UPDATE 10/24 -
members posting here on XDA have turned me to an even better Facebook app..
Friendcaster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
All the features of stock Facebook app and then some.. theming and easier navigation, better notifications.. definitely worth checking out!
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Stumbled upon this searching the forums. I tried it out and so far so good.
"Fast for Facebook" is an app started by an XDA member and it has a couple different themes. It has most of the features the official Facebook app has but the major benefit is battery saving with background processes not running constantly.
Play Store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImFwcC5mYXN0ZmFjZWJvb2suY29tIl0.
XDA link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581371
Credit to forum member: lilchicano
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I downloaded this app many months ago but at that time many features were missing. It seems like there's been a lot of progress so I'll give it another shot. I didn't know someone from XDA made it.
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Honestly its still a little buggy
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hollywood528 said:
Honestly its still a little buggy
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Yeah I ended uninstalling after a day of use. It has made a lot of progress but still not worth replacing the original FB app.
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ZzFDKzZ said:
I downloaded this app many months ago but at that time many features were missing. It seems like there's been a lot of progress so I'll give it another shot. I didn't know someone from XDA made it.
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There has been a ton of progress to the app. I thoroughly hated it months ago but now it stands as a decent competitor to the official app. The only real thing I don't like is no push notifications, but I check FB often enough for that not to matter.
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another good fb app
ZzFDKzZ said:
Yeah I ended uninstalling after a day of use. It has made a lot of progress but still not worth replacing the original FB app.
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try flipster..i ve been using it for a while and its quite good. no frills approach to fb
I recently tried Fast and Flipster, and quickly started getting a bunch of spam email from random Yahoo email addresses, spoofed with the names of my Facebook friends.
Maybe just a coincidence, but seemed pretty fishy to me.
karthik2k2 said:
try flipster..i ve been using it for a while and its quite good. no frills approach to fb
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Nice! I just uninstall the Official FB app for Flipster. Works great reminds me of Plume for Twitter.
I've been using Friendcaster for about a month and its been solid, I like built in theme chooser.
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I've been using Friendcaster for about a month and its been solid, I like built in theme chooser.
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I've been running it for about 6 months, I guess from Gingerbread to Jellybean, and it's worked fine. I like how it shows the posts more than my computer browser.
Every once in a while it'll do something weird...but so do I
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+1 on Friendcaster! Awesome app. Thanks for turning me to this one
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Hey all, i hate the regular Facebook app cuz it never works properly for me so I was wondering what your favorite Facebook replacements are.
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mayb friendcaster...but i dont hate the facebook app that much
Mine just doesn't look up people that i know exist and the chat never works
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Juls317 said:
Hey all, i hate the regular Facebook app cuz it never works properly for me so I was wondering what your favorite Facebook replacements are.
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Real life?
The people are just as annoying but the graphics are better!
I just use Google+. Wait, that wasn't what you meant, was it. (evil laugh)
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Real life?
The people are just as annoying but the graphics are better!
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Thanks Dirk.
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Super_Dork_42 said:
I just use Google+. Wait, that wasn't what you meant, was it. (evil laugh)
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I would but not enough of myvfriends have one yet
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I'm back guys! This time I'm bringing you the new poweramp 2.0 beta. Free for a limited time, so the sooner you get it, the more you'll have time to enjoy it.
REMEMBER: POWERAMP+VOODOO=BEST SOUND EVER! If you have an Audiophile rom, the sound will be so crisp and vivid in addition to that.
Get it here: http://box.net/view_shared/m1v73o302l0ttmlguxnn
Original forum thread: http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/1670-poweramp-v20-beta-1/
Hope this becomes an update to us paid users of Poweramp.
I DID NOT MAKE THIS. Just spreading musical love.
Credits to: MaxMP for PowerAMP and Raver for the Audiophile-ness.
ENJOYING BEING AN AUDIOPHILE! ;D
beta 3 : http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/1818-poweramp-v20-beta-3/
Changelog at link
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Getting crashes when going into the settings menu... Which is why this is beta.
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Getting crashes when going into the settings menu... Which is why this is beta.
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Yeah, uh, i know this phone's low on internal but if you move it to internal storage, it'll work. Anything new you like about it?
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Yeah, uh, i know this phone's low on internal but if you move it to internal storage, it'll work. Anything new you like about it?
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Yeah, that fixed it. . As always loving the gapless playback, but missing my "Instant queue" feature. :/. I thought they'd add it by version 2.
I bought PowerAMP a few months ago, and it really was the best music player I've tried. There hadn't been many updates and I was worried was on the back burner, nice to see it was only because they were working on a big update. Loving the beta so far.
Yeah. The ui is so sexy with the amoled display.
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Looks kool but it didnt load all of my music and it force closed when I tried to go into the settings everytime.:-!
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Looks kool but it didnt load all of my music and it force closed when I tried to go into the settings everytime.:-!
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Move it to the phone like it was suggested to do so earlier in the thread.
Wow this is really sexy. I just hate how when pressing next, it switches songs so fast, that it just feels weird. But whatever, I still love poweramp.
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Haha. Yup, yup.
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After moving to phones internal memory everything has ran flawlessly all day. I am loving this app. Good find.
everythings flawless except that it force closes when i try to make a playlist
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everythings flawless except that it force closes when i try to make a playlist
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Hmm, not experiencing that problem. Have you tried moving the app to phone memory?
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been moved from the beginning
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Light-라이트 said:
been moved from the beginning
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Maybe try reinstalling the app?
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Wound up playing with this a bit more. They've definitely improved the queuing of songs. Interface is nice, just had to get used to it. Looks like I found my new default player. Will most likely buy when 2.0 final gets released.
