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[Q] Facebook sync

I cannot synchronize FB contacts with phone contats. It says that synchronization is not available. Does anyone know why is this happening?

Try using the Facebook from the Market, Works a lot better than the defaults on the Galaxy

did you try By contact , get friend, add account, add account, facebook (integrated contact account)?
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freshko said:
I cannot synchronize FB contacts with phone contats. It says that synchronization is not available. Does anyone know why is this happening?
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I have the same problem.. really annoying!

arch3rm said:
Try using the Facebook from the Market, Works a lot better than the defaults on the Galaxy
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Just tried this one.
It works but it adds the contacts 2-3 times and no pictures...

It sais to me: Sync is currently expecting problems. It will be back soon.
However, it does not look like it will be any soon
If I use Market FB application for sync, it adds friends but without pictures.

I saw this problem mentioned in czech android forum, they are having the same problem since friday. So I think its some server related problem which will be fixed soon.

Mikulec said:
I saw this problem mentioned in czech android forum, they are having the same problem since friday. So I think its some server related problem which will be fixed soon.
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Sweet... better try to have some patience then. Not my strong side

i synchronized yesterday with the stock app and everything is OK, all contacts with pictures....

I am having the same problem.
Calender sync. seems to work.
contacts not worked for several days.

However, it is strange that not everyone has these problems.
I can also synchronize everything but contacts (History and Activities are working)

Maybe its depending on the ROM you have installed. The European Version seems to have the problem, that syncing Facebook contacts is not possible, without installing the facebook app. But if you cync with the app, you have the problem, that the number of linked people is rising with the reboots you are doing....
Have a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742229
So for me, with JF3 Rom and kernel-version 2.6.29 its not possible to sync with facebook...
Very sad!

Worked until yesterday on JM5 with Samset 1.9b.
But after I reflashed it i can't sync. Same ROM and all.. strange.

I remember on my old HTC Magic, i could sync my contacts to their facebook pages, i cant seem to do this on my SGS although i can sync my facebook contacts to my phonebook...
Any idea's?

The problem suddenly arose for me too just the other day. Then I had JM2, no root or other fixes.
Now I'm sitting on JM5 + SamSet 1.9b + lag fix and the problem is still there. I'm just assuming that there are some sever issues atm. I'm from sweden so the theory that it is european-related still holds.
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Yeah must be something server related.
Tried removing the Samsung Mobile app from facebook and letting it install again. But did´t help either.

Same problem for me, even with the stock JF3 firmware. Now I'm on JM5 and still the same. I hope either FB or Samsung are aware of the issue and are trying to fix it.
I'm from France by the way.

Hi Guys, I'm on XWJM5, I got my issue resolved, posted at another thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747106
the issue begin after Facebook release version 1.3.1 for Android.
Check the following thing
1. At your Facebook sync (under "More account" setting), select "Don't sync"
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This does not solve the problem.
I still get: Sync is not available at the moment. It will be back soon.

I had the same issue and fixed it two or three days ago.
It seems the sync in the new 1.3.1 app from the market has issues (probably just with SGS) but can sync contacts (sometimes repeatedly) without any other data like pics. I tried to resolve this several times using the new 1.3.1 version and failed. To resolve my problem I had to:
1. Remove the Facebook account sync entries in Settings > Accounts and Sync > section
2. Uninstall Facebook app 1.3.1
3. Manually add the SGS inbuilt Facebook sync and resync contacts (getting pics etc back)
4. Reinstall Facebook app 1.3.1 from the market, and go through the sign-in wizard, saying 'don't sync' at when questioned.
Now using downloaded app, with inbuilt sync client and it seems to be fine.
PS: The older inbuilt client uses a brighter blue icon with rounder edges and graduated colour - this way you can tell which is which in the account sync area.
Anyone else want to try?

Anybody else notice their mytouch 4g constantly syncing?

