This might have been a thread in the past, but i'm not sure... feel free to direct me to the thread lol.
So anyway, i just wanna know what all of you have as a facebook app.. what facebook app has the most to offer that you choose over the others?
I personally use the facebook for android and bloo 1.5
The reasons: facebook for android- I just like the widget because I can publish my status right on my home screen and see the news feed real fast..
bloo 1.5- I use this because of the real good notification updates and of course, the facebook chat..
I know "to my knowledge" that there really isn't alot of "complete" facebook apps out there, i just wanna know what all of your insights are about using facebook.. thanks guys
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I'm happy with the Facebook app. I use Nimbuzz for FB chat.
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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It sucks so bad there's like a billion people on there lol. But I personally don't use Facebook either..
Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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Only if you have no friends.
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Only if you have no friends.
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lets not start a flame war. If you don't like facebook, don't use it. If you do like facebook, use it. Some people like iPhones over Android. To each their own.
That being said, back to the topic...
I was wondering this too. The stock facebook app sucks at getting notifications. I was thinking about trying bloo. I don't necessarily need chat (ebuddy for that), just notifications.
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Mokurex said:
Let's not start a flame war? You're the one who started it by saying Facebook sucks.
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No he didnt.
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No he didnt.
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Oops, sorry my bad, mistaken him for someone else.
itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking
Zephyron said:
itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking
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HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.
Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.
I'm sorry, everyone. I guess I kinda did start flames with my comment... I just loathe Facebook a.k.a. MySpace 2.0
It's not that I don't enjoy interacting with friends, but I do that with text messages, phone calls, and real life. I mostly don't like Facebook because of:
1. Bloated, ugly interface
2. Constantly changing (not for the better)
3. Completely bullsh** privacy settings
Anyhoo...
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Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.
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Yes, it is complete trash. Not all posts show sometimes, your own posts don't show sometimes, posts you've commented on would disappear sometimes, the links to videos and sites don't open most of the time, you can't do a lot of the things you could do on the site, and... I don't feel like going on because I don't use Facebook at all anymore, anyway.
I say that having never owned an iAnything, too. Well, I had an iPod Nano once, but I can't stand iTunes, so I sold it.
Hopefully Zuckerberg will improve the Android app for those that use it.
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HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.
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as the previous posts above mine state, android fb app is trash. the iphone fb app allows you to tag photos, ability to view profile photo properly, swipe through fb photo albums (as opposed to the ****ty arrow buttons for android), event viewing, favorites tab, cant think of the other stuff off the top of my head.
they chose to develop the fb app for iphone more thoroughly than the one for android
i use a combo of android FB for widget, Bloo 1.5 for notifications and Go facebook chat pro.
The best Facebook widget I have used so far is Friendstream which is contained in the Desire Rom port. I have yet to find anything as complete in the market for stock Android. I had high hopes for the app Pure Messenger but it still has a ways to go as it currently does not indicate important info within the title of each post. For instance, a post like "thank you, blah blah blah" will lack the beginning tag Susan>Lisa giving no indication who the post is talking about. The other cool thing about Friendstream is that if you open a post with images, they open directly without going to the web site.
It's really hard to believe that there is nothing decent in the entire market for stock android.
I just use a short cut to the touch site, and fachat for chatting. Haven't cared much for the apps, but don't use facebook as much as others either.
Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser
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Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser
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Yeah that it does, but at least now it tells you if you have any notifications. That's one thing fixed
I think in order for it to be usable though, it needs to stop sending users to the browser. If I wanted to use the browser, I would (and actually do have it bookmarked for when the app gets too annoying).
I would like to have integrated chat and a better picture uploading interface now. Baby steps haha.
i hate that photo bar down the bottom!!!
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Where is the 'Like' button and why on earth can you only see the original status posted by a friend and not any comments made about that status???
I Commented on a friends status only to find out (logged on from my PC) that 4 other people had already commented and so my comment made no sense! lol
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Where is the 'Like' button and why on earth can you only see the original status posted by a friend and not any comments made about that status???
I Commented on a friends status only to find out (logged on from my PC) that 4 other people had already commented and so my comment made no sense! lol
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Yeah I must say coming from the iPhone the facebook app on win mob is terrible! Ok I know its pretty sad saying that but tbh before having my iPhone I didn't use facebook much but because the facebook app on the iPhone was such a pleasure to use I really got in to it... I'm having to use facebook on opera now.
Dump the FB app, it's utterly useless.
Use http://touch.facebook.com instead. Better, faster, and works awesome in Opera.
Thats what I have been using shame there isnt a facebook app that works though..
