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Two Facebook apps...

Hi, it's my first post here. I've got a brand new Desire HD, unlocked, and I've noticed something strange.
I think it's strange because on my previous device (a Desire) it acted different.
I've got two Facebook apps installed (by default): Facebook (for android) and Facebook for HTC Sense. The first is version 1.3.2, the latter is version 1.0. Now, on the old Desire the version 1.3.2 was installed from the market ON TOP of the Facebook for HTC Sense, so there was only one Facebook app.
I cannot unistall both of them, so it's somehow boring.
Anyone noticed that too? Is it normal for the Desire HD? (well, I don't think it's pretty normal, because the device sometimes asks me to link 2 equals Facebook, one on normal facebook and the other on facebook htc sense, contacts together )
Thanks for any opinion and advice.

I know exactly how you mean.
I've also tried to link my contacts to Facebook, but it says I have no contacts, yet Facebook is set up on my device. Confusing.

New HTC Sense sucks really!

s32bauer said:
I know exactly how you mean.
I've also tried to link my contacts to Facebook, but it says I have no contacts, yet Facebook is set up on my device. Confusing.
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I always set the device to use Facebook for HTC Sense to sync my contacts, then disable the official facebook app(only disable the contact sync).
Thats always worked for me, sometimes (on my hero) the contacts didn't sync immediately but they always did eventually.
Make sure you're logged into both, in settings>accounts and sync.
@ Meesayen: you shouldn't have two facebook icons, I only have facebook and friendstream. Try either uninstalling the official facebook and reinstalling, if not then a hard reset would most likely sort it..

i've got this problem too, although one of the first things i did when i turned the DHD on was to download the facebook app, not realising it was already on there. but thats not the thing thats bugging me the most. the biggest gripe i've got right now is getting notifications to pop up whenever i get a facebook notification. i only know someone has written on my wall, for example, when i open the FB app and it refreshes.
has anyone figured out how to get facebook notifications to pop up in the taskbar?

reelist said:
has anyone figured out how to get facebook notifications to pop up in the taskbar?
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Install Tweetdeck for free or F+ for other notifications like birthdays.

reelist said:
has anyone figured out how to get facebook notifications to pop up in the taskbar?
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email notifications are the best lol

spaco22 said:
email notifications are the best lol
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haha! i forgot about this. for some reason when i was using a blackberry my email notifications had been turned off on facebook. they come through fine now. still not ideal, but i can live with it.
another question i had - whenever i open up a notification through the facebook app, it always launches the page in a browser and not the app. is this just me? now and then i'll get to see someones wall in the app but 9 times out of 10 it launches in the browser.

Although I don't have my DHD yet I woulser if you can use bloo I currently use it and think its the best fb app but wonder if it will mess with sense fb
http://www.luvdroid.com
Sent from my HTC Magic

hi guys,
i set up both facebook apps (facebook for android and facebook for sense), same with twitter.
but my problem is, everytime my device is syncing with facebook/twitter, it updates my contact pictures with the one from facebook and if there is nothing, with the ones from twitter.
i can manually set to use the phone contact picture, but everything is gone after the next sync.
i think facebook/twitter for htc sense is causing this problem. is there anyway to stop that something is changing my contact pcitures?
is there a setting in the accounts & sync tab? couldnt find any
any ideas?
thanks a lot so far.

it looks like the problem is gone since i got my phone rooted...could it be the reason or just luck?

[Q] Calendar dead

Please can someone tell me how to remove Facebook birthdays from the calendar? It's added hundreds and now my calendar is dead, wont work at all.
Thanks
Matt

Done this today to try and find out why Calendar is eating so much power... Open the calendar, Menu, More, Calendars and then uncheck the Facebook one.
Still uses a very high% of battery...

I'm new to Android so I have a few noob questions, my HD is on pre order and I need to clear this up first before I get the phone. When you sync it for the first time with Facebook does it let you choose what you want to sync or does it automarically sync your Facebook friends into your contacts and calendar etc. ? Basically I just want the Facebook app on my phone but I don't want it to integrate into my contacts, calendar etc.

clear your calender cache and files in. options --> applications --> all installed applications --> calender.

Holy crap, now my calendar is using 60% of my battery!!! What a pile of junk! That's AFTER removing all the facebook stuff.
No way should I have to wipe all my calendar entries cos of this crap. I had to clear my news app cos that broke last week.
This phone is getting worse and worse, simple things that should work without trouble are constantly being a pain in the arse.

