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Facebook is horrible on JB/N7...missing features?

Good afternoon XDA!
Having received my N7 yesterday, I didn't get to play with it too much until later on at night. One of the first things I noticed was that the Facebook app on the device is missing many of the main features. I'm not sure if it's a JellyBean issue (as my Galaxy Nexus is CDMA and I haven't modded it to JB yet) or a N7 issue, but there's no way to see someone's Pictures, Info, or Favorites. What I mean is that if you go to someone's profile the only thing visible is their Wall. There's no way to go into the other sections of someone's profile. The only way to see their pictures is if they post them on their walls.
Anyone else notice this? For those that have, if you also have JellyBean on another device does it do it there, as well? I just have no way of knowing if this is a JB issue or a device-specific issue. I can't seem to find any other complaints, which I'm a bit confused by...I understand that this device is extremely new, but a *vast* majority of Android users also spend quite a bit of time on Facebook, so I'd be surprised if nobody had run into this issue before me (or at least made comments on it).
Post thoughts and maybe we can narrow it down!

I'm seeing the same issue. I've heard good things about Friendcaster as a superior replacement so I'd try that.

Friendcaster is a good alternative and in many ways superior to the Facebook app - you can have multiple log ins/accounts and much more responsive than facebook
zombies1337 said:
I'm seeing the same issue. I've heard good things about Friendcaster as a superior replacement so I'd try that.
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hotleadsingerguy said:
Good afternoon XDA!
Having received my N7 yesterday, I didn't get to play with it too much until later on at night. One of the first things I noticed was that the Facebook app on the device is missing many of the main features. I'm not sure if it's a JellyBean issue (as my Galaxy Nexus is CDMA and I haven't modded it to JB yet) or a N7 issue, but there's no way to see someone's Pictures, Info, or Favorites. What I mean is that if you go to someone's profile the only thing visible is their Wall. There's no way to go into the other sections of someone's profile. The only way to see their pictures is if they post them on their walls.
Anyone else notice this? For those that have, if you also have JellyBean on another device does it do it there, as well? I just have no way of knowing if this is a JB issue or a device-specific issue. I can't seem to find any other complaints, which I'm a bit confused by...I understand that this device is extremely new, but a *vast* majority of Android users also spend quite a bit of time on Facebook, so I'd be surprised if nobody had run into this issue before me (or at least made comments on it).
Post thoughts and maybe we can narrow it down!
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I have both the Galaxy Nexus on JB and the N7, I can definitely confirm that the FB app is lacking on the N7 especially when going into peoples profiles. However on the Galaxy Nexus it has every single feature that it had on GB and ICS. No idea what the deal is with the N7 version of the app.

Facebook app isn't set up for tablets on JB as far as I'm aware. Give them a bit to update the app and we will see.

No your wrong, its not the fact its a tablet on jelly bean, its the fact its a tablet.
My transformer prime has the exact same problem and its on ics
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Early days I think we will get a better update in due course, not so much a Facebook freak anyway but does fine for my use's
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I was thinking the same thing earlier today. Hopefully it gets an update soon!
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jotei66 said:
Early days I think we will get a better update in due course, not so much a Facebook freak anyway but does fine for my use's
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Early day's? The problems been there Fot every android tablet, facebook app sucks ass and they don't seem to care. Friendcaster whilst not being as pretty gives tonnes more functionality
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Friendcaster is light years ahead of FB app. Try it for free then get the ad free version. You'll thank me.
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Just my 2 cents, but FB apps in general on all devices are poorly optimized. One of the few things i'd rather view with a browser.

FB for Phone on Tablet
Is there a way to install the FB app that runs on smartphones on the N7?

mxporkchop said:
Is there a way to install the FB app that runs on smartphones on the N7?
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That's what you have installed. The app adjusts itself based on being on a tablet or phone.
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You can't interact with people that disable third party access on FB when using Friend caster. Just a heads up.
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akarol said:
Friendcaster is light years ahead of FB app. Try it for free then get the ad free version. You'll thank me.
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Is there any difference between the Pro version and the Free, other than ads? $5 is not worth it for me for ads...

The Facebook app is terribad on every platform, and every form factor. Just don't bother using it.

Facebook pictures?

Am I retarded or what BC I can't seem to find peoples photo albums on my nexus when using the Facebook app...weird right? If I'm wrong its OK to call me stupid lol
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poobank said:
Am I retarded or what BC I can't seem to find peoples photo albums on my nexus when using the Facebook app...weird right? If I'm wrong its OK to call me stupid lol
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I noticed this yesterday but didn't give it much thought. I wonder if it's a compatibility issue with Jelly Bean or something.

Just click on the persons thumbnail and then you can swipe through their pictures
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Yeah its really limited. You can't even view the about page either. The thumbnail is only for profile pictures I think.
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??
Where is the facebook?

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Where is the facebook?
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Wut. This makes no sense. I'm assuming that you're asking where the app is. It isn't included on the device, you need to download it from the Market.

Just use FB through the browser... that's what I do on my 5" Player, I assume it will be even better once I get my N7.

