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Best "usefull" Facebook App

This might have been a thread in the past, but i'm not sure... feel free to direct me to the thread lol.
So anyway, i just wanna know what all of you have as a facebook app.. what facebook app has the most to offer that you choose over the others?
I personally use the facebook for android and bloo 1.5
The reasons: facebook for android- I just like the widget because I can publish my status right on my home screen and see the news feed real fast..
bloo 1.5- I use this because of the real good notification updates and of course, the facebook chat..
I know "to my knowledge" that there really isn't alot of "complete" facebook apps out there, i just wanna know what all of your insights are about using facebook.. thanks guys
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I'm happy with the Facebook app. I use Nimbuzz for FB chat.

I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.

Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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It sucks so bad there's like a billion people on there lol. But I personally don't use Facebook either..

Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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Only if you have no friends.

GldRush98 said:
Only if you have no friends.
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lets not start a flame war. If you don't like facebook, don't use it. If you do like facebook, use it. Some people like iPhones over Android. To each their own.
That being said, back to the topic...
I was wondering this too. The stock facebook app sucks at getting notifications. I was thinking about trying bloo. I don't necessarily need chat (ebuddy for that), just notifications.

Removed due to my stupidity...

Mokurex said:
Let's not start a flame war? You're the one who started it by saying Facebook sucks.
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No he didnt.

rookie1082 said:
No he didnt.
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Oops, sorry my bad, mistaken him for someone else.

itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking

Zephyron said:
itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking
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HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.

Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.

I'm sorry, everyone. I guess I kinda did start flames with my comment... I just loathe Facebook a.k.a. MySpace 2.0
It's not that I don't enjoy interacting with friends, but I do that with text messages, phone calls, and real life. I mostly don't like Facebook because of:
1. Bloated, ugly interface
2. Constantly changing (not for the better)
3. Completely bullsh** privacy settings
Anyhoo...
JCopernicus said:
Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.
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Yes, it is complete trash. Not all posts show sometimes, your own posts don't show sometimes, posts you've commented on would disappear sometimes, the links to videos and sites don't open most of the time, you can't do a lot of the things you could do on the site, and... I don't feel like going on because I don't use Facebook at all anymore, anyway.
I say that having never owned an iAnything, too. Well, I had an iPod Nano once, but I can't stand iTunes, so I sold it.
Hopefully Zuckerberg will improve the Android app for those that use it.

khaytsus said:
HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.
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as the previous posts above mine state, android fb app is trash. the iphone fb app allows you to tag photos, ability to view profile photo properly, swipe through fb photo albums (as opposed to the ****ty arrow buttons for android), event viewing, favorites tab, cant think of the other stuff off the top of my head.
they chose to develop the fb app for iphone more thoroughly than the one for android

i use a combo of android FB for widget, Bloo 1.5 for notifications and Go facebook chat pro.

The best Facebook widget I have used so far is Friendstream which is contained in the Desire Rom port. I have yet to find anything as complete in the market for stock Android. I had high hopes for the app Pure Messenger but it still has a ways to go as it currently does not indicate important info within the title of each post. For instance, a post like "thank you, blah blah blah" will lack the beginning tag Susan>Lisa giving no indication who the post is talking about. The other cool thing about Friendstream is that if you open a post with images, they open directly without going to the web site.
It's really hard to believe that there is nothing decent in the entire market for stock android.

I just use a short cut to the touch site, and fachat for chatting. Haven't cared much for the apps, but don't use facebook as much as others either.

Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser

hdomingu said:
Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser
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Yeah that it does, but at least now it tells you if you have any notifications. That's one thing fixed
I think in order for it to be usable though, it needs to stop sending users to the browser. If I wanted to use the browser, I would (and actually do have it bookmarked for when the app gets too annoying).
I would like to have integrated chat and a better picture uploading interface now. Baby steps haha.

i hate that photo bar down the bottom!!!

Life Contacts Beta

Came out in the market today, but doesn't install on my 2.2 CM 6.1.3...
Says it supports 2.1 and up, and from the screenshots looks like the phone is an X10..
Looks like it could be pretty useful
Edit: Mods, I didn't realize there was an applications section. Could you please move this there? Sorry for the inconvenience
Edit2: Market link: https://market.android.com/details?i...icsson.zwooshi
App link: http://www.nidri.eu/se_apk/com.sonyericsson.zwooshi.apk (thanks to totalundone)

I took a look in the market and Google search but couldn't find anything called life contacts lol
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I found it on the market website. Said it wasn't available for my carrier.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sonyericsson.zwooshi

I think we'll need to wait till someone shares the apk.

