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Facebook 1.4: A non-crap update!

Get it while it's hot! Looks like they're finally stepping it up.
Edit: Also improved Facebook API so hopefully Facebook-integrated apps won't be so bad now!

so far it seems to be a good upgrade

downloading now... lets see how these god d*** notifications work...

still doesnt integrate fb chat, so sad.

envoykrawkwarrior7 said:
still doesnt integrate fb chat, so sad.
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if we actually use a sense rom this app is the most useless thing we can have on our phone if there is no chat feature on it... i mean really... even the iphone facebook app have chat... how lazy are they to not implement it to android... i dont get it.

aamikam said:
if we actually use a sense rom this app is the most useless thing we can have on our phone if there is no chat feature on it... i mean really... even the iphone facebook app have chat... how lazy are they to not implement it to android... i dont get it.
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How does having a Sense ROM make this useless? Other than contact integration and image uploading, what the hell does Facebook for HTC Sense do?

The notifications don't work for comments. That sucks. There is a app called f-plus that will give you notifications and Go Chat will take care of the fb chat.
I am sick of having 3 apps on my phone for the job that one app should be able to do.
On top of all that my post through the "official app" are not posting on the news feed. If anyone can chime in on that it would be very helpful.

still no chat and still can't poke! Among other things..The bottom line is If I have to open my browser to do anything then its a FAIL! Why have an app if I just need to open my browser at some point..
I just can't believe how they keep dropping the ball on this!

i can view comments from notification in the app so i am confused to as what is not working besides chat

Yes but it does not notify me on the notification bar if some one post on my wall
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If anyone needs a transparent widget for this(or any other app fro that matter) check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8398577#post8398577
Thanks ilangoadigal

pelebkf said:
Yes but it does not notify me on the notification bar if some one post on my wall
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This to me is so stupid it's unfathomable. I would think this would be the absolute first thing this app would do...
Sent from the void...

you guys are trippin, the fact that I can reply to notifications within the app is all I need. facebook chat is a joke to me. B app for me for now. for an A app they will need instant notifications.
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I tried downloading from the app store. It downloads completely and while installing it fails. It gives me an error saying it was unable to perform the install. I tried to uninstall the present version but the uninstall option is grayed out.
And also sometimes , the appstore takes a while to download. Sometimes I have to restart my fone in order for the phone to start downloading the apps.
Any help is appreciated.

I get notifications on cm6.
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I just wish you could tag photos with the app, my gf's iPhone can ... they just need to make the app on par to what the iPhone has already been able to do...
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im ok with no chat since i dont use it, love that i dont have to use browser to reply to notifications, now if i could only edit uploaded photos(rotate) i would be satisfied.

Hmmm I don't like the single-sign-on feature because now all apps will have access to my account by just using FB API? not so good...

Still needs small improvement but they're stepping it up.
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vboyz103 said:
Hmmm I don't like the single-sign-on feature because now all apps will have access to my account by just using FB API? not so good...
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It will be listed in the app's permissions. Don't go downloading apps that you don't want to access your Facebook account.
napsterdj said:
I tried downloading from the app store. It downloads completely and while installing it fails. It gives me an error saying it was unable to perform the install. I tried to uninstall the present version but the uninstall option is grayed out.
And also sometimes , the appstore takes a while to download. Sometimes I have to restart my fone in order for the phone to start downloading the apps.
Any help is appreciated.
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If you're rooted, use Titanium Backup to uninstall the system copy of Facebook, reboot, then download the Market version.