Calm down man. Check your sync settings with Gmail/HTCSense. If they are too frequent (or push) lower the frequency. If they are normal try reading a little bit on the subject. It's called a smartphone because sometimes it thinks on itself and that means doing things u don't want/like. U just need to be smarter than it
Some people complained of the hungry Calendar as well and for many the issue was that they had more than one widget using calendar on the homescreens. If u got let's say Agendas, Calendar and Friendstream as widgets try removing one or two
success

Thanks. For my homescreens I have...
News / Calendar / Blank (shortcuts) / Clock and shortcuts / Email / Friendstream / Bookmarks.
All my syncing is like 2-4 hours.
The calendar running at 60% explains why I've been getting occasional days with bad battery usage (which is normally ok for a few days after restarting the phone).
I've now wiped the calendar, uninstalled the Facebook one (or rather just didn't reinstall it). Restarted the phone and I'm gonna see what happens today now.

Another calendar issue

My calendar has started being a real pain in the backside today. I was reading a few topics on the calendar and after checking my battery usage daily I thought my calendar had started using a lot more battery than it used to (used to be around 5-8% on a full charge, recently its been 15-20%).
So I wasn't able to find any fix in the other threads and someone suggested clearing the data from the app manager which I did. The problem now is that my calendar is messed up. I only use it for birthdays linked via facebook and holidays. It is showing the holidays fine but it is no longer showing birthdays. It shows some (3 to be exact) however there used to be waaaaay more as it showed all my facebook contacts birthdays. The 3 people that it is showing seem to just be random and it says they've been linked from facebook.
The good news is that my calendar battery usage is back down to below 5%, but maybe that's because it isnt even working as it should.
Anyone have any suggestions. I really don't want to do a factory reset. It took me about 3-4 hours to sort out my contacts and link them all correctly so doing that again would drive me mad (unless there is some way I can do a backup which includes the contact links?)

Sorry, I can't help you but HTC clearly has issues with Google Calendar. My calendar eats battery and often sits at the "Loading" screen. I see lots of issues on the forum, and few solutions. Time HTC fixed it.

Hi,
Yeah its a known issue. I have the same problem. I e-mailed HTC about is last week and they replied saying that they know about it and should be fixed in an update soon.
~Sean

Hello!
I tried the clear-data for the calendar and the battery consumption has dropped to normal levels again.
Thing is my Facebook birthdays are not showing up anymore (at least most of them...).
Also, I would like to ask another thing.
Is there a way for the calendar to display birthdays for people that you don't have as friends in facebook but you have their birthdays stored in your phone contact list??
And one final question. If you go to Google calendar online (from a PC) there is an option to have your favorite teams' schedules on your calendar. Is there a way for these schedules to appear on your phone calendar as well?
Thanks!

DanteGR said:
Hello!
I tried the clear-data for the calendar and the battery consumption has dropped to normal levels again.
Thing is my Facebook birthdays are not showing up anymore (at least most of them...).
Also, I would like to ask another thing.
Is there a way for the calendar to display birthdays for people that you don't have as friends in facebook but you have their birthdays stored in your phone contact list??
And one final question. If you go to Google calendar online (from a PC) there is an option to have your favorite teams' schedules on your calendar. Is there a way for these schedules to appear on your phone calendar as well?
Thanks!
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I have the exact same facebook birthday issue because I did the exact same clear data thing. Battery consumption from the calendar has disappeared thankfully but now the facebook birthdays don't appear.
I eventually gave up and left it. Day by day the facebook birthdays have been appearing strangely. Initially only 2 friends birthdays were appearing after clearing the calendar data, then the next day there were about 4, then the next day a few more and its gradually populating the calendar. There are still some missing but I'm hoping they will appear soon as everyday there seems to be some more added.
It is very strange but give it a few days and see if it starts populating.

Same here. Cleared the calendar data and it has resulted in similar effects (improved battery, weird calendar). I'm surprised that such basic functionality (HTC syncing with Google calendar using a Google OS) has caused such problems.
Oh, any syncing my favourite team (the one and only Glasgow Celtic) would be nice. Any ideas? I have Celtic's fixtures in Google Calendar on a PC but they don't appear in my syncs.

