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

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.

Google search crappy update

Did the new update also mess up the searching capabilities of your phone? Try to.search sth in the music library..
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Damn it did. Music search does not work anymore Let's see if I can get rid of the bloody update...

Can you describe more of what you mean? I can still search music and everything just fine.

No u cant from e.g music player, open the music player and go to album/artist/all songs section and try to press the search button.. ive been reading a lot of negative feedback for the new search update, apparently it messed up all htc models and samsung aswell
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I uninstalled the update and everything is back to normal...

lysergic said:
I uninstalled the update and everything is back to normal...
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I did the same, works perfectly now. And i like the old layout much better
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It never worked before this update for me.
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Xxul said:
Did the new update also mess up the searching capabilities of your phone? Try to.search sth in the music library..
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You need to go into the settings in go into search and go into searchable items and check music and there you go. It didn't mess anything up.
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U think we are stupid americans?
Why dont u try it yourself smartass, but with steps i mentioned, it is imperative that u try to search from the ALL SONGS/ALBUMS/ARTIST section, not currently playing
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I've searched from all songs/albums, whatever, and I still get what I'm looking for, no screw up on my update
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I just did a search for "U2" on my phone and it instantly finds anything relating to it. You are of course free to criticize my musical taste, it's old stuff which I couldn't be bothered to remove from my memory card

smudgelab said:
I just did a search for "U2" on my phone and it instantly finds anything relating to it. You are of course free to criticize my musical taste, it's old stuff which I couldn't be bothered to remove from my memory card
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U2 is one of my favorite bands did u try by the steps I mentioned? Open music player -> open all songs directory -> press search
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Hi Xxul, I'd never even tried that method before to be honest and you're right, nothing happens when i press the search button when following the steps you wrote. I have to say I don't feel I'm missing anything as I never knew I could do this anyway but I can see it could be a frustration if you're used to it. Wonder what the logic was behind the change then
We can both be ashamed in our choice of music then too lol...

Xxul said:
U think we are stupid americans?
Why dont u try it yourself smartass, but with steps i mentioned, it is imperative that u try to search from the ALL SONGS/ALBUMS/ARTIST section, not currently playing
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I did and it works fine for me! And I am an American so there's no need to go and say that, I'm able to search fine in music player and everything else after the update.
BTW I wasnt being a smartass just trying to help you solve your issue.
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Xxul said:
U think we are stupid americans?
Why dont u try it yourself smartass, but with steps i mentioned, it is imperative that u try to search from the ALL SONGS/ALBUMS/ARTIST section, not currently playing
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Whoa! This message seems a bit of an over-reaction...

Works fine for me also.
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djdant said:
I did and it works fine for me! And I am an American so there's no need to go and say that, I'm able to search fine in music player and everything else after the update.
BTW I wasnt being a smartass just trying to help you solve your issue.
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I am deeply deeply sorry for my rude post then. The thing is a lot of users are so mean here and there is so much hate going on that I just automatically triggered my defence mechanism... Again I hope u can forget this little dispute as I am truly ashamed of my words..
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Everyone I know it works from the homescreen but try this OPEN MUSIC PLAYER -> OPEN ALL SONG LIST -> PRESS SEARCH
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I also can search in the all song's list.

Weird, some of us can't..
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Looking for an app similiaer to SMS PoPup

As the title says...looking for an app similiar to SMS popup(pop up for sms) but for my gmail. I was using pop notifier but it was causeing my sense to restart anytime I went in the browser so I had to uninstall. Im currently running Coredroid ICS v 5.1

bx10r said:
As the title says...looking for an app similiar to SMS popup(pop up for sms) but for my gmail. I was using pop notifier but it was causeing my sense to restart anytime I went in the browser so I had to uninstall. Im currently running Coredroid ICS v 5.1
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Try popup plus
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i use "droid notify plus"...also there are "popup 7" and "popup notifications"
i hope that helps.

arabology said:
i use "droid notify plus"...also there are "popup 7" and "popup notifications"
i hope that helps.
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djdant said:
Try popup plus
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Pop plus is the one that restarts me...ill give the others a shot

Go SMS?
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iNeedICS said:
Go SMS?
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Read the OP well """but for my gmail"""

arabology said:
Read the OP well """but for my gmail"""
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Oops:$ my bad I hate when ppl do that to me so my apologies :/
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I think there's an app that works like iphone pop ups it should work with ur gmail
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notifier pro plus works really well.

Well you can use Gmail popup located here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katzoft&hl=en
there is also a free version. Also if your interested there are Gmail widgets too located here https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmthdHpvZnQuZ21haWx3aWRnZXQiXQ.. also a free version available.. hope that helps mate

niceee, gonna give all of'em a try

[Q] Chrome Beta problem.

Anyone know how to solve this problem? Obviously i cant reinstall all the roms and disable the extension that way.
Theyre all the same phone.

Have you tried going to your Google Play account (on a computer), looking at your devices, and removing the ones you no longer use? I know I had problems similar but not exactly like that, and removing unused devices helped. Along with renaming my actual one. Sorry if this didn't help, but it's my only guess
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Wow you have installed alot of different roms
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monkor said:
Have you tried going to your Google Play account (on a computer), looking at your devices, and removing the ones you no longer use? I know I had problems similar but not exactly like that, and removing unused devices helped. Along with renaming my actual one. Sorry if this didn't help, but it's my only guess
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PP337 said:
Wow you have installed alot of different roms
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K thanks guys didnt solve it but thanks anyway (ye i flash a looooot of roms )

dmcb123 said:
K thanks guys didnt solve it but thanks anyway (ye i flash a looooot of roms )
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If you go to the Play Store website on a computer or in the browser of your device and log in. You just scroll down to bottom of the home page and lick on "My Orders & Devices".Then click on the Devices tap at the top of the page, unchecked the visibility, this will allow you to remove those un used devices.

T-Macgnolia said:
If you go to the Play Store website on a computer or in the browser of your device and log in. You just scroll down to bottom of the home page and lick on "My Orders & Devices".Then click on the Devices tap at the top of the page, unchecked the visibility, this will allow you to remove those un used devices.
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I did that but that's not for the chrome to phone extension thanks anyway
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Why doesn't my fb app show timeline?

Every apk I install, no matter what version, I don't have timeline and nothing actually seems to update...any clue on a fix?
Running on cm7 if that effects anything
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Snaxtax said:
Every apk I install, no matter what version, I don't have timeline and nothing actually seems to update...any clue on a fix?
Running on cm7 if that effects anything
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Happened to me on my HD2 running ICS.......it was strange for me but the trick is......deinstall that fb completly.....reboot.....install newest from Google play.....then open up the app log in...if you still got that issue reboot again......or if that dont to the trick run the app and go inside the applications and kill it ( no deinstall just stop it)
I fixed it so on my device
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gesange said:
Happened to me on my HD2 running ICS.......it was strange for me but the trick is......deinstall that fb completly.....reboot.....install newest from Google play.....then open up the app log in...if you still got that issue reboot again......or if that dont to the trick run the app and go inside the applications and kill it ( no deinstall just stop it)
I fixed it so on my device
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Hmm..didn't work for me (tried multiple un/reinstalls and reboots)
Still testing around for other solutions, if anyone else can help, please don't hesitate

Bump

First of all.. does your FB webpage showing timeline?
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