How to send messages on Facebook without installing the messenger app in Android
Facebook, recently decided to undertake this fairly unpopular practice – while the former decoupled the check-in feature to a whole new app, called Swarm, the latter decided that its users shouldn't be able to chat from the main Facebook app anymore, but make use of the chat head-wielding Messenger instead. The latter has been allegedly gaining market share in favor of its messenger rivals, but isn't forcing it to users the main reason behind this?
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Well, forced things are never highly looked upon and quite a lot of users have expressed their utter displeasure with Facebook for taking the messages away from the main app. If you're one of the distressed Facebook users, rejoice, as a workaround exists that will allow not Messenger, but your main Facebook app to handle your messages. Of course, you can always go to the mobile version of Facebook and access your messages from there, but a lot of users probably prefer to delve into one of the most popular social networks through the dedicated app.
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We'll show you the ropes on how to do this, but you should have in mind that this method only works for some users. Facebook will surely find another way to force Messenger upon them in the foreseeable future, but for the time being, at least some of the users of the social network get to do things their way.
So here it goes with the method 1.)
A quick guide for those who want to use Facebook messages without downloading facebook messenger.
Step 1
Uninstall Facebook messenger (if you have it installed)
Step 2
Make sure you have Unknown sources enabled from device settings
Step 3
Install the attached apk (hello world application) or create a new (empty) android project with the package name com.facebook.orca
As long as the only validation that the facebook app does is checking to find if an app with package name com.facebook.orca is installed on the phone this should work
Thanks to @nemoc 23 For his guide
I'll attach the Messenger.apk in the attachment too.you can download from there too
Method 2.) [For Non-Rooted Device]
Make sure you have Facebook official app already installed in your smartphone (no need to root), and if the Facebook app is not allowing you to chat with your friends, then try to download the Facebook messenger initially from Google play store, here is the tricky part, before completing the download (100%) cancel the downloading of Facebook messenger (make sure it’s not installing) and yeah, you are ready to use the official Facebook app again to chat with your friends, give a try and tell us if it’s working for you or not!
Method 3).[For rooted device]
STEP 1: Download the official Facebook Messenger App from Play Store.
STEP 2: Download “TITANIUM BACKUP” or “DISABLE APPLICATION” App from Play Store
STEP 3: Open Titanium Backup and give it ROOT privileges. Scroll down to Messenger App
STEP 4: Select the Messenger App which will result in a dialog box to open up. Hit the “FREEZE” button which will freeze the application eventually.
STEP 5: Once the app is freezed it will be highlighted in blue tint color.
STEP 6: Now open the Facebook App and go to the Messages section of it.
STEP 7: Choose the person you want to chat with and you are good to go!
Enjoy the freedom until it lasts! Feel free to let us know if there are any other method and we will update this post with those methods too!
Thanks for making this tutorial
Well explained
When I view a phone I have taken from the camera and click the share icon, selecting Google Messenger (my default SMS) does not bring the photo in to the Messenger app. It just asks which Messenger conversation I want to use, then opens a new message as blank. Why doesn't the photo load?
ergalthema said:
When I view a phone I have taken from the camera and click the share icon, selecting Google Messenger (my default SMS) does not bring the photo in to the Messenger app. It just asks which Messenger conversation I want to use, then opens a new message as blank. Why doesn't the photo load?
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I just tried this myself and a new conversation opened with the attached photo. I'm not sure why it didn't load for you.
You may want to try rebooting then attempting again.
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Rip Syntaxx said:
I just tried this myself and a new conversation opened with the attached photo. I'm not sure why it didn't load for you.
You may want to try rebooting then attempting again.
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I rebooted and still have the problem. I am opening the S5 camera app, tapping the photo icon to open the most recently taken photo, tapping the share icon, and then choosing Messenger. The photo does not show up as an attachment.
Social Contact Photo Sync
Just try this app. It allows to link local contacts with social contacts and to keep the local contacts automatically in sync with a linked social contact.
