The facebook app comes pre-installed on the Sony Xperia Ion. It also has some kind of system wide integration. I happen to use facebook and figured I'd give it all a try. Timescape is part of that integration with a fancy widget and takes up half a homescreen. My battery life hasn't been that great (10 hours in a 8 hour work day where I barely use my phone at work) and most distressing the phone was getting hot. Too hot to handle comfortably. Especially while charging. After many attempts through setting management and battery managers (which I've always felt we're unnecessary if the settings were customized for battery life) I found the problem. The facebook app itself. Not sure what version but it was the latest for this phone at this time. Not only does my phone now run cool as a cucumber, I expect much better battery life. Oh, and my phone's CPU no longer runs pegged most of the time like it was. So there it is. A tip for anybody finding their new Ion to be running warm/hot and draining battery at a quick rate. Remove the facebook account and use a browser instead. The current facebook integration is problematic on these phones.
OK I try thk....
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OK I try thk....
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Can you please give more detail about what you did? I don't usually get such a low battery time, but today that I was in a LTE area for most of the time the battery went down a lot faster than usual. Did you just remove Timescape from home screen and set it not to sync automatically, or you also had to remove your facebook account from Facebook inside Xperia?
I removed the account. The app itself is un-installable. I don't log into it either. I use the browser and set up notifications through sms.
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I removed the account. The app itself is un-installable. I don't log into it either. I use the browser and set up notifications through sms.
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I delete the account. But we can not delete the app while the phone is not rooted but greatly improved the battery and not heated as before
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I delete the account. But we can not delete the app while the phone is not rooted but greatly improved the battery and not heated as before
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Yep. I'm gonna try tweet deck. I used it before on my last phone and found it useful.
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Yep. I'm gonna try tweet deck. I used it before on my last phone and found it useful.
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Ok I'll go down to see :thumbup:
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That helps greatly. Facebook was wiggin out for me through app and browsers, wtf??? This better be corrected with an update soon, not cool. I deleted the account so now it seems to be ok through stock browser & Dolphin. This is a huge unacceptable bug far as Im concerned. Especially when the damn app and integration come imbedded stock. FIX IT SONY. eb
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Mainly the "Facebook" integration has to do with Timescape, notification & sharing. I myself won't be using the app w account integration until it's fixed.
Perhaps we could fix this ourselves if they would let us. Cant wait until we root this damn thing, very frustrating. eb
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Or set to manual so its not always syncing.
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I don't think any words are necessary.
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Mine is a lot different
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Because they know when you have over 500 million people that no matter how bad your app is they will still come back to the site.
I have stopped using the app. It drives me crazy. I use friendcaster and website. The app is so slugish and acts stupid around 99% of the time.
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Faster facebook. Goggle it on the play store
Lol I don't like Facebook enough to get a dedicated app for it. From what I have seen though, their mobile site is really poorly designed like they are trying to force you to use one their app. I assume Friendcaster is much better than the official app.
Don't forget that the latest update also added FB camera and FB messenger apps. At least mine did. Now I have 3 FB apps. WEAK.
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Faster facebook. Goggle it on the play store
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+1 I like ff also.
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The one that's in beta??
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The one that's in beta??
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Yeah they changes the name on the market. I believe it is called "fast for android"
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Yeah, I've deleted the Fb app too--don't like the increasing bloat and I'm really annoyed by the their spammed camera and messaging apps. Tried Fast for Facebook, and as much as I'd like to support their xda-friendly devs, it doesn't seem to update all that well or display photos and such.
OTOH, the mobile web app, it seems to do what I need without bloating up my phone. For a light Fb users, it does the job.
Yep... Agreed. I absolutely hate the facebook app.
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Don't forget that the latest update also added FB camera and FB messenger apps. At least mine did. Now I have 3 FB apps. WEAK.
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That was the last straw for me, uninstalled it. They've removed the extra launcher icons now, but the app is still terrible.
A lot of times it will turn on my GPS when I enter the app, and never let go of it.
It's terrible cause it's Facebook. I hope my boss doesn't read this
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When i use the facebook app or this app is in the background, my cpu stay at his max frequency ALL THE TIME AND DRAINING MY BATTERY. A 6262728763 billions dollar company cant make a stable app ? Thats.****ing.stupid.and.ridiculous.
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1) Doesn't happen to me. Not a universal issue.
2) Chill out.
oh, and no one is forcing you to use the Facebook app.
Here's some cheese to go with that whine:
Fast for Facebook: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.fastfacebook.com
Friendcaster: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
1. Change your kernel governor to Interactive or Conservative.
2. Use Friendcaster. Its way better anyway.
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or you can just use the facebook mobile site thru the browser.
I used friend caster way before and I didn't like it but I been hearing a lot good things about it so I ma try it out. It looks neat will see how notifications behave. Facebook app sucks on Android or iPhone idk why can't they make it right
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This is a known bug. It happens on my phone every time.
