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[FIXED] Facebook for Sense auto sync issues

Facebook for Sense is keeping my auto sync [icon] on, even though I have it disabled. When I remove the Facebook account, auto sync [icon] goes away. No matter how many times I toggle auto sync, background data, data connection, pull battery/reboot, NOTHING is working.
A little background:
Fresh 3.3.0.1, ran the omegasun script to remove all Sense stuff, then I put the HTCFacebook .apk back on my phone with adb.
My questions are:
a.) anyone else have this problem?
b.) anyone know of a solution?
c.) is there perhaps some other .apk that I need to put back into /system/app in order to make this work?
I have just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure this out, and I am tired of wiping and reflashing over and over only to have the issue still arise. Any insight would be GREATLY appreciated.

If I remember correctly, Friendstream and Talk were the two known for causing that situation.

Well I don't have Friendstream installed and I know it's not Talk because as soon as I delete HtcFacebook.apk the problem disappears.

Have you tried deleting the sense facebook and then downloading fb for android from the market?
That is what I have done. I removed the sense fb and installed the market fb app and dont have issues with sync. They are and appear as two different apps. Try that.

Are you saying permanently delete HtcFacebook? Or reinstall it after I install the market app? I don't want to delete HtcFacebook because of it's integration with the people app, the pictures and such.

_MetalHead_ said:
Are you saying permanently delete HtcFacebook? Or reinstall it after I install the market app? I don't want to delete HtcFacebook because of it's integration with the people app, the pictures and such.
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I personally deleted it completely but that might not be an option for you. What integration are you talking about though because I have no problems uploading pics through the market fb app.

In the Facebook for Sense sync options, turn off Sync live feed. I think that tries to sync to friendstream. I am running this way and the contacts and pictures still work correctly.

lovethyEVO said:
I personally deleted it completely but that might not be an option for you. What integration are you talking about though because I have no problems uploading pics through the market fb app.
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My contact list is synced with facebook, giving me everyones profile picture for their contact card. Also, birthdays, events. I don't think you can do that with just the market app.
In the Facebook for Sense sync options, turn off Sync live feed. I think that tries to sync to friendstream. I am running this way and the contacts and pictures still work correctly.
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I don't have that option. I only have the option to sync contacts which I have turned off. I manually sync them when I get the urge to.

_MetalHead_ said:
My contact list is synced with facebook, giving me everyones profile picture for their contact card. Also, birthdays, events. I don't think you can do that with just the market app.
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Yeah you can't do that with the market app. Sorry I couldn't be of any more help.

That's cool man, I appreciate the fact that you took the time to post regardless if it helped or not.
This is driving me nuts. I can't tell if it's actually syncing or if it's just a bug where the icon won't go away. My battery life seems fine so I dunno.
edit: It's definitely trying to do something because my wake time is 100%.

_MetalHead_ said:
That's cool man, I appreciate the fact that you took the time to post regardless if it helped or not.
This is driving me nuts. I can't tell if it's actually syncing or if it's just a bug where the icon won't go away. My battery life seems fine so I dunno.
edit: It's definitely trying to do something because my wake time is 100%.
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I just noticed in your sig you are using launcher pro.
You can create a shortcut to the battery usage info (the partial wake usage found on spare parts).
Long press the homescreen, shortcut, activities, settings, battery history.
You literally dont need spare parts for this and others. Maybe under partial wake it might lead you somewhere.

Yeah I already checked partial wake, Android System is maxed, dialer is barely there and thats pretty much it.
I'm gonna run the stock PC36IMG and then try to work my way back to where I'm at. Hopefully that will help.

I had a lot of issues with that Facebook app at first also. Now I realized that the Facebook for HTC Sense Live feed works with Friendstream like others have said. It also put the info in contacts showing their last status. Its is rather annoying and took me a minute before I figured it out as well.
Hope you the info in here as helped you

FIXED!!!
Ok, It seems I have fixed the problem. The autosync icon is gone and phone is sleeping again. Flashing the PC36IMG is the crucial step. Before flashing it I had wiped and reflashed my ROM multiple times with no success. These are the steps that I took, in case anyone else is having the same issue.
1. wipe
2. flash the rooted stock PC36IMG.zip
3. boot it
4. wipe again
5. flash Fresh 3.3.0.1
6. boot it
7. run omegasun's sense removal script
8. boot it
9. push HtcFacebook.apk to /system/app
10. reboot it
11. restore with Titanium
12. reboot it
13. $$$$
14. PROFIT!!!

