THe HTC desire being my first HTC phone I had never used the sense UI or any of its features previously, so had only had experience with the official facebook for android app from the Market.
Ive just set up facebook for htc sense with the friend stream etc and I'm rather impressed by it. Just wondered what your thoughts are on both these apps? here are mine.
Facebook for Android:
Pros
Has the chat function
Official app from facebook so gets updated (eventually) with new features, although still way behind the iphone app apparently.
Cons
Doesnt allow tagging of photos
Doesnt allow you to remove/delete a post/comment or that you have made or un-like something.
Facebook for HTC Sense
Pros
Allows tagging of photos
Allows multiple upload of photos to albums etc..
Integrates extreemely well with the rest of HTC sense UI, and the phone features such as the people app, gallery etc..
Cons
(most of these are things that I am not 100% sure on, so they are more like a question than a statement)
Not sure if the app gets updated when new features come out on facebook, or being as the app is shipped with the phone is it pretty much that what you get now is what it will always be, and no changes, or do HTC release updates for the sense features?
I dont think the check in feature is available with this?
I also dont think this app allowed you to delete a comment/post, althought I havent tried it yet, if it is possible, how is it done? Same with un-like...
What are you guys thoughts on both of these apps? Which do you prefer out of the 2?
I've been facing this same issue for past 24 hours. I needed batch upload for photos. I assumed, oficial fb app should be able to do that. Well, horse hockey. It's not even able to move photos from album to album or delete album. Before I discovered that Fb for sense is able to do that, I uploaded it via email. All in all, fb app from fb lackes many features, some even included in web version for phones (touch).
well you can always choose between the two, you dint have to just use one
persinally i think sense is amazing! (wish i had it on my sgs2)
the android fb is mediocore, so i use it mainly fir chat.
so i use the facebook mobile site mainly! it has the most info on news feed etc.
I personally still use the m.facebook.com website for facebook interaction on the phone. I found the facebook application a little too limited and clunky.
Although didn't know that it could enable FB chat, until I read the posts above...so thanks.
This way I don't get constant Facebook notifications, but get the ones that I have choosen to get through my FB settings as alerts through new emails. I use both Yahoo and Google mail applications.
I have still enabled Facebook for Sense, so that I still get the status updates, birthdays etc which then add value to my users from Google contacts...
take a look at FriendCaster
Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
ximocko said:
Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
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If you log on the the Facebook app (get it from market if you don't have it) it will ask you if you want to authorise it for HTC Sense and then it works as Facebook for HTC Sense did on 3.0
Exactly. You will have the same functions of the Facebook for HTC Sense just using the normal facebook app.
When you add the account it will ask you to authorize HTC Sense on you're facebook account and voilà, you're done. Same results with only 1 account setted up instead of two. A big big improvement, more efficient, more elegant and more battery friendly (1 sync instead of two )
But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
One more issue i'm facing is that I don't get the status update of the person on my screen as was with the FB for HTC sense app.
ANyone else facing the same issue as me?
itandy said:
But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
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I have exactly the same issue with GOSMS - it appears to be using an old Facebook picture - does anyone know where Facebook for HTC Sense stored the pictures?
I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
bigmoew said:
I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
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Just tried that in recovery and makes no difference.
But I installed Line yesterday and found its contact list has photo shown correctly. So it maybe up to Whatsapp now to fix it.
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
Laynee1 said:
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
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today I did a little bit more test. I removed facebook sync account completely. to my surprise, whatapps is able to show contact photo again. these photos are from my gmail contacts, not from facebook.
I then add facebook account again and whatapps contact photo disappears.
so now its quite conclusive that whatapps is having problem with Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5.
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
Laynee1 said:
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
itandy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
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It might actually be related to the photo itself. I have a friend who has a different photo in Gmail and Facebook. And these accounts are linked. If I change the default photo in People to Gmail photo, Whatsapp is able to show it. If I change it to Facebook photo, Whatsapp cannot.
So the problem is not the linkage but rather some attribute of the photo. And I'd say the resolution of the photo might be the culprit here since Facebook uses higher resolution while that of Gmail is very low. Perhaps Whatsapp is unable to handle that kind of resolution.
Of course, that's my theory only. Can others in this thread try to do something to see if I'm right or wrong?
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
bteljuice said:
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
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The latest Whatsapp version seems to have fixed this problem. Now contact pictures are shown properly.
2.7.431?
im still having the same problem
Problem still persists for me, though I used a workaround which is SyncMyPix app from Market. Pics are fixed, but that's just a workaround.
I'm having the exact same problem.
Same here
Hi. Been using ChompSMS since i got the phone but since upgrading to 3.5 sense roms, contact pics no longer appear in the SMS list inside Chomp. It has to have something to do with the removal of Facebook for Sense. Any ideas how to fix this (other than reverting to 3.0 roms)
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Hi. Been using ChompSMS since i got the phone but since upgrading to 3.5 sense roms, contact pics no longer appear in the SMS list inside Chomp. It has to have something to do with the removal of Facebook for Sense. Any ideas how to fix this (other than reverting to 3.0 roms)
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The facebook for HTC sense does exist but now it is built-in into the facebook for android app..