It's neat, pretty bare, no options though. I like its simplicity.
However, it didn't pull all my contact photos (facebook ones, but I'm using timeline for facebook contact photos)
It looks really nice though, I'm definitely keeping it.
Here

It's an SE developed App by the looks of it, but having upgraded to CM6.1.3 [V5], Android Market doesn't recognise my X10 - it just has the make and model fields blank. I guess SE may have restricted the App to SE phones only?
Just a hunch...

pngface said:
I found it on the market website. Said it wasn't available for my carrier.
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Yeah i get the same message

totalundone said:
It's neat, pretty bare, no options though. I like its simplicity.
However, it didn't pull all my contact photos (facebook ones, but I'm using timeline for facebook contact photos)
It looks really nice though, I'm definitely keeping it.
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Thanks for the link. very nice widget. although it doesn't seem to get permissions form facebook. will try again later.

Click on widget headline "life.contacs" for options and facebook connection.

Put please the latest version 1.2.0.
In Russia it is not.

I was able to download it via the market.
Stock 2.1 on Rogers (canada)
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Very nice application.. nice UI.. thanks!

Yup they opened the beta for more carriers now

Interesting will have a look

sync photos between Note and S3

is there some way to sync photos between the Note and S3, similar to what Apple has with iCloud?

dtziheucdavis said:
is there some way to sync photos between the Note and S3, similar to what Apple has with iCloud?
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Dropbox and Google+ photos should work

tonyleeloveyou said:
Dropbox and Google+ photos should work
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thanks for the reply. I think there are a couple issues with that approach:
a) Google+ doesnt allow for full res sync
b) both options result in the photos not being in the Gallery of both devices, where they are convenient to view!

Dropsync
dtziheucdavis said:
thanks for the reply. I think there are a couple issues with that approach:
a) Google+ doesnt allow for full res sync
b) both options result in the photos not being in the Gallery of both devices, where they are convenient to view!
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I want to recomend You Dropsync. It,s avaliable on Google Play for free but paid version is better. II'm using and it' works nice.

Shaarky_PL said:
I want to recomend You Dropsync. It,s avaliable on Google Play for free but paid version is better. II'm using and it' works nice.
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I use picasa to do this.

The JB update added Group Cast. So provided the devices are on the same Wi-Fi network you can share pictures, documents, and music between them. I'm assuming it only works for Samsung devices that have Group Cast installed.

Best Dialer and Contacts app

I have a friend who has an older Droid.
I think he is Android 2.2.3
If you were going to suggest a Contacts/Dialer app that is as good or better than the Note3 Contacts app, what would you suggest?

the default one is not bad...
but if you really want to third party Dialer/Contracts app, Callapp very good.

zadigre said:
the default one is not bad...
but if you really want to third party Dialer/Contracts app, Callapp very good.
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Any experience with Go Contacts EX?

les_garten said:
Any experience with Go Contacts EX?
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I'm trying to stay away from anything that GO Dev Team is doing... so the answer is no.
That being said, the only third party dialer I've used and still using is Callapp

Contacts+ is excellent

les_garten said:
I have a friend who has an older Droid.
I think he is Android 2.2.3
If you were going to suggest a Contacts/Dialer app that is as good or better than the Note3 Contacts app, what would you suggest?
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I would suggest exDialer&Contacts. This is by far the best and the smoothest dialer with contacts for android. It has so many useful features, just check it out in the play store

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I would suggest exDialer&Contacts. This is by far the best and the smoothest dialer with contacts for android. It has so many useful features, just check it out in the play store
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That's the link I sent him to try. Thanx!

Stock SMS vs Google Messenger?

I have to admit I don't understand why Moto (or any OEM for that matter) give us a stock SMS app when it seems to be inferior to Google's Messenger app. Are there any advantages to using it? Especially since you can't disable it, we're all kind of stuck with it even if we don't use it.

it's a stock android messaging app. just download google messenger and make it as default app then.

pijes said:
it's a stock android messaging app. just download google messenger and make it as default app then.
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Oh I know. I'm just wondering why they put their own messaging app if Google already makes a better one. I'm wondering if there's a reason for that,

Prosis said:
Oh I know. I'm just wondering why they put their own messaging app if Google already makes a better one. I'm wondering if there's a reason for that,
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"better" is subjective. I consider them both inferior to Textra, but not everyone shares that opinion of course.

scottdanpor said:
"better" is subjective. I consider them both inferior to Textra, but not everyone shares that opinion of course.
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Oh yeah of course. But I'm comparing features from stock to Google's Messenger (quick replies and such). I'm just wondering if there's any advantage to using the stock app. I'm thinking it's a little useless, as a company, to build your own when the AOSP version is great and Google's Messenger too.