_MetalHead_ said:
Ok, It seems I have fixed the problem. The autosync icon is gone and phone is sleeping again. Flashing the PC36IMG is the crucial step. Before flashing it I had wiped and reflashed my ROM multiple times with no success. These are the steps that I took, in case anyone else is having the same issue.
1. wipe
2. flash the rooted stock PC36IMG.zip
3. boot it
4. wipe again
5. flash Fresh 3.3.0.1
6. boot it
7. run omegasun's sense removal script
8. boot it
9. push HtcFacebook.apk to /system/app
10. reboot it
11. restore with Titanium
12. reboot it
13. $$$$
14. PROFIT!!!
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Good stuff. It sounds like the problem was that you were initializing facebook before deleting stuff and breaking the communications between apps that exist and dont.

lovethyEVO said:
Good stuff. It sounds like the problem was that you were initializing facebook before deleting stuff and breaking the communications between apps that exist and dont.
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No, that wasn't the problem because I tried it both ways- flashed, booted, deleted apps and flashed, deleted apps and then booted.
I'm sure it was just some stupid bug that got cleared up when I went back to stock.

Gmail email delete problem

Lately, as I delete emails after I have read them within the Gmail app, they will show back up in the Inbox a little while later, sometimes as new/unread mail and sometimes showing as unread emails in the Inbox counter but not actually showing in the Inbox.
I've done several things to try and fix it:
- Went into Applications and cleared the caches (problem eventually comes back)
- Cleared the caches as well as uninstalled the Gmail updates then reinstalled from Market (problem eventually comes back)
I've searched through the forums and can't find where anyone has written about having this issue or resolving it. Has anyone here run into this and if so, how did you go about resolving it?
Thanks!

I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve this issue?

No "final" solution that fixes it...just have to keep doing the 2 steps I wrote about and the problem goes away for a while.
It happens maybe every 2 weeks and seems to pop up when I haven't gone into Gmail and emptied my trash from within the Gmail site for a while. Also seems to come back if I read through emails too quickly; maybe an issue with reading and then deleting on the phone before the phone can push back to the server that it's been read...just guessing.
Sorry...

sigmaxaa said:
No "final" solution that fixes it...just have to keep doing the 2 steps I wrote about and the problem goes away for a while.
It happens maybe every 2 weeks and seems to pop up when I haven't gone into Gmail and emptied my trash from within the Gmail site for a while. Also seems to come back if I read through emails too quickly; maybe an issue with reading and then deleting on the phone before the phone can push back to the server that it's been read...just guessing.
Sorry...
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Go to manage applications, find GMail then force stop it. clear cache and then clear data. Reopen GMail and set up the label sync etc how you like it and should be good. Hope this works for you, let me know.

Thanks ifly! Haven't tried the force stop part before so I just did it. I'll report back if anything comes back.

sigmaxaa said:
Thanks ifly! Haven't tried the force stop part before so I just did it. I'll report back if anything comes back.
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No problem at all. Hope it fixes it. I have this happen quite a bit after a nand backup or restore. When I do a nand restore i always wipe data/factory reset, then cache and davlik now and that seems to fix the problem. Not sure what is getting hung up in the data to cause this.

That's what's been bugging me as well...I do all the wipes when I do a nand restore or load a new rom but Gmail always seems to go back to this stranger behavior. I looked all over these forums (and others), hoping someone had at least seen the same thing but to no avail.

UPDATE: Started having the same issue with Gmail. Was honestly hoping the last suggestion would help...guess not.
Any other ideas...anyone?

Login to gmail from a browser.
Click settings and then "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab
Check the settings there. I have both pop enabled and IMAP.
What are yours set to?

