Hi
I have an HTC Heron with Android 2.1. I used to be able to sync and link the ocntacts on my phone with those who appear on Facebook. However, now I can't and it's very annoying. I have tried a few times to remove and reinstall the Android Facebook app but there is no syncing option within the app, although there should be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Look in (not in the app, but) the system settings -> accounts/ synchronization (or something similar)
Already tried that with no luck.
yeah you need to add facebook, just as above post Settings>Accounts & Sync> Add Account> Facebook
If still no joy, there is a way of doing it the phonebook/contacts. There should be a little button to the far right on the same line as the persons names is and you can sync them that way. AFIK their is no way to do multiple persons so its one at a time
fairly simple download and install facebook for android apk from google market, add a facebook account via Settings>Accounts & Sync> Add Account> Facebook, authenticate with your account details, select sync with existing contacts, download and install GO Contacts EX from google market.
This will offer to import facebook and sim accounts, click settings, and merge, select name - you can now merge all the duplicate contacts together
You can also add twitter accounts just add the twitter apk from the market , then follow the above steps
Thanks everyone for your help. I have tried removing and readding HTC Facebook Sense. No luck still. I then backed up my entire phone and did a factory reset - no change though. My Facebook widget did not return and I did still cannot get my Contacts to sync with the Facebook app downloaded from the Market, so I am in the same position as before.
All I want to do is to link some of my contacts who are on Facebook with their Facebook profile as I did before with no extra apps. Until very recently, I had the HTC Facebook widget, the Android Facebook widget and syncing contacts. Suddenly, my HTC Widget has mysteriously gone. I've written to HTC to see what they say.
had this problem recently, tried all the usual advice etc. only thing that worked was fcontactssync. you can uninstall it once you've linked everything.
hope this helps..
Thank you will try this next time. However, the day after I sent this message, weirdly my contacts all synced back again to Facebook! They hadn't done this for weeks! However, I did contact HTC and the Facebook for Android Developmer about my problem so maybe that haed something to do with this working again. Someone else I know haad the same problem which corrected on the same day as me!
okay so I was posting the other day asking about uninstalling system apps and unrooting, thanks guys I was able to unroot my phone and return it back to verizon and get a new one.
The reason I had to return it was I was having a contacts glitch. I could dial out just fine, but if I went to my contacts and clicked a name, my phone would force close.
so I get my new phone, sync my account, root it, and check the contact list, it works ! sweet so now its time to get to work. under your advice instead of un-installing like I did the last time I went to titanium backup to FREEZE all the bloatware. Im pretty sure I tried my contacts again and it works fine. then I spend the rest of last night installing my launchers, games, tools, got rom toolbox changed my lcd density to 280, change my boot animation, and disable some apps from starting on boot,then went to the applications tab and disabled further autostart functions. I didn't try using my contacts because this was around 2am . but I woke up today and I now have the same problem. I can dial out fine, but if I open the contacts and try to choose one, or if I type in a number and even try to add to contacts , contacts FC's. Oh I should add, when I want to send a text message it is no problem I open the text message home, click the + icon and type a contacts name and I can stat a conversation no problem. anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
here's the list of apps I froze
Ad Service
Amazon Kindle
Android Live Wallpapers
Apps
Backup Assistant Plus
Backup Assistant+
Backup Assistant+ Contacts
Backup Assistant+ Media
Bookmarks
Browser
CarDock
Device Setup
Email
Email Accounts
Email Authenticator
Email Engine
Facebook Authenticator
Forest Wallpaper
Guided Tours
Help Center
Home screen tips
Homescreen (I replaced it with launcher pro its not an issue, Also this glitch happened last time and I hadn't uninstalled or froze this)
IM
IM Presence
LastFM Authenticator
Linkedin Authenticator
Live Wallpaper Picker
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Mobile Hotspot
Mog Music
MOTOACTIV
MotoCast
Motocast ID
MOTOPRING
Motorola Dock Service
MotoSignatureApp
MusicStore
My Music
My Uploads
My Verizon Mobile
Netflix
NFL Mobile
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Skyrock Authenticator
Slacker
Slingbox
Social Loctaion
social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Netowrking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Twitter Authenticator
V CAST Tones
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Video
VideoSurf
VZ Navigator
Webtop Connector
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo Mail Authenticator
I am absolutely perplexed! anyone think they know what could be causing it?