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Wound up playing with this a bit more. They've definitely improved the queuing of songs. Interface is nice, just had to get used to it. Looks like I found my new default player. Will most likely buy when 2.0 final gets released.
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Haha, good to hear.
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didnt fix the issue (
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Hmm, i can't seem to pinpoint the reason. My last resort would be either clearing the app's data and/or cache if it has one or redownload the app after uninstalling the defective one.
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i just found my own way of making "playlists" ahaha. just making another folder and selecting that folder from poweramp.
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I believe I've found a good working version of S VOICE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668824
the dev TeamERA, says it universal. I haven't had much of any trouble at all with it. I haven't tested it too much but it seems to be working great on SLIM ICS 4.2
Anybody else want to try it? i don't have great cell reception so i can't play with all it's features.
Svoice
Im gonna try it and report. Previous vesions give me lot of trouble.
Thanks
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Im gonna try it and report. Previous vesions give me lot of trouble.
Thanks
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Awesome, glad you're gonna try it.
I've been playing with it this morning and it's working pretty good. My only complaint is that the UK English didn't sound like a British accent lol
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I will try and report later. I have been using Robin and it seems to be much more fuctional. Can't wait till we have a fully working Google now
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Wdustin1 said:
I will try and report later. I have been using Robin and it seems to be much more fuctional. Can't wait till we have a fully working Google now
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so far i haven't gotten music to work. I'm guessing it's searching for a music app i don't have....
Also i can't get voice wake to work. Our burns battery so i figure it's not worth it...
Anybody else have issues?
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What file do we download?
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What file do we download?
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Ah, i forgot about this thread...
This app isn't ready yet. It has some instabilities. It always runs in the background causing lag.
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And a 90 meg download that app is massive
From apple to android I've been there
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And a 90 meg download that app is massive
From apple to android I've been there
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it's the Samsung tts that's so big. I dug around through the .zip while ago
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man i really would like a stable working s Voice. To bad I'm a mechanical engineer and not a computer engineer.... lol all i know is basic C for programming!
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What do you guys think of it?
http://www.swiftkey.net/introducing-swiftkey-flow
Given that I consider SwiftKey the best keyboard out there for the way I use one, I think it would be an awesome topic for the Apps section!
>>> POOF <<<<
That was amazing!
I'm looking forward to trying it out. I did sort of like Swype, but it was just to buggy, its predictions too far off the mark, and no ability to edit the user dictionary made me leave it behind long ago.
Looks neat I signed up for the beta, tried out touchpal the other day, seemed too bloated but this looks somewhat promising. Thanks for the share.
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Bump, I wish this would come out already.
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Got my email registration confirmation yesterday. It's almost here. But like others almost needs to hurry up.
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Swiftkey Flow launches tomorrow.
https://mobile.twitter.com/joebraidwood/status/276423496010190848
I got mine but I like the old delete feature of this keyboard
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tvotony said:
I got mine but I like the old delete feature of this keyboard
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How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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Just do a quick Google search you will get it... I'm using one as I swipe to post..
Nothing is True.. Everything is Permitted©
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How did you get yours already? Mines yet to update.
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They sent me the email
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Huye there are go!! http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
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I like it so far. It's pretty darn accurate.
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I agree
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I like it too I just don't like attempting to do a complete sentence because it doesn't always catch what I putting and then leaves me hanging. Lol
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Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).
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Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).
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I was wondering that myself, it's quiet annoying.
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th3controller said:
Why is Flow disabled under special circumstances, such as search bars (except google search).
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Hey Jacob said:
I was wondering that myself, it's quiet annoying.
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It is explained on their support site here:
http://support.swiftkey.net/forums/...tion-to-use-swiftkey-predictions-everywhere-i
But, basically, there are two flags that android developers can use to let a keyboard know not to supply predictions. One of them is for a field that offers its own autocorrect. SwiftKey 3 behaves the same way. You can't flow anywhere that you don't have predictions. I hope that they change this and I hope that Google/Android changes how these flags work.
Just went ahead and downloaded this. Been wanting a nice swipe app. This works really well so far. Diggin the customization ability of it too.
Sucks battery like no tomorrow, from what I can tell. CM9 here.
What is the best Facebook alternative in Google Play? The original one SUCKS because it takes forever to load.
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MySpace? Lol Google plus? Lol jk I hear Friendcaster for Facebook
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I've tried friendcaster. Its a good app. Yet its not for me.l :/
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an alternative facebook app, or an alternative social network?
Google plus is your best bet, great communication with people who have the same interests. Take time to look at the many guides for how to get the most out of your experience.
Sorry for the confusing title. I meant an alternative for the Facebook app
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Sorry for the confusing title. I meant an alternative for the Facebook app
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Friendcaster is the only thing worth a damn. the others suck and never sync right or post spam on your behalf.
how about flipster? My friend said its a good app and uses little memory
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Fast for Facebook app is a good alternative
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I've found just going to the mobile site using the web browser works best for me. No apps to download and youcan do everything you need to. only thing you don't get is notifications which to me isn't a big deal.
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I've found just going to the mobile site using the web browser works best for me. No apps to download and youcan do everything you need to. only thing you don't get is notifications which to me isn't a big deal.
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I've considered that before. But I won't get push notifications.
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henslo said:
Fast for Facebook app is a good alternative
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Are you able to somehow view events in fast for facebook? I bought fast pro last night, and noticed I can't seem to see events. Lately my work friends have been scheduling their Happy hours through it, and I'd like to be able to see it on my phone without using the mobile site.
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Are you able to somehow view events in fast for facebook? I bought fast pro last night, and noticed I can't seem to see events. Lately my work friends have been scheduling their Happy hours through it, and I'd like to be able to see it on my phone without using the mobile site.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581371
Not sure but here's the Fast for Facebook thread can ask the dev. Or see if he would implement that into it.
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