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Facebook Push Notification for Leo

I've been using blackberry for a while and the facebook application on it is perfect. Now after switching to Leo, I've noticed that the FB app on that one is weak.. I just would like to know if there is a better app out there. The most important function I'm after is the push notification; I would like to get a notification on my phone(either on Home or maybe a specific tab), each time I get a notification on FB. I came across Babbler for Android, I believe what I'm looking for is something like that...
Thanks in advance for the help

xbiggyl said:
I've been using blackberry for a while and the facebook application on it is perfect. Now after switching to Leo, I've noticed that the FB app on that one is weak.. I just would like to know if there is a better app out there. The most important function I'm after is the push notification; I would like to get a notification on my phone(either on Home or maybe a specific tab), each time I get a notification on FB. I came across Babbler for Android, I believe what I'm looking for is something like that...
Thanks in advance for the help
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What He Said...

not at this time. Get use to using the browser with the full site.

Jamison904 said:
not at this time.
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booo, a shame

Jamison904 said:
not at this time. Get use to using the browser with the full site.
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The site (especially http://touch.facebook.com ) is not bad but the option I'm missing from blackberry is the push notification. The only I managed to get notifications now is via email

you can get texts from facebook whenever you get messages or posts or whatever. unless your trying to not use texts of course it wont help

lbhocky19 said:
you can get texts from facebook whenever you get messages or posts or whatever. unless your trying to not use texts of course it wont help
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I'm familiar with this option; however, I'm looking for a more "integrated" application (with the OS I mean) such as the one for Blackberry.. I really hope people at Facebook or Microsoft will develop something similar..

That's the ONLY reason I'm hanging onto my blackberry. WinMo's FB app SUCKS. I was just trying this morning different apps which claim they can sync up. So far I haven't found anything that remotely compares to BB's interface. *sigh*

Try this: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-fim-facebook-instant-messenger.html
It has a mode that integrates with the web, and seems to cache your credentials so that you don't have to manually log on. It does have some ads but it's free.
Oh, and of course it lets you do FB IM messages.
Marc

Facebook Apps!
If you do some forum thread searching you will find a couple of interesting items regarding this issue...
1) There is a thread from the writers of the Microsoft Facebook APP, who ARE aware of the limitations of the standard app, and are working on an improved version for WM!
2) There is also a team of equally pi$$ed off WM users who want a decent FB app, that have start writing their own! At present they are assembling a coding team, but SAMPLE images are available and they are making mighty efforts to accomplish what we all want!

4million people downloaded data-stealing Android app

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-brief/50862-as-many-as-4-million-people-downloaded-data-stealing-android-app
Mike Luttrell | Thu 29th Jul 2010, 08:30 am
A seemingly innocuous Android app that let users change their phone's wallpaper has actually been stealing private user information and may have been downloaded millions of times.
Users should be concerned if they downloaded an app from "Jackeey Wallpaper." While it does perform the functions described in the app download page, it also ends up taking the phone's Internet browser history, mobile phone number, every single text message, and voicemail password. That information is then sent to a website based in Shenzhen, China.
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http://phandroid.com/2010/07/29/another-app-stealing-data/
[Update]: MyLookout chimed in with us to clarify some details that other outlets have been reporting. Specifically, the app does collect data from your phone, but only the device’s phone number, subscriber identifier, and voicemail number fields are retrieved. SMS and browsing history are not touched by any of the apps they analyzed throughout their Blackhat conference. Your voicemail’s password is also not transmitted unless you included the password in your phone’s voicemail number field.
We’re not yet certain on what the developer’s intentions are for using the pieces of data it does send to China – so we can’t outright call it malicious – but it is collecting and sending data nevertheless. Hopefully that clears up some of the confusion everyone’s been faced with regarding the read-only property READ_PHONE_STATE that the application uses to access certain pieces of data.
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So no SMS, browsing history or voice mail password taken.

FOR REAL?!?!

All your data belongs to somebody else
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http://www.tgdaily.com/security-brief/50862-as-many-as-4-million-people-downloaded-data-stealing-android-app
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Free isn't free: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/0...t-all-your-data-are-belong-to…-somebody-else/

Same happened to me with an app posted here for movies
Flixster for android
http://www.flixster.com/
I did find out ON TIME , that someone was messing with my gmail account , had to change my password inmediatly
I received an altert from an IP ( from their site ) trying to change my password !
You've been warned , happened to me !

