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[Q] Facebook Notifications?

Does anyone here who has a facebook acct sign up for mobile alerts? If so how did you get them? I had them working on my Palm Pre now that I got the EVO I sent them a text to 32665 and I never receive anything back soooo is it working for you all?

Globetrahter said:
Does anyone here who has a facebook acct sign up for mobile alerts? If so how did you get them? I had them working on my Palm Pre now that I got the EVO I sent them a text to 32665 and I never receive anything back soooo is it working for you all?
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Set it up in your facebook account on the computer.
www . facebook . com / mobile / ? settings

I went from us cellular to Sprint.. had Facebook notifications to my tp2.. now Sprint kept my number and same thing happened.. update profile and van! Got my txt to Facebook with fb in it to work and got my activation code.. go to setting updates and update profile..
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Can someone explain to me why facebook can't get it together enough to get notifications in the status bar like gmail?

facebook can and does popup on the notification bar. Its just clicking on the notifications takes you to the website.

I get mine on my status bar.. you have to go to the website.. If on phone go to full site.. right side of screen should say connect on the go try facebook mobile.. click..
Look for Facebook text messaging and follow steps.. if you send the txt to.Facebook with fb in it and get no reply like I did... update your profile! wouldn't work for 2 days till I tried that.. sent and received my code.
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Should bring you to the text from Facebook not the website on the notifications bar..
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Ill go to settings/updates/update profile on my phone,
How long does that supposed to take tho, I tried last night and it was taking forever

I am only seeing facebook notifications at the top when I open the app.. Do i just need to leave it running in the background to see these?
For awhile I had just been relying on email notifications, but would prefer to not sync that account..

Update! I started the update profile at 8:38 AM CST, and now on my screen is Device Configuration Teh network is preparing your services....
the time now is 9:19 AM CST..
Is this normal

You guys check out the app "Bloo" from the market. It will give you facebook notifications. Also, try searching for bloo 1.5. It has facebook chat

krazyflipj said:
You guys check out the app "Bloo" from the market. It will give you facebook notifications. Also, try searching for bloo 1.5. It has facebook chat
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Can you post the .apk for 1.5? I searched for it but only see the 1.4 version.
Thanks!

logie said:
Can you post the .apk for 1.5? I searched for it but only see the 1.4 version.
Thanks!
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I don't think we can. Mods took it down on other post but if you search google, you will be able to find it

yeah but now bloo is being shut down,check its blog. were doomed.

Gmail apps vs email app

I actually prefer to use the email app. Problem is, the email app doesn't seem to download updates until I open it (even with it on ignore in Task MGR). Email app set to download every 10 mins. The Gmail app, however, seems to auto download updates.
Any seen or know of a solution?

kud0s said:
I actually prefer to use the email app. Problem is, the email app doesn't seem to download updates until I open it (even with it on ignore in Task MGR). Email app set to download every 10 mins. The Gmail app, however, seems to auto download updates.
Any seen or know of a solution?
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The Gmail app supports push notifications, which means as soon as you get an email, you'll get it on your phone. But with the email app, it resorts to polling (checking for new messages every 10 minutes) so it refreshes only when you open it

Lucky you, but my gmail app doesn't do anything. I feel that its always off since I don't get any email notification on ie.

Makes sense. I just like the look of the email app better, but I guess u need to stick with gmail for the push ability.

Nimche said:
Lucky you, but my gmail app doesn't do anything. I feel that its always off since I don't get any email notification on ie.
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Go to Settings in the Gmail app and make sure that Email Notifications is checked. That's the whole point of using Gmail compared to Hotmail/Yahoo.. (atleast for now)

It annoys me how you can't select multiples in th stock app. I use K9, it has colours (including led flash) for each account, push, and most importantly, multiple select.
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Can the SE email app be removed without causing any problems?

pngface said:
Go to Settings in the Gmail app and make sure that Email Notifications is checked. That's the whole point of using Gmail compared to Hotmail/Yahoo.. (atleast for now)
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It is checked but I don't get any notification. Sorry to hijack the thread but let me know if you guys have any soluition to this,.
Cheers,

Nimche said:
It is checked but I don't get any notification. Sorry to hijack the thread but let me know if you guys have any soluition to this,.
Cheers,
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What about in Settings/Data Sync - I think you need Google Sync, and then Google Mail Sync selected too.

settings ---> data synchronization ---> synchronize with Gmail

right, I forgot to check that back after the 100th times of rooting.
Thank you,

sskeleton said:
settings ---> data synchronization ---> synchronize with Gmail
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nice one thx thats fixed my issue didnt even have to ask lol