Not sure why but my phone ever since I permanent rooted it has been stuck on sync unless I turn off background data. Anybody else have this problem?
Just for more detail I did remove some blaotware from my phone. I removed the peep app, friebdstream, all demo games and some themes.
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I turned off sync for news, stock, tmobile, etc.... I left google, twitter, etc.... on and sync rarely comes on for me.
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i turned off for all except google and fb, and it's on all day. it's bugging the hell out of me.. i think i'm gogin to just wait for a cm rom to come out so i can just flash that and be done with it

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i turned off for all except google and fb, and it's on all day. it's bugging the hell out of me.. i think i'm gogin to just wait for a cm rom to come out so i can just flash that and be done with it
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The only one that keeps syncing for me is the facebook account. I set it to synching once a day but it still syncs every time I reboot the phone. Happened to me before rooting too, don't think that's the problem.
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hey guys - I'm also having this problem. Have you found a fix for it at all? My Facebook is the one constantly syncing as well. I usually just go in and hit "cancel sync" under Accounts.

I'm insane when it comes to what's running on my phone, what's syncing, etc. So if anyone was going to see "constant syncing" when it isn't supposed to be, it would be me.
What is your sync interval set to?
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I don't need Facebook updates that often and I really only use the sync to have Facebook contact info (for contact pics/avatars). I keep mine at 8 hours and I haven't noticed it "syncing all the time."
Do you have any "splats" on your Accounts & Sync? You know, like when it's unable to sync and says, "Unable to sync since xx/xx/xxxx"?
I would check for any red indicators that are trying to let you know sync is unavailable. That should only be a temporary issue, if it's happening, but there are times when Google or Facebook can't and won't sync and deleting the cache/app data usually clears things up.

Hey guys I am having the same problem. I already unchcked all data and automatic sync... For some reason it continues to sync. I went into every single one of my accounts and nothing shows that it is syncing. Even unchecking every box doesnt help. It still syncs.
Thoughts?

vom098098 said:
Hey guys I am having the same problem. I already unchcked all data and automatic sync... For some reason it continues to sync. I went into every single one of my accounts and nothing shows that it is syncing. Even unchecking every box doesnt help. It still syncs.
Thoughts?
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Can you post a screen shot of your Accounts & Sync screen showing that each account is still syncing, even though you have either Auto-sync un-checked...
Or any of the sync options un-checked...

My schedule is set to once a day. Once it starts syncing, it never finishes. I don't have any issues with it saying it can't sync though. I also noticed it tends to kick off Google's contact sync. The weird thing is the google one just shows the sync icon, but it isn't spinning. What does that mean?

h4xdaplanet said:
My schedule is set to once a day. Once it starts syncing, it never finishes. I don't have any issues with it saying it can't sync though. I also noticed it tends to kick off Google's contact sync. The weird thing is the google one just shows the sync icon, but it isn't spinning. What does that mean?
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Can you post a screen shot of what you're seeing? Thanks!

Well.. I would rather try taking a vifeo for you. It doesn't actually show that anything is syncing with the little circle next to it. Even going through all my accounts turning off data etc... It will remain syncing at the top. When I go into Settings, applications, running, all, and force stop the calendar.. THe sync in notification bar goes right away. That is how I know it has to be the calendar. It eventually comes back.
I have already master reset 3 times. Tried different gmail accounts and everything.

I think I'm having the same problem as vom - nothing is syncing under those menus.

h4xdaplanet said:
I think I'm having the same problem as vom - nothing is syncing under those menus.
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Can you go into each one of the accounts at that time and take a screen shot? You might want to obfuscate your email addresses and such, but I think in order to verify what we're talking about, we should see the sync up top, while NOT seeing a sync within each account. That's what I'd really like to see.
I know that you have Background and Auto un-checked, but I'd like to see the "detail" within each account, as it might point to an error or a reason why those accounts are trying to sync.
Also, is anyone else who's experiencing this "issue" using Exchange ActiveSync? Just trying to spot trends.

