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UPDATE: WE RESOLVED THE ISSUE. Details: We identified a syncing issue on Android that was affecting people’s battery life. We have fixed the issue and Messenger should be back to normal. The issue was solved on our backend so no need to update the app. Thank you all for submitting reports. Reinstall Messenger here.
Hi Reddit I'm an engineer on Messenger for Android. We're tracking the battery drain issue and are currently try to find the cause. If anyone experience excessive battery drain wants to help out we'd highly appreciate "Reporting a Problem" with "battery drain" as the issue.
If anyone is familiar with taking Android bug reports, stack dumps, or logs, please PM me or directly email . Thank you so much for your help!
We take this issue very seriously and are working hard to fix the issue.
This app has access to:
Identity
read your own contact card
find accounts on the device
Contacts
read your contacts
Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
SMS
edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
receive text messages (SMS)
receive text messages (MMS)
send SMS messages
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Phone
read call log
directly call phone numbers
Photos/Media/Files
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera
take pictures and videos
Microphone
record audio
Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information
read phone status and identity
Other
receive data from Internet
download files without notification
view network connections
read battery statistics
full network access
change your audio settings
read Google service configuration
change network connectivity
control vibration
install shortcuts
send sticky broadcast
run at startup
read sync settings
prevent device from sleeping
draw over other apps
And now it will have access to your bank account?
Taken from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
You can find those values by going to the play store. There are probably other ways, but it's what I do.
Let's take messenger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en - the text after id= is what you want.
So for instagram https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&hl=en it would be > com.instagram.android
>Notification not working for messenger apps
>Seems to work if I change to a different sms text application...
Are you talking about the stock LineageOS Messaging app or Facebook's Messenger app?
I knew what he meant immediately -- Facebook's messaging app isn't called "Facebook Messenger," it's just called "Messenger." Going to messenger.com takes you to facebook's messaging webapp. The app is called "Messenger" in the Google Play Store.
I agree it could use a little more clarity, but I'm just saying, that's the name of the product...
I've posted this before. If you install the facebook app on your phone, you are giving it blanket access to virtually everything on your phone. Just go look at the permissions for the android version.
This app has access to:
Identity
read your own contact card
find accounts on the device
Contacts
read your contacts
Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
SMS
edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
receive text messages (SMS)
receive text messages (MMS)
send SMS messages
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Phone
read call log
directly call phone numbers
Photos/Media/Files
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera
take pictures and videos
Microphone
record audio
Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information
read phone status and identity
Other
receive data from Internet
download files without notification
view network connections
read battery statistics
full network access
change your audio settings
read Google service configuration
change network connectivity
control vibration
install shortcuts
send sticky broadcast
run at startup
read sync settings
prevent device from sleeping
draw over other apps
Taken from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
Do you have the actual Facebook Messenger app installed on your phone? I believe you need it for what you're asking for.
I have it installed, and* I get the body of the message on the watch* as requested.
Otherwise, need some more details here: What model phone, what version of Android, what model of Pebble, what version of the Pebble firmware, and so on.
The website works pretty well on mobile now, so I don't bother installing any apps for Facebook any more.
Also it's possible to install the Facebook messenger app standalone.
Yes, that is either because the person is using Facebook on mobile browser or Frost (third party Facebook wrapper)
If you want to know exactly why this is happening, that's because Messenger isn't refreshing in the background in those cases, it only loads once the person open the conversation and that's why it goes from Sent to Seen directly. Meanwhile on the computer browser and the official Messenger app it's always refreshing in the background that's why you can see Delivered before the other person open the conversation.
I don't quite clearly get it, but, isn't what you're asking for already exists in the form of the <strong>Facebook Messenger</strong>?
- App name: Messenger
- Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
- Version: 273.0.0.16.120
- Description: Once there is incoming message via bubble chat, click to open it. Drag the bubble to the X (close) area to dismiss the window. -> Device is suddenly locked when dismissed the opened bubble chat. Video demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jchdn3FUC0eMu8XAx44n0p2wMq7_fE_m/view?usp=drivesdk
It's in the Android play store. Not sure about iPhones.
