Why isnt there no push notifications for facebook? Anybody having this problem?
Ive KPH, and ive read that the Facebook for Android app have push notifications. I cant configure that on mi i9003.
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Make sure under settings "accounts & sync" facebook sync is turned on. And i recommend using friendcaster for android instead. the original facebook app is a buggy POS
There are also a couple of apps that only deal with notifications: I personally use MB Notifications for Facebook because it has more features, and don't need all the other stuff FriendCaster has
I used Friendcaster but it was drinking my battery, and it doesnt have push notifications. Im testing MB Notifications right now, with the Facebook for Android app.
I loved Friendcaster, but it has issues with messages (they didnt show), and for some actions it open the browser instead.
The problem I have with MB Notifications is that I didnt check the "event notifications" and it shows them anyway.
Push notifications are the ones that the server is who call the client right? so the phone doesnt need to be checking for notifications with some periods of time? So push notifications saves battery?
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Facebook for Android supports push notifications, but there's no way to enable them from its settings. The only way to enable them is to use a BlackBerry (I know, it's stupid). When you enable push notifications from a BlackBerry, then they will be enabled on Android too.
Fortunately if you don't have a BlackBerry you can download a simulator (Windows only, you can download it from blackberry.com/developers/downloads/simulators [sorry, I can't post link]) and login in to Facebook from the simulator using Facebook app which is already installed.
Then go in Facebook app settings (on your Android phone, I think it's better to logout and then re-login before doing this) and choose as update interval "never".
From now on you'll receive instant notifications on your Android phone.
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While I think the Google Mail app is ALRIGHT I think it needs quite some improvement so I am wondering if there is either a good alternative to it or if someone added features to it / modded it.
1) problem:
i can't select any text from any emails (written by others or myself) which isn't too great when writing emails.
is there any app for selecting text maybe? it's something i miss a lot on android. if i want to select text on a website I need to switch to Skyfire.
I just can't believe coding a text selection is really hard so I don't understand why google didn't add it themselves yet.
2) problem:
when I'm on the go and sending an email and the CONNECTION dies for a moment the Google Mail app will be stuck at "Sending..."
I guess it is stuck in a loop then and it won't send out my email but I also can't go back so I can only close Google Mail with a taskmanager.
Can't this be fixed, too?
I just want a GO BACK feature so that it won't get stuck in a loop. Maybe just an automatic Save Draft just when someone clicks Send and then goes to the Send process and then you get the option to force close that and just go back- I dont know.
not sure what phone you have or what apps come standard so.....
i dont use the gmail app period. turned off notifications and disabled gmail sync in the sync menu. I use the regular Mail app that came standard (HTC Hero) for all 3 of my email accounts, yahoo, gmail, and hotmail. never have any problems out of it.
EDIT: Mail app will select text and if connection dies when sending mail, it will pick up where it left off when the next scheduled sync takes place.
studdyhalllooser said:
not sure what phone you have or what apps come standard so.....
i dont use the gmail app period. turned off notifications and disabled gmail sync in the sync menu. I use the regular Mail app that came standard (HTC Hero) for all 3 of my email accounts, yahoo, gmail, and hotmail. never have any problems out of it.
EDIT: Mail app will select text and if connection dies when sending mail, it will pick up where it left off when the next scheduled sync takes place.
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I too use the default mail app (this time CM6 on a nexus1), but if you don't like that one you might want to check out K9 Mail. I think its free from the market (or various places online if you don't have access/market enabler).
mik101 said:
I too use the default mail app (this time CM6 on a nexus1), but if you don't like that one you might want to check out K9 Mail. I think its free from the market (or various places online if you don't have access/market enabler).
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oh nice. k9 lets me select and copy text. im convinced. installed it and got rid of gmail.
Just checked my market updates, and there's an official Facebook update in the market (version 1.50)!
It allows push notifications aswell as Facebook chat!
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This sucks... there are STILL NO notifications for comments, likes, wall posts etc... are you KIDDING ME????
i like chat feat. but still no notifictionas
guys what do you mean no notifications? mine does have notifications.
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I'm not getting instant notifications either. Chat will come up, but nothing in the realm of push notifications. tested sending from from my wifes account to mine.
chat works great, push notifications doesn't work. still have to check app just for the notifications :/
Great for letting us know
Okay, a question about chat since I've never had it before through Facebook. How is your online status "toggled" while using chat?
So if I open up the facebook app, and look at my news feed, am I now online? And to go offline, do I physically have to go into facebook chat and click "go offline"?
Also, if I want to be on chat, but have it run in the background, how can I confirm that it's running?
The entire user interface seems very poor. Wouldn't the ability to toggle chat on/off and easily access conversations and your status from the notification bar be essential in this type of app?
notifications works fine for me... kinda odd though since the messages and other stuffs still uses interval... only the posts and such has push.
http://plixi.com/p/63017058
http://plixi.com/p/63017175
According to the Facebook page of Facebook for android, push notifications is only supported with android 2.2+
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WoodDraw said:
Okay, a question about chat since I've never had it before through Facebook. How is your online status "toggled" while using chat?
So if I open up the facebook app, and look at my news feed, am I now online? And to go offline, do I physically have to go into facebook chat and click "go offline"?
Also, if I want to be on chat, but have it run in the background, how can I confirm that it's running?
The entire user interface seems very poor. Wouldn't the ability to toggle chat on/off and easily access conversations and your status from the notification bar be essential in this type of app?
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From the Chat screen hit menu and it's the only option.
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From the Chat screen hit menu and it's the only option.
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Yeah, I see that. But there's no "Go online" option, is there? So how do you ever know if your online or offline? I don't know, I'm used to Go!Chat. There should be some clear toggle option.
How about for people that never want to appear online?