It's not doing the sync thing right now, but I can tell you there are no syncing icons under each account. I'll try to nab some shots when it goes into sync mode again

mine is doing this....it's the facebook contacts that seems to be constantly syncing
it never really stops, but never gives an error

[Q] Anyway to change the default account to save contacts under? [Stock Rom]

I know it can be changed individually after each time, but I'd rather it go directly to Google and skip TMO setting.
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cnflct said:
I know it can be changed individually after each time, but I'd rather it go directly to Google and skip TMO setting.
[edit to fix typo in title]
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Disable the t mobile sync.

esincho said:
Disable the t mobile sync.
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that will change it to google by default? only disappointing part is to disable it you need to do a factory reset... theres gotta be another way

pack said:
that will change it to google by default? only disappointing part is to disable it you need to do a factory reset... theres gotta be another way
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No u don't. Just go to settings, sync, t mobile and uncheck sync.

Tried just disablinh sync, still automatically select tmobile as the default when creating new, any other ideas
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Did u do this? Mine always show google as default.
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Aye, looks the same, and mine still wants me to makes all new as tmobile
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cnflct said:
Aye, looks the same, and mine still wants me to makes all new as tmobile
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my mt4g still defaults back to t-mobile account even though I unchecked the t-mobile sync.

mgymnop said:
my mt4g still defaults back to t-mobile account even though I unchecked the t-mobile sync.
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That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.

XfooYen said:
That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.
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OMG you saved my life. It annoyed me very much that I had to change the account each time I added a new contact. Thanks so much!!!!!

mgymnop said:
OMG you saved my life. It annoyed me very much that I had to change the account each time I added a new contact. Thanks so much!!!!!
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No problemo. I feel your pain. The HTC Phone and Contacts app are counter-intuitive.

XfooYen said:
That probably means you still have T-Mobile contacts linked to some of your Google ones. Try this:
1) On the web, make sure ALL your contacts are in your Google.com contacts.
2) On your phone, make sure sync with T-Mobile is UNCHECKED and that ONLY Google sync IS checked.
3) Go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications and choose the Running tab.
4) Scroll and choose Contacts Storage.
5) Select Clear Data - WARNING- THIS WILL ERASE ALL CONTACTS DATA FROM YOUR PHONE. DON'T WORRY. IT WILL SYNC BACK.
6) Go into Contacts. Hit Menu/View. Make sure that T-mobile (and any other accounts you don't want to display) is UNCHECKED.
7) Go back to Accounts & Sync and make sure Google is syncing ant that T-Mobile remains deselected.
You should be good to go when it comes to Google being the default contact entry. If you had contacts linked with Facebook, Twitter or otherwise, you will have to now let those sync and auto-link again. It's worth the trouble, though. Good luck.
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Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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cnflct said:
Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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Worked for me. Make sure your T-Mobile contacts are empty. Try clearing defaults in contacts before clearing data in contact storage. Dunno otherwise.
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cnflct said:
Followed this guide to the T, no fix
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I first only deactivated the t-mobile account but left the others active (secondary google account, Qik, etc). It didn't work. I deactivated then the syncing for everythingexcept my main google account. Then it worked.

Battery drain issues on froyo (possible reason)

I think I know what might be causing the battery drain. I did the full charge/power off/full charge/reset stats thing last night. Then I left it off the charger starting at 11pm. Woke up at 5am and the battery was almost drained. That's horrible. Yes I had turned off mobile data as well. It was on wifi only. Add to that, I had JuiceDefender installed to see if it would help. It didn't. What was interesting though was what JuiceDefender's log was reporting to me. JuiceDefender was set to bring connections online every 15 min. However, the log showed a process activating EVERY minute and using the data connection. WTF!? Every minute! This has to be what is draining the battery. So I downloaded a network traffic analyzer (Network Counter is what it's called) and checked what it said was the data usage for all the apps. My Exchange AOSP email client was using a huge amount, 135MB in total compared to the rest and I didnt receive any emails last night. None! So I removed my exchange account temporarily and suddenly, those every minute hits stopped. I noticed that the device charged faster too. This morning, I googled and found this thread on xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868993
I think this is the culprit, at least for me. My question to everyone else seeing huge drains is: are you on exchange email as well? Post your comments here, I'm pretty sure this is the culprit but more testing needs to be done today.
Btw, I'm on superclean 1.0 just fyi.