Facebook and android

Seriously, bb and facebook rock. Android and fb suck. I get NO notifications. Ever. Why? I dont know why. I read on here that people do get notifications so what the deal is? Why am i not getting any?
This is on stock, on root, cm7, and same issues on my g2 and mt4g, and nether one of my phones with 2 different facebook accounts for two different people get notifications. Is there a setting in facebook on the desktop that im unaware of?
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tackleberry said:
Seriously, bb and facebook rock. Android and fb suck. I get NO notifications. Ever. Why? I dont know why. I read on here that people do get notifications so what the deal is? Why am i not getting any?
This is on stock, on root, cm7, and same issues on my g2 and mt4g, and nether one of my phones with 2 different facebook accounts for two different people get notifications. Is there a setting in facebook on the desktop that im unaware of?
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There are better and alternate facebook apps on the market maybe the notifications will work with those. I have no notification issue myself with the official app but there are other options you can try. Account/sync settings may be some help as well.
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I get messages pushed but no update notifications such as someone posted on my wall or replied to me
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TweetDeck FTW... http://www.appbrain.com/app/tweetdeck-(twitter-facebook)/com.thedeck.android.app
It does Facebook, Twitter and more. Works beautifully.

same here
tackleberry said:
I get messages pushed but no update notifications such as someone posted on my wall or replied to me
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I get the exact same issue, No matter what android phone I had. No notifications are being pushed to my phone at all. I did have it working at some point, but it suddenly stopped.

Yea mine was working when I first had my mt4g, but even then it was not up to date much. Then all the sudden it stopped. Back then I was running iced glacier rom on that phone
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I rarely use Facebook so I'm probably not the best indication of whether notifications are working on not, but I noticed that I used to get them fine with the old version of the app, it stopped working/worked sporadically for about two versions, and then it started working again with the latest update that just came out last week.
Like I said though, I rarely get any notifications to begin with so maybe it is still sporadic and I've just been lucky so far (especially since it seems like a lot of people have had nothing but problems with the latest update).

ianmcquinn said:
I rarely use Facebook so I'm probably not the best indication of whether notifications are working on not, but I noticed that I used to get them fine with the old version of the app, it stopped working/worked sporadically for about two versions, and then it started working again with the latest update that just came out last week.
Like I said though, I rarely get any notifications to begin with so maybe it is still sporadic and I've just been lucky so far (especially since it seems like a lot of people have had nothing but problems with the latest update).
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I downloaded the new version last night.... no changes other than the notifications screen works in landscape
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Ok sadly none of us seemed to think about this...
Typically, when I open facebook, I see a list of posts, then I back out and I see notifications screen, then I back out again and think its still running but in reality, its actually turned off.
Instead of backing out of the program like anything else, just hit the home button to exit fb and notifcations work just fine.
sent from the rooty tooty fresh and fruity cm7 nighly powered G2

tackleberry said:
Seriously, bb and facebook rock. Android and fb suck. I get NO notifications. Ever. Why? I dont know why. I read on here that people do get notifications so what the deal is? Why am i not getting any?
This is on stock, on root, cm7, and same issues on my g2 and mt4g, and nether one of my phones with 2 different facebook accounts for two different people get notifications. Is there a setting in facebook on the desktop that im unaware of?
Sent from prison
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Same here. I am also using the official app and no notifications are being pushed to me either, and they are enabled. I am running stock software on my G2. My girlfriend has Mytouch 3G and she gets the notifications. Pretty weird stuff.

I just did the facebook app update the other day and my notifications are now working.
I am running CM 6.1.1
make sure in facebook app settintgs you have a CHECK next to notifications and refresh interval set to 1 hour.
also make sure contact sync is ON, which might help?

I don't use facebook.

Ehh, I'm not gunna complain, the fb is 100% better than it was half a year ago.lol. but yeah, +1 for the no notifications.
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well like i said above, dont back out of the program, just hit the home button and leave it running.
if using a task killer, ignore FB. i have been getting notifications since yesterday when i tried this. apparently, FB must be running in order for notifications to work, exiting the program or killing it completely does not allow for push notifications to run thru.

Flow for Facebook is a really good alternative app. It has an option to use the email notifications you get from facebook and switch that over to use for the app. For example, If someone comments on my post I will see the email thing appear but it will disappear and switch to the flow notification saying its for facebook and what not. Theres an option to delete the emails too when it gets notified(paid version). Try it out, I have both official and flow. Flow is so i get instant notifications and the official is just for playing around because flow doesnt have chat yet.