EDIT: Okay so I did some researching and this appears to be a fairly prominent problem with moto Blur going back to the droid X etc...the fix was to go into /system/app and rename BlurContactSync.apk to BlurContactSync.bak ...now everything works perfect. credit goes to
droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/153062-contacts-wont-display-droid-x-w-gingerbread.html
The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)
Freeze
Are you experiencing the contact force close only when all apps are frozen? I had issues with the Verizon Backup Assistant goofing with my contact list.
kasouti said:
The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)
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I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.
blpw said:
I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.
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well the good thing about renaming the file is I am able to rename it back just as easy as un freezing . so I actually just renamed my blurcontactssync back to apk from .bak and unfroze yahoo mail authenticator and it is working great thanks for the tip!
In my opinion, stay away from Backup-Assistant. I've had nothing but trouble with it, everything from not backing up correctly, to poor restores that rendered my data useless. There is another program out there I use for this. Super Manager. It works for my application, and I would recommend it if you are still having trouble.
Edit: The problem can be fixed. Thanks a lot to Golubev!
See this brilliant solution:
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As for me, I've fixed my problem.))) So, i go to Facebook settings page on my PC and change my password, after submit my new data, FB ask me to sign-off from all my mobile applications and I say YES. After that I've delete FB acc from my HTC One and add it again with new password... miracle! Now all my data - channel, calendar and contacts are syncronizing, BlinkFeed works. I'm happy now.
Try it, and Good Luck!
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Hi guys,
I just got my HTC One today. I got big trouble with getting Facebook to work with Sense / Blinkfeed. At the first setup I added my Facebook account and the Facebook app works just fine. But I got a message in the notification bar, that says there is a problem with Facebook authentification. When I click on this message a Facebook page appears with the text "You have already authorized HTC Sense". I checked my privacy settings at Facebook and there is HTC Sense listed. But when I click on it, there is a error message "The application requested an invalid permission: whitelisted_offline_access". I already deleted HTC Sense at Facebook privacy settings and granted the permissions via phone again with no luck.
Do guys have any other advice for me? Thanks in advance.
Things I also tried yet: deleted data + cache from Facebook app on the phone. Reinstalled Facebook app on the phone. Deleted and reentered Facebook account at the phone.
niehof said:
Hi guys,
I just got my HTC One today. I got big trouble with getting Facebook to work with Sense / Blinkfeed. At the first setup I added my Facebook account and the Facebook app works just fine. But I got a message in the notification bar, that says there is a problem with Facebook authentification. When I click on this message a Facebook page appears with the text "You have already authorized HTC Sense". I checked my privacy settings at Facebook and there is HTC Sense listed. But when I click on it, there is a error message "The application requested an invalid permission: whitelisted_offline_access". I already deleted HTC Sense at Facebook privacy settings and granted the permissions via phone again with no luck.
Do guys have any other advice for me? Thanks in advance.
Things I also tried yet: deleted data + cache from Facebook app on the phone. Reinstalled Facebook app on the phone. Deleted and reentered Facebook account at the phone.
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I got exactly the same thing and tried quite a few delete/re-add combinations (on facebook site as well as phone). I came to the conclusion that its an issue with the Facebook servers as I am getting the whitelist error with other apps as well and I also got authentication problems with Trillian (as I had deleted it in Facebook and re-added it).
Then a day or so after I gave up, I got the error msg on the phone clicked OK and boom it worked and has been fine since.
FYI the whitelist errors I am still getting for Sense, MS Live and Spotify...
/G.
Hi schmoo, thanks for your reply. Seems that this problem is a bit extraordinary.
I figured out, that the problem only exists in combination with my particular Facebook account. I tried another account (fresh registered), which worked just fine. I don't know where the problem is with my account. I checked the blocking list also, no entry.
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Hi schmoo, thanks for your reply. Seems that this problem is a bit extraordinary.
I figured out, that the problem only exists in combination with my particular Facebook account. I tried another account (fresh registered), which worked just fine. I don't know where the problem is with my account. I checked the blocking list also, no entry.
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I'm having the "same" problem with my Droid DNA with the Sense 5 rom (with blinkfeed).
On Facebook there's the HTC Sense listed, but with no errors, unlike niehof.
I tried several combinations. Uninstalled and reinstalled Facebook app. Disabled platform apps entirely and reenabled on Facebook. Deauthorized HTC Sense and authorized it again via phone. Tried a few settings on Facebook... Switched to another ROM. Remove all Facebook related apk's ("Facebook for HTC Sense" as well) and installed them again.
Same notification error, and nothing about Facebook on my blinkeed.