phispher said:
I think this is the culprit, at least for me. My question to everyone else seeing huge drains is: are you on exchange email as well? Post your comments here, I'm pretty sure this is the culprit but more testing needs to be done today.
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Sounds like you could be onto something. My battery has actually been quite good (~36 hours of moderate use), but I don't use Exchange at all. It'd be great if you narrowed the problem down to those using Exchange.

Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
I'm curious if anyone still on 2.1 who uses Exchange email (Push) would care to install Juice Defender and check the log out for the every minute data usage and report back here, would be a nice test. Make sure you remove exchange first, check the logs and verify that the polling either exists every minute or not. Then setup exchange and check again. Report back with results. I may do this myself evenutally. Easier if someone else is still on 2.1 though.

phispher said:
Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
I'm curious if anyone still on 2.1 who uses Exchange email (Push) would care to install Juice Defender and check the log out for the every minute data usage and report back here, would be a nice test. Make sure you remove exchange first, check the logs and verify that the polling either exists every minute or not. Then setup exchange and check again. Report back with results. I may do this myself evenutally. Easier if someone else is still on 2.1 though.
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I am going to look into this. Just curious. Originally, how was your exchange setup? When on DL09 super clean 0.4 I had a 30 minute email check frequency, contact and calendar sync OFF and was seeing moderate battery drain where my phone wouldnt make it though a whole day if i had more that normal usage. Watching logcat, it seemed that my corporate email account would be doing something much more often then 30 minutes though. Will try this and see what happens.
Just upgraded to Superclean 1.0 DL30. Will try JuiceDefender.

Which version of juice defender are you running? I just installed "Juice Defender - battery saver" but i cant seem to customize anything. I want to set it to every 15 minutes like you do but all this app lets me do is pick pre-made settings. Do I need to get the paid (Ultimate Juice) or something else?

I encountered the same problem... I use several email account types (Exchange / IMAP / POP) and it ate my battery alive after going to DL30.
On a hunch that it may be caused by some glitch when Titanium Backup restored my old 2.1 email account information over 2.2, I deleted all email accounts and re-entered them manually. A pain in the backside to do, but the problem hasn't reappeared yet.
Hope this helps!

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I encountered the same problem... I use several email account types (Exchange / IMAP / POP) and it ate my battery alive after going to DL30.
On a hunch that it may be caused by some glitch when Titanium Backup restored my old 2.1 email account information over 2.2, I deleted all email accounts and re-entered them manually. A pain in the backside to do, but the problem hasn't reappeared yet.
Hope this helps!
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Did that include google accounts?

fifreak said:
Which version of juice defender are you running? I just installed "Juice Defender - battery saver" but i cant seem to customize anything. I want to set it to every 15 minutes like you do but all this app lets me do is pick pre-made settings. Do I need to get the paid (Ultimate Juice) or something else?
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I do have the paid version, yes. I believe that by default, it's set to 15 min, so you should be ok with the free version. However, that won't stop the polling I saw occur with the AOSP email client. The JuiceDefender log showed me that that was going on. Once I disabled my exchange account, the polling stopped. Since I changed my email program, I haven't seen it come back. The verdict is still out on if this solves my battery issue, as I'm at work and 'plugged' in lol. Could be multiple issues here, but again, the more info we have out there, the better right?
I would try what Retsik did, I didn't import my settings though but maybe reapplying the settings will work.
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Did that include google accounts?
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I haven't seen this occur for gmail accounts. Just exchange.

