Develop Bugs

Facebook Lite...?

I can't figure this out. When I attempt to go to lite.facebook.com Opera just times out using 3G, but using WiFi it works fine. This site has always worked fine before. I don't know whats changed. Any ideas?
Stock ATT ROM
ps. it does the same thing with PIE

They started to block it on mobiles I think. Try m.facebook.com or touch.facebook.com

Those two options continue to work, nothing has chsnged with those. It just seems to be the lite version. Can anyone else with a Touch Pro 2 (At&t) try lite.facebook.com and see if it works for them via 3G?

Very interesting. I tried it on my AT&T branded Rhodium with the ROM specs in my signature, but it won't load. I even tried toggling the AT&T hidden proxy, but to no avail. The most interesting thing is that it loads immediately when I enable Opera Turbo on Opera Mobile 10 Beta Update 2 and refresh, so it seems that bugsykoosh is correct about it being blocked for one reason or another.

DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
Very interesting. I tried it on my AT&T branded Rhodium with the ROM specs in my signature, but it won't load. I even tried toggling the AT&T hidden proxy, but to no avail. The most interesting thing is that it loads immediately when I enable Opera Turbo on Opera Mobile 10 Beta Update 2 and refresh, so it seems that bugsykoosh is correct about it being blocked for one reason or another.
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same result here, but i mainly use touch.facebook.com, didn't know lite.facebook.com existed till reading this thread.

I got lite.facebook.com to work on my Sprint TP2 using wifi and 3g with no problems. I used the stock version of Opera that came with the phone.

Hmmm, I wonder if AT&T is somehow blocking this. As stated above Opera mini works just fine as well. Must have something to do with the server side rendering.
As noted by a previous poster running Sprint, they can access lite.facebook.com just fine. Whatever changed, changed in the last few days.
Maybe I'll hit up an At&T store today and see if their phones are doing the same thing.

...by the way, I just now checked out my wifes iPhone and she cannot access lite.facebook.com via Safari either. Starting to look like an AT&T thing.

Wow, lite.facebook is much better!! Didn't know about it until reading this thread. I tried touch.facebook, and it isn't up to date (info can be several days old), forget about the lousy WM Facebook app. Very cool. I've been using the full facebook.com on my TP2, and it's annoying (with the bottom toolbar).
I'm on Verizon using The EnergyROM Leo 23518 Jan 25.

Yeah, I prefer it over touch.facebook as well, that's why I was using it. But of course I can't now for some unknown reason. Since you're using Verizon I would guess that's why you can access it.
Any T-mobile folks out there want to try to access this site lite.facebook.com? Let's try a few more AT&T users also just to be sure.

nthdgreee said:
Yeah, I prefer it over touch.facebook as well, that's why I was using it. But of course I can't now for some unknown reason. Since you're using Verizon I would guess that's why you can access it.
Any T-mobile folks out there want to try to access this site lite.facebook.com? Let's try a few more AT&T users also just to be sure.
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AT&T in Dallas, I get a 404 error using 3G, connect immediately when I switch to wifi.

nthdgreee said:
Yeah, I prefer it over touch.facebook as well, that's why I was using it. But of course I can't now for some unknown reason. Since you're using Verizon I would guess that's why you can access it.
Any T-mobile folks out there want to try to access this site lite.facebook.com? Let's try a few more AT&T users also just to be sure.
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T-mobile (US)- comes up just fine on my TP2 in IE, I get the login page with the balloons right away.

you guys got it! http://www.mobilitydigest.com/att-is-blocking-facebook-lite/
AT&T is definitely blocking Facebook Lite. I disabled/enabled the hidden proxy and it toggled my ability to get to the site. Turning on Wifi also permits me to get to the site. Now the big question...WTF? Why are they doing it?

I can't seem to get it either, and this is a very recent change.

I tried lite.facebook.com, and received a gateway error last evening. I am on AT&T, and seemed to have a good connection when I tried (was able to bring up another site). Just tried it NOW, and it comes right up...

Dang, sucks to be ya'll.
This is why I joined T-Mobile.
Works perfectly fine, and I just heard about it also thanks to this thread
Why would they block it, it's unreasonable.

It looks like it could be back up again today for everyone...it could have been something as simple as a DNS error on one of AT&T's proxy servers.

