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Chat works for me- Droid X. However-- it is DESTROYING my battery. 10AM, took the phone off the charger at 6:30- I'm at 60%. Facebook partial wake usage through the roof.
 
Seems as if I'm not getting notifications either. I froze all of the "social networking" stuff using titanium. Does anyone who has those frozen get the push notifications?

What does notification interval actually do? Seems like people are getting updates immediately, even if the lowest notification interval is 30 minutes.

For people getting push notifications, what do you have that set at?

It doesn't matter whether email notifications are on or off in the facebook site settings, right?
 
lexluthor said:
Seems as if I'm not getting notifications either. I froze all of the "social networking" stuff using titanium. Does anyone who has those frozen get the push notifications?

What does notification interval actually do? Seems like people are getting updates immediately, even if the lowest notification interval is 30 minutes.

For people getting push notifications, what do you have that set at?

It doesn't matter whether email notifications are on or off in the facebook site settings, right?
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I've tried it with and w/out the social stuff. I've tried it with and w/out intervals on. I've tried it with notifications off lol

Someone I've been talking to on the FB discussion page gave me an idea. Maybe the change still needs to propagate across all servers. It would explain why two people with the same devices/software/settings are getting different results.
 
Wait, I just got notified of a private message.

I still have my social networking stuff frozen. Guess that rules that out.

What things do you get notified about? The app only has checks for messages, friend requests and event invites, but sounds like people are getting notifications of wall posts and picture comments. Right?

And some people are saying they get notifications even if notifications in the app is unchecked?

Very confusing.
 
swagner53 said:
Chat works for me- Droid X. However-- it is DESTROYING my battery. 10AM, took the phone off the charger at 6:30- I'm at 60%. Facebook partial wake usage through the roof.
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That's odd. Mine has been off the charger for 90 minutes now and Facebook notifications are coming in and I'm still at 100%. Facebook doesn't even register on my battery usage list.
 
Ed5275 said:
That's odd. Mine has been off the charger for 90 minutes now and Facebook notifications are coming in and I'm still at 100%. Facebook doesn't even register on my battery usage list.
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Do you have the latest update? It seems most of the people that I have been reading with it working are on 2.2 and most with it not working have devices with 2.2.1. I wonder if facebook's app doesn't recognize 2.2.1 as supporting push.
 
landale said:
Do you have the latest update? It seems most of the people that I have been reading with it working are on 2.2 and most with it not working have devices with 2.2.1. I wonder if facebook's app doesn't recognize 2.2.1 as supporting push.
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2.2.1. Everything works great.
 
If only there was an easy way to figure out why some people are getting push notifications while others aren't. It shouldn't be that complicated. I have my notifications set to active, 30 minutes polling, all boxes checked except for vibrate in the notifications settings in facebook. Not using any blur social networking features. My phone is rooted but using the stock software, only have it for a few basic things. I have cleared the cache for facebook, uninstalled and reinstalled and still no luck. Very frustrating.
 
What are we supposed to get notifications of? Seems as if people are being notified for more than just the 3 items listed in the app. Do we get notified of EVERYTHING that you get notified us when visiting the facebook site itself?
 
landale said:
If only there was an easy way to figure out why some people are getting push notifications while others aren't. It shouldn't be that complicated. I have my notifications set to active, 30 minutes polling, all boxes checked except for vibrate in the notifications settings in facebook. Not using any blur social networking features. My phone is rooted but using the stock software, only have it for a few basic things. I have cleared the cache for facebook, uninstalled and reinstalled and still no luck. Very frustrating.
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This is the best guess/explanation I've come across so far...

I just had a moment of Zen here. I wonder if this more or less has to do with Facebooks servers and individual accounts and not the app itself? I know I have seen some people in the past for example say "I don't like the new Chat feature." when it comes to the website and people reply "What new Chat feature? I didn't get that yet." only to get it a day or so down the road. Something had to update on whatever sever/database their account was located on in order for the new stuff to show and work. Maybe that's just it for the majority of us whose phones it is not working on. I did read a comment by someone who said at first it didn't work for them after the update, but they woke up today and after a few more hours it was working all of a sudden. Just a thought.
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You would think Facebook would tell people if the feature would have a roll out like that. It does make sense though. Been reading about some people who did factory resets and still didn't get push notifications.
 
I'm getting 0 notifications push or otherwise unless I go into the app and open the notifications "shade". Junk just like the previous version. lol
 
landale said:
Do you have the latest update? It seems most of the people that I have been reading with it working are on 2.2 and most with it not working have devices with 2.2.1. I wonder if facebook's app doesn't recognize 2.2.1 as supporting push.
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That's realy interesting, landale. Facebook is killing my battery as well. Since that update, and I can promise you that that was the only update I had installed this week, my battery has been down at 40% after unplugging it for 8 hours. I used to be able to retain a charge up to 50% from 6am to 6pm, but not anymore. I'm running FRG83 rooted via Peter Alfonso.

Very interesting. I think what I'll do is terminate the program from running right now and we'll see what happens. I also adjusted my polling with the stock email app so maybe that did it, although I doubt it. Will report back with my findings.
 
Sorry for the double-post, but I just dialed *#*#4636#*#* into my phone and realized that it is indeed Facebook that's causing a partial wakelock for a total time of 7m 27s since last unplugged 6:30am (time now 10:06am). The app using partial wakelock the most at 15m 6s is the Android system, which I'm assuming is normal, but Facebook is right underneith that. I don't know if this should be happening..
 
connor11493 said:
Sorry for the double-post, but I just dialed *#*#4636#*#* into my phone and realized that it is indeed Facebook that's causing a partial wakelock for a total time of 7m 27s since last unplugged 6:30am (time now 10:06am). The app using partial wakelock the most at 15m 6s is the Android system, which I'm assuming is normal, but Facebook is right underneith that. I don't know if this should be happening..
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I saw the new facebook accumulating partial wake time and then times where it's not, so I don't really know what's going on.

Maybe if you don't go offline in chat before leaving the app?

Also, you might want to download "spare parts" in the market. Makes it much easier to get at that same data that's in the # you dialed.
 
The people with the partial wake issues... are you signed into chat?

Still no push notifications here
 
Got all the way to the end of this thread and was hoping for some solution...didn't find any. I guess I should add myself to the list not understanding why it works for some and not others.

Hope to see some more ideas.

--Mickey
 
Agreed. This is ridiculous. Push notifications should come to the phone even when the FB app is closed and not running. K-9 works great, Gmail works great, why can't FB? It can't be THAT hard to get it to work right...
 
cmathis said:
Agreed. This is ridiculous. Push notifications should come to the phone even when the FB app is closed and not running. K-9 works great, Gmail works great, why can't FB? It can't be THAT hard to get it to work right...
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Lol tell that to the programmers
 
cmathis said:
Agreed. This is ridiculous. Push notifications should come to the phone even when the FB app is closed and not running. K-9 works great, Gmail works great, why can't FB? It can't be THAT hard to get it to work right...
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You realize that K-9 uses ActiveSync for push and FB uses C2DM, right? You also realize that C2DM is still in beta, according to Google, right? I don't know what GMail uses, but it obviously doesn't use C2DM since that's only supported by 2.2 and higher.

I'm not giving Facebook a pass here, I think this has been a terrible roll-out and the lack of communication from Facebook has lead to a lot of frustration, but comparing it to ActiveSync doesn't make much sense. And I can't say this for sure, but I think Facebook would be the largest implementation of the beta C2DM so far.
 
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