Nexus 4 has native emoji support

If this has been posted before my apologies. After getting my nexus I combed threw the settings and discovered that the keyboard has native emoji support. Now not only can you see emoji but you can send them now. To enable them go into your android keyboard settings then goto add on dictionaries. Enable emoji for English. Next go down to the advanced keyboard settings and enable switch to other input methods. Lastly go back to keyboard inputs and check the input iWnn IME. Once all these steps are down you will have a small globe icon on your native keyboard. Press this to switch to your new emojis! ?
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Good find I hadn't noticed that before.
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?????
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Very cool find!

Yay! The ?love emojis!
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When you say keyboard inputs do you mean input languages? I can't seem to find the last step.
Nevermind, I found it, you have to go into settings->language&input I was doing everything before that from the keyboard.

Very nice of you sir
Thank you
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Great find!
Thanks, mate!
Beamed via Nexus 4

Its cool but they show up in black and white. Don't know what they translate to on the iPhone (used to those ones )
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Let's leave the iPhone out of this
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mzanette said:
Its cool but they show up in black and white. Don't know what they translate to on the iPhone (used to those ones )
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I'm on my iPad right now and I can see the ones posted in this thread in color :good:

OmgitzFire said:
I'm on my iPad right now and I can see the ones posted in this thread in color :good:
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I'm also an my iPad and I can see them just fine, I'm sure Android doesn't support the iOS 6 emojis though. ??????????????????????? how does those look on 4.2? I won't have my Nexus 4 until Monday/Tuesday so I won't be able to test these

rashad1 said:
I'm also an my iPad and I can see them just fine, I'm sure Android doesn't support the iOS 6 emojis though. ??????????????????????? how does those look on 4.2? I won't have my Nexus 4 until Monday/Tuesday so I won't be able to test these
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I wish I could tell you, I'm also currently playing the waiting game with google .
I too would like to know if iOS 6 emojis work on 4.2 , if someone can tell us that would be great.

They show up just fine on my GNex.. so I would imagine do on the N4 as well.

This is great, thank you! I use to have to copy and past within the messaging app on my galaxy nexus when it had cm10
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cundiffr said:
This is great, thank you! I use to have to copy and past within the messaging app on my galaxy nexus when it had cm10
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You're very welcome. I'm loving this phone more and more by the second. :thumbup:
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rottensalad said:
You're very welcome. I'm loving this phone more and more by the second. :thumbup:
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Total Android noob and bought the N4 last Sunday. Did a factory reset and seem to have lost the iWnn IME file on my phone and can't use the emoji feature.
Any help?
Thanks.

GreekboyD said:
Total Android noob and bought the N4 last Sunday. Did a factory reset and seem to have lost the iWnn IME file on my phone and can't use the emoji feature.
Any help?
Thanks.
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It's been reported that a factory reset gets rid of the Emojii iWnn IME app. I think it's available on the Play Store anyways? I'm not sure. If anybody can pull it from their phones and post it here - that'll be great.

Thanks! ?????
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Thank you very much :good:

Scouter, multiwindow project

Hi there.
I found on G+ nice project, its called scouter and it let have on phone multiwindow known from touchwiz, now its just a project but if you have 30 sec free time just go http://getscouter.com and log in, it would be awesone have this on ours N4

submitted, waiting for the beta to test it
Meanwhile, i'm using every Halo compatible ROM here... until this comes

Looks pretty slick, a bit more of s tablet project to be honest but could be cool on the Nexus
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Will I be able to run other apps on my phone inside of Scouter?
Unfortunately, no. Scouter modules are specially designed applications, not 'native' apps that come from your phone's app store. That said, a lot of these native apps have versions that function in the Scouter web browser, and we hope companies will eventually develop custom modules for Scouter.
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That, and the fact that at first it is coming only for iOS makes it sound quite ****ty.

Lol, so it's just a browser that shows two pages at once? Haha.
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It an App within an App
only people who watched Inception will get it

gd6noob said:
It an App within an App
only people who watched Inception will get it
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haha epic comment is epic... but i always liked samsung's multi-window feature
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Allo is out

It's out and working.

What is allo
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SFG said:
What is allo
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It's Google's new messaging app.

Uninstalled already. Not for me...

It's cool. Has a few hidden features and built in Google assistant is dope.
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My wife can't receive the text I send her through allo :crying: back to old messaging app I guess

This app is working great for me. I love it! Thanks for the heads up!
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So we have allo, duo, messaging, hangouts, voice, Google+... What in good God's name is going on? Tried allo and duo, saw nothing worth wasting my time on. Uninstalled. Can't they make 1 app that does everything properly and in fact pulls in WhatsApp, viber and Skype into it to have one do it all app instead of this confusing mess?
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The best feature I think it has is the incognito messaging. It has end to end encryption and pretty much self destructs at a interval you choose.

problem is, that your contacts, and possibly your messages arent getting destroyed at any interval at this point. and they are being stored on Google servers so, thats why alot of folks have no interest is using this snooping infested app..