[Q] Need help to get rid of facebook (Desire hd)

Hi guys!
I want to get rid of anything remembering me to facebook in my Desire HD.
With Titanium backup i was able to remove the facebook (sys) app and the HTC widget app.
The "send to via facebook" links disappeared but there is still a facebook button like in the screenshot i sent here:
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/screenjo.jpg
(it's not allowed for me to post clickable links because i'm new here)
Rom Cleaner is not an option right now because i don't want to flash at the moment.
Please have understanding for my wish to get rid of facebook because i hate it so much.
Thanks in advance,
Tuxxxer

Are you rooted?
I too have removed everything "social networking" from my phone. "Root app remover" works well.
Edit: just realized If you removed a system application then I'm assuming you are rooted. Hopefully someone can help you out better..

mrrick said:
Are you rooted?
I too have removed everything "social networking" from my phone. "Root app remover" works well.
Edit: just realized If you removed a system application then I'm assuming you are rooted. Hopefully someone can help you out better..
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Thanks a lot mrrick. I am thankful for every reply
Yes my phone is rooted. I use the latest Leedroid rom 3.3.1
I also don't like the whole social stuff but at this moment i don't know if i have ever use stuff like flickr. But one thing i know for sure.. i will never ever have a facebook account! This is simply annoying for me.

Cant you just delete Thema apk?
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Sry, facebook.apk
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You can move the facebook apk´s from /system/apps to your sdcard. If that doesn´t remove everything from facebook you can at least move the apk´s back to /system/apps. So you can try another method.

[Q] Which Bloatware Is Safe To Remove?

So if You own the Samsung Blaze, you obviously no its loaded with bloatware you never use.
I've read you got to be careful what apps you remove, if rooted (isn't freezing threw Titanium Backup the same thing as uninstalling basically? but if you ever wanted too, you can just unfreeze to get it back?
So these are pretty much the apps i want to delete or freeze:
all share, game base, lookout, kies air, my device, mobile life somethin, more for me, pro apps, news and weather, social hub, task manager, voice talk, voice search, 411 and more, calculator, clock, email, files, local, media hub, memo, navigation, t mobile mall, t mobile TV, t mobile video, slacker radio, tags, talk, yelp
Are any of these apps not safe to delete!?!?
now, if it safe to get rid of these apps, should i just freeze threw TB or find a app with root permissions to uninstall completely?
help will be thanked and appriecated

Those all sound safe for removal. Its pretty easy to know what and not to delete. But why remove Task Manager? Its pretty useful.
I deleted everything you listed except: all share, kies air, social hub, task manager, voice talk, voice search, calculator, clock, email, files, local, media hub, memo, navigation, t mobile TV, tags, talk.
And my device is working fine. I uninstalled completely using ES File Manager.
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I used TB Pro, you can ditch a lot of stuff:
Lookout, allshare, gamebase, my device, mobile life, more for me, pro apps, social hub, 411, media hub tmo mall, tmo tv, tmo video, slacker, yelp, and a few more.
System manager application is CarrierIQ under a guise, if you plan to TB uninstall it, you have to freeze it first.
Reboot after you uninstall system apps or else you might get repeating force closes.

Sweet thanks for the reply you guys. Is it just the obvious system apps you can't uninstall to render your device useless like dialer, contacts and what not. Or what else can? Or is it just like the hidden stuff you can't see in the app drawer like system UI and stuff like that?

trevor7428 said:
Is it just the obvious system apps you can't uninstall to render your device useless like dialer, contacts and what not. Or what else can? Or is it just like the hidden stuff you can't see in the app drawer like system UI and stuff like that?
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Yes and no. You wouldn't want to delete Messaging app for example. I once deleted that on my previous phone, thinking I can just replace it with a third party messaging app from the Market (now called Play Store), but I kept getting force closing problems, and had to restore back to stock. So yes, don't delete stuff like the dialer.

I took everything out except WIFI calling. Some people report not being able to boot up after removing bloatware but I never experienced that.
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i deleted bunch of stuff yesterday. i did not right down what they were. so my list will not be full. phone works fine still. (i used tb to delete so if there is a way to find out what i deleted let me know.
411&more
books
gamebase
kies air
more for me
polaris office
share apps
slacker radio
telenavgps
i used tb to delete those and phone still works fine