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Yeah I must say coming from the iPhone the facebook app on win mob is terrible! Ok I know its pretty sad saying that but tbh before having my iPhone I didn't use facebook much but because the facebook app on the iPhone was such a pleasure to use I really got in to it... I'm having to use facebook on opera now.
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Agree !
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Dump the FB app, it's utterly useless.
Use http://touch.facebook.com instead. Better, faster, and works awesome in Opera.
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Ah, thanks for the link ! Mutch better !
yes, this touch page, is very nice, and a billion times better like that app...
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Dump the FB app, it's utterly useless.
Use http://touch.facebook.com instead. Better, faster, and works awesome in Opera.
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Spot on!
Much better!
I'm not hugely into FB but it would of been nice to at least be able to use it as it's a preinstalled app!!
Considering the guy who developed the iphone version of facebook app fell out with apple due to its ridiculous app store approval process, they should get him to make a WM version!
http://touch.facebook.com...rocks...
WM facebook app...sucks..
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Considering the guy who developed the iphone version of facebook app fell out with apple due to its ridiculous app store approval process, they should get him to make a WM version!
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Absolutly !!!
DMAND said:
Considering the guy who developed the iphone version of facebook app fell out with apple due to its ridiculous app store approval process, they should get him to make a WM version!
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We can support this group, and maaaaybe?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=188723771295
Been using the touch.facebook.com for a few days now and you guys are right so much better then the app for WM... but just wondering if anyone else is having an issue with it being slow to update news feeds? Seems to be way behind at times!
ive had that problemw ith the touch site, but the main diffeerence for me between the iPhone app, is the lack of facebook chat, thats a nice feature!
Thanks for the heads-up regarding touch.facebook - didn't know about that! The winmo facebook ap is not very fully featured at all, which is a shame, because it wouldn't be a difficult application to write. That said, browsing being as good as it is on the HD2, i usually just visit the full facebook site. With pinch zooming i find it a breeze to navigate. Touch is probably a more sensible option though i guess. Just replaced my facebook ap quicklink with the facebook touch bookmark
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Been using the touch.facebook.com for a few days now and you guys are right so much better then the app for WM... but just wondering if anyone else is having an issue with it being slow to update news feeds? Seems to be way behind at times!
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Yeah, at the bottom is a link to "Mobile Site" which is m.facebook.com I think - that has the news feed issue fixed, but isn't as finger-friendly (it's not bad tho).
Neither of them allow you to view or tag photos very well IMO, a decent FB WinMo app would be very welcome.
apart from the official facebook app are there any alternatives to it because its a bit of a hit and miss for me.
Nope not really mate..
There is touch.facebook.com though in your browser
Yeah, the 'official' ones always seem to be a bit picky - apart from the Apple one it seems... I've had comments fail to post using the WM Marketplace version of the MS FB app every time when I use the physical QWERTY keyboard, but hardly ever when usin gthe on-screen one, for example. It never failed to post a status update though, on either kb
if you don't like the Touch site, there's always the half-way version at m.facebook.com.
i'm using babbler atm its amazing and notifies you on anything you want instead of just the handfew offered by the official app. gotta say the one for blackberry was actually on par with iphone i gotta say.
Yeah, I used Babbler for quite a while on my G1 - not got around to installing it on the Desire yet. Best thing was that it notified you whenever someone "liked" your status or photo, which no other app does AFAIK
What about bloo? Ive installed that atm cus Babbler seemed slow..
I only had lite though, dunno if pro is faster?
Bloo has always been good IMO
Whats the notifications like? No ones sent me anything yet so i dunno! lol
bloo keeps not letting me read peoples post saying i'm not their friends etc?
Click these links and authorise em mate
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http://www.facebook.com/authorize.p...57a7caf118dda82&v=1.0&ext_perm=publish_stream
http://www.facebook.com/authorize.p...5b57a7caf118dda82&v=1.0&ext_perm=read_mailbox
That should do it
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Click these links and authorise em mate
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http://www.facebook.com/authorize.p...57a7caf118dda82&v=1.0&ext_perm=publish_stream
http://www.facebook.com/authorize.p...5b57a7caf118dda82&v=1.0&ext_perm=read_mailbox
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thanks mate hope this works
shame
I like the sound of babbler, shame it is one of the apps missing from the market at the moment
Will give bloo a go for now
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bloo keeps not letting me read peoples post saying i'm not their friends etc?
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Stop stalking Girls!
I can't get browser touch version working. Browser gives me invalid url error. Anyone the same here?
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Stop stalking Girls!
