FriendStream style widget - Nexus S Themes and Apps

Anyone know of a quality social stream widget application? I used to use launcher pro's friends widget but now running ICS roms, I miss it.. anyway, any suggestions?
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You could try my app, Sonet. It supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Buzz, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google+ (read only), RSS, and SMS. It's scrollable on Honeycomb and ICS and very customizable. I welcome any suggestions or feature requests.
Ad-supported:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.piusvelte.sonet&feature=search_result
Ad-free:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.piusvelte.sonetpro&feature=search_result

Your widget is really great! Its replacing wizz on my home screen
The scrolling is really smooth!
The pop up dialog when I click on a fb status or a tweet doesn't seem to be the way to do it, its slow and doesn't feel as seamless as the rest of this widget is. Most other friendstream clone widgets do this with a full screen view, but maybe a better looking pop up is the answer. Something like the ICS power dialog might work if there aren't a ton of comments. Speaking of comments, its probably not necessary to have "0 comments" at the bottom of every post in the stream, but that's just a polish thing.
Is there a thread where its more appropriate to dump UX ideas on you and your app? You've got the potential for a must have ICS app!
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Orangestrat said:
Your widget is really great! Its replacing wizz on my home screen
The scrolling is really smooth!
The pop up dialog when I click on a fb status or a tweet doesn't seem to be the way to do it, its slow and doesn't feel as seamless as the rest of this widget is. Most other friendstream clone widgets do this with a full screen view, but maybe a better looking pop up is the answer. Something like the ICS power dialog might work if there aren't a ton of comments. Speaking of comments, its probably not necessary to have "0 comments" at the bottom of every post in the stream, but that's just a polish thing.
Is there a thread where its more appropriate to dump UX ideas on you and your app? You've got the potential for a must have ICS app!
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Thank you! I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss UX ideas, but I definitely want to hear them! Issues can be logged on the github site, https://github.com/piusvelte/sonet-pro/issues, so that's an option. Honestly, I often just get emailed feature requests, piusvelte at gmail dot com, so that's another option. I want to discuss the pop-up function, as it attempts to do a lot, but I don't know a better way to handle that. What is the ICS power dialog? I don't know that I've seen it. Thanks again!

Android pro widgets
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pure messenger widget. It has a scrollable and non scrollable version built in.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_messenger
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checkin these out, thanks!!

mangiaculo said:
You could try my app, Sonet. It supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Buzz, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google+ (read only), RSS, and SMS. It's scrollable on Honeycomb and ICS and very customizable. I welcome any suggestions or feature requests.
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Any particular reason nothing from facebooks shows up in it?. And yes I have added my facebook account and authenticated it.

MeX_DK said:
Any particular reason nothing from facebooks shows up in it?. And yes I have added my facebook account and authenticated it.
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When you tap on your widget, and go to Accounts and Settings, you'll see your Facebook account displayed. Does it say that it's enabled or disabled for that widget? Also, are any other account posts displaying? Have you tried manually updating the widget by tapping on the widget and selecting "Update"? Thank you for trying my app!

It shows as Enabled, but when I hit update it only updates the twitter posts and doesn't show any new FB ones. But it also said "no new posts" when I first added facebook to the widget.

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It shows as Enabled, but when I hit update it only updates the twitter posts and doesn't show any new FB ones. But it also said "no new posts" when I first added facebook to the widget.
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This is odd. Do you have any particular Facebook permissions set which might block the Sonet app? Can you tap on your Facebook account and see what the number of statuses to show is set as under settings? Could you try disabling Twitter to try just updating Facebook? Thanks for your patience with this!

I just tried and there shouldn't be any permissions blocking Sonet from synching, but the second i deactive twitter and click update Sonet just shows "No posts" or "no new posts"

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I just tried and there shouldn't be any permissions blocking Sonet from synching, but the second i deactive twitter and click update Sonet just shows "No posts" or "no new posts"
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Hmm. This is the first that I've heard of this happening. Can you load the facebook.com site in your browser while connected to the same network from which you're trying to load posts? Could you please install "Log Collector" from the Play Market and send me a log shortly after attempting to "Update" the widget? Thank you!

You want a log from just when your widget is connecting to FB, or from both your app and the browser?

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You want a log from just when your widget is connecting to FB, or from both your app and the browser?
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Just for updating the widget, please and thank you!

Facebook in the browser works fine. the official Facebook widget works fine. But I will grab a log of my phone jsut as it updates Sonet on FB.
---------- Post added at 06:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:24 PM ----------
The log I have grabbed doesn't seem right cause there is no mention of Sonet etc inside it. When I do leave facebook as the only active part it does say "Updating Content" but then changes to "No New Posts" after a short while.
Can it be that because I have the facebook app, and thus the widget that it is "clearing" the new tag meaning that Sonet wont download them?