I have my exchange server set up on my phone and have it set to do push notifications. I get my email just fine and my battery lasts all day with no problems.
The phone drains a bit faster when in use than it used to but I think that's because it was under-volted before.

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Did that include google accounts?
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Yes - I'm not sure if it made any difference, but I deleted all account information and re-added them just to be sure.

phispher said:
I do have the paid version, yes. I believe that by default, it's set to 15 min, so you should be ok with the free version. However, that won't stop the polling I saw occur with the AOSP email client. The JuiceDefender log showed me that that was going on. Once I disabled my exchange account, the polling stopped. Since I changed my email program, I haven't seen it come back. The verdict is still out on if this solves my battery issue, as I'm at work and 'plugged' in lol. Could be multiple issues here, but again, the more info we have out there, the better right?
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Where do you see the polling in the JD log? Im looking at the Activity Log under the status tab but I dont see anything about email in there. Mostly just looks like JD activities.

Wonder if this has anything to do with battery drain?
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Every 10 seconds, my phone is either downloading or uploading something. Its always at a 2kb/s rate. I killed every task I could on my phone, one by one and cant kill this off. So it must be a system process.
But sometimes I will look at the widget and it shows no transfer, no heartbeat like this... then it starts up again. Only way I have been able to stop it is to turn off wifi and mobile data.

What widget is that?

Has anyone done tests with wifi off? I'm not positive, but I seem to get much better battery life, along with no clock lag when I have my wifi disabled.

1 thing I know for sure is that when I have Bluetooth on (DL30) my battery drains like crazy.
I just installed the app OS Monitor and its showing /system/bin/sensorserver_yamaha is consistently using a high amount of CPU. I am using Screebl, so I may disable it to see if that helps.
UPDATE: Yeah, it was screebl that was causing sensorserver to use high CPU. Gonna disable that for now to see how things go.
That app is network speed monitor widget. At idle, my phone shows nothing - 0 KB.
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I've also found disabling AutoRotate from the notification menu to help with battery life and eliminate the sensor from my list of top battery users...
Guessing Samsung has a bug in the latest version of the sensor...

phispher said:
Just an update:
I installed an app from the market called 'Enhanced Email', it's a Touchdown competitor but only cost 1.99, much better then 20 bucks and it integrates with stock calendar and contacts, which I like. Push email is working great, I'm getting emails instantly. However, the every minute polling isn't occuring still, as it did in the AOSP email client.
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Thanks for the recommendation on Enhanced Email. I've been using Touchdown for about a year because the stock mail app doesn't support my company's Exchange policies but I hated having separate calendar and contacts. I just installed Enhanced Email and removed Touchdown. I'm a little concerned that Enhanced isn't actually supporting all the policies and is only reporting that it does, but I'll play dumb for now.

I installed the EnhancedEmail as suggested. I think I am seeing an improvement using it but only when using push email. When I had it set for poll every 15 minutes, I was getting a lot of drain. I need to give this setup more time to test though.

Better with Enhanced Email
I installed the "Enhanced Email" at 10 this morning. It's now 2:30 and i've only lost 5% battery. Using Juice defender and wifi off. This is much improved for me and similar to what i was getting with DL9.
I'm using stock DL30.

fifreak said:
I installed the EnhancedEmail as suggested. I think I am seeing an improvement using it but only when using push email. When I had it set for poll every 15 minutes, I was getting a lot of drain. I need to give this setup more time to test though.
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Now Im not so sure this was a great improvement. My battery drained quickly yesterday evening. I'm pretty sure that the network speed monitor widget was the main culprit but I disabled that and still saw a lot of drain. Also the system process mmcqd is by far taking up the most cpu. Trying to investigate that.

android push notifications

ok, so we've had push notifications for quite some time now, since 2.2
does anyone know the reason why SO many apps(big ones, too) seem to refuse to implement push notifications?
facebook says they have them, but they've never worked for me ever. and there's no settings for them. only for polling
official twitter app still polls
words with friends polls
etc
do these devs just not want to add in support for 2 sets of phones? 2.2+ and everyone below 2.2?
i can't think of any reason why this happens, but its a huge issue in my eyes. android phones get bad enough battery life as is.

if you go into facebook and enable notifications but set poll time to never you get push notifications

Tried it. It's never worked on my n1, and I know I'm not the only one.
My gf gets them on her sensation though

Don't use Facebook as an example. Their app is pure garbage. Lots of apps use Push. Trillian, Skype, Talk, eBuddy, etc...