Starman_thc said:
I tried lite.facebook.com, and received a gateway error last evening. I am on AT&T, and seemed to have a good connection when I tried (was able to bring up another site). Just tried it NOW, and it comes right up...
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You're right! It seems to be working again, for now. Maybe the posts here in this thread, and over at Mobility Digest (Thanks David K) caught somebody's attention.
Hope it lasts.
By the way, when I talked with a customer service person over at my local AT&T store yesterday they told me they no nothing about a block but had no explanation for why ALL of their phones in the store couldn't access lite.facebook.com.

Similar but different
So... I'm having a similar, yet different problem accessing facebook on my Fuze with Opera Mobile 10. www.facebook.com works just fine, touch.facebook.com works fine, even lite.facebook.com works fine, but m.facebook.com no longer works on my end (FYI: Oklahoma City)!!! I liked m.facebook.com better than any of them, but now it's the only facebook.com address I CANNOT access :S Is anyone else getting this result? It used to be that trying to navigate to www.facebook.com would redirect me to m.facebook.com... but now that doesn't even happen. What's even weirder, I think, was that m.facebook.com worked fine this morning. Now I'm getting a "Connection Refused: m.facebook.com:80" error!!!
UPDATE: I just tried m.facebook.com with IE on my phone... and it, kinda, works. It comes in all jumbled with mismatching text and it took forever for it to load. It shouldn't take that long to launch a MOBILE version of this site :/

I keep having to enter my login and password every time I access lite.facebook.com despite selecting to "remember me". Anyone experiencing the same issue?

Netcounter

This is my first android phone so I am still finding my way around it, I am looking for a little bit of help.
I installed netcounter and everything seems to be ok it opens and displays the data screens but it never updates the wifi data. (I did a search but found nothing for my problem).
Am I supposed to do something else after the install ? Any help would be much appreciated I also emailed the developer but never got a reply

If it doesn't count WiFi isn't that a good thing? Means what it does say is your mobile Internet which is what you want to keep an eye on...

same problem
i got same problem on my new Desire, wifi is zero all the time, but it does count my mobile data, but probably wrong.. looks like it counts them altogether

lol, guys please
just think logically, what are apps like this made for? to monitor your internet usage so you dont go over your monthly plan, WiFi is free so why would it monitor it and confuse you with overall results?

To be fair though the app has a specific section for WiFi data usage which only ever displays 0 but is clearly meant to show your usage, so it is not working correctly.
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no idea why, but it looks like that.. i was using wifi and count of my mobile data was on the increase
but in my brothers legend works fine

well if your with T-Mobile you can always check how much you used on the My T-Mobile page

cez10 said:
lol, guys please
just think logically, what are apps like this made for? to monitor your internet usage so you dont go over your monthly plan, WiFi is free so why would it monitor it and confuse you with overall results?
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Of course it should work for wi fi! The app works correctly on other phones. I have contacted the author for a fix for desire. And its very useful to see what activities use up the mb on wi fi so u can estimate what usage it will use when not on wi fi

still active?
I've been able to patch the sourcecode to get it to work on the HTC Desire, which was very easy since it is basically the same device as the Nexus One. I've been using that patched version without a problem.
I've submitted that patch to the author almost 3 weeks ago, but I've received no reply yet. I've also noticed that the application source code hasn't been updated since January, 3rd, so I suspect that this application isn't being actively developed anymore...
Does anybody have a good alternative that monitors both 3G and WiFi?

I'm using Network Monitor since I also couldn't get Netcounter to count wi-fi data. Network monitor doesn't have a problem with that.

Try Smart Monitor Lite, it measures both WiFi and mobile net. Works fine for me...

LuftWalk said:
I'm using Network Monitor since I also couldn't get Netcounter to count wi-fi data. Network monitor doesn't have a problem with that.
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Thanks Luftwalk, I'll check it out, though up front I already know I won't like the ads. I live in Belgium so I won't be able to get rid of those...

[Q] Freezing your account - does it block out any part of the phone?