I was assuming it was a problem with the rom port to the Droid DNA. But there were no users reporting this problem over there... And now I found this thread... Perhaps it's my Facebook account?
Well.... I asked my cousin to login with his account... And... It WORKED flawlessly. Blinkfeed populated. No errors whatsoever....
So... I'm with you, niehof. MY account is the problem. I just don't know where!
I'll try some logcats... If I find anything, I'll update.
Well... I tried to mimic my cousin´s Facebook settings and still: His account works. Mine doesn't.
There IS a difference.
When both of us remove HTC Sense from our Facebook, and then try to add it again via phone notification, here's what happens:
My account:
Facebook dialogs: [HTC Sense]
HTC Sense would like to access yadda yadda yadda. [OK];
HTC Sense would like to manage your messages yadda yadda. [OK];
Error persists. Error notification and still no info on blinkfeed;
HTC Sense shows up on Facebook. Limited to "only me". (my settings for old versions of FB for Mobile is set to "Friends")
His:
No Facebook dialog whatsoever. Actually... It kinda pops up, but doesn't ask anything and vanishes;
Blinkfeed works!
HTC Sense shows up on Facebook. Set to "Friends". (Settings for old versions of FB for Mobile is set to "Friends")
What gives? I really tried to mimic every setting.
His account just gives HTC Sense ACCESS without asking! And works!
Mine asks for permission. I accept both request. And it doesn´t work.
I'm at a loss :|
Changed my password. Set my language to English (to match his)... Nothing... Oh... And on Facebook it reads that the last time HTC Sense accessed my account was on March 18th! (Probably with my late HTC one X). This upon removing all HTC Sense access over and over. That "Last Accessed" on March 18th persists...
On his account, evidently, it reads "today".
Thanks for investigating this issue that deeply. I completed most of the steps also with no success. I'm actually at the same situation like you. The error at Facebook with "wrong permission" I reported at the opening post is gone now.
If I tap on the authorisation problem notification now, the Facebook app appears for a moment and closes it right now.
Contacted HTC Support in Germany already, but surprisingly they had no clue.
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niehof said:
Thanks for investigating this issue that deeply. I completed most of the steps also with no success. I'm actually at the same situation like you. The error at Facebook with "wrong permission" I reported at the opening post is gone now.
If I tap on the authorisation problem notification now, the Facebook app appears for a moment and closes it right now.
Contacted HTC Support in Germany already, but surprisingly they had no clue.
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I've got the exact same issue - my account fails yet my partner's works. HTC UK have been useless, just suggested that I "look at facebook settings".
One thing I've thought of is that my facebook account is part of the developer programme, whilst my other half's is not. Any of you guys in the same boat?
My account is not a part of the development program.
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ChrisRowland said:
I've got the exact same issue - my account fails yet my partner's works. HTC UK have been useless, just suggested that I "look at facebook settings".
One thing I've thought of is that my facebook account is part of the developer programme, whilst my other half's is not. Any of you guys in the same boat?
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Well... My account IS part of the developer program. To bad Niehof's isn't... That would narrow it down :|
My cousin's account isn't part of it and it works... Darn... I thought we'd have nailed it :|
I'm running out of things that could be causing it. I've trawled through loads of previous forum posts and made the changes that had caused problems previously (Changed email address to one without a hyphen, added locations to jobs etc).
Just finished doing a side by side comparison of all facebook settings with my partner's account and they are exactly the same. Spent about 20 hours working on this since getting phone on Thursday and getting close to giving up and returning the phone
Well... Created a fresh account and added my gf as a friend (to test blinkfeed content).
Same deal: HTC Sense gets added to the FB account with just a popup. No questions ("HTC Sense would like to..." OK CANCEL).
Everything works, no questions asked (aside from the brief FB screen that pops up and is dismissed automatically)
I removed HTC Sense from the account. Removed FB account from phone. Joined the Developer Program.
Readded account. Same deal. No questions... HTC Sense gets added to FB, and everything works.
So... Developer Program doesn't seem to be the problem.
That sucks :|
I'm in Brazil... We don't even have HTC officialy over here... So I'm stuck with what I find on the forums... If you guys find anything... Please do tell :|
Thanks for checking that one out.
Most frustrating thing is I don't know how to get the details of the authorisation error. If we could see those we might be able to deduce the source of the issue and could approach facebook for solutions.
Sucks that you don't have HTC to talk to, but they haven't been that useful so far!
Well... I was getting an unknow auth token, or auth token not found constantly on my logcat. Before I began to try and find the error.