Congrat' : you've just given your Fb IDs to a private company !
but same probleme here... I wish I could receive several sort of notifications... (birthday, event...). Now, I just receive mail....

I get notifications you need to set it up in facebook? If you not done that take a look at privacy settings. I requested on notifications when people add me on post on my wall that's it to many get really annoying......
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I don't bother with the FB app notifications, they don't seem to work anyway. I just use the FB texts.

Well, I gave up on the FB App notifications months ago. So I just set up my account so it sends me texts anytime I get a notification. Way easier, at least for me. I didn't have that many problems with notifications still, but they were always late. Like a minute or so. Texts are faster, at least with me. Just saying :3

I never have problems getting notification from fb. They also are going right thru gmail
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Facebook push notifications

They just started up for me again. Anyone else?
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they've never worked for me
not on 2.2 or 2.3
facebook needs new developers. whoever is in charge of that app is clearly terrible at their job

I haven't seen Facebook use push notifications on any Android phone yet.
They have polling settings (30 minutes, an hour, etc), but not push. There's not even an option for push.

the changelog said after a certain version update it enables the push notification. But.. never worked for the though...

Pretty sure they only work for certain types of notifications and you have to make sure they are enabled.

They have been off and on again. And for me, they are now on.

I just got one a few minutes ago also.. it's been a while..

I was wondering about that. it started yesterday....so, it works for me now

Finally, some useful replies.
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What do you have to do to enable push notifications instead of pull?

mindfrost82 said:
What do you have to do to enable push notifications instead of pull?
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they've never even said. the developers are the worst
they put "push updates" in the changelog yet there's not even settings for it
and left in the polling settings. which only work for a few things anyway
it's a total mess

your better off using Flow for Facebook by Chris Banes

mattpannella said:
facebook needs new developers. whoever is in charge of that app is clearly terrible at their job
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Agreed. The Facebook app is ****ing horrendous. Heads should be rolling over there at the awfulness of their app... yet they keep updating the worthless sorry excuse for an app.

facebook push for me right now.

Seems to get worse with every update...
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I set "Never" for "Refresh interval" and enabled "Notifications". I do receive push notification for all Messages and Event invites.

I think that you need to be signed into chat to enable push notifications.

Rusty! said:
I think that you need to be signed into chat to enable push notifications.
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I don't see a way to not be signed onto chat, not permanently at least. Regardless I am always signed in and get no push updates for anything but chat.

Once you sign out, it stays signed out, it's pretty permanent for me.

Rusty! said:
Once you sign out, it stays signed out, it's pretty permanent for me.
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I thought that might be true, but have no way to verify it since after signing out when i go back to the chat screen i am signed in again. Really poor interface, have we mentioned recently how terrible the apps developers are?

[Q] Facebook Notifications????

Just today I started receiving facebook notifications on the top notification bar but I have never signed into facebook from the phone. I also checked the website and all of my notifications are turned off. I only get them when someone sends me a message and when I drag the bar down and click on it nothing happens. It is becoming really annoying so I would greatly appreciate any help.

If its popping under notifications then it would be because of a facebook app that u must of signed into at one point in time and to shut off notifications go into the face book app when the app loads push back sp yr at the screen of fifteenth options then just click the button next to the home button to bring up setting witch u can fix in there or just easily sign out
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I have never signed into the Facebook app on the phone. In fact, I just did a factory reset after I had to SBF back to froyo to install the pre-rooted gingerbread. I even tried deleting the facebook app and still got the notifications. It shows up like an email notification, but with the email when you click on it it opens the email. With this notification, if you click on it, it just goes away but nothing else happens.

Then I have no clue of how to help u but if u don't have anything installed on ur phone yet u could all ways try to do another factory reset
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I never said I didn't have anything on my phone; I did a factory reset a week ago and since then I have installed alot of the apps/games I had prior. Facebook was one of the apps I installed, but I never signed in. Never before today have I received these notifications. I didn't think it was the facebook app since I never signed in, but I deleted it anyway and still got the notification. This would lead me to believe it is not linked to the actual facebook app itself. Within the past day, I have done anything that would lead me to believe it was behind these notifications.

Did you add a Facebook account through Blur? That is another possibility as the built in account system sends you notifications for some things, including messages.

paradox41 said:
Did you add a Facebook account through Blur? That is another possibility as the built in account system sends you notifications for some things, including messages.
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Yes, but the reason I didn't think it was that is because the notifications just began yesterday and I have received messages prior to that with no notification. Do you know where I can get to the settings for that? When I go into "My Accounts" and click on Facebook it only gives me the option of removing account.