I'm traveling overseas in September for over half a month and want to call Sprint and get them to freeze my account while I'm gone. I understand the monthly fee is $8.99 (don't know if they will pro-rate it or what) which is much better than paying for that month of service that you hardly use.
Since I'm going out of the country and won't be able to use my EVO, I'm assuming I can freeze my account but still use the phone, just without any mobile wireless capabilities.
The wifi should be able to look up stuff online, check email, and look at Google Maps, correct? I just want to make sure there's not some weird kind of thing that Sprint would lock out all the features of your phone.
Bottom line: you can freeze your account but still use all features besides making calls and sending texts via mobile broadband, right? But all apps (besides GPS) can work off wi-fi, unless the app is specifically designed to use mobile broadband only.
Thank you to anyone who helps!

get you a google voice number and you'll have a phone as long as you're on wifi too

goodelyfe said:
get you a google voice number and you'll have a phone as long as you're on wifi too
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I thought that would be the case too, but GV relies on the phone's non broadband capabilities - so you need mobile broadband/phone line for it to work.
I thought I was being clever and found away to never use minutes by using GV to dial to landlines but that's not the case.

I would venture to say that unless you are traveling somewhere that has cdma coverage, your normal phone related functions won't work anyway since you won't have reception. You really shouldn't need to pay a fee to basically disable the phone portion of your phone since on the evo, you have the option to have the airplane mode exclude wifi from the radios it disables. I traveled to the UK back in april and can attest to the fact that the wifi on my old pre worked without a hitch and I can also confirm that it did not receive signal either so there were no incoming calls or sms messages to worry about. All that said, you shouldn't have any trouble with wifi. As long as you're on wifi, google maps should work just fine as well.
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jwterminator said:
I would venture to say that unless you are traveling somewhere that has cdma coverage, your normal phone related functions won't work anyway since you won't have reception. You really shouldn't need to pay a fee to basically disable the phone portion of your phone since on the evo, you have the option to have the airplane mode exclude wifi from the radios it disables. I traveled to the UK back in april and can attest to the fact that the wifi on my old pre worked without a hitch and I can also confirm that it did not receive signal either so there were no incoming calls or sms messages to worry about. All that said, you shouldn't have any trouble with wifi. As long as you're on wifi, google maps should work just fine as well.
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OK thanks, I didn't want to assume anything, because, you know, I really wouldn't be surprised if a company froze more than just sending/receiving texts/calls capability (in addition to web surfing obviously).
I just don't want to pay almost $100 for 2 weeks of service out of the month - so I need to give em a call and see if they can freeze it for 2 weeks and charge me half as much, that way I can save a little cash.

pekosROB said:
I thought that would be the case too, but GV relies on the phone's non broadband capabilities - so you need mobile broadband/phone line for it to work.
I thought I was being clever and found away to never use minutes by using GV to dial to landlines but that's not the case.
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hmmm are you sure?
i do remember using without the mobile broadband/phoneline and just wifi

goodelyfe said:
hmmm are you sure?
i do remember using without the mobile broadband/phoneline and just wifi
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Did you use it through a SIP program or just the GV app by itself? I will have to test it out when I'm there.

i blv i done it both ways.
also sorry bro for going off topic in your thread...lol just thought it might help lol

goodelyfe said:
i blv i done it both ways.
also sorry bro for going off topic in your thread...lol just thought it might help lol
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Well that would be even better, I do hope you're right!

Any VOIP should work on wi-fi... damn skype and Fring shenanigans... I was so looking forward to that when I deployed... would have made it so much easier to communicate with my wife. (shes not real big on technology and my short fuse of trying to setup/explain how to do new things sucks) lol...
You basically sumed it up, all apps should work fine unless they need specific network support. In my past experiences with deploying for short terms, it was actually just easier to suck it up and pay the bill instead of downgrading service. They don't always get it right and if you end up coming back early it can be a PITA to get it back on..

VOODOOTRIP said:
Any VOIP should work on wi-fi... damn skype and Fring shenanigans... I was so looking forward to that when I deployed... would have made it so much easier to communicate with my wife. (shes not real big on technology and my short fuse of trying to setup/explain how to do new things sucks) lol...
You basically sumed it up, all apps should work fine unless they need specific network support. In my past experiences with deploying for short terms, it was actually just easier to suck it up and pay the bill instead of downgrading service. They don't always get it right and if you end up coming back early it can be a PITA to get it back on..
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Thanks, I was thinking about the same thing about it being such a pain in the ass to deal with it as well... and when I finally get back stateside at least I'll definitely have service.

