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Help HTC Sense Facebook "service is currently unavailable"

rukna

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Jul 21, 2010
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I am pretty big on privacy and have my FB privacy settings customized to my likes. When I first activated the Evo, I was able to connect using HTC Sense into my FB account. I reset the phone back to "Factory Settings" this morning, and since then, I'm unable to connect and am getting the same warning message:

Code:
The service is currently unavailable. Do you want to try again?

Went to facebook and the permission to "HTC Sense" is allowed. What am I missing?
 
Download the official Facebook for Android app in the Market.

I already had the FB app on my Evo by default and am already able to connect to FB through it. I want the "HTC Sense FB" working so I could sync my Contacts and link/unlink them with my existing contacts.

I still followed your advice and went ahead to the Market and installed the one that simply said it'd replace my current FB client. I could still connect using that client, and not with FB for HTC Sense.
 
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Yeah same problem here with my Droid Incredible. Able to sync with a dummy facebook account but not my real one; also tried syncing using family member's Droid Eris but same problem. So frustrating. Has anybody tried contacting HTC or Facebook about this? Just to see if toggling it off and on would help I turned off the htc for sense application in Facebook and now ca'nt figure out how to turn it back on. :(
 
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I checked to make sure it was allowed under Applications in FB, and yep, still set to allow. Bleh. I hadn't really noticed, but it looks like it stopped working around July 4th. The only other thing I can think of is that I changed my password close to then, but forgot to change it in Sense, so maybe it's been locked out.
 
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Hi all,

I read on another forum about a possible workaround for the htc sense facebook issue. Update your facebook profile. Enter the place where you work in the "Education and work" area. It fixed the problem for me and several others (couldn't sync for days, after the profile update it synced instantly). Makes no sense (no pun intented) but it works.

Btw, am using an HTC Desire with custom rom.
 
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