on my phone.
Vinsane said:
I HATE the full screen pop up ads.
I hope they release a pay version soon.
Also...I'm getting a lot of fc's and it lags and delays when its changing turns.
Yes...buggy like crazy. I expected much more from Zynga. Especially since they have great work on the i-devices.
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Agreed - need a non-buggy. Ad-free paid version pronto. I still can't believe there are no options for sound.
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Works perfectly on my Captivate!
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So can I add people and keep them saved? I dont see that option. I would hate to remember everyone's screen name!
Ok, spoke too soon... no notification sound. Only flaw I have run in to...
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That's what I thought at first too but it sees some facebook only friends as well as some contacts that only have a phone number...pretty strange. The ones it doesn't see are actually some of my must frequent contacts too
professoroak said:
I'm guessing that it only does your e-mail contacts, because the same thing happened to me and it seemed to coincide with people that I've e-mailed instead of people that I have on my phone.
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is there a reason it isn't showing up for the wildfire... is there somehwere i can download the apk file
Wordfeud is probably still better. Lets hope they get developing it...

Mms pictures

Why do all my mms pictures that people send me have a big play button over it? Is there a way to remove this? I've been in a jailbroken iPhone for a long time and this is my first android any help would be greatly appreciated
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click on the picture should enlarge it.
Come on man I realize that. I was just hoping there was a way to remove the play button from a picture. I could understand it being there on a video but not a pic.
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oh well sorry mr.new android user. just trying to help gosh...
but no you cant remove it.
yeah I always wondered about that.. really annoying, try using "go sms"
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LOL I didn't me to sound like a jerk. But that sucks you can't get rid of that. I will try the above approach.
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soraxd said:
yeah I always wondered about that.. really annoying, try using "go sms"
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Hey thanks for the tip go SMS seems to be a nice upgrade to the stock App. And no more play sign!!!!!
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LOL its cool. it really doesnt bug me. well no it doesnt lol i mean i still have to click it to make enlarge.
This problem plagues tons of android 2.2.x devices...captivate and atrix included. They located the problem and patched it in CM7 for SGS. When we get it ported, the problem will go away.
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Does anyone have problems receiving MMS pictures from iPhone users?? I tend to get a long message saying "one or more of the message components have been deleted by MMS Adaptation. Either the message was too large or the components were unsuitable for your terminal."
I used to get a similar message on the Atrix. Why the hell does this happen??
Not an Android issue, it's AT&T wanting to give you a "multimedia experience" which annoys the hell out of me. Once the ROMs come out, it'll be gone. It was the same with the HTC Aria, Samsung Captivate, and HTC Inspire 4G... With my last phone, Inspire 4G, any rom applied broke the play-button thing, so photos just showed up like on normal phones.
Why must AT&T try to get their hands all over everything? It's so annoying.
First thing I did when I got my phone was delete the stock samsung mms app and replace it with the stock aosp mms app
I use SUFBS but root explorer does the same....
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Google Talk Video Chat - HTC Sensation

Does anyone know if this works and I am just not seeing the video icons in my friends list, or if this is prohibited with the Gtalk pre-installed on the sensation.
IF the latter is there an open APK that will allow this from another forum perhaps?
RW
Official app only works in 2.3.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103988
Got it Thanks!
Would be nice to get that update soon;-)
Swyped from HTC Pyramid, using XDA Premium App.
Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
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qdochemistry said:
Hi, jz thought that I ask .. is there another video call app that you guys use other than QIK .. also tried Yahoo but they both equally suck
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
FRING
Try using fring, it has 4 way video conference!!
Fire Mars said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skymobius.vtok
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only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
On my galaxy tab I am running the Overcome 2.0.1 ROM which is a Gingerbread 2.3.3. The version of Google talk pre-installed with it does video chat. Perhaps there it a way to extract the APK from the galaxy Tab and use it with our 2.3.3 phones?
I could be completely wrong on this, but...
I believe that the Talk app is installed into the system folder and therefore we'd have to push the replacement file into the system folder, which we can't do right now?
xnifex said:
only bad thing about VTOK is when I had it installed it never shut off & drained by battery quickly. Even with the screen off, it was always using the CPU & keeping wifi on. Signing out of your google account didn't shut it down either
I've emailed the developer but still haven't heard back after a week.
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Thanks, i uninstalled it right away when i checked my running services
tango works for the sensation https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sgiggle.production&feature=search_result
and you cannot change the gtalk app without root
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
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side357 said:
Is there any current app that let's you have video call from computer to the Sensation? My wife has Skype on her laptop but for android doesn't show and available.
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+1
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Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
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side357 said:
Sorry don't understand if +1 is an app or just stating there is one.
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Basically upping your question.
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Hi guys,
What version of Talk actually works on the Sensation then? I have insertcoin 3.3.9 which gives me android 2.3.5 with 3.5 sense but i cannot for the life of me work out how to get the video icons on my contacts. I have tried everything and still nothing as even tapping on my avatar does not give me an option to enable / disable video.
Anyone know what i need to do?
So far it's been working for me with most of the versions of InsertCoin. Just make sure that the contacts on the side has enabled their option to receive video calls.
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Hi,
Do you know what i need to do if i want to use the back camera during video chat? There is no rotate funciton in gtalk like there is in Honeycomb

New market .APK (Ver. 3.1.3)