I've got them both enabled as well.

hmmm not sure what the deal is then...strange.

sigmaxaa said:
UPDATE: Started having the same issue with Gmail. Was honestly hoping the last suggestion would help...guess not.
Any other ideas...anyone?
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I'm having similar issues as well. I would get an email notification, open gmail, read it, delete it. Few minutes later, it shows up as an unread email but does not appear in my inbox. If i go to my "all" email box, it's there. I also still see it on my desktop PC. It finally goes away when I delete it from my PC. Another major problem that has not been mentioned here is that I cannot send an email from my EVO using the gmail app. It just keeps sitting there in my outbox. Very frustrating.
Here's my setup.
Rom: myn-WarmTwoPointTwo-01-07-2011-RLS-5
HW: 003
baseband: 2.15.00.11.19
netarchy-toastmod-4.2.1-cfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass-universal-signed
PRI 1.90_003
PRL 60674
Themes and Mods that I've flashed
update-LauncherPro-0.8.3-Warm2.2-Themed_signed
update-ThemedGingerbreadLauncher
update-TransparentTitlebar-RLS5
update-wrx4memp-Warm3-BootAnimation
Aloysius_White_Dialer
Aloysius_5_01-08-11 theme
A5_GB_ColoredMenus

[Q] How do you delete HUGE text threads!?!?!

i have been lazy and got behide on text messages and now i have a couple really big threads some around 900 and another around 1200 and the biggest at 4500 text messages! I currently use handcent and ever time i try to delete it the phone locks up and takes forever to complete if it dosent freeze first, I have done some searchin around and there are a few apps people reccommend but they all tend to have the same outcome of freezing up, and found that just Android in general is just really poor at completing this task, and some say that its just HTC sense and not really android..but does anyone one kno how to delete very large text threads???

I would try settings>applications>manage applications and clear cache and data. This will wipe the entire application and leave you with a clean slate.

MBeattie said:
I would try settings>applications>manage applications and clear cache and data. This will wipe the entire application and leave you with a clean slate.
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just tried that, and nope that doesnt work...i wiped data on messages and on handcent and it did nothing

There is an ADB method out there somewhere. Look for it. Google something like "xda android delete all sms adb"
However if you have locked messages and want to keep them (as I did last week), what I did was put my phone on charge overnight, airplane mode, and deleted them. It took about 45 minutes to delete 7k messages.

exSD said:
There is an ADB method out there somewhere. Look for it. Google something like "xda android delete all sms adb"
However if you have locked messages and want to keep them (as I did last week), what I did was put my phone on charge overnight, airplane mode, and deleted them. It took about 45 minutes to delete 7k messages.
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the adb/root explorer way would delete all of your messages, not just some.
It is done by deleting the file located in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

freeza said:
the adb/root explorer way would delete all of your messages, not just some.
It is done by deleting the file located in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
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trying this one now.......

BAttitude7689 said:
trying this one now.......
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NOPE! that didnt work either, I even rebooted and still had all the text messages there..

Sounds like your doing anything you can. If its not too hard for you, wipe the entire ROM and set it back up. My normal setup time on a new ROM is max 5 minutes after flash. I'm thinking that might work.

BAttitude7689 said:
NOPE! that didnt work either, I even rebooted and still had all the text messages there..
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Now that's odd. That is the exact way I delete all my messages every month to avoid the freezing you're talking about and it works for me....
You should try the following.......
-Boot into recovery
-Mount /data (if you're using Amon_RA 2.2.1, just go to the mounts section and mount data)
-Launch adb shell
-navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases by doing:
--cd data
--cd data
--cd com.android.providers.telephony
--cd databases
--rm mmssms.db
-navigate to /data/data/com.android.mms/cache by doing:
--cd ..
--cd ..
--cd com.android.mms
--cd cache
--rm *
-Reboot
Very strange that deleting and rebooting from within Android doesn't fix it. It does for me.