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Facebook vs. Twitter vs. Gtalk Contact picture syncing

Is there a way to select which service to use for a contact's picture. On my phone it seems to be twitter > gtalk > facebook. But I want to use the facebook pictures. any help?
I done know of a way to do it for all your contacts at once, but when you edit a contact you will see all available images for them and tapping on one of them will select it as their main pic.
PrawnPoBoy said:
I done know of a way to do it for all your contacts at once, but when you edit a contact you will see all available images for them and tapping on one of them will select it as their main pic.
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I wasn't seeing the pictures down at the bottom of the contact options, thanks
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I wasn't seeing the pictures down at the bottom of the contact options, thanks
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Holy crap... I didn't know we could do that! So downloading the Twitter app and adding someone's Twitter username to their contact adds that pic as an option too?
Wish I could delete a post. Thought I was editing. :-\
uansari1 said:
Holy crap... I didn't know we could do that! So downloading the Twitter app and adding someone's Twitter username to their contact adds that pic as an option too?
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Actually, i think it might work off there name or email address associated with Twitter.
doalittledanse said:
Is there a way to select which service to use for a contact's picture. On my phone it seems to be twitter > gtalk > facebook. But I want to use the facebook pictures. any help?
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It doesn't work out of the box. You will need to use 'SyncMyPix' from the Play Store to retrieve and assign the pics.
PS: If you get a login / session invalid error in SyncMyPix, just logout once and login again -- it works then.
With Haxsync 2.3.0 you are able to sync HD images and select Facebook HD photos by default
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Facebook update

Anyone done it yet? I did noticed it says can sync contacts now but also it slowed my phone down alot. Alot of app lag since update.
Anyone else?
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Now that I updated, I have 2 facebook accounts in my accounts tab in settings.
Also, I can use the app, but when I click things it just takes me to the mobile facebook page in the browser. I can do that on my own!
I clicked don't sync as i feared that would happen. I did read on the sync page that u can at anytime change ur setting for sync.
Also read the engadget review comments and seen that most will just bring u to the browser. Pointless update to me.
Does ur.phone at the same as before.
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I am not getting push notifications on my facebook app..
Anyone else having this problem?
smeltn said:
I am not getting push notifications on my facebook app..
Anyone else having this problem?
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Facebook still hasn't implemented global notifications, which makes this update completely worthless. The UI update is nice, but I'd rather have functionality at this point (coming from a Blackberry that is archaic compared to media usage.. I find this a bit ironic).
The sync feature is hit and miss as well. You will find two options in your sync options for FB now. One of them, even if left off, is a placeholder for your log in information for the app. Turning the sync on will just load another set of linked contacts, most likely slowing down Samsung's OS even more. I checked it out and then removed all of the links by turning it off (nice touch, FB). The feature will be nice for people who load a stock 2.2 ROM on their phone (when available).
useless and horrible update, read the thread about it:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/141091-facebook-ver-1-3-now-out-3.html
I updated before I read this thread and now facebook is killing my battery.
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rekoncrank said:
I updated before I read this thread and now facebook is killing my battery.
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Update 1.3.1 that fixes battery leak is out now.
jhego said:
Update 1.3.1 that fixes battery leak is out now.
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But what about the contact sync issue?
I had mine to sync every 2 hours. Each time it would sync'd, it added another link to the contact. So, after 6 hours, I had 3 more links to my contacts that had Facebook.
I turned the sync off in the Facebook app, and used the sync with the phone. I have a Captivate and for some reason it has two different Facebook options in the account sync settings which do different things.
FB for android is horrible... man, I thought FB for Blackberry was bad.
Has anyone else noticed that on the News Feed it doesn't even show 1/3 of the posts? Also, why does it take you to your browser when you click on any link to a notification or comment in the app?
I ended up turning on SMS notifications for facebook because the Android FB UI is garbage
not only that, it synced my contacts so many times i had 8-10 seperate listings in my contact list for everyone in my phonebook that has facebook.
so i removed that using Titanium and im good to go.
Does FB synchronize photos for you guys? I'm talking to friends with other androids and they say it does... not so for me. Wondering if its the Captivate or my settings.
Also, when you click on "View Profile" when looking at a contact does it take you to their profile or yours? When I click it it takes me to my profile instead of the person's.

[Q] Linking up phone contacts with facebook?