It's not like it doesn't show you the stuff when you install apps.. And this "Genome Project" thing is out of context nonsense.... 14% of free apps have access to your contacts. You realize that includes IM programs, SMS programs, Email programs, etc....
If you install a wallpaper app that requests access to your Accounts and Contacts, well....
http://www.cyrket.com/search?q=Jackeey+Wallpaper
I don't see such permissions on the 2-3 I looked through, but maybe specific ones did.
Another thing about this "lookout" app and Genome Project.. Look at the permissions on their app on the market:
Permissions: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION , ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION , ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE , CLEAR_APP_CACHE , DISABLE_KEYGUARD , GET_ACCOUNTS , INTERNET , MANAGE_ACCOUNTS , MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS , PERSISTENT_ACTIVITY , READ_CONTACTS , READ_LOGS , READ_OWNER_DATA , READ_PHONE_STATE , READ_SMS , READ_SYNC_SETTINGS , READ_USER_DICTIONARY , RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED , RECEIVE_SMS , VIBRATE , WAKE_LOCK , WRITE_CALENDAR , WRITE_CONTACTS , WRITE_SETTINGS , WRITE_SMS , WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS , WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY , com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS , com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS
What if the 'AV' software itself turns out to be the one stealing data? If anything could, it could.

we get that all apps ask for permission to allow access to our location, contacts, emails etc....but to gather our private info and sell them to China.....thats messed up.
time to sue.

That information is then sent to a website based in Shenzhen, China.
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question:
if this app was downloaded and used by US government....would it be considered as a SPY? lol

It's a big deal, but it illustrates very well that android users are in a ffa environment without someone looking over their shoulder to protect them.
It's good and bad. Some people will call bad on google for not protecting them, but others will see it for the truth of it and know they have to cover their own ass.

Wouldnt a functional firewall app work for this?
cutting off apps access to non essential portions of data...but also from data transmitting?
Flixster is malicious??

pvillasuso said:
Same happened to me with an app posted here for movies
Flixster for android
http://www.flixster.com/
I did find out ON TIME , that someone was messing with my gmail account , had to change my password inmediatly
I received an altert from an IP ( from their site ) trying to change my password !
You've been warned , happened to me !
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Woaaah now... I have used this app on almost ever ROM I flash - downloaded straight from the market each time. I've never had an indication that my information was compromised in any way... Are you 100% sure that Flixster was the culprit? That's a pretty heavy claim for what I think is a very widely used (and recommended) app.

and what about all the gmail notifiers?
More fears:
I will preface this by saying I don't know much about Android security, but to me, it's as secure as any PC.
So: what about gmail notifier apps and apps that ask for access to your gmail account?
Do they have access to your gmail password? Seems like it. So what's to stop malicious gmail notifier developers from stealing your gmail passwords and having their way with your google account, for example, grepping your mailbox for banking information.
Also think about keyboard apps, what's to top malicious keyboard developers from writing a keyboard which logs all your keystrokes to a zipfile then uploads it to a russian server for analysis of B-A-N-K and P-A-S-S-W-O-R-D and then the next keystrokes which follow that?
It doesn't end there. Picture apps which can steal your pictures. Apps which can record your phone conversations and upload the audio to servers a few hours later so you don't notice that data going on.

bwolmarans said:
More fears:
I will preface this by saying I don't know much about Android security, but to me, it's as secure as any PC.
So: what about gmail notifier apps and apps that ask for access to your gmail account?
Do they have access to your gmail password? Seems like it. So what's to stop malicious gmail notifier developers from stealing your gmail passwords and having their way with your google account, for example, grepping your mailbox for banking information.
Also think about keyboard apps, what's to top malicious keyboard developers from writing a keyboard which logs all your keystrokes to a zipfile then uploads it to a russian server for analysis of B-A-N-K and P-A-S-S-W-O-R-D and then the next keystrokes which follow that?
It doesn't end there. Picture apps which can steal your pictures. Apps which can record your phone conversations and upload the audio to servers a few hours later so you don't notice that data going on.
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The same things are possible for a regular computer as well. You can connect to a site and it could execute a download that then snoops your keystrokes and uploads them somewhere.
The difference (so far) is that on android you have to install an app to do that.
The takehome message is to excersize caution and install apps you can verify where they come from and what they do.

This will happen more and more. Mobile is where people are doing most of there communication and beginning alot of banking.
Not just Android all mobile OS.
Like I said a zonealarm/lilsnitch like app would be of great use. Even if logging or reading they still need to communicate out. An easy low mem/bat/cpu usage app that monitors this behaviour would go along way.