make sure you hit force delete (handcent - wipes both area's mms.apk and app)as that has better results. This is an android wipe issue and its embarrassing how long it takes. on my BB or my old iphone i could do it in seconds
BAttitude7689 said:
i have been lazy and got behide on text messages and now i have a couple really big threads some around 900 and another around 1200 and the biggest at 4500 text messages! I currently use handcent and ever time i try to delete it the phone locks up and takes forever to complete if it dosent freeze first, I have done some searchin around and there are a few apps people reccommend but they all tend to have the same outcome of freezing up, and found that just Android in general is just really poor at completing this task, and some say that its just HTC sense and not really android..but does anyone one kno how to delete very large text threads???
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Just delete the thread through the messaging app. Leave it sit for a while, up to an hour or so, and dont touch anything. Just let it do its thing. If you try to do anything else, it will FC and wont work. You just have to let it sit.

BAttitude7689 said:
i have been lazy and got behide on text messages and now i have a couple really big threads some around 900 and another around 1200 and the biggest at 4500 text messages! I currently use handcent and ever time i try to delete it the phone locks up and takes forever to complete if it dosent freeze first, I have done some searchin around and there are a few apps people reccommend but they all tend to have the same outcome of freezing up, and found that just Android in general is just really poor at completing this task, and some say that its just HTC sense and not really android..but does anyone one kno how to delete very large text threads???
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You're doing it. You can go from the main messages menu push and hold on a contact and click force delete, or menu and do a batch delete. The phone freezing is normal because it deletes them basically 1-3 at a time, so it take a little bit. So just be patient and try not to let them pile up next time . And speaking from experience here.

auto delete works wonders

What is this?
aimbdd said:
auto delete works wonders
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Disregard.....didn't mean to go O/T.

xlGmanlx said:
What is this?
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it's a feature that auto-deletes your apps.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

xlGmanlx said:
What is this?
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Probably the auto delete function for HTC MMS.apk. Deletes messages after a certain set number or something.

How does that help with deleting SMS threads?
thedudejdog said:
it's a feature that auto-deletes your apps.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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xlGmanlx said:
How does that help with deleting SMS threads?
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that's like saying, "how does changing my oil help me swap out my blown engine?"
it avoids the problem all together
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It will keep it from happening again. It deletes the oldest messages in a thread when it reaches a limit you set. Almost all messaging apps have it.

Unable to send gmail

Anyone having (or had) an issue sending emails from gmail? Not sure when this started, but at first I could send but not forward or reply, now I can't even send. When I hit the send button it just greys out. i'm on decks ROM, I've cleared app data, reflashed gaps, removed and reinstalled from the market, fixed permissions, etc - nothing has helped. Will likely rebuild from scratch in the next day our two, but figured I would throw the question out there.

I had issues with the Gmail app as well - I could hit the send button but it would sit in my outbox forever and say "sending". I searched around and found a lot of other people with problems. My Gmail app wouldn't sync properly either. I would read an email or mark it as read, then when I synced it would still show unread.
My solution was to ditch the Gmail app and just use the default email app - you can set up your Gmail through that. You can also try a different version of the app, maybe an older one that worked for you.
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!

Thanks for the response, for what its worth, I saw lots of posts with the symptoms you describe, everything on mine sync'd fine between gmail and phone except send. When I hit send the button would just grey out, wouldn't say sending or even move to the outbox, it just did nothing.
I rebuilt from scratch this morning and its working fine now, so who knows, I had tried everything I could think of and nothing else worked.
plainjane said:
I had issues with the Gmail app as well - I could hit the send button but it would sit in my outbox forever and say "sending". I searched around and found a lot of other people with problems. My Gmail app wouldn't sync properly either. I would read an email or mark it as read, then when I synced it would still show unread.
My solution was to ditch the Gmail app and just use the default email app - you can set up your Gmail through that. You can also try a different version of the app, maybe an older one that worked for you.
Sent from my Evo + MIUI using Tapatalk!
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See if this helps
When I had the same issue when I flashed to r3charge - Final rom i just deleted the gmail app, wiped cache and davik then did a fresh reinstall using the market.
See if that helps.

qbanways said:
When I had the same issue when I flashed to r3charge - Final rom i just deleted the gmail app, wiped cache and davik then did a fresh reinstall using the market.
See if that helps.
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I did the same thing and my gmail worked perfectly afterwards.