It supports:
GooglePlus
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook (only with ROOT and the original facebook app)
WhatsApp (you have to force whatsapp to download new pictures by opening a contacts picture in whatsapp, the rest is handled by the app)
Viber (still in there, actually, this is currently not really usable, you can just link a contact with a viber picture, but you can't sync with new picutures)
The app tells you in more detail, what you have to care about, if you want to automatically sync your contact pictures...
Any feedback or suggestion is appreciated.
The app is completely free, the in app purchase just removes the adds. Functionality is free
Get the app from the playstore: Social Contact Photo Sync
Guide/Tutorial: http://www.michaelflisar.com/social-contact-photo-sync-general/
how can i force the app to automatch the contct sync???
Start the batch auto sync setup dialog and click the headers of the groups (like 90 to 100% and so on, all the way down to 0 to 10% if you really want that), this will select the complete group at once. This way you can select all your contacts and use the best match as auto sync contact...
I still advice you to once look through the list and disable or correct all the wrong matches... Afterwards my advice would be to scroll through your contacts and only look at the ones withaut an auto sync contact and if you know you have this friend in one network, manually set up those contacts one by one... This is my prefered way to do it...
PS: a complete guide is online here: http://www.michaelflisar.com/social-contact-photo-sync-general/
Is there any place where I can download older versions? Becuase I wanna test if I am doing something wrong (even if I believe I do the same as earlier) or the last 2 versions are buggy in importing facebook friends via csv copy - getting error code 14.
this error code comes from using the root method normally - just change the root method of facebook to method 3, this one should work (click on the facebook card on the home screen and click setup facebook)
If you really just want to import the csv and don't have a facebook app installed and are not rooted, then just send a feedback via the app after something went wrong...
prom85 said:
this error code comes from using the root method normally - just change the root method of facebook to method 3, this one should work (click on the facebook card on the home screen and click setup facebook)
If you really just want to import the csv and don't have a facebook app installed and are not rooted, then just send a feedback via the app after something went wrong...
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I am on Android N Preview 3 which is not working with the root method. And meawhile, I realized that the fault is mine, not the app's. I opened the csv file with a different text editor (Solid Explorer's), not with that one which I used earlier (MiXplorer's text editor) and somehow it showed in a different format I guess which I copied and the app didn't like that. I reinstalled MiXplorer, opened the csv file with it, copy paste and now it's importing fine again.
zalcsooo said:
I am on Android N Preview 3 which is not working with the root method. And meawhile, I realized that the fault is mine, not the app's. I opened the csv file with a different text editor (Solid Explorer's), not with that one which I used earlier (MiXplorer's text editor) and somehow it showed in a different format I guess which I copied and the app didn't like that. I reinstalled MiXplorer, opened the csv file with it, copy paste and now it's importing fine again.
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thanks for the info...
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Social Contact Photo Sync
[*]Facebook (only with ROOT and the original facebook app)
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any way to avoid the dinosaur-official fb app?
Either use the non root method or just deinstall the Facebook app again after my app has imported the contacts
Opened WhatsApp image bt nothing happened.
The app says we need to manually open WhatsApp image then share it to this app then select which contact to be changed.
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@prom85 Could you please let me know where all the pictures are stored (exact location)?
jerryn70 said:
Opened WhatsApp image bt nothing happened.
The app says we need to manually open WhatsApp image then share it to this app then select which contact to be changed.
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The new WhatsApp changed in the way that there is no local image I could use anymore... so this new integration is all I can offer...
perce_ption said:
@prom85 Could you please let me know where all the pictures are stored (exact location)?
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Don't know what you want to know... my app only stores the images directly in your contacts...
prom85 said:
Don't know what you want to know... my app only stores the images directly in your contacts...
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I am just looking for the way of removing all pictures at once. Or sync-forcing (with overwritting of old pics).
perce_ption said:
I am just looking for the way of removing all pictures at once. Or sync-forcing (with overwritting of old pics).
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Whereever your Android contacts app does save it. Normally it's a database.