mudmachine2929 said:
i deleted bunch of stuff yesterday. i did not right down what they were. so my list will not be full. phone works fine still. (i used tb to delete so if there is a way to find out what i deleted let me know.
411&more
books
gamebase
kies air
more for me
polaris office
share apps
slacker radio
telenavgps
i used tb to delete those and phone still works fine
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Careful with kies air...the sg2 update is done using this....good chance ours will too.
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Tell me more. so you think i should restore kies.
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Did not backup kies air. But of i do my nandroid back up from last time i made it kies will be there. Should i do that. Or van i get out from market. What is kies air
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Oops... I got rid of Kies.. Any way to reinstall it?
Edit: Never mind, it's in the Play Store.
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rbeier1221 said:
Careful with kies air...the sg2 update is done using this....good chance ours will too.
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Yes, but if you don't want to update, it's safe, right? And also, you can just get it back from the Play Store.

You can see what you removed in TB in the backup/restore section .....
At the bottom of the list. You'll see a thin white line through the name of the application.
mudmachine2929 said:
i deleted bunch of stuff yesterday. i did not right down what they were. so my list will not be full. phone works fine still. (i used tb to delete so if there is a way to find out what i deleted let me know.
411&more
books
gamebase
kies air
more for me
polaris office
share apps
slacker radio
telenavgps
i used tb to delete those and phone still works fine
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The only one you can't get from the play store is name id. I think that's a paid service though.
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[Q] stock video player running by its self after jelly bean update

I have noticed that since updating to jelly bean 4.1.2 that the stock video player seems to start its self in the back ground I have spotted it in active applicstions a couple of times now. Was wondering if others are noticing the same thing. I just did a factory reset and it still seems to be doing it at random does anyone have any clues as to why it would be doing this, is it a bug of some sort?

I've had the same problem. Couldn't figure it out, so I removed the app, which I regret now. I forgot to do a backup of the apk file.
In hindsight I suspect it might be caused by the video app syncing content from the cloud providers (Dropbox, etc). I haven't been able to prove this, since I don't have the app anymore. If someone does have a backup of the apk, I'd appreciate it.
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supernoctem said:
I've had the same problem. Couldn't figure it out, so I removed the app, which I regret now. I forgot to do a backup of the apk file.
In hindsight I suspect it might be caused by the video app syncing content from the cloud providers (Dropbox, etc). I haven't been able to prove this, since I don't have the app anymore. If someone does have a backup of the apk, I'd appreciate it.
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Yeah I dont know, i have all syncing turned off unless the app doesnt pay attention to that and just starts up to try sync anyway dont know why it would have to actually start for that and not just do it in the back ground? Did you actually unistall the apk or just dissable it? If you just disabled it you can enable again in the applications menu all disabled apps are at the bottom of yhe list of installed apps.

Yeah, I checked. It's deleted. Me and my stupid mind.
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JTG81 said:
I have noticed that since updating to jelly bean 4.1.2 that the stock video player seems to start its self in the back ground I have spotted it in active applicstions a couple of times now. Was wondering if others are noticing the same thing. I just did a factory reset and it still seems to be doing it at random does anyone have any clues as to why it would be doing this, is it a bug of some sort?
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Ive noticed mine does it too. I just end it all the time. Not a big concern to me.
supernoctem said:
I've had the same problem. Couldn't figure it out, so I removed the app, which I regret now. I forgot to do a backup of the apk file.
In hindsight I suspect it might be caused by the video app syncing content from the cloud providers (Dropbox, etc). I haven't been able to prove this, since I don't have the app anymore. If someone does have a backup of the apk, I'd appreciate it.
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Try this to see if you can get it back. This is my app+data backup from tibu.
http://db.tt/hYXcc9m6

[Q] Google Drive refuses to open any document?

I've seen this exact problem no where else on the internet. I'm flabbergasted.
Google drive refuses to open any document at all on my sidekick, and no one else on the internet has gotten this error message.
"Google Documents Error
Google documents has encountered an error. Please try reloading the document."
I'm using Ricandroid's NexusJB. I would post in his thread but I can't post in development yet. Its a great build otherwise and I'd like to avoid having to reinstall from scratch. Anyone else have this issue?