Now I'm just getting this loop:
D/Facebook_Session(25335): getAccount
D/Facebook_Session(25335): getAccount enter lock
D/Facebook_Session(25335): queryAccount
D/Facebook_Session(25335): queryAccount enter lock
D/Facebook_Session(25335): Query Facebook account complete
D/FacebookUtils(25335): showNotAuthorizedNTF
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.method.ExtendToken.checkNecessaryToStart(ExtendToken.java:30)
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.method.FacebookOperationAdapter.start(FacebookOperationAdapter.java:66)
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.method.GetProfilesForLargePhoto.start(GetProfilesForLargePhoto.java:70)
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.SimpleFacebookEngine.getUserByIds(SimpleFacebookEngine.java:462)
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.SimpleFacebookEngine.getUserInfo(SimpleFacebookEngine.java:552)
W/System.err(25335): at com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.SocialNetworkService$FacebookInterface.getPeople(SocialNetworkService.java:90)
There's that exception... On "ExtendToken.java". I even got FacebookEngine.apk out of the phone, and used apktool to get to that code... I don't want to get very technical... But I couldn't debug it through Eclipse... And that error message isn't enough for me :|
When I click the notification, there's the facebook popup, and logcat reads:
D/FacebookSSO(29224): call Proxy login
I/ActivityManager(576): START {cmp=com.facebook.katana/.ProxyAuth (has extras) u=0} from pid 29224
D/FacebookUtils(29224): showNotAuthorizedNTF
I/ActivityManager(576): START {cmp=com.facebook.katana/.ProxyAuthDialog (has extras) u=0} from pid 24997
I/ActivityManager(576): Displayed com.facebook.katana/.ProxyAuthDialog: +236ms (total +329ms)
D/FacebookSSO(29224): authorizeCount = 1
D/FacebookSSO(29224): Got token, expire time:0
So... Apparently the token is there... And is authorized...
And then we're back to that loop... and exception on com.htc.socialnetwork.facebook.method.ExtendToken.checkNecessaryToStart
Aaaand... When I check the last time HTC Sense accessed my FB account... It still reads March 18th... :| So HTC Sense isn't getting very far :|
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Well... I got my HTC One X (mic and vibrator aren't working) to try and authorize HTC Sense through there... That was the phone that accessed FB on March 18th.
Guess what? SAME error! Same notification! Upon clicking the notification... Same accept dialogs. Same error...
So... Definitely it's on the FB side of things... HTC Sense never once gave me that notifcation on my One X (It ran Sense 4 and it's running Sense 4+... Both worked....)
Nice. Something changed... Apparently it isn't Sense 5's fault, necessarily. Sense 4+ is presenting the same error :| Bummer.
I've sent it on to HTC to see if they can make head or tail of it
Beyond my level of debugging and the all knowing google has no similar codes being thrown up
Got to love errors that don't show any error codes. If you can find the token id in there, could try using some of the facebook api tools to clear it and see if that clears the log jam
phenome said:
Well... I tried to mimic my cousin´s Facebook settings and still: His account works. Mine doesn't.
There IS a difference.
When both of us remove HTC Sense from our Facebook, and then try to add it again via phone notification, here's what happens:
My account:
Facebook dialogs: [HTC Sense]
HTC Sense would like to access yadda yadda yadda. [OK];
HTC Sense would like to manage your messages yadda yadda. [OK];
Error persists. Error notification and still no info on blinkfeed;
HTC Sense shows up on Facebook. Limited to "only me". (my settings for old versions of FB for Mobile is set to "Friends")
His:
No Facebook dialog whatsoever. Actually... It kinda pops up, but doesn't ask anything and vanishes;
Blinkfeed works!
HTC Sense shows up on Facebook. Set to "Friends". (Settings for old versions of FB for Mobile is set to "Friends")
What gives? I really tried to mimic every setting.
His account just gives HTC Sense ACCESS without asking! And works!
Mine asks for permission. I accept both request. And it doesn´t work.
I'm at a loss :|
Changed my password. Set my language to English (to match his)... Nothing... Oh... And on Facebook it reads that the last time HTC Sense accessed my account was on March 18th! (Probably with my late HTC one X). This upon removing all HTC Sense access over and over. That "Last Accessed" on March 18th persists...
On his account, evidently, it reads "today".
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Well after owning the s3 and my partner the iphone 4s we were both excited about the htc one after the disappointing s4 reveal. Anyway we both bought a HTC one and when we got it home proceeded with syncing twitter and Facebook. Hers worked flawlessly but mine came up with an annoying authentication error.
