[Q] facebook notification errors - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone getting a parser error when trying toget an update on their notifications? ....I'm using regular facebook I believe...not the one from htc.
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YES! And it's driving me crazy. My notifications page hasn't been able to refresh for a week now - just giving me an error stating it's unable to retrieve data, etc. I get a similar error message whenever I scroll down the news feed awhile. I am a newbie, but I have been reading up and it seems that Facebook for Android is just utter CRAP. I use Facebook a lot and am very disappointed with paying $400 for a phone and not being able to do something that was SO EASY on my iPhone. I use the browser sometimes for Facebook, but what a pain! I still don't get alert notifications - I get my Gmail alerts first! ACK!

Search Facebook in the Android Market and install.. it should let you. Fixed my friends phone last night with the same issue a few days after he bought it new.

Just make sure you hit refresh because the app will still be open, so afte rinstall or before install, kill it and then go back.

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Facebook app not working

Does anybody else have this issue, my facebook app works intermittently. One hour it works our refreshes while another hour out won't do anything when I refresh or it will give me an error saying it can't refresh. This happens whether our not I have auto update interval set to on or off.
It seems to happen only from thee news or notifications menus
Mine is doing that also. I dont get half my notifications anymore, luckily i get an email. Still a pain in the ass tho.
Perhaps a facebook issue?
I've tried a lot to trigger an update of information and i'm not getting anything unless I go into the app and refresh.... the widget hasn't updated since this morning
This had between occurring since the weeks after the froyo update for me. I searched high and low and can't find any info in regards to this issue.
Is the facebook app developed by facebook?
The official app is made by Facebook, and it does indeed suck with froyo. After finally figuring out it would update and sync inconsistently, I uninstalled it. And that's where my problems really started. It turned out even though I no longer had fb installed (even the one for sense) somehow it would still try and sync for hours at a time, draining the battery, and preventing my email and whatnot from syncing themselves. I noticed this because I noticed that my syncing icon would take forever to go away, and when I opened up running apps there would always be a fb process listed there. Had to go back to a nand backup from before I installed it. Haven't installed it since and never noticed that process reappear, or had any other issues with syncing. I have a bookmark shortcut to the touch version of the fb website, and I just use that now.
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Facebook doesnt stay logged in?

Forgive me in advance, I am asking this question on behalf of my gf that has an Epic.
Every couple hours she gets a prompt to login to facebook which is becomming very annoying. I have an Evo and have never had this issue but I also use the official facebook app, it appears that the epic has its own facebook app which appears to be the one causing us troubles. Does anyone else have this issue with facebook or am I doing something wrong? It would seem there is a way to stay logged in because if you are constantly signing in it kinda defeats the purpose of widgets.
brandenk said:
Forgive me in advance, I am asking this question on behalf of my gf that has an Epic.
Every couple hours she gets a prompt to login to facebook which is becomming very annoying. I have an Evo and have never had this issue but I also use the official facebook app, it appears that the epic has its own facebook app which appears to be the one causing us troubles. Does anyone else have this issue with facebook or am I doing something wrong? It would seem there is a way to stay logged in because if you are constantly signing in it kinda defeats the purpose of widgets.
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This isn't going to answer your question but I'm just letting you know I get the same issue. I just either leave it or clear the notification up. Wouldn't mind finding a solution to this as well. Good luck!
I was afraid of that, so its either deal with the constant logins to get everything synced properly in your contacts, messages, etc., or go with something like Pure Messanger Widget and stock facebook app?
yep same issue here, ive learned though it does it only when i check my facebook on the epic
if I leave it alone it doesnt log out
There is a similar post in the General forum, but I had the same issues.
When I experienced the same issues, I was still on the stock version of Facebook.apk. The SNS account kept prompting for me to log in again, with each sync interval.
I tried removing and adding the account again and rebooting in between, yet still the same problem. I finally had upgrade Facebook to the latest update that was the cause of all these login issues for older versions.
The upgrade fixed the problem, but I did find an issue when you use the built-in Facebook contact sync alone it may not carry profile pictures over to SMS. I had to manually add the account, this ended up putting two Facebook sync processes on my phone. The first is for Facebook to actually let you login to the app (just has sync contacts), and the second is the process that will sync both contacts and calendar events again. (the original sync we're used to)
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EDIT: I just got the same SNS login prompt again.
I've never had any login problems on the facebook app, but I also don't use the feeds and updates widget.
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This only seems to be happening to me more often recently. I swear it's asking me to log in to Facebook & Twitter every hour or so now. When I go to Accounts & Sync I see that there are two accounts (even though I only have one account for each). One Twitter & one Facebook account say there was an error with the syncing process.
I unchecked the sync processes that were having errors. I'll let you know if I keep being asked to log in.
I have this problem too. It says my sync is experiencing errors and its cause it logged me out of Facebook. Once I log back in its fine.
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Also i don't have auto sync enabled. I manually refresh them.
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zanderman112 said:
Also i don't have auto sync enabled. I manually refresh them.
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whats the setup on that phone atm? I had these same issues(as stated above) and now I'm Flashed to nebula 1.0.7 with froyo and its beast without any problems. Facebook hasn't bugged me once lol
brandenk said:
Forgive me in advance, I am asking this question on behalf of my gf that has an Epic.
Every couple hours she gets a prompt to login to facebook which is becomming very annoying. I have an Evo and have never had this issue but I also use the official facebook app, it appears that the epic has its own facebook app which appears to be the one causing us troubles. Does anyone else have this issue with facebook or am I doing something wrong? It would seem there is a way to stay logged in because if you are constantly signing in it kinda defeats the purpose of widgets.
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I used to have this issue, but I figured out a simple workaround.
I use the FACEBOOK APP to sync and not the adding a Facebook account under the account section in settings. After I deleted the Facebook account there and made a sync with the Facebook App, the annoying prompt went away and hasn't come back since.
Hasseo said:
I used to have this issue, but I figured out a simple workaround.
I use the FACEBOOK APP to sync and not the adding a Facebook account under the account section in settings. After I deleted the Facebook account there and made a sync with the Facebook App, the annoying prompt went away and hasn't come back since.
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After doing this, I bet you don't have your friends profile pictures in the stock SMS application anymore. You also wouldn't have Facebook events in your stock Calendar application.
I have the same problem. Funny thing is my widget works fine gets updates and I can upload a picture from within the widget. If I take a picture, or select one from the gallery, then click Share facebook, it will not upload. started one day last week.
On stock rooted and don't get it hourly or even 2x/day that I can remember, just every morning...sometimes it doesn't make it the first time, usually it re-connects, good til the next morning....
I had the same problem. I had to delete the stock sync and use the FB app's sync option but like mentioned above you lose the profile pics on the stock sms so I downloaded "go sms" and the pictures are back...it beats having to log in every hour for sure.
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Same issue here. Facebook app from market works fine but the integrated samsung facebook sync and widget have problems. Ridiculous, samsung needs to fix their software.
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Ridiculous, samsung needs to fix their software.
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I would say it's a Facebook issue. It stopped working properly after the recent Facebook update. It affected all versions of the application, including the Epic's stock version of Facebook.
I do actually. But, no calendar sync.
Sent from the Epic that bites.
I can say that my gf and my brother both have the same issue, only reason i can think Samsung isn't attempting a quick fix is the rumored 2.2 update for the 21st of this month, which will probably have an updated app that fixes the problem. Although as important as facebook is to people I am surprised there is no maintenance release that fixes this,
Same issues here. I was thinking it might have had something to do with networking issues - I usually leave wifi and 4g on all the time. I noticed that I usually get the prompts when I leave home in the morning (go out of range of my house's wifi) and when 4g disconnects and reconnects in spotty 4g areas. I was wondering if maybe the session expires when you switch networks. Same thing would happen on my laptop when I would bring it from home to work or a coffee shop. FB might recognize that the connection is different. Meh, just a theory I thought I'd throw out there.