- Install facebook app
- login
- exit the app
- run the app again
If you install eg. "OSMonitor" you'll see the facebook process is consuming a lot of CPU in the background.
Given their track record, they'll probably fix it in a few years.
I have another issue with Facebook. For some reason every time I try to share something it comes in some foreign language. Coincidentally started after installing flip board. I have uninstalled flipboard and also reinstalled Facebook but no resolution. Please help.
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Turn off Facebook sync? works for me. My battery life is beyond awesome.
m.facebook.com bro
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the only function I'm really interested in (contacts sync) doesn't even work with the official facebook app.
Facebook sucks up battery and network for me, in crazy ways.
If I login to facebook and leave it running, I get zero notifications, loading anything (even over 4G or wifi) takes forever, and it somehow managed to suck up 2 gigs of data in a 72 hour period (as well as using 38% of my battery?!?). Anyone have any idea why/how THAT happened?
It's an easy fix though: uninstall app, use m.facebook.com
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Turn off Facebook sync? works for me. My battery life is beyond awesome.
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Dont work for me -.-'
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Is anyone else having issues with the Facebook app? It extends to every Facebook related application including Friendcaster as well as sharing to Facebook from Instagram.
The issue is one of the inability to access any Facebook information while using my data connection. If I switch to wifi it works flawlessly.
Any Ideas?
Yep having the same problem...glad to see its not just me
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What rom are you running?
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I'm running AOKP build 40. Aerovans 10.5 kernel. Confirmed not working on the FB app and BARELY working on mobile web.
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Also, I've noticed that if I don't kill the FB app it ends up sucking up 75MB of RAM and hogs the CPU
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I'm running Aeroevan's cm9 with the v10 kernal. It happens with sense roms as well... I have got seesmic to work properly over 3g but i had to turn on wifi to get it to connect to Facebook initially.
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Same here. CM9 aero v10.
Using Stream, it's very slow if it does work at all.
Seems to work ok through wifi though.
I thought it was just me also. lol
I would love to see one of our devs jump on this and fix the damn app in minutes lol
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Glad it's not just me having issues, I've tried every rom I got to get the fb app to load, if I'm on 3g ill get a few kb of data to transfer, then nothing I gave up and am using friendcaster, it's running as of now
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I'm having the same issue on both my DINC2 and my Nook Color. Not having the issue on my Original DINC. The Facebook app will login and I can upload photos/comment on photos/comment on statuses, but I can't update my own status or post on someone's wall. It says "Unfortunately, Facebook has stopped" anytime I try to update my status. Very frustrating.
I can't login to Spotify, Foursquare, Instagram, or any other app that is linked to my account. I can't even login on Friendcaster. It just sticks in a login loop. On my Nook I'm able to login to Draw Something but that's it. (I know this is the DINC2 forum, I just wanted to throw that in there...)
I don't know how to tell the kernel version. Here is my phone info.
Kernel Version
2.6.35.14-cyanogenmod-g39a50c9-dirty
[email protected])
#1 PREEMPT Tue May 22 15:52:42 EDT 2012
Build Number
cm-vivow-eng 4.0.4 IMM76I eng.
evan.20120529.204121 test-keys
I am running mikrunny and am stillhaving the issue, so it doesn't seem to be isolated to aosp.
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It has to be the Facebook mobile site servers because if you request desktop site it's fast. Facebook app has even gone to **** on my iPod touch
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It has to be the Facebook mobile site servers because if you request desktop site it's fast. Facebook app has even gone to **** on my iPod touch
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It's not a matter of being slow, though. Unless I am on wifi I cannot access it at all... also, apps that require permissions from Facebook (ie. Instagram, foursquare etc) won't be able to access Facebook to get the proper permissions unless I am on wifi.
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OK so I'm guessing its either the ****ty FB servers or our custom roms.....I'm thinking its the FB servers
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Its not the ROM's - definitely a Facebook issue.
I am pretty sure they are trying to figure out a way to serve mobile ads thru the server similar to the desktop. It cant be a server issue, its Facebook - lol.
They can more than afford and service high quality servers.
I dont use the app on my phone (or my tablet) anymore cause it took up a lot of space even while 'dormant'. I found three processes running at one time.
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Its not the ROM's - definitely a Facebook issue.
I am pretty sure they are trying to figure out a way to serve mobile ads thru the server similar to the desktop. It cant be a server issue, its Facebook - lol.
They can more than afford and service high quality servers.
I dont use the app on my phone (or my tablet) anymore cause it took up a lot of space even while 'dormant'. I found three processes running at one time.
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Oddly, I found a Rom that the Facebook app works on. Andybones stock Rom works flawlessly.
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I disabled the ad blocker app I had installed and fb app works like a charm again
Edit : scratch that doesn't make a difference
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Possible solution. Go to your security settings in facebook on a computer, Remove all of your recognized devices, clear data on the facebook app. Log back in. FB on 3g is working for me right now. We'll see.