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ha no i was their friends and i don't get told off for stalking them i get told off for full out flirting
Stupid question but how do you reply to a status comment on bloo? I tried to reply to my own, clicked new post but it put it as my status!
you click your status at the top and post comment took me a while to
Heywhat's going on guys?
So I just went from The BB storm to The HD2 (really wanted nexus) But on the BB facebook would update instantly with notification. Is there any app other than the current app on here that has instant notification. It liek refreshes every 2 hrs
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Heywhat's going on guys?
So I just went from The BB storm to The HD2 (really wanted nexus) But on the BB facebook would update instantly with notification. Is there any app other than the current app on here that has instant notification. It liek refreshes every 2 hrs
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I'm coming from the Iphone and I would like to know the same thing.
I'm new too, coming from android. I couldn't find any... And I don't think there is going to be any, not for WM 6.5. When WM 7 comes out, I'm sure there will be one as good as the one on the other platforms.
In a one word answer, NO. You have to refresh the sucker each and everytime. This is the official MS FB app and its been in need of a complete overhaul since it came out. I have text message updates for facebook but that needs to be set up on FB.
Just like most things WinMo....
Search XDA, there is a Facebook thread here by the developers, basically the app sucks and most likely MS isnt gonna do to much with it till WP7. So good luck, and if you havent d/l the 1.2 update for it, get it. It's not great, but it's ok, I guess.
Coming from the iphone which has an awesome fb app to the very ****ty WM app is dissapointing.
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Coming from the iphone which has an awesome fb app to the very ****ty WM app is dissapointing.
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There are 50 million iphones out there in the world. If Facebook did not have a good app for them, they'd not be the most popular social networking app.
I don't know how many win mo phones are out there. But the app is never going to be anywhere close to what it is on the iphone.
They even have SDKs for iphone and Androind but nothing for WM (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile/)
I have an app call fim by mosko. it is facebook chat, but it sends notifications as well. ITS FREE
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/
2 articles posted this evening, some quite major announcements.
Well I'm suprised nobody's posted this yet...
-Facebook Lives Inside Xperia™
-Next Generation Xperia™ minis
Sorry, but this news is nothing interesting.
I dont care about facebook integration. They need to focus to fix the problems with the ARC instead of doing this.
And the release of some budget phones is also not interesting since this is the ARC place
seriously! FB integration! I dont give a rats arse..LOL
all that junk will only increase battery use and will be added into the list of bloatware to be removed!!
Well.. I'm quite interested.. I use FB a fair bit so I'll be impressed if this is a good integration..... and I'm sure that the update won't just be for this.. they'll also include the 2.3.3 update and numerous bug fixes too.
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me too
+1 for FB integration and an update to Android 2.3.4 and a small mirror to use for video chat will be awesome
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I dont care about facebook integration. They need to focus to fix the problems with the ARC instead of doing this.
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+1 ..... spot on
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+1 for FB integration and an update to Android 2.3.4 and a small mirror to use for video chat will be awesome
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ROFL
instead of all these, I wish they would just put Stock android on this phone. Thats all I am asking...
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http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/
2 articles posted this evening, some quite major announcements.
Well I'm suprised nobody's posted this yet...
-Facebook Lives Inside Xperia™
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Well I was the first one to mention yesterday that there was a Software Upgrade coming out ... but didn't know what was the Upgrade updating.
New ARCs are expected Within a Week or so.
Waiting .....
Anyways .. Thanks a lot for the Info dear.
Gah! This sort of inane crap (who f*!&ing cares if it takes one less click to 'like' something on facebook?) is what makes it take longer to get updates out for the phone (see HTC sense). All of this deep integration means that every time there's a new version of android they have to reintegrate all of this garbage from scratch instead of just plonking the app on top.
There's already a facebook app. It works. We can use it if we want. Or use a browser. Leave it at that. Why does it have to have its tentacles into every part of the phone? IT'S JUST A WEBSITE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
Jesus christ sony, you were heading in the right direction, don't balls it up now.
Is that magic update ready to download?
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@daveybaby - I very much doubt that it will be deep integration.. it will be built into the SE launcher, like TS, and all the other widgets they've created.. that all now floats (mostly) above the OS layer so this FB integration won't affect that.
personallly i don't care of this kind of add. First they should keep android up to date and bugless than after, if they have time to lose adding theses features
I am sure that all bugs will be fixed...the FB talk is a cover up...news cant read 'SE to fix bugs in the next update'. it sounds better for the company when you are releasing a new version with something new, even though it may not be anything many of us care about...and like most of the stock stuff, users who dont like the new FB stuff will not have to compulsorily use it..
