Guest googanhiem Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) This has saved my blade some battery. 1) Turn off notification and the refresh in the facebook app. 2) Set up a hotmail account if you don't already have an extra one sitting around. (I used hotmail because it supports push, is separate from my gmail inbox's, and its free) 3) Go into your facebook account settings and change your contact email to that hotmail account, and in notifications select what you'd like to be notified about. 4) Use the android email client (or K-9) to set up that hotmail account to push, if you don't know how here's a step by step. Optional 5)Install Flow and link it to that hotmail address. Either way it stops your phone from wasting battery checking the facebook server incrementally and notifies you instantly. Hopefully the Facebook app will add push soon, but until then this works. Edited March 11, 2011 by googanhiem
Guest Lew247 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 The Facebook does push already! It instantly notifies me anytime someone adds me, or sends me a message oh and if someone wants to chat with me And 2 days out of a battery and the fb widget on the homescreen set to check every 30 minutes is quite good already flb-r10b before anyone asks My battery was terrible at first but I deleted the facebook widget from /system/app rebooted the phone then downloaded it again from the market, installed it and the battery life gained an extra 24 hours No idea why or how but it worked for me
Guest googanhiem Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Push isn't working for me yet, I'll try again today. It seems to only pick up notifications at the refresh interval. According to lifehacker a week ago, push is in the code but hasn't yet been enabled by the facebook servers. Also the app only notifies you for messages, invites, friend requests, and couple other things. This method allows you to get a notification for nearly anything on facebook.
Guest Frankish Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Yeah it's a shame Blackberry and iPhone users get a notification for EVERYTHING. I only get them for messages and friend requests etc. Would love it for comments etc...this sounds like a good idea!
Guest That-Guy Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Thanks for the info, will have a play with this later :D But yeah push notifications for comments would be great as standard.
Guest Lew247 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Notifications for comments would make me end up throwing the phone at a very hard brick wall it would drive me crazy! it's bad enough when people send you loads of messages - you read one, put the phone down and a few mins later it goes off again dont need comment notifications, unless the notification for those can be disabled separately to everything else
Guest That-Guy Posted March 12, 2011 Report Posted March 12, 2011 Notifications for comments would make me end up throwing the phone at a very hard brick wall it would drive me crazy! it's bad enough when people send you loads of messages - you read one, put the phone down and a few mins later it goes off again dont need comment notifications, unless the notification for those can be disabled separately to everything else You could untick a box im very sure :D
Guest KillerMackem Posted March 16, 2011 Report Posted March 16, 2011 Push notifications for inbox messages and friend requests don't work for me. Someone sent me an inbox message and the notification didn't pop up until I saw that I had a message on my PC so I loaded up the Facebook app on my Blade and THEN the notification showed up.
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