Hey there.
I just started using my LG 2x and I am already finding myself somewhat struggling with some of the ways it is (a matter of getting used to it i figure ). But can someone tell me how I can manually link up my phone contacts with my facebook contacts?.
Because some of the contacts I have do not link up by themselves >_<
Hopefully someone can help
My contacts aren't linked with facebook either. I synced with Outlook but it's no facebook linked.
Weird... With Samsung and HTC that goes automatically.
Edit: Maybe you have to be logged in on Facebook for LG-app and not the official facebook app on Android Market?
just give it a little time, i had the same problem, but after a day a so everybody was in!
Open contact -> Menu -> Edit Contact -> Menu -> Merge
MeX_DK said:
Hey there.
I just started using my LG 2x and I am already finding myself somewhat struggling with some of the ways it is (a matter of getting used to it i figure ). But can someone tell me how I can manually link up my phone contacts with my facebook contacts?.
Because some of the contacts I have do not link up by themselves >_<
Hopefully someone can help
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you have to set it up to show all your facebook contacts and wait for them to load.
then open a contact, pres menu, select edit contact, pres menu, select merge, find the facebook profile you want to link to you may have to pres show all.
When you are all done hide your facebook contacts from the list
dieseldk said:
you have to set it up to show all your facebook contacts and wait for them to load.
then open a contact, pres menu, select edit contact, pres menu, select merge, find the facebook profile you want to link to you may have to pres show all.
When you are all done hide your facebook contacts from the list
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I'm doing just like this, but I get this message: The selected contact can not be added
I'm using the official facebook app, not facebook for LG. Has that anything to do with it?
VistaX said:
I'm doing just like this, but I get this message: The selected contact can not be added
I'm using the official facebook app, not facebook for LG. Has that anything to do with it?
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I use the official app from marked to
dieseldk said:
I use the official app from marked to
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Are you selecting the contact from the phone and links to the facebook contact, or vice versa?
You gotta do it from the contacts list and not from Facebook.
LordGabriel said:
You gotta do it from the contacts list and not from Facebook.
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That's what I did, but I still get this error: The selected contact can not be added
I used the stock Facebook for LG app, and it worked like a charm
Can you also change the contact image as well ?. I mean because some of the people I talk to on Facebook use stupid images and I want to replace them with another image. Can you do that as well ?
I can't get it to work now either... I've done just like you guys said and I just keep getting the same message again and again.
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I use the official app from marked to
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Are you logged in to facebook for LG also? Or only the official facebook app from Market?
Works very fine
jevamo said:
Works very fine
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And what did you do? Do you use the facebook for LG-app or the official facebook app from Android Market?
Edit: I've got it work! I dropped the contacts from LG PC Suite and imported all my contacts to Gmail, then it worked.

Friendcaster pro and Facebook help.

I am running both Friendcaster pro and Facebook because I have issues with both. Basically friendcaster shows some of my friends posts and Facebook shows other posts, neither shows all my friends posts. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening, settings maybe? This very annoying that I have to run both apps in order to see all posts. Another issue I have is that I try to run facebooks widget on CM9 but I can not scroll through the widget. Any suggestions on these issues or recommendations on another Facebook app where all post show up. Thank you.
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It's an app issue. Friendcaster has been becoming less stable over time
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There are two main causes of this.
First, it is possible that some of your friends have set their privacy settings to block access to their profile, wall, photos and status updates from third party apps like FriendCaster.
If you go to your Facebook account and select Account -> Privacy Settings -> Ads, Apps and Websites and click “Edit Your Settings” and check “Apps You Use” you’ll see an item entitled “How people bring your info to apps they use” you can see checkboxes for the items that are available to apps. As an example, If your friend has “My photos” unchecked here, they won’t appear in FriendCaster. If “Platform Apps” are turned off here, the account will be completely invisible to 3rd party apps like FriendCaster.
Unfortunately Facebook has this restriction in place and unless your friend allows third party apps we can't get around it at this time. If your friends are using that setting, the info will only appear on Facebook itself.
In addition, the Graph API that Facebook provides for us to provide information to your FriendCaster app doesn't provide Top News or Most Recent exactly as on Facebook, it's actually it's own feed that's probably most similar to most recent, but not exactly the same. So some posts may not be in the same order or may not appear at the same time.
It's more than friend permissions...
OneLouder said:
There are two main causes of this.
First, it is possible that some of your friends have set their privacy settings to block access to their profile, wall, photos and status updates from third party apps like FriendCaster. ...
Unfortunately Facebook has this restriction in place and unless your friend allows third party apps we can't get around it at this time. If your friends are using that setting, the info will only appear on Facebook itself.
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Facebook says that Friendcaster has not even attempted to access my friend's photos and videos since July 31. NONE of them.
I promise, my wife and children are allowing me to see. But Friendcaster is not attempting to access.