You can force my app to auto sync all contacts without checking if an image was changed though, go to general settings, click on advanced settings and click on the last entry in the dialog that pops up... afterwards an auto sync will overwrite an contacts image with an active auto sync without checking if the images has changed or not
I just purchased the pro version! I have had android for seven or eight years but never really had correct contact photos so thank you for this wonderful app. It makes it so easy. I noticed this app's logo shows the linkedin logo but syncing with the linkedin network isn't obvious to me. How can I do this?
LinkedIn is not working anymore. I had a root method that worked once, but then they changed their app and now this method is not working anymore.
Official LinkedIn integration is not possible either (via login to LinkedIn), I already tried it but they won't accept my app. As a primary business network they do not accept apps that access data in background without direct user interaction, this is against their usage rules.
I'm still getting the {"code": 403, "error_type": "OAuthForbiddenException", "error_message": "You are not a sandbox user of this client"} when trying to add Instagram. Just wanted to know if everyone else is still seeing this?
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I'm still getting the {"code": 403, "error_type": "OAuthForbiddenException", "error_message": "You are not a sandbox user of this client"} when trying to add Instagram. Just wanted to know if everyone else is still seeing this?
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Everyone should have this error... LinkedIn changed their usage rules at 01.06.2016, so I had to submit my app again and currently am waiting for approval... I'm not sure if they will though...
I have the same error code.
Hello guys, I switched from IOS to android and I do not regret my decision ... Except: I don't like it, that on android version of whatsapp every incoming photo is saved automatically.
Before you answer me please consider the following: I know that I can deactivate auto-media-download in the whatsapp settings but that is jot what I search. I also know the .nomedia solution, which also fits not my expectations. I just want a IoS-like method with which you can look at the photos and then safe them manually if you want to.
I have a huawei p9 lite device, which is rooted and has xposed framework installed. Thanks a lot for your help.
1. Open the app and go to the main chats screen. From here click on the three vertical dots and then open settings.
2. Now that you're in the settings menu, you need to open Chat Settings and then select the Media auto-download option.
3. From here is you will be presented with three further options to let you decide if you want to download content when you're just using mobile data, connected to a Wi-Fi network or when Roaming. You now need to open and deselect the Image, Audio and Video check boxes from each Mobile Data, Wi-Fi and Roaming options.
That's it. You will be asked whether you want to save a Whatsapp photo, audio or video file to your Android device.
Hope it help
No thats not what I search. On ios you can see the photo and then decide if you want to save it or not. But still you can see the photo. With your method I cant see whats on the photos. On ios you can see whats on the photos without saving them...
so you want image preview?
1. Open WhatsApp.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Tap on Notifications.
4. Scroll down and choose show Preview.
JimyFox said:
so you want image preview?
1. Open WhatsApp.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Tap on Notifications.
4. Scroll down and choose show Preview.
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That option is not available on android ...
Hi,
I just received my work phone and I'm using dual sim.
Now I've always seen app twin function on my previous P10. But now I'm trying to use the whatsapp app twin. When I go into settings and enable the whatsapp app twin, it'll create the app.. but when I open the app it instantly uses my private whatsapp information. So both apps open up the same whatsapp account.
Is there something I have to do first or is it not yet optimized for EMUI 8.1?
thank you.
Same here
The problem persists under EMUI Version 9.1.0
Here the process to reproduce the issue:
1. Install WhatsApp
2. Go to settings | Apps | App Twin | turn on the switch to create a "work profile copy" of the "WhatsApp"
3. Go to app drawer and find the WhatsApp icon with the little "work profile" extra icon attached
4. Open that "work profile" WhatsApp
5. The WhatsApp welcome dialogue appears (like when first time starting WA after installation)
6. Enter your account data and verify your phone number
7. WhatsApp asks for permission to "contacts" and "local storage" (work profile contacts should be empty, because I did not set up any account for the work profile)
8. grant access to "contacts" and "local storage"
9. Go on "new conversation" in WhatsApp and see, that there are all your contacts shown .... This is the problem!
An app started unter the work profile should be isolated from my "normal" profile (Google account). That is the idea behind using the work profile. But it is not working...
The app "Shelter" works for me (even thoug it claims, that it is not compatible with EMUI).
--> Google Play | search for "net.typeblog.shelter"