I do not have this problem. Do you have your Google account set up to sync in Settings>Accounts and Sync?

Yep, it is. Gmail and talk and contacts all work. I'm thinking its some kind of incapability with memory resources maybe? Its a blank denial on all doc types. I wish I were better at coding and linux to figure this out, but I'm too much of a newbie atm.
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Might be a server problem; have you tried again? Also see this page for some possible fixes: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/ifONR5aCqSc/Sg0hZrbVQXcJ

Yeah I have, multiple times. I thought it may be droidwall but like the poster in your link says, it does load a docs list and allows me to make a doc offline. I didn't find this after many searches.. thanks for that.
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Yeeeah so it was droidwall. I found out after uninstalling it. I guess it was lying when it said it was allowing google drive. I think google drive relies upon other internet processes to function besides itself.
Thanks for your input!
Edit: Nope!
I thought it was droidwall, but I had uninstalled google drive at the same time. It seems its the new update that breaks drive functionality.
It seems the solution is to block updates. Google drive conveniently offers that functionality in its settings.
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Google Drive partially works right now when updated but the reason you can't open your documents may be that one of libs is missing in your /system/lib directory. They could have added more in the update that are otherwise seperated from the old version on your system memory.
Just a though I have had the problem once before, but I can't remember exactly how I fixed it.
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The latest version of Drive works fine for me. I did not have it installed at all, so I had a fresh install (not an update). Maybe try removing it completely (not just the updates) and reinstall. Is your Drive installed as a system app or user app? If it's a system app, you'll need to use something like Titanium Backup to remove it.

This would make sense. It is an uninstall able system app, so maybe the updates libraries are broken by that.
I'm reluctant to try uninstallong with titanium as its working now. Ehh I'll probably do it in a bit and let you guys know.
Would you know how to find out which libraries Drive uses, zydrate?
Edit: Aaand its broke again and I forgot to make a backup... whoops.
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I think google drive app that comes with ricandroid's nexus JB is the only one that will really work. Does anyone know if he packagaes google apps with it? If I could find the right package for the sidekick I could avoid a rom reinstall maybe.
I'm surprised there are barely any other sidekick users with this problem!! I'll post later to let you guys know if that holds true, and if a titanium backup would restore an uninstalled google drive's functionality.

It doesn't make sense to me that only the Drive app that ricandroid bundled with his nexusJB ROM would work. If that were the case, then anytime the app updated from the Play Store, it would break, and as you said, no one else seems to have a problem with it. I think the problem is on your device--maybe a dependency has gotten corrupted or gone missing. But you could always send ricandroid a private message and ask him what version he used, if he modified it, etc. You said it's working right now, so why not make a backup of it in case it starts acting up again?

I though it was working.... but it wassnt.
I finally reinstalled the JB build, which for some reason kind of made it faster?? Maybe a second wipe freshened it up.
Google drive was working initially, I tried updating it, it broke it again, and a titanium backup restored functionality successfully. So I still don't know what's wrong. Maybe a slightly corrupted ROM?
Ill try messaging ricandroid one of these days.
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I don't know why the update keeps breaking Drive. I posted a query on the nexusJB thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162745 for you. We'll see what responses we get.

Wow, thanks man!!! Almost up to 10 posts though! Haha.
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The only response so far is that someone saw on g+ that several people still running 2.x are having an issue with google drive. Of course, everyone using the SK4G is still on 2.2. May just be a random issue.

I got another response that someone is using ES File Explorer File Manager to access Google Drive. I didn't know you could do that, but apparently you can access a lot of cloud services using that app (which is a good one, and free). Just search for it in the Play Store.

marathonjon said:
I got another response that someone is using ES File Explorer File Manager to access Google Drive. I didn't know you could do that, but apparently you can access a lot of cloud services using that app (which is a good one, and free). Just search for it in the Play Store.
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I was watching the thread. Just posted in there as well now that I'm up to 10 posts. Thanks for your help with this, but I think I'll just stick to having updates disabled. Whatever google drive is being updated with, its nothing I can see as it has perfect functionality.