A few minor issues with Desire Z

First of all, this isn't a major issue, or may be due to T-Mobile or something, but my phone is 1+ minutes behind everywhere else, like train/bus times, TV, computers, etc..
It also means when I get a text message, then reply within a minute, it puts my reply before the text message...
Also, how the f**k do I stop Facebook syncing?
I have both Facebook and Facebook for HTC Sense under "Accounts & Sync" and Facebook is fine, it just syncs contacts and works
Facebook for HTC Sense however, syncs both contacts and live feed. They DON'T sync at all, no matter how long you leave them, it just shows the syncing icon. I disabled them both, but when I restart my phone they're back again
Another issue is that sometimes the internet just won't load any pages sometimes. The bar just loads like 90% then stops and won't load anything until I restart my phone (again, this could be T-Mobile)
Any suggestions? I'm using the stock ROM (before OTA) with S-OFF

What the heck? I probably won't provide any useful information, but perhaps your settings aren't set to automatically detect the time?

I don't have any real solution for you but if you have s/off and you like sense why don't you try flashing virtouos rom or do a wipe and factory reset.
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Thanks for the replies
It's definitely set up to use the network time. Not sure why it sets the time of my messages to 1 minute behind, but the texts I receive have the proper time (1 minute in front of my phone time)
bahmanxda, I don't really bother with custom ROMs. I've tried a few but don't see the point in them (I use the stock ROM but removed all the bloat and other rubbish from them, plus I don't want to overclock my CPU yet)

Maybe you could remove the "Facebook for HTC Sense" account altogether from "Accounts & Sync?"

I use the Facebook app though, and I also use the Facebook contacts sync, will removing it affect either of those?

Calendar wake locks

Hello. I am using ki8 and siyah kernel. I am getting insane levels id wake lock due to calendar. I believe it is the same as an old aosp bug. Can some one direct me further on what to do next, I don't think deleting calendar sync is an option.
Yeah. 40% over 10 hours is good worth that usage..except I wasn't using the phone except at the beginning.
Thank you
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Just had one of these yesterday running villainrom 3
It happened because I had locked the screen in the middle of setting a calendar event without saving or cancelling. I guess it got stuck in awake and killed my bat as well.
Exited and it's been fine so far.

I have that wakelock also. It's really bad when I have busy schedule. I notice it has something to do with reminder alarm. If no reminder alarm set for an appointment, it seems fine though. Any one else having this wakelock? This wakelock really drain battery.

p.s. I have seen this thread but that is more about identifying the issue. now we have I think it is worth seeing if this is a ki8 only issue, or ki3 or (2.3.5) our ki4 (2.3.4)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Also this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288998

Two more...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16834540&postcount=1544
possible solution...?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192696
Most likely solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18122513

So to isolate and confirm what other people have said...
First I tried different calendar alert settings. No difference.
I have now reset my calendar data and re-synced. I will update tomorrow if phone refuses to sleep after first calendar alert.
If that fails I shall remove first built-in calendar; and then google calendar from calendar app.
Finally if that fails I will try uninstalling Samsung apps one by one. (I always did SNS and hub apps. I never turned dive on)

Read the discussion in this thread (posted earlier) where a couple of us discuss what is going on with Calendar. However in my case, I don't use Calendar much so I simply uninstalled it with Titanium Backup. Now I don't get any more wakelocks but I also don't have a calendar, so it's up to you.

claimui said:
Read the discussion in this thread (posted earlier) where a couple of us discuss what is going on with Calendar. However in my case, I don't use Calendar much so I simply uninstalled it with Titanium Backup. Now I don't get any more wakelocks but I also don't have a calendar, so it's up to you.
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shutting down services selectively didn't seem a solution to me. I can say that wiping data for the three calendar apps and re syncing helped,. I had zero wake locks today inspite of a massive schedule that meant I couldn't even dismiss the events this afternoon except once I needed to make a call.
I wonder if calendar didn't like google assisted upgrade.
I shall monitor that.
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Well I think that cracked it. Turn off calendar sync.
Wipe calendar data and re-enable calendar sync.
I cannot remember which forum I read that but kudos to that one and shame not more people tried it.

I was getting wakelocks as well with the calendar so i froze it in Titanium and i use Calandar One and no wakelocks (and it's much better than the stock one too)