Here is the .apk for the new market that was updated. Adds a feature to +1 an app and also adds PIN protection for purchasing apps.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/08/23...for-purchases/
Thanks, good find. +1
Thanks
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I put the app on my xoom looks pretty sweet but some problems with it
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Good find.
Can be installed on S-ON devices too, I have a new phone still locked and is working fine.
Install, reboot and all is oki
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I did a video review on my youtube channel if anyone is curious as to what the differences are and what it looks like..Hope you guys like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MVS0GMGhc
does it still suffer from the slowness of the previous new market?
ijob said:
does it still suffer from the slowness of the previous new market?
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Watch my video and be the judge. That's why i made it. But to answer you id say no its fixed.
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The slowness and lagginess of the new Market reminds me of Ovi Store on my old Nokia N96. Google can do much better than this! Probably a "contract out" job. No other Google app is anywhere near this bad.
Found a way to bypass the PIN system.
Settings > Applications > Manage Applications >Market > Clear Data
If you had set up a pin, clear the data then it won't be set up anymore...
Really poor implementation.
ijob said:
does it still suffer from the slowness of the previous new market?
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Seems Better ..
nicky041192 said:
Found a way to bypass the PIN system.
Settings > Applications > Manage Applications >Market > Clear Data
If you had set up a pin, clear the data then it won't be set up anymore...
Really poor implementation.
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Did you try purchasing an app after clearing data? I'm just thinking that although the cleared settings may not show there is a PIN set up anymore, it might be stored server-side?
Otherwise, yes, that is appalling!
with this thing is basically impossible to update anything ... Google Maps, Locations, AURA for Android, Sound Houd etc etc ... a message pops up telling me an update is available, when i tap it it shows the application page on market i tap update a loading circle appears and iam waiting and waiting and waiting ... 5min, 20min, 30mins .. then exiting market app with no update.
shammanCZ said:
with this thing is basically impossible to update anything ... Google Maps, Locations, AURA for Android, Sound Houd etc etc ... a message pops up telling me an update is available, when i tap it it shows the application page on market i tap update a loading circle appears and iam waiting and waiting and waiting ... 5min, 20min, 30mins .. then exiting market app with no update.
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U actually waited 30 minutes? LOL
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Freshly_Snipes said:
U actually waited 30 minutes? LOL
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indeed i did, i didnt had any calls or stuff to do at that time so kept it on my office desk, after i came from lunch the loading bar was still there ... i was on 40Mbit WI-FI btw
doesn't mean anything... lots of time 'at work' certain things are blocked from us ADMINS! and certain ports/ ip ranges etc. are the first to go.
try it at home or walking around. The one I posted I have had NO issues with at all in the other thread
Hey guys. I'm sorry if this is off topic. On my sensation I have changed the screen density and now the new market is missing movies. Is there a fix for that?
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deanesn said:
Hey guys. I'm sorry if this is off topic. On my sensation I have changed the screen density and now the new market is missing movies. Is there a fix for that?
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Thread jacking??
But nope. Make a new thread and see if u can getcha some help bud.
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skygear said:
doesn't mean anything... lots of time 'at work' certain things are blocked from us ADMINS! and certain ports/ ip ranges etc. are the first to go.
try it at home or walking around. The one I posted I have had NO issues with at all in the other thread
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IAM admin ... and no it doesnt work even @ home, neither it works on my boss's pyramid using Vodafone's HSDPA
Had to manually unistall all those apps and redownload the new versions, thats only way how to update apps, at least for me
shammanCZ said:
IAM admin ... and no it doesnt work even @ home, neither it works on my boss's pyramid using Vodafone's HSDPA
Had to manually unistall all those apps and redownload the new versions, thats only way how to update apps, at least for me
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WOW! mine from the thread i posted works flawlessly. did you try it?

Messages aren't coming in

Hey guys! Haven't visited this place in a while but good to see it's not dead!
Well to get to the point, I've been having a huge problem with receiving text messages. It seems I only receive half of all messages that come in. The only clue I have is that when a message does come in, my phone is awake and I'm on it. Any help would be great, thanks!
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Arrow44 said:
Hey guys! Haven't visited this place in a while but good to see it's not dead!
Well to get to the point, I've been having a huge problem with receiving text messages. It seems I only receive half of all messages that come in. The only clue I have is that when a message does come in, my phone is awake and I'm on it. Any help would be great, thanks!
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hey man, nice to see you back! now, critical information:
1) ROM
2) Bootloader Details
pandasa123 said:
hey man, nice to see you back! now, critical information:
1) ROM
2) Bootloader Details
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Thanks for responding panda!
I'm running ViperXL 4.2.0 and running hboot 2.18 with stock radio.
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Hmm how long ago did you RUU? I had this issue on kickdroid and Beanstalk a few months ago and a fresh RUU solved it for me
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I've had a similar issue and I think I traced it to MightyText (which seemed ot be occasionally intercepting my texts but then losing htem somehow, most notably on MMS messages). So IF you have / use that app / service you might want to just try out disabling it and see if it helps.
pandasa123 said:
Hmm how long ago did you RUU? I had this issue on kickdroid and Beanstalk a few months ago and a fresh RUU solved it for me
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I will probably end up doing this but right now dont have the time, Im going to try switching to cm11 though.
thebobmannh said:
I've had a similar issue and I think I traced it to MightyText (which seemed ot be occasionally intercepting my texts but then losing htem somehow, most notably on MMS messages). So IF you have / use that app / service you might want to just try out disabling it and see if it helps.
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Thanks matebut unfortunately i dont have any 3rd party messengers :/

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