For example, I just opened up facebook on my phone and hit chat. I guess I'm now online? So now I hit android home. Am I still online? How is there anyway of knowing? Online until when?
It's completely non-functional as a useful mobile chat app.
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I've also tried multiple times to close "active conversations", and they keep showing back up on all refreshes. I was looking forward to native facebook chat, but I'll stick with 3rd party apps until they can improve this.
Chat and Push both are working flawlessly on my Droid 2. Rooted but running a pretty much stock OS.
About time they got this one out. Was doing this with a blackberry almost 2 years ago. I am now able to remove about 4 apps that I was running in order to cover my FB account while mobile.
Nice work Devs!
Push notification working good on my evo. I was also using f plus and had it set for five minutes and I'm getting notification quicker with the official app
I download it from market but installation failed. Did I do anything wrong or it is caused by android build on HTC HD2?
Long conversations
And still it is not possible to have long conversations. Quite annoying
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applic...=wall#!/topic.php?uid=74769995908&topic=15119
can i uploaded multiple photos to the album?
unable to upgrade Facebook
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can i uploaded multiple photos to the album?
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When i go to Android market and try to upgrade. after downloading the Installing is not successful. Please let me know how to upgrade.
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so.. let me understand,
is push for notification, or just chat?
I found a fix that made it possible for push notifications to come through in realtime (for comments,tags etc.). I heard about that BlackBerry simulator solution and this is what i did : I downloaded a BB simulator (for 9300 series of phones or something...basicaly BB 7.0 or so). I logged out the FB app on Android, then i fired up the BB simulator/emulator and i I entered my facebook credentials in the BB's FB app and enabled "push notifications" and i also disabled all email notifications within the app. After that i logged-out and so FB push notifications started coming
Try it ,it
through immediately on my Samsung Galaxy
freakin works! P.s.: i would love to know if it worked for you. And another thing, don't forget to re-login on the FB app on the Nexus and ENABLE NOTIFICATIONS in the Options menu (the first checkmark box just under "refresh interval". Every other things like Event Invite,Messages and Friend Requests don't come through via Push but via refresh interval. Everything else will work through PUSH
Link to blackberry emulators : http://us.blackberry.com/developers/...simulators.jsp
garner said:
I found a fix that made it possible for push notifications to come through in realtime (for comments,tags etc.). I heard about that BlackBerry simulator solution and this is what i did : I downloaded a BB simulator (for 9300 series of phones or something...basicaly BB 7.0 or so). I logged out the FB app on Android, then i fired up the BB simulator/emulator and i I entered my facebook credentials in the BB's FB app and enabled "push notifications" and i also disabled all email notifications within the app. After that i logged-out and so FB push notifications started coming
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through immediately on my Samsung Galaxy
freakin works! P.s.: i would love to know if it worked for you. And another thing, don't forget to re-login on the FB app on the Nexus and ENABLE NOTIFICATIONS in the Options menu (the first checkmark box just under "refresh interval". Every other things like Event Invite,Messages and Friend Requests don't come through via Push but via refresh interval. Everything else will work through PUSH
Link to blackberry emulators : http://us.blackberry.com/developers/...simulators.jsp
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Did you see my thread? It was only a few spots down from yours or did you even try the search?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386394
How do I get rid of "conversation view" in the gmail app on my phone? I hate that gmail lumps all the emails into 1 from the same sender making it difficult to find emails when needed.
Is there any way to turn this off on the gmail app? I know how to turn it off when using gmail on my computer, just not the app...
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I don't think it can be done on the Gmail app.
But I think you can disable it via browser, and use the email app (not gmail app) to set up your account. From here, you should see it disabled.
Oogway13 said:
I don't think it can be done on the Gmail app.
But I think you can disable it via browser, and use the email app (not gmail app) to set up your account. From here, you should see it disabled.
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I wish there were away to turn off conversation view in the app. I have it turned off in webmail to no effect in the app. Conversation view can get cumbersome if you're trying to deal with select messages that are bundled with 50 others.
gmail IOS Conversation Mode
eyetee said:
I wish there were away to turn off conversation view in the app. I have it turned off in webmail to no effect in the app. Conversation view can get cumbersome if you're trying to deal with select messages that are bundled with 50 others.
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Agree 100%. Surely there has to be a way to turn this off. Even native IOS mail allows it boths ways. Ive seen posts on this for over a year - is this feature technically impossible????
Hi All,
I'm very keen to move over from Android to Windows Phone but am unsure about the availability of one of my most used features. On iOS and Android, we can install Facebook Messenger, which delivers Push messages to our phones at minimal battery drain, and also without having us appear as "online" on Facebook.
However, with Windows Phone I understand there is deeply integrated "Facebook Chat". My questions are:
1. Is there some sort of equivilent app?
and
2. If not, what is the battery drain like, leaving the device logged in online all the time. Does it still use some sort of push service to deliver messages? Can I only log into Facebook, and not onto Windows Live?
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Hello!
First, there's this app called "IM+ Pro", from which you can use Facebook chat as well.
The deeply integrated Facebook chat (and Windows Live Messenger) are a part of the messaging app. I can't find a way to log out of Windows Live Messenger but not Facebook. I know you can disable Facebook chat alone but keep Windows Live.
And yes, you can set your status to "Appear Offline."
About the battery usage, I don't know much. I will say that I have WLM set as "Available" most of the time, and my battery isn't showing too much drain.
There is also a dedicated Facebook chat app (called FIM, I beleive for Facebook IM) which also supports push notifications. I don't know if it does Appear Offline, but it probably does. It offers advantages over most more-generic IM apps like IM+ in that it supports Facebook group chat and offline messages and such too.
I used to use FIM and it was really good. I use the built-in support now. You can toggle it on and off really easily and integration is excellent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKM2QJHUH0
you can try FIM