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Possible solution. Go to your security settings in facebook on a computer, Remove all of your recognized devices, clear data on the facebook app. Log back in. FB on 3g is working for me right now. We'll see.
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Awesome I'll try this later today
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I quit using the official fb app awhile ago, but recently I installed it again and I changed the permission to user r/w, and executable in rom toolbox and It's been about 6hrs now and it seems like it's running fine, probably got figured out on fb side and what I did probably meant nothing but figure I'd share anyway
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If I try to video chat with new app and hangup before they answer my phone reboots. Anyone else have this issue?
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I'm not using this app because it's unnecessary so I can't test.
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Works perfectly for me.
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Works perfectly for me.
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Can you tell me which device you're using and which ROM?
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Felimenta97 said:
Works perfectly for me.
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Parastie said:
Can you tell me which device you're using and which ROM?
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Xperia S with EOS
Parastie said:
Can you tell me which device you're using and which ROM?
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Xperia S, ExisTenZ ROM
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Thanks for the info. It looks like an issue with ICS on ION. Maybe the update will fix it.
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Confirmed on stock official at&t ROM. If a video call is ended before the other person answers phone stops responding and has to be powered down. My Nexus 7 does not appear to have the same issue though so let's hope the update comes soon.
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I hate this new app. It's sluggish, resource hungry and overall adds nothing to good old Gtalk.
I have rolled out the update and will never install it again.
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I have rolled out the update and will never install it again.
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Aye, me too. But I'm afraid soon Google will force us to migrate to it...just like "Google Settings" appeared in the app drawer without asking for it, Hangouts is gonna replace Talk. :-/
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I'm not using this app because it's unnecessary so I can't test.
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Then why comment? Ridiculous!
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Aye, me too. But I'm afraid soon Google will force us to migrate to it...just like "Google Settings" appeared in the app drawer without asking for it, Hangouts is gonna replace Talk. :-/
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Hangouts has already replaced talk, and I personally think it's loads better, if only more people used it I would definitely consider it a possible whatsapp replacement.
I don't have any issues with the app as some of you have experienced. (xperia s with jb .197)
The real question is, what will happen to g+ messenger? As we now have 2 messaging apps from Google.
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Hangouts has already replaced talk, and I personally think it's loads better, if only more people used it I would definitely consider it a possible whatsapp replacement.
I don't have any issues with the app as some of you have experienced. (xperia s with jb .197)
The real question is, what will happen to g+ messenger? As we now have 2 messaging apps from Google.
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It has replaced it, yeah, but you can still use the old Gtalk if you want.
G+ messenger will be gone with the new G+ update.
I used google talk a lot for work, so was kind of worried about this change overall...as i don't use G+ for anything (nor fb for that matter), but also liked how google talk on my phone, and gmail's browser conversation thing sync'd easily...
as far as the android hangouts app, whatever...it works, didn't really care what it looked like...but i will say the chrome extension for hangouts is much better than how gmail integrated. I can now have any number of my work/home machines connected to hangouts without having gmail opened. Not sure if this is how G+ worked before, as I wasn't going to bother using that.
I'm still learning it...but also prefer how hangouts doesn't seem to be archived into gmail automatically...you can set it up to do that, but it doesn't just default to dumping a pointless 3 line conversation into 'all mail'...I know you were able to change all that with google talk, just didn't feel like messing with it.
So whatever in my case...its definitely not worse for me. The bigger problem still is, and always will be, the trends of what people use. I still get numerous fb messages a week despite it being obvious that i'm never on there...then border line threats for ignoring someone haha.
Hi,
This thing has been annoying me for quite some time. It appears that the phone doesnot ever sleep. But i do not notice much battery drain due to it.
Is it just a bug in this version of android or is it something that I should take care of? Has anyone else noticed this with their phones.
My android version is 4.1.2 and software version is F240L10t. My phone is korean version.
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bibek86 said:
Hi,
This thing has been annoying me for quite some time. It appears that the phone doesnot ever sleep. But i do not notice much battery drain due to it.
Is it just a bug in this version of android or is it something that I should take care of? Has anyone else noticed this with their phones.
My android version is 4.1.2 and software version is F240L10t. My phone is korean version.
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I think sns refers to social media like Facebook. If you're signed into a messenger like fb messenger or something similar, try opening the app and signing out. Otherwise the phone will not sleep as it is remaining available to receive messages from your fb friends. Just an idea, I don't have this wake lock.
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I think sns refers to social media like Facebook. If you're signed into a messenger like fb messenger or something similar, try opening the app and signing out. Otherwise the phone will not sleep as it is remaining available to receive messages from your fb friends. Just an idea, I don't have this wake lock.
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Thanks for your reply. Actually i did try to search about this wakelock and came to it has nothing to do with social networking!
And strange thing is its not using up my battery .
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