cannot log in to FB for SNS

yesterday i got the little F icon in my task bar telling me i lost connection to facebook. since then i have not been able to log in to the sync account. i can use the FB app no problem. anyone else?
edit: wtf after trying 10 times i post this and was able to log in right away. the power of whining on the internet
edit 2: still havign sync issues with fb. pain in the ass
I had the same issues. Must be on Facebook's end.
Some months ago FB's app would absolutely not give me notifications when I opened the app, no matter what I did. The error was all on their end of things. Push notifications have never worked anyway, and since auto-updating is a battery drain I just decided to turn it all off. I still marvel at how they can have such a poor official Android app, and how any improvements to it are so small and infrequent. Yet their mobile website is not nearly as bad, and now it's of course much more possible to use the full site on a decent mobile browser.
I've had the same problem for a long time too.
On another note, does anyone know why the Nexus S gets fb comment notifications and the Epic doesn't?
Yeah me too. I was reading that fb sync is gone in gb. Is that true?
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Just noticed this today, but same thing... sync problem since 6/3. Contacts are still sync'ing (through SNS, not the app... I don't have the app installed), it's the calendar sync that is not working.
Using a themed version and it is not having problems. Steal one from a rom/theme if you're rooted.
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Using a themed version and it is not having problems. Steal one from a rom/theme if you're rooted.
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Themed version of what? Huh?
necro bump cause im having the same issue. Ideas?

Notifications not working for apps

So ive had my S3 since the beginning of November and have had no problems. Around the beginning of December I did an OTA update to Jelly Bean and everything was working great. Christmas morning comes around and i was recieving notifcations through all my apps like normal, but starting in the afternoon notifications stopped from such apps as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat..etc. I checked setttings and all notifications are turned on for each individual app, i went under accounts and sync is turned on. Went into the individual app and checked settings, logged out and back into them. Went as far as to uninstall everything and reinstall the apps but still no notifications are coming through. Ive turned off and restarted the phone. Its becoming a real pain now having to continiously check all my apps to see if ive recieved anything.
I did a google search and found a site where someone else was having the same problem but there were never any resolutions. Has anyone else here come across this problem and know how to resolve it? am i really going to have to reinstall the OS to fix? it seems odd that my text and kik are the only ones that still recieve push notifications. Please let me know, its driving me crazy!
Twitter has done this for me every upgrade for months. I can correct it by going to settings, click my account then notifications, change something, hit back, wait for the toast to say it was saved then change it back.
Facebook used to be similar, but on the new more native app I have yet to get the notifications to work completely att the time for replies and a few other things.
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Twitter Mobile Notification Errors

Just got my Note Edge and I'm really enjoying it.
I use Twitter a lot and really like the Twitter push notifications.
When I log into the Twitter app and set up my mobile notification settings the way I want them, I get an error when I close the settings. I've attached a photo of the error that I get.
I've tried restating the phone, Uninstalling the app... nothing works.
Can someone help me?

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