Issues with Calendar on Blinkfeed and lockscreen notifications

Hello guys
As it is written on the thread name I just cant get my Calendar entries to show on Blinkfeed.
Furthermore my eMails from my Gmail account arent showing up on the lockscreen despite having it setted as "Productivity"
I hope some can help me, becaue those issues really bug me a lot.
Thanks
Are you using the stock mail and calendar apps? Blinkfeed and the productivity lock screen only pull data from the stock apps.
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Are you using the stock mail and calendar apps? Blinkfeed and the productivity lock screen only pull data from the stock apps.
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Ok I use Gmail for my Mail account.That explains the lockscreen issue.thanks for that!
Is it right that with Android 4.2 we can use lockscreen widgets,so i can customize with Gmail?
In case of the calendar issue I am using the stock app,which was preloaded on the HTC One. Any more suggestions why it doesnt show up?
encoreAC said:
Ok I use Gmail for my Mail account.That explains the lockscreen issue.thanks for that!
Is it right that with Android 4.2 we can use lockscreen widgets,so i can customize with Gmail?
In case of the calendar issue I am using the stock app,which was preloaded on the HTC One. Any more suggestions why it doesnt show up?
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for the first question that'll depend. android 4.2.2 stock comes with lockscreen widgets. whether HTC decides to add them to their lockscreen setup is a completely other issue lols.
as for your second issue. check the blinkfeed topics and services section. scroll to the left and see what services you have toggled on. you have to have calendar on for it to show. it shows fine for me. also it does not pre-show events you have coming up only when the event is happening at that moment. so i have my calendar setup for my classes. say i have class at 3pm. blinkfeed will not tell me i have a class coming up at 3pm if i update it at 1pm. it will show up though when i update my blinkfeed around 3:20pm though. An interesting tid bit is if you have way too many topics and facebook stuff your calendar blinkfeed will get pushed down and you wont see it. (IE it wont have priority space on the blinkfeed area)
hopefully that helps explain it a bit.
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for the first question that'll depend. android 4.2.2 stock comes with lockscreen widgets. whether HTC decides to add them to their lockscreen setup is a completely other issue lols.
as for your second issue. check the blinkfeed topics and services section. scroll to the left and see what services you have toggled on. you have to have calendar on for it to show. it shows fine for me. also it does not pre-show events you have coming up only when the event is happening at that moment. so i have my calendar setup for my classes. say i have class at 3pm. blinkfeed will not tell me i have a class coming up at 3pm if i update it at 1pm. it will show up though when i update my blinkfeed around 3:20pm though. An interesting tid bit is if you have way too many topics and facebook stuff your calendar blinkfeed will get pushed down and you wont see it. (IE it wont have priority space on the blinkfeed area)
hopefully that helps explain it a bit.
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Thanks for answering, but it still doesn't work. I guess it's my blinkfeed,which is bugged somehow and I can't see a way to get in working despite trying hard. Maybe I just have to live with this and adapt to it or wait for an update to fix this bug
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Thanks for answering, but it still doesn't work. I guess it's my blinkfeed,which is bugged somehow and I can't see a way to get in working despite trying hard. Maybe I just have to live with this and adapt to it or wait for an update to fix this bug
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Are you on a stock ROM? Or custom? I'm on ordroid 5.0.0 and it works fine. Are you sure your Google calendars are updating? Do you see stuff when you go into the calendar app?
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It seems that Blinkfeed only show the calendar entries that is due for today. Try adding something in your calender for today and reboot your phone. It should show then.
Hey guys,
I know that this isn't a new topic, but I having some problems with my HTC ONE.
My calendar doesn't show the events, events is in it`s data base, but still not showing in application.
When i use search i can found my events.
My HTC is updated to android 4.3
I've tried to reconfigure the accounts, but have no effect.
I using the default application, that came with the phone.
Someone knows what I need to do for correct this issue?
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Same issue
I have "Contacts Birthday's and Events" calendar subscribed in my Gmail and I maintain the birthday dates of all my contacts in Gmail [format: December DD, YYYY]. In HTC calendar [Accounts] i checked the Google option and in that i checked "Contacts Birthday's and Events" option, which takes the birthdays dates from my Gmail contacts and sets reminders and notifications. But I am not able to see any notifications from the calendar.
Now, i have another option in HTC Calendar Accounts called "People (Birthdays & Anniversaries)" and i have no idea where this option came from and from where it takes the birthday data from but it displays the birthdays. The annoying thing is when an event is about to occur this People thing displays 4 reminders for the same event, which is irritating.
I want to know where this People option came from and from where its taking the data and why the hell cant i see the Gmail contacts birthdays through the "Contacts Birthday's and Events" option??? :crying:

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