Why no Facebook Push?

DGRYAN1977 · January 27th, 2011, 08:46 PM

Anyone know a good solid reason why the Droids don't support Facebook Push?

asilver · January 28th, 2011, 02:46 PM

they don't want to kill the battery by having another program running all the time checking for updates.

just my guess.

DGRYAN1977 · January 29th, 2011, 10:26 AM

Does "Push" constantly run and check for updates tho? If it does, than its not different than Gmail.

asilver · January 29th, 2011, 02:40 PM

exactly....and lots of people already complain about short battery life, so if you had 2 programs constantly searching for updates it would be worse.

my battery life is perfectly fine, but still a lot of people aren't happy

silverfang77 · January 29th, 2011, 04:51 PM

Facebook for Android 1.5 does support push notifications.

DGRYAN1977 · January 30th, 2011, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by silverfang77

Facebook for Android 1.5 does support push notifications.

Not on my Droid R2D2 it doesnt.

chrstdvd · January 31st, 2011, 09:24 AM

That is funny, I had to uninstall the app because I did not want push notifications from FB. Go on line and make sure that in the Accounts>Mobile and Accounts> notification tabs are filled in correctly and that your current cell nr is listed in there. Once set up you should start receiving those annoying buggers.

silverfang77 · January 31st, 2011, 10:12 AM

@ DGRYAN1977: Did you check in Facebook settings that all notifications are enabled and that it's set to check for alerts every X number of minutes?

DGRYAN1977 · January 31st, 2011, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by silverfang77

@ DGRYAN1977: Did you check in Facebook settings that all notifications are enabled and that it's set to check for alerts every X number of minutes?

That's not push.

DGRYAN1977 · January 31st, 2011, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by chrstdvd

That is funny, I had to uninstall the app because I did not want push notifications from FB. Go on line and make sure that in the Accounts>Mobile and Accounts> notification tabs are filled in correctly and that your current cell nr is listed in there. Once set up you should start receiving those annoying buggers.

Which settings? There is email or SMS. I do not see anything about push settings.

3devious · February 2nd, 2011, 10:38 AM

It's odd, when I updated the app in the market a while ago, the update was to support push notifications. I don't allow for Facebook notifications so I wouldn't be able to tell you if they actually work.

DGRYAN1977 · February 2nd, 2011, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 3devious

It's odd, when I updated the app in the market a while ago, the update was to support push notifications. I don't allow for Facebook notifications so I wouldn't be able to tell you if they actually work.

I updated as well but only have "refresh" settings..no push.

loomer · February 2nd, 2011, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DGRYAN1977

That's not push.

While it may not be "push" by definition.. What is the difference? That you may get your friends all important status update 45 seconds later than you would have if it was pushed?

Dakota - Tom · February 2nd, 2011, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by loomer

While it may not be "push" by definition.. What is the difference? That you may get your friends all important status update 45 seconds later than you would have if it was pushed?

Haven't you seen that AT&T commercial? You don't want to be humiliated in your car pool by getting the joke last, do you?

DGRYAN1977 · February 2nd, 2011, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by loomer

While it may not be "push" by definition.. What is the difference? That you may get your friends all important status update 45 seconds later than you would have if it was pushed?

Well...which would you prefer..an email right away or 30 minutes later?

3devious · February 3rd, 2011, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DGRYAN1977

Well...which would you prefer..an email right away or 30 minutes later?

I'd prefer email when I go looking to see if I have email but I am one of those people who usually gets mad at people for contacting me. I like things like messageboards and instant messaging because you communicate when you want to and look at something else when you don't.

I did at one point set up my Facebook account on the phone and it was constantly bugging me with updates. If I could figure out a way for it to push updates from 1 or 2 people, that might be useful. I just have no way of knowing if it actually does Push without wanting to kill my family (90% of my Facebook friends.)

Is there something in Facebook that would allow you to adjust that? I'd be willing to annoy the crap out of them until they actually made it do what it said if I could pre-filter those updates. Right now the idea of trying to test it makes me shudder.

loomer · February 3rd, 2011, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DGRYAN1977

Well...which would you prefer..an email right away or 30 minutes later?

My bad.. I just looked, and noticed that the quickest interval was 30 mins. I thought you could set it for a minute.

silverfang77 · February 5th, 2011, 03:59 PM

I've only received one push notification since updating to 1.5.1. I wish Facebook would either fix the feature or remove it.

loomer · February 5th, 2011, 07:33 PM

Android needs a complete overhaul of its Facebook app, and has needed one since day one. It is quite a disgrace that it's as bad as it is, considering Android's popularity gain over the past year.

DGRYAN1977 · February 7th, 2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by silverfang77

I've only received one push notification since updating to 1.5.1. I wish Facebook would either fix the feature or remove it.

So you are saying under your settings there is a spot to turn push notifications on or off? So far I have yet to confirm anyone actually has anything other than refresh.
I was also starting to wonder if maybe its just the R2D2 that does not have push.
Someone on Facebook for Androids Facebook page said that Motorola doesnt support push with the exception of Gmail.

3devious · February 11th, 2011, 08:22 AM

If I got a message in Facebook, I got it immediately. I did not look at status updates but I had to turn off notifications for Facebook because it was so annoying. My family is high maintenance.

silverfang77 · February 11th, 2011, 07:34 PM

In the settings, there are settings for refresh interval and notifications. If you set the notifications to active, you (in theory) receive a push notification whenever someone posts on your wall, comments a post, photograph, etc.

This has been broken since the upgrade to 1.5.1.

DGRYAN1977 · February 13th, 2011, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by silverfang77

In the settings, there are settings for refresh interval and notifications. If you set the notifications to active, you (in theory) receive a push notification whenever someone posts on your wall, comments a post, photograph, etc.

This has been broken since the upgrade to 1.5.1.

Thats not push that is refresh. Push is instant. Refresh is you receive notifications in the set interval.

silverfang77 · February 13th, 2011, 07:24 PM

That's what I meant. The ability to receive messages in real time has been broken since the upgrade.

Andy in NY · February 19th, 2011, 09:35 PM

i think some people are confused.

push is when the notifications are automaticly sent to your phone when they are recieved by favebook. the phone doesn NOT have to check for updates.

refresh is when the app on the phone is checking facebook every x minutes to see if there are new notifications.

besides, te built in *functioning* notifications only alert you to messages, event invites, friend requests. the wall post, comment notifications is what is not working right now.

3devious · February 20th, 2011, 05:55 AM

Right. I had to turn notifications off because my family sends me a lot of direct messages. If notifications for comments and wall posts were enabled, my phone would melt! lol