This is becomming a bigger issue and we do need some type of security alert monitor!
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13100EVAC2WI
"Mobile apps on Android-powered smartphones and Apple's iPhone can disclose more personal data than most users realize, security vendor Lookout revealed Wednesday at the Black Hat USA 2010 conference in Las Vegas. Rather than being malicious, users often give the apps permission to access data when they are installed...."

jp_macaroni said:
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-brief/50862-as-many-as-4-million-people-downloaded-data-stealing-android-app
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Opps missed this post prior to posting my thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739446

Arcarsenal said:
Woaaah now... I have used this app on almost ever ROM I flash - downloaded straight from the market each time. I've never had an indication that my information was compromised in any way... Are you 100% sure that Flixster was the culprit? That's a pretty heavy claim for what I think is a very widely used (and recommended) app.
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100% sure , I checked out the IP involved , and it pointed directly to their website !!!

pvillasuso said:
Same happened to me with an app posted here for movies
Flixster for android
http://www.flixster.com/
I did find out ON TIME , that someone was messing with my gmail account , had to change my password inmediatly
I received an altert from an IP ( from their site ) trying to change my password !
You've been warned , happened to me !
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Don't be stupid. Flixster is a 100% legitimate app. Don't bad mouth it because you fell for a phishing scam some place else.

GldRush98 said:
Don't be stupid. Flixster is a 100% legitimate app. Don't bad mouth it because you fell for a phishing scam some place else.
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Use it then, who cares anyway ..!
Hope u get your gmail account hacked ...

samagon said:
The takehome message is to excersize caution and install apps you can verify where they come from and what they do.
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Easy to say, but how do you 'verify where they come from and what they do'?

Twitter dead on Timescape?

My Twitter died on Timescape after Oauth change... anybody else with the same problem?
Over the coming weeks, we will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. We are sending this notice to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.
What are applications?
There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, or Topsy, or mobile applications such as Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, or Foursquare.
Update 1: New authorization rules for applications
Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.
What's OAuth?
OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.
Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.
What does this mean for me?
Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.
If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.
Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.
All applications you have authorized will be listed at http://twitter.com/settings/connections.
You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.
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Wait for update from se. It will take some time.
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Twitter on timescape work for me, i am on .26
What error does it give to you ?
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mezo9090 said:
Twitter on timescape work for me, i am on .26
What error does it give to you ?
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Works fine for me to.. I'm on unrooted R2BA020
Edit: Woohoo! 100 posts

R1FB001...
damn SE Brazil...

Avin1973 said:
R1FB001...
damn SE Brazil...
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I bet SE has already taken care of this in recent updates which they have been releasing but your carrier has not. They should have one updates for all the regions.
SE: lets make things complicated.

Recently I changed my username and password on Twitter and my TimeScape can't login to Twitter anymore. It keeps giving the message invalid username/password which is not right. The Twitter app I downloaded works fine with my new information.
I tried logging from TimeScape both with username and email id and get the same problem. Any help?

How well does timescape work for you guys?
I only ask because it has never done a single thing for me, and I have tried to get it to do something many times.
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It doesn't automatically update for me, even though I had it set to fetch every hour, so stopped using it.

Multiple Google Voice accounts?

so basically i want to use two google voice accounts to text from on my phone. I've tried editing the .apk but the recompiled apk force closes. Can anyone help me try to get this to work? Anytips? I'm just trying to basically install the same app twice and have it use diff. db files.

redyns said:
so basically i want to use two google voice accounts to text from on my phone. I've tried editing the .apk but the recompiled apk force closes. Can anyone help me try to get this to work? Anytips? I'm just trying to basically install the same app twice and have it use diff. db files.
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I'd be very interested in that as well.

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You'd have to do more than installing it twice. It would have to be re-written.

Well yeah I know that. You can't install the same app twice with out modifications to it. Then It would have to use a diff.Db for the account info. This is my first time messing with an apk so I have no idea how to make this work
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Doesn't Google Voice integrate its' number into your Sprint line?

decayer177 said:
Doesn't Google Voice integrate its' number into your Sprint line?
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It can if you want it to but you don't have to
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pgill34 said:
It can if you want it to but you don't have to
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How do you make it not? I tried using Google Voice, but it did it automatically and it took forever to revert.
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Titanium Backup (paid version only maybe?) has profiles to load different user data files for an app. You'd have to switch back and forth though. It would probably be easiest to try keeping a web browser logged into Google Voice your second account, setting the user agent to a desktop.
Or just use a second browser app only for this. You won't get instant notifications of incoming texts, but that's about all you can do for now. I don't see Google adding anything like this to the service, honestly.