That may have been a step I missed. I dont think I cleared cache when I removed the app, definitely rebooted before installing from the market. Well, thats one more thing to try if it happens again... which it likely wont now that I have a probable fix...

Default application misbehavior

Because I googled almos everything now, I have to ask here.
Did anyone have a problem with constantly apearing question about which application would like you to use even when you checked "always" about hundred times before?
It seems to happen every time but some cases when you do something again and again. When you stop, wait a while or do something else and then do the same again, you will be prompted again which application to use.
it makes me CRAZY!!! It lasts about a month and I HATE MY PHONE because of this. Imagine this while driving! %^&*$
Anyone, please help me.
I'm running LeeDroid 3.3.3 GingerBread (stable one) and it seems not connected to the system coz it started much later than flashing occured. I suppose that one of installed apps could break something or even the bloody market (it often "stucks" while getting pages - reboot makes it working again - and I have no problems with network - nope).

Noone knows anything about it?

If you've installed a new app which does the same thing as an app you already had, you'll have to reset the defaults again (e.g. if you install Opera browser, you'll have to choose which browser to use the first time you click a link from any app (i.e. the first link you click from the browser, the first link you click from within an email, the first link you click from within Tweetdeck, the first link you click from the search tool, the first link you click from a text message, the first... you get the idea). But once you've selected 'Always' that default should persist until you clear defaults/uninstall the app/install another app that has the same functions.
However, a brief moment spent Googling has led to the suggestion that defaults only persist where the app is stored on the phone memory. Have you moved the apps in question to your SD card by any chance? Try moving them back and see if that helps.

hopscotchjunkie said:
If you've installed a new app which does the same thing as an app you already had, you'll have to reset the defaults again (e.g. if you install Opera browser, you'll have to choose which browser to use the first time you click a link from any app (i.e. the first link you click from the browser, the first link you click from within an email, the first link you click from within Tweetdeck, the first link you click from the search tool, the first link you click from a text message, the first... you get the idea). But once you've selected 'Always' that default should persist until you clear defaults/uninstall the app/install another app that has the same functions.
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Exactly. And that's what i need to achieve. Mine "always" is ignored almost always.
hopscotchj said:
However, a brief moment spent Googling has led to the suggestion that defaults only persist where the app is stored on the phone memory. Have you moved the apps in question to your SD card by any chance? Try moving them back and see if that helps.
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Did not moved any of them, I like them in the phone memory as long, as it's only 55% full yet.
I suppose the problem is in storing the default. Something resets it or storage isn't available in time I'm making decision. But WHY? Or HOW? I cannot even guess, because I don't know specifics about storing default programs values... where or how they are stored.

krzych said:
Exactly. And that's what i need to achieve. Mine "always" is ignored almost always.
Did not moved any of them, I like them in the phone memory as long, as it's only 55% full yet.
I suppose the problem is in storing the default. Something resets it or storage isn't available in time I'm making decision. But WHY? Or HOW? I cannot even guess, because I don't know specifics about storing default programs values... where or how they are stored.
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I am not sure what file it is either but it sounds like the file gets corrupted so it reverts to a default. This can be caused from restoring system files, not doing a full wipe before flashing, a corrupted rom flash and backup, and like you said an app resetting it. So many things ciuld have gone wrong. I would try and start from a clean base. It may be a long road but it is the only 100% way to find it for sure.

zelendel said:
So many things ciuld have gone wrong. I would try and start from a clean base. It may be a long road but it is the only 100% way to find it for sure.
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How about additional info: application called "Home Switcher" which is supposed to know either default and possibilities, displays possibilities but claims that there is no default set at all!
I think that you have right that many things may be broken, but I'm almost sure that if it's somewhere in database file then only this database file needs a "reset". Why? Because I run this system daily and I'm almost sure that nothing in global is broken. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
So, any informations how default apps are stored on the system would help.

Great, no help at all. I suppose I will have to flash new rom to get rid of this another google sh*t.