Yes but my point is lots of apps also don't use push still. Apps that are updated regularly. It makes no sense to me that devs are seemingly ignoring it.

My thoughts exactly. Does it cost more to implement push notification?

Twitter app is updated. Says they added push, yet, just like the facebook app, there are 0 settings for push and only options for polling
I don't ****ing get it. These companies must put their A and B teams on iphone apps and their H teams on android

mattpannella said:
Twitter app is updated. Says they added push, yet, just like the facebook app, there are 0 settings for push and only options for polling
I don't ****ing get it. These companies must put their A and B teams on iphone apps and their H teams on android
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There are options for Twitter. They're just buried under each account.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/tw...upports-multiple-profiles-push-notifications/
Also, you must be running your own H team since the term is pull, not poll.

Erigion said:
Also, you must be running your own H team since the term is pull, not poll.
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Both terms are correct, but polling is more common.

pfmiller said:
Both terms are correct, but polling is more common.
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Google search must be incredibly wrong then

The only options under the profile are for polling (the correct term. it periodically polls the server for updates). Just like the facebook one there's no sign of any push options anywhere

Your question was already answered. It is under the account settings.

Clarkster said:
Your question was already answered. It is under the account settings.
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yeah, except it's not
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ok, so apparently "automatic refresh" means push notifications? thats so misleading. it's not refreshing anything, then
yet there is still an option to set how often it polls the server, with no option for never
ugh
either way, this still backs up my point that they have ****ty devs making these apps

I'm pretty sure this is a feature for people who follow hundreds, if not thousands, of people who don't want to be pushed a notification every second of every day. They must figure that people with a lot of followers would rather see a big chunk of updates at once rather than being notified to death.
And yes, "Automatic Refresh" doesn't sound like push notification at all but that's just part of the crummy UI of the official twitter app.

mattpannella said:
Tried it. It's never worked on my n1, and I know I'm not the only one.
My gf gets them on her sensation though
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Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\

AnthonyTex said:
Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\
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That's what I did to get mine working too. Just deactivate your account on the Facebook website, and then activate it again. Push starts working right after you log back in on the web and your phone.

mattpannella said:
yeah, except it's not
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I have the latest version of twitter, 2.1.2, and there is no "automatic refresh" above the sync contacts setting. Cool?

AnthonyTex said:
Trust me i've tryed and it works for me and a lot of my friends, to enable Facebook push notifications:
1 kill the application in "application manager" and erase data and cache.
2 Go to facebook.com with pc and deactivate your account (don't worry you won't lose anything)
3 after a minute log in again with the pc
4 and now log in with you phone
Now it should work.
Try and tell me if it works. i've set the update period to 4 hours.
i apologize for my english :\
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Dang... I was really, really hoping this would work. I deleted the data for the app on my phone and deactivated my facebook account. I then reactivated my account and then logged in in my phone. I have since had 2 facebook notifications show on the web browser, but I have yet to have any sort of notification on my phone.
This has been especially bad since the gmail app no longer allows other apps to see the email, which knocked out my "push" notifications for facebook from Friendcaster Pro. Grr... I just want push notifications.

bassmadrigal said:
Dang... I was really, really hoping this would work. I deleted the data for the app on my phone and deactivated my facebook account. I then reactivated my account and then logged in in my phone. I have since had 2 facebook notifications show on the web browser, but I have yet to have any sort of notification on my phone.
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I hoped it would work to. No such luck. I did the deactivate thing and don't see any change.