I like like you tried to mimic my partners settings exactly and there is one slight difference. When my HTC sense links to fbook it says only me where as hers is automatically set to friends. I change it on my laptop to friends and still no joy. I have not updated the fbook app thinking this was the issue but this made no difference at all. I wanted to delete the fbook app but you can't on this phone again bloody annoying as I thought maybe re downloading it would help.
I was at a loss and took my phone back to the shop. They promptly replaced it and again I have the same issue. The shop says its a Facebook issue which I agree with but somewhere there is a conflict but I just do not know where.
I would love someone to come up with a solution because otherwise I will have to get rid and go for the s4,
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I've sent it on to HTC to see if they can make head or tail of it
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I hope you get it back fixed real soon
HTC are proving nigh on useless regarding this, just suggesting them same old things again and again. I sent the debug info that phenome pulled up and I was rewarded with:
Clear Data from HTC Sense: Settings - Apps - All - Scroll Down To HTC Sense - Tap clear Data
Clear Data From Facebook: Settings - Apps - All - Scroll Down To Facebook - Tap clear Data
Clear Data From Friend stream: Settings - Apps - All - Scroll Down To Friend Stream - Tap clear Data
Check if you can access the Facebook via Mobile Browser
Please add Facebook on Mobile data if does not work then Please try to add on WiFi.
Please check the Facebook Privacy Settings ( Please Check settings for new device Required Authentication Code)
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To humour them I went through all the steps (AGAIN!) and of course it still failed. Really don't know what the next step is, but this is just ridiculous
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HTC are proving nigh on useless regarding this, just suggesting them same old things again and again. I sent the debug info that phenome pulled up and I was rewarded with:
To humour them I went through all the steps (AGAIN!) and of course it still failed. Really don't know what the next step is, but this is just ridiculous
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Tried them. On Mobile Data. Had to recustomize my home, since they told to wipe HTC Sense data. I knew it would happen, but since blinkfeed is deeply integrated... I thought I'd give it a try...
Same error
My latest attempt:
1) Remove HTC Sense from FB after removing account from phone and clearing all data
2) Full factory reset inc all data inc photos, music etc
3) Add FB account first - didn't add Google, Twitter etc
4) Respond to authorise prompt
Result...... Fail!!!
I have a stock HTC one
all I have done is freeze some of the apps as per the list on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681729
Sadly I left the email setup to last ( having set up all the contacts, apps etc) and the mail prog seems to be crashing.
I could just manage to set one account at and received a test email, which I could reply to but that's it.
when I open it it is incredibly slow and I cant get the menu button to work , the back button also doesn't work.
eventually I get a message saying that mail has stopped working.
I will try enabling everything and see if that makes it work but I thought I would ask here if anyone had experienced such problems or knew of a cure
thanks
That list contains about 50 apps, including mail...
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That list contains about 50 apps, including mail...
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Sorry youre right
I should know better than to try and multitask!!!
the apps I have disabled are
7 digital
best deal
live wallpapers
calculator widget
chrome
face unlock
fm radio widget
gmail
google play books, magazines, movies music
google search
google plus
linked in
news and weather
pdf viewer
people widget
picassa
polaris
rescue
ringtone trimmer
talk
talkback
transfer
watch
weather live wallpaper
and that's all
I have since loaded k9 which works fine so I cant see why the mail prog should crash
Thanks
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I have since loaded k9 which works fine so I cant see why the mail prog should crash
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Not an answer to your question but try Aqua mail.
Much better than k9 or stock.
Hi
Am I ended up doing a hard reset
Added mail accounts and all was fine
Disabled bloat, checked mail, all good.
Added games, checked all good.
Added apps. Checked all good.
That was 4 hours ago and it's happening again
Any ideas
Thanks
disabling apps may result to other apps crashing because it may be dependent on that app.
I was quite careful about what apps ive disabled and am pretty sure that is not whats causing it ,I checked it after I disabled the apps and it worked fine (for a few hours)
The only thing I can think of is one of the apps I downloaded. But I am hesitant to think its that as all the apps were installed on my sensation and the mail was fine
The only apps that required the "non authorised apps" warning were mm tracker and quick office pro so I have disabled them and restarted the phone. I then e mail tried the mail prog
still no joy
the thing is even if I enable all the disabled apps it still doesn't work
I know that I can get another app but that doesn't help my ocd about setting the phone up
after rebooting and loading apps I found that DW contacts was causing the crash
hard reset and re load of all apps except dw and all is good