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Titanium Backup (paid version only maybe?) has profiles to load different user data files for an app. You'd have to switch back and forth though. It would probably be easiest to try keeping a web browser logged into Google Voice your second account, setting the user agent to a desktop.
Or just use a second browser app only for this. You won't get instant notifications of incoming texts, but that's about all you can do for now. I don't see Google adding anything like this to the service, honestly.
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i think the idea is to have the instant notifications. I too have been looking for a solution to this problem for some time. i use multiple voice lines for work, one for hiring/recruiting and one for customers that i tell them is my "personal cell"
i thought the best solution would be to have two voice apks installed but i'm not finding a way to do that.

cowboyaryk said:
i think the idea is to have the instant notifications. I too have been looking for a solution to this problem for some time. i use multiple voice lines for work, one for hiring/recruiting and one for customers that i tell them is my "personal cell"
i thought the best solution would be to have two voice apks installed but i'm not finding a way to do that.
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Couldn't you just set up the separate account to forward to your phone account? You could also go into your GMail settings and set filters to forward all notifications to one account as well.
This would be much easier than hacking the apk...am I wrong?

Facebook Messenger for Android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.facebook.orca
New standalone messenger from Facebook. It's the old 'Beluga' app, redone nicely. Caveat for me though. Galaxy S2 with KG5. It won't let me install it.

Anyone got an apk?
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why u all using this crap apk's,go to main site and see it properly desktop version,i wish there was a desktop version on tweeter too but these idiots dont allow us to see it,only mobile they do

+1 for APK
Riots mean it's unavailable in the UK.

The app is ok.... I'm a little confused as to why it didn't come with the regular app...... If I have time later I will get you guys an apk
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apk link http://goo.gl/XAr07

+1 for the APK please. It doesn't seem to be available in the UK.

Finally I can attach pictures on messages...

APK working
clacks said:
apk link http://goo.gl/XAr07
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Nice, APK worked perfectly on my Inspire 4G!!

I'm a bit confused as to why they didn't integrate this with the main app. The main app has chat builtin too but it's a bit cumbersome to use. And god knows why it's incompatible with out phones.

Does it have group chat? And my problem with the app is that chat and messages are separate even though they are integrated in the site itself

thanks for the apk dude!

Many thanks why isn't this on the market?
My bad it is on the market, when i saw you guys requesting apk, i assumed it wasn't on market. Nice find, been looking for this for a while, the ability to send a message from my phone didn't think it was possible, i guess I never looked hard enough.

For those who dont have this install MarketEnabler and set it to US, then download it from the Market.
This one works for the Chat portion which is iffy on the official App. I dont get why they dont just integrate it like on the site though

This one is not available in india

gosaka said:
This one is not available in india
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Why dont you read my post?

KaliKot said:
Does it have group chat? And my problem with the app is that chat and messages are separate even though they are integrated in the site itself
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It has Group Messaging. Which is the same but from a Messaging instead of Chat perspective. This is a Messaging not Chat app.
How the main Facebook app doesn't merge Messages/Chat is really annoying. This is how it used to be on Facebook.com, it must be at least a year ago but they've never bothered to update the app. I get Message notifications for people trying to Chat but as the app doesn't understand the merge, they never come through.
It's miles better than the Message section in the main app and properly supports Facebook Messages/Chat threading, whereby both appear in Messages.
I've turned off Message notifications in the main app. There's no point getting two notifications for each message.
p.s - Some messages are missing. I open a friend and some of the messages that appear on Facebook.com aren't there in the app.

KaliKot said:
For those who dont have this install MarketEnabler and set it to US, then download it from the Market.
This one works for the Chat portion which is iffy on the official App. I dont get why they dont just integrate it like on the site though
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Working for me, thanks a lot!

is just your facebook inbox with the added group message...
no chat or anything..
works when you have the massage notification and dont want to visit the mobile site all the time..
maybe they release this app because the message section on the regular facebook app is not working properly..

nicpol7 said:
is just your facebook inbox with the added group message...
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Except it works, mostly.
nicpol7 said:
no chat or anything..
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It's a Messaging not Chat app.
nicpol7 said:
maybe they release this app because the message section on the regular facebook app is not working properly..
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I imagine so but why not integrate it? The one in the main app is broke and this should replace it. It's pretty slick.