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facebook chat heads not working

Well, it is working on my AT&T GS3. I did have Facebook previously installed, but not Messenger. I installed Facebook Home, which then upgraded Facebook. Chatheads did not appear. I then installed Messenger and chatheads suddenly appeared when I got a text from someone. I don't use FB messenger hardly at all, but I have it enabled to handle both sms and fb messages, and chatheads are working.

Honestly, they are kind of cool. The whole FB Home thing seems to work well. I have it set as my lockscreen but still use native touchwiz as my launcher.
 
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No sign of chat heads for me what so ever. I have done a clean install of everything facebook related on my Galaxy S3 and there's no option to enable chat heads.

Could it do with the Messenger build number restricting the ability in certain countries?

e.g. no chat heads in the UK until Facebook Home is officially launched?

It seems very strange that it's a scattered group who can and who can't access this feature.

I've done everything possible to get it to work and absolutely no joy.
 
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Na, it works in the UK.

People think it is an account issue because apparently you can login to Messenger with one account and chat heads works, and with another, it doesn't. If you look in the Play Store it now says "chat heads....(available to everyone soon)". So they know it is an issue, and they are going to fix it. We'll just have to wait.
 
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Works fine on my Samsung Galaxy 3. They're actually pretty cool, i'm actually using FB messenger as my default sms app now because of chat heads. :)

After seeing this, I made it my default SMS app too as I like the chat heads. The only trouble was that using Messenger meant that I couldn't maintain the individual tones I had set for SMS messages for some contacts. The Messenger app doesn't have that feature so I'm now back with the old Samsung app again. Oh well.

Pete
 
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