Native Google facebook integration has been removed from 2.3.3 and is not back in 2.3.4 either . I'm guessing it would need to be through Timescape and contact integration if they did improve it.
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@daveybaby - I very much doubt that it will be deep integration.. it will be built into the SE launcher, like TS, and all the other widgets they've created.. that all now floats (mostly) above the OS layer so this FB integration won't affect that.
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I hope that's the case.
hopefully this update fixes the most important bug.. the inability to connect to exchange mail.. ffs without that this phone is pretty damn useless... can't sync to my work email =="
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Native Google facebook integration has been removed from 2.3.3 and is not back in 2.3.4 either . I'm guessing it would need to be through Timescape and contact integration if they did improve it.
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I thought that was just for google phones? I thought any phones that were sold with Facebook on the device was unaffected by that?
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I am sure that all bugs will be fixed...the FB talk is a cover up...news cant read 'SE to fix bugs in the next update'. it sounds better for the company when you are releasing a new version with something new, even though it may not be anything many of us care about...and like most of the stock stuff, users who dont like the new FB stuff will not have to compulsorily use it..
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I really hope you're right. It would make sense, actually. Nobody likes to admit that there were bugs on their product. ^^
So, well, nothing else to do apart from crossing fingers.
So I recently flashed a new AOSP rom and to my surprise I could no longer add a facebook account under the accounts option. After doing some more research I found that Google has "switched" it off so it will no longer let you add a facebook account.
http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/02/22/google-android-facebook-contacts/
Friendcaster app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree&hl=en
Only reason i liked it was cause there picture would pop up without me having to do anything but nothing i can live without
Think it has anything to do with them trying to integrate G+ more and have people use that to sync contacts ? I don't personally use G+ but do like Facebook pics in my contacts..
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Well this certainly does explain why I haven't been able to fix the contact sync; I thought it was just me, lol.
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Well this certainly does explain why I haven't been able to fix the contact sync; I thought it was just me, lol.
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Me too. Btw I have a new rom that needs more testing I'll pm it to ya
You guys can try friendcaster the sync still works on there.
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Only reason i liked it was cause there picture would pop up without me having to do anything but nothing i can live without
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Yeah I don't really use facebook really at all anymore. G+ is way better
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You guys can try friendcaster the sync still works on there.
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I tried that once and it kept giving me the notifications over and over again for messages I received even after I read them..kind of annoying. Other then that it worked ok I guess.
Did you turn off notifications.
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No why would I do that? I like to know when I have a message but not over and over again for the same message I already read...
FriendStream
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No why would I do that? I like to know when I have a message but not over and over again for the same message I already read...
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.....FriendStream works too, without the annoying messages.
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.....FriendStream works too, without the annoying messages.
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Sparksco is an AOSP user majorly so you bring up FriendStream to him and he'll probably just give you the middle finger
FriendStream works too, without the messages.....
There's two types of Friendstreams. There's one on Sense roms that I like and works flawlessly without the annoying notifications. Then there's another one from the market that does have annoying messages. On aosp roms you have to use the one from the market. The notifications don't always start doing that right away but after awhile they do. It's a bug in the app itself. Stop acting like I don't know WTF I'm talking about!
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There's two types of Friendstreams. There's one on Sense roms that I like and works flawlessly without the annoying notifications. Then there's another one from the market that does have annoying messages. On aosp roms you have to use the one from the market. The notifications don't always start doing that right away but after awhile they do. It's a bug in the app itself. Stop acting like I don't know WTF I'm talking about!
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Ah ok, I had no clue their was a Freindstream app in the Market, Im just so used to using HTC Sense
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Ah ok, I had no clue their was a Freindstream app in the Market, Im just so used to using HTC Sense
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Yeah when I do run sense it works great. Edited OP for AOSP roms!
Facebook contact integration hasn't worked for me properly for a long time on AOSP. But this integration works fine on Sense.
Side note: One thing I learned when I worked at Facebook is that Google HATES Facebook.
Unrelated: I also noticed that Waze isn't as good at getting a GPS lock on AOSP as it is on Sense. I think that's a bug in Waze though.
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Facebook contact integration hasn't worked for me properly for a long time on AOSP. But this integration works fine on Sense.
Side note: One thing I learned when I worked at Facebook is that Google HATES Facebook.
Unrelated: I also noticed that Waze isn't as good at getting a GPS lock on AOSP as it is on Sense. I think that's a bug in Waze though.
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So what else is new?
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So what else is new?
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It's Friday!
VICODAN said:
It's Friday!
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Hell ya that's what I'm talkin about. Party like a rock star!