Although Google Voice requires the mobile network for phone, it uses data for sms and I expect mms. So if you had WiFi access you would have texting available.
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Broken Multipage SMS on Virgin Mobile

I am using an epic that has been ported over to virgin mobile.
the issue i'm constantly running into is that i cannot send multipaged sms.
i don't believe the sms is being split properly for vm.
has anyone else run into this problem?
If so have you fixed it? (and how)

Try Google voice
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yes ofc google voice will work, but i'm interested in having sms work as well.

Then try another app
Say go sms
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Hm
First and foremost. WHO ported the phone to Virgin Mobile? Was it you? A friend? A company or business that sold it to you? I could totally sue them for riffing off my guide, not giving credit where it's due, and selling free info for profit.
Anyway, what Rom are you on? make sure you have SMS split on under the messaging app, if it comes out garbled, it's because of that.
Sometimes their network may have issues, it is not uncommon for your own service to screw up after a couple months, it's the norm for Virgin Mobile and what you can do if you suspect it's the network is give them a call, dont mention the epic, just say you're having texting and call issues, and that you'd like your line reset, if they offer simple solutions, just keep saying nope, not working until they give in and reset your line. That could clear up your issues.

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First and foremost. WHO ported the phone to Virgin Mobile? Was it you? A friend? A company or business that sold it to you? I could totally sue them for riffing off my guide, not giving credit where it's due, and selling free info for profit.
Anyway, what Rom are you on? make sure you have SMS split on under the messaging app, if it comes out garbled, it's because of that.
Sometimes their network may have issues, it is not uncommon for your own service to screw up after a couple months, it's the norm for Virgin Mobile and what you can do if you suspect it's the network is give them a call, dont mention the epic, just say you're having texting and call issues, and that you'd like your line reset, if they offer simple solutions, just keep saying nope, not working until they give in and reset your line. That could clear up your issues.
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woah champ! Slow down!
It was a friend and myself who dun it... and I am pretty sure we hit the thanks button on your guide, if I didn't it's because I'm neglectful and probably forgot to do it >_<
Second off, we bragged about how cool you are for putting up the guide.
Third
Oh damn, thanks I'm gonna try that right now!
Right now I am on aokp, but I am thinking of going back to cm9 after i found this really neat addon

yep, you got it on the head, i had to enable it for my sms app.

Anyone using Proxpn on t889?

I've been looking into Proxpn (vpn) premium. They offer a free tier, but it's extremely limited. So I wanted to try the premium. However, I'm seeing some people say that it screws up their Google services. I assume since everything is encrypted, it looses location services etc.
Thoughts?
T889 /root only
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lyinelriche said:
I've been looking into Proxpn (vpn) premium. They offer a free tier, but it's extremely limited. So I wanted to try the premium. However, I'm seeing some people say that it screws up their Google services. I assume since everything is encrypted, it looses location services etc.
Thoughts?
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I have OpenVPN on my VPS in Los Angeles and I connect to it with phone and have not had an issue with Google Services. I did when I connected to my old VPS in Moldavia, it actually was in the UK first but then the company decided to move my server to Moldavia. I guess when you pay $3.50/month for a server you don't have much say how they provide you service. Moldavia is near Romania and Russia in the Balkans. Can't imagine why Google would have an issue that, one minute my location is in Sunny SoCal, the next in Russia.

I've been using droidvpn and Treve mod with no problems what so ever. They have a free version and you get 100 mb of data a day but you can upgrade to the premium for 4.99 with unlimited data and you can pick from a list of servers and the speeds are actually pretty decent.
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I actually signed up for a month with Private Internet Access ( P.I.A) and so far I am very happy with it. I haven't installed the app on my Note 2 yet, because I don't use my Note2 that way. But I have it on my desktop, and I installed it on my T959V (Galaxy S4g). One thing that came up was once I connected to vpn on my mobile device, I got a warning/alert in my Google account/gmail saying that someone from a different I.P was trying to sign into my account, and they(google) prevented it. It asked me to choose 2 selections " Yes , it was me" or "No, it was not me. Change my password" I did neither, I just ignored because I didn't know if I wanted to tell Google ," Hey , I know you need my data to thrive, but I'm encrypting it". Maybe I'm being paranoid though.
Other than that my only issue I had was DNS leaks, which was my fault, and figured out the patch up. So, anyways I think I'll sign up for a full year with PIA.
Anyone have thoughts/opinions?