Messenger https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
Truecaller https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller
Assumption, this Messenger is the Play Store - Facebook Messenger app.
Try clearing your app data for the affected app. Settings -> Apps -> $APP -> Storage -> Clear Data.
You'll need to login again and it (the apps) should sync back with Facebook
Without some log files, that is the best I can do.
I just had the same issue with "messenger" the display URL was even "play.google.com" and the final url displayed on the browser when mousing over is even the right one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
but when clicking the ad it takes me
http://mobidatry.com/j136c21398?_=1486408239291&tid=1486407861660&sid=1486407861306&tz=2
I can't even understand how they did it.
Play store says it updated recently - yesterday from memory but the problem has been there since I got the phone last week - but still no dice.
Its from Facebook too, I checked that, Ill re-install now and check again though.
Installing from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
EDIT:
Same as before, googled that option and yeah people get it but I dont? very very odd
So just messenger then?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en_GB
You don't need a facebook account to use it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
Look for the Permissions section
Probably the internal codename. Another example is Facebook Messenger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
Facebook Messenger, Viber, Skype or Line, all pretty similar and famous. Pick one, go nuts.
Oh, don't worry about that, Facebook is most definitely not spying on you through your microphone.
Android and iOS apps have very generic messages for what permissions apps need. If Facebook would like to use your microphone to allow you to dictate your status, it has to say that it "Uses your microphone" in a very Orwellian all the time way.
In reality, for Facebook to record everything you say and use that to deliver ad revenue they would need to:
- Run a 64kpbs audio stream 24/7.
- Process that audio stream for speech to text purposes.
- Separate different voices/noises and prevent them from generating useless data.
- Tie that information back to various ad-possible terms.
A 64kbps 24 hour audio stream would require 5.53GB of data transfer. Even if they only ran the stream while there was data (let's say 8 hours a day) that would be 1.843GB or 55.29GB per month per every Android/iOS user with Facebook installed. The Android store shows Facebook Messenger with 21,427,969 reviews which would mean that for just those users they would move at least 1184752406.01GB of data a month. Which is not possible without the public realizing, there being a huge public outcry, and Facebook being strung up on wiretapping charges.
Finally, they aren't going to record you 24/7 because they already know everything about you because you use Facebook/a wide myriad of different services. Here's some good examples.
Sources: Friends work in digital marketing, I work as a product manager at a major data company, working there we frequently receive offers from companies to purchase personal data. We do not because it's rarely effective for our purposes.
If you need to have read receipt, then you're going to need a non-SMS messaging client to use, such as Facebook Messenger, Google's Hangouts (this one allows for mostly-seamless integration of SMS and Hangouts messages, making it good if you plan on using SMS still), Whatsapp, or Telegram, or any other one you can find on the Play Store. I'm fairly sure that most of these have location features that allow you to either share or simply see the location of your friends.
As for the G4, I use it as my daily driver and it's an absolute dream. The battery sucks for a few days at first, but once it gets acclimated, that battery lasts more than a full day. Camera is divine, screen is lovely to look at, expandable storage, etc. LG has a promo going on for the G4, too.
You can use Facebook Messenger as a standalone app, I don't bother with Facebook itself anymore
- App name: Messenger
- Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
- Version: 273.0.0.16.120
- Description: Once there is incoming message via bubble chat, click to open it.
Drag the bubble to the X (close) area to dismiss the window.
-> Device is suddenly locked when dismissed the opened bubble chat.
Video demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jchdn3FUC0eMu8XAx44n0p2wMq7_fE_m/view?usp=drivesdk
-FB messenger -https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca -when i dismiss messenger on pulldown notification. My phone goes black
Facebook Messenger which includes SMS Capabilities, In-App Games, Dark Mode, Optional Floating Bubble for Notifications and Instant Access. Most people would have Messenger and getting someone to sign up for it is easy as it only requires your phone number.
Cons: Ads, Facebook Messenger Stories
Signal is a alternative, just not as well known. “End-to-End Encryption” is included for privacy and security.