Just download facebook for android and everything is gonna work
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Sorry should have been clearer. I have the default facebook app and this syncs everything that previous Facebook for Sense app did. EXCEPT ChompSMS contact pics. Even if i click sync facebook pics from within ChompSMS it opens a facebook page with an error.
MarcWhittle said:
Sorry should have been clearer. I have the default facebook app and this syncs everything that previous Facebook for Sense app did. EXCEPT ChompSMS contact pics. Even if i click sync facebook pics from within ChompSMS it opens a facebook page with an error.
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Maybe you have to cync them manually the first time
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Same issue with WhatsApp...probably related to the apps...they'll need an update to read the contact pics from the Facebook app I'd say.
Use an app called photo unlocker from the market. Sorted everything from viber to whatsapp for me.
ROM: Android Revolution HD 6.4.0
Device: HTC Sensation 4g
Just wanted to put down my experiences and findings on the problems I've had with syncing my contact pics since I upgraded to an ICS ROM from my previous Gingerbread ROM.
Previous ROM: Android Revolution HD 3.6.13
With this ROM I had no problems with my contacts syncing Facebook pics and being used in 3rd party messaging applications. I use GoSMS and had no problems with the pics showing in the message list or when selecting a contact to message.
After upgrading to ARHD 6.4.0, based on ICS, my contact pictures were no longer showing in the GoSMS application message list, in message, or when selecting a contact to message. This was after doing a Superwipe and clearing all cache including Dalvik during the upgrade.
After upgrading the ROM I did not allow any of my applications to auto load and I did not restore them from my Titanium Backup that I had done before upgrading. I setup my Google account, went to the Market and made sure the Facebook app was up to date and setup that account. After allowing to sync I installed GoSMS and my other applications as I normally have when doing updates.
After setup and I couple of reboots I noticed some odd things. Facebook said it was synced and I saw the sync but my contact pics were missing in the GoSMS messaging app. After some testing I found that the pics showed in the stock Contacts and stock Messaging apps but not Go Contacts or GoSMS apps. I played around with removing all accounts and re-adding accounts multiple ways and even reset file permissions for the .png files in the /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files/ directory, still no luck.
I finally installed FriendCaster while testing and found that when I had it sync it actually would sync in such a way that the Go applications showed them in the Contacts and SMS applications. I had to uninstall the Facebook app because I also found that with it installed, even though I told it not to sync contacts, it did something to wipe the pics from the aforementioned applications again.
So finally, after uninstalling the official Facebook app and re-syncing the contacts with FriendCaster, I was able to get the contact pics to show up in the Go applications I use to replace my Contacts, Dialer, and Messaging apps. I would rather use the official Facebook app because FriendCaster is lacking some of the functionality I use, but for now for me it's an acceptable workaround and I wanted to share.
Applications:
-FriendCaster (Free)
-Go SMS Pro
-Go Contacts EX
-Go Dialer EX
I currently use the contacts from Facebook for HTC Sense for clear contact pictures as those from Facebook for Android are grainy. As Facebook for HTC Sense is removed in ICS and Facebook for Android sync and ICS don't work well together this results in the problems you named. Another workaround is Google Contact Sync, an application you have to run on your PC in which you can link Gmail and Facebook accounts and sync pictures.
I just delete the "files" folder under /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts - then reboot and sync. That at least works with FB for HTC Sense & Twitter for HTC Sense. Not sure about the rest.
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i found this very usefull https://sites.google.com/site/nirosync/
and also http://goo.gl/EpRN8
Thx lads needed help too
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Just upgraded from android 2.3 to ICS 4.0
I cant sync my Facebook with my contact list - tried everything included loggin out/in facebook
Worked fine with 2.2
In my search for an answer I actually seen seperate app for syncing facebook contacts, also read that jellybean cant sync facebook contacts, android 4.0 has all the settings for syncing facebook contacts but just doesn't actually work
which all point to v 4.0 bug
Am I missing something or is it just a bug thats never been fixed?
I can live without it (certainly wont be installing any apps for this pi$$-ant problem) but it was working and be nice if it does
Facebook?
JethroUK said:
Just upgraded from android 2.3 to ICS 4.0
I cant sync my Facebook with my contact list - tried everything included loggin out/in facebook
Worked fine with 2.2
In my search for an answer I actually seen seperate app for syncing facebook contacts, also read that jellybean cant sync facebook contacts, android 4.0 has all the settings for syncing facebook contacts but just doesn't actually work
which all point to v 4.0 bug
Am I missing something or is it just a bug thats never been fixed?
I can live without it (certainly wont be installing any apps for this pi$$-ant problem) but it was working and be nice if it does
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People are not happy with the Facebook App which is currently on the Play Store due to very slow performance & many bugs. I think you should wait for a proper update