AirMessage would be an awesome addition but requires a lot of tinkering of Port Forwarding, an always on Mac Server, extra iPhone to keep phone number in iMessage, but it is worth it as you don’t have to keep telling your iPhone friends to download this app or get a “look” for having “green bubbles.” Lol.
r/AirMessage
I’ve been there, annoying all my friends to switch to this “Messaging App” for group chats, better picture quality, better video quality, read receipts and typing indicators.
Everyone it's messenger, I installed it to talk to family overseas. Link on android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
I'm using built in privacy guard on LineageOS
> You mean, by 10 people at Facebook, probably next 10 at Bloomberg, etc. Companies like Jet have over 1000 employees, system working on over 2000 machines, and F# is their primary language.
F# having a success story in Jet.com is a great thing but why are you comparing the total number of employees at Jet.com with your estimated number of Messenger developers in Facebook? You say Jet.com have deployed F# on over 2,000 machines but Messenger is on "1,000,000,000+" Android devices and then there's iOS...
> Your OCaml may be ~10x faster
I've written low latency servers for the finance industry in both OCaml and F# using Infiniband. 95% latency bands were 13µs for OCaml vs 114µs for F#.
> (which 2 responses later was ~1000 times,
That was OCaml's web stack vs F#+ASP.NET.
> with no proof provided)
I'm under NDA.
> than your F# ;) And given the context - as you've said, F# developers failed to deliver simple product in your company
No. I said the F# consultants you cited and who ran (or sponsored?) the conference you cited failed to deliver working software for us when my company used them. Nothing to do with our developers.
> - which pretty much mean, that you're not an F# developer.
Ad hominem.
> Here's the counter example.
You're comparing some of the largest industrial OCaml and F# code bases in the world with the Great Computer Language Shootout.
> F# (and .NET VM) honors tail calls
Then how come changing from a reference type to a value type turns a program that works on arbitrarily-long input into one that stack overflows almost immediately?
> There's a known issue, that F# compiler may not optimize rec functions on few occasions
Which issue on Github are you referring to?
> And gave an another library as a counter example (RapidJson in your case), which also would not work with the type you've specified.
RapidJson was an example of a much faster JSON parser. Nothing to do with F# types and not a counter example to anything. How many F# JSON libraries can serialize and deserialize Map[(1, 2), 3] correctly?
Signal isn’t secure. Don’t use it if security is important. Proprietary Software is superior to the FOSS alternative 98.6% of the time. Security is guaranteed when a larger company is behind it because you know they have the money to develop it properly.
Best option: Messenger. Available for iOS and Android. There's a quality application for desktop available here. Recommended by over 1 billion users.
Second best: Telegram is a completely secure messaging-client for Android and iOS with support for P2P e2e encryption and a quality Proprietary Software cloud infrastructure. There's an excellent desktop client for multiple platforms.
http://www.cio.com/article/2378859/open-source-tools/7-reasons-not-to-use-open-source-software.html
https://opensource.com/business/13/10/seven-reasons-closed-better-than-open-source
Does this slowdown also apply to the Facebook Messenger app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
Only if the developer chooses to do it this way. Check Messenger app for example.
I have never installed the app because of the requirements and the list is copy/paste from the app's Android Apps page.
I guess the Messenger contains a lot of functionality with certain things turned off by default. I dunno
Here is the list
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&hl=en
I was wondering too, but I think it's just Facebook Messenger with the chat colour changed to green (which you can do on mobile).
Signal isn’t secure. Don’t use it if security is important. Proprietary Software is superior to the FOSS alternative 98.6% of the time. Security is guaranteed when a larger company is behind it because you know they have the money to develop it properly.
Best option: Messenger. Available for iOS and Android. There's a quality application for desktop available here. Recommended by over 1 billion users.
Second best: Telegram is a completely secure messaging-client for Android and iOS with support for P2P e2e encryption and a quality Proprietary Software cloud infrastructure. There's an excellent desktop client for multiple platforms.
http://www.cio.com/article/2378859/open-source-tools/7-reasons-not-to-use-open-source-software.html
https://opensource.com/business/13/10/seven-reasons-closed-better-than-open-source