[Q] Facebook for HTC Sense - HTC EVO 3D

I haven't seen any posts related to this... but I also haven't scavanged through the many pages of this forum (I did a search at least)
I cannot connect to Facebook for HTC Sense. I did notice it was not in the lists of apps or widgets, but I was able to get the application to ask me for a user name and password and I get "Service is unavailable. Do you want to retry?"
Anyone else getting this, and if so are there any known fixes?

Once I found out the OTA was ok. I took it, then rooted. That way when S-OFF and fully rooted I had a fully up to date rom, and didn't have to bother finding one to flash.
As it stands its ok, but I imagine not for long.

tonyh703 said:
I haven't seen any posts related to this... but I also haven't scavanged through the many pages of this forum (I did a search at least)
I cannot connect to Facebook for HTC Sense. I did notice it was not in the lists of apps or widgets, but I was able to get the application to ask me for a user name and password and I get "Service is unavailable. Do you want to retry?"
Anyone else getting this, and if so are there any known fixes?
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I haven't had this happen with Facebook, but here's what I would try:
Go into settings>applications>manage applications....then in the top tab tap "all". Scroll down to "Facebook for HTC Sense" and tap it. Then tap "clear data". Exit back to the main settings page. Finally go into "Accounts & sync" then add "Facebook for HTC Sense" to your sync list and try to log in again.

tonyh703 said:
I haven't seen any posts related to this... but I also haven't scavanged through the many pages of this forum (I did a search at least)
I cannot connect to Facebook for HTC Sense. I did notice it was not in the lists of apps or widgets, but I was able to get the application to ask me for a user name and password and I get "Service is unavailable. Do you want to retry?"
Anyone else getting this, and if so are there any known fixes?
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I had that happen to me after flashing a ROM. I actually needed to go onto my facebook page from my PC, and then go into the settings and remove Facebook for HTC sense from the list of recognized devices, or something along those lines. Not sure why I needed to do that, but that's what it took to fix it. I believe you go to 'account', and then 'account settings', and then somewhere in there. I think it's in the security tab, to the left...but not positive. If nothing else you try works, give that a try.

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Spyware, and how to figure out what installed it.

Ok, maybe I'm in the wrong place. But here goes.
My phone is trying to send text to paid numbers behind my back. I'm using prepaid so it doesn't work. I get a "You have insufficient funds to send this text" message daily, at random times.
I have no pirated apps. Everything on my phone came straight from the market. However, I've not installed a single one of the apps that was on the recent list all over tech sites.
I'm planning on reflashing with a different rom and changing all the passwords that were stored on my phone.
BUT.
Before I do this, I want to find out which app is causing this behavior. Any Ideas on how to find out what is sending random text from my phone (they don't show up in the messaging app)
viogrep said:
Ok, maybe I'm in the wrong place. But here goes.
My phone is trying to send text to paid numbers behind my back. I'm using prepaid so it doesn't work. I get a "You have insufficient funds to send this text" message daily, at random times.
I have no pirated apps. Everything on my phone came straight from the market. However, I've not installed a single one of the apps that was on the recent list all over tech sites.
I'm planning on reflashing with a different rom and changing all the passwords that were stored on my phone.
BUT.
Before I do this, I want to find out which app is causing this behavior. Any Ideas on how to find out what is sending random text from my phone (they don't show up in the messaging app)
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Install a android antivirus and firewall like Lookout.
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lookout finds nothing. All the other AV software fails to install. "Unknown error -18"
i have plenty of free space.
viogrep,
I wrote a novel, but then thought I should just ask a few preliminary questions:
Q1) does the error message contain any useful "hints", such as the destination number ?
Q2) if you use a logcat - capturing app, does anything show up in the logcat right around the time the message is generated which might provide some further clues?
There's a lot of different techniques you can use, but they require a bit of effort - not only to perform, but to explain, too.
Q3) Are you willing to post up the output of the "ps" command to a pastebin?
Q4) What apps on your phone request "SEND_SMS" privileges? You can find out with
Code:
strings /data/system/packages.xml > /sdcard/strings-pkgs-xml.txt
and then poking through the "strings-pkgs-xml.txt" file. When you see (for instance)
name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"
the immediately prior package is what requested it. Either that or you can do something tricky like
Code:
strings /data/system/packages.xml | awk '/<package name/{pkg=$2;}; /_SMS/{print pkg, $2;}'
bftb0
1. No destination number in the error. Sorry.
2. Also, no clues in logcat from what I've seen.
3. PS > http://pastebin.com/iUAfP9Yb
4. Besides the default gapps, the only other app with SEND_SMS priv. is Koxx Pure Messenger. (Purchased from the market, Have had for awhile, the sms sending is new)
Going to try to call my provider and see if I can get the number that's been denied because of funds.
*edit* No luck with provider.
I'd really like to know whats doing it so I don't install the same app once I flash. Luckily I keep nothing important on my phone. Its gmail account is actually a duplicate with my original forwarding to it. I'm a tiny bit overprotective over my email(address). :x
viogrep said:
4. Besides the default gapps, the only other app with SEND_SMS priv. is Koxx Pure Messenger. (Purchased from the market, Have had for awhile, the sms sending is new)
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I know that it isn't necessarily this simple, but if that really is the only other app besides the GAPPs with SMS priveledges, especially coupled with the knowledge that the SMS capability is new, I think you have your answer.
If you tried a new ROM and restored all but that one app, and the problem never happens again then you can be 95% sure. Only way to be 100% sure is that after a certain length of time without a problem (a week?) you reinstall Koxx and then if the problem starts happening again.
I looked through your "ps" listing.
Didn't see anything too obvious sticking out at me; there were a couple of non-market apps running though. I know that there is no theoretical reason why non-market apps would be malicious - on the other hand, I sort of wonder why they are not on the market... you know what I mean? What is stopping them? (In the case of Tubemate - which was actually kicked off of Google's market, my suspicions are even higher. I realize it was not kicked off because of malware; but still...)
These were the only processes that were either not on my phone, or I didn't really recognize.
Code:
com.dylan.tube = [Non-Market App] Tubemate
com.gau.golauncherex.notification = GO Launcher EX (READ SMS)
com.levelup.beautifulwidgets = Beautiful Widgets (LevelUp)?
com.revsodev.volumecontrol = [Non-Market App] Volume Control (Cyrket?)
com.swype.android.inputmethod = Swype?
com.tencent.research.drop = QQPlayer (no perms req'd?)
net.bajawa.battery = BattStatt (no perms req'd?)
org.sipdroid.sipua = Sipdroid VoIP + video
The Road Warrior has an idea which is sort of useful; but I'll modify it to use binary division.
Start with a freshly installed, clean ROM, and only install half of your apps. (I would put all of your most frequently used apps in the first half, and delay any non-market apps as long as possible). Here's how this goes:
- if the "half" you put on the phone is trouble-free (long enough to know the SMS popup thing is not going on), then, install half of the remaining apps, and wait again to see if there is a problem.
- if the "half" you put on the phone develops trouble, then you know that the problem app is in that group. Wipe the phone and re-install all prior "halves" (that caused no trouble), but split the current half (the group containing the suspect app) in half, and only install that. Proceed in this fashion until you are down to the app which causes the trouble.
If you have 128 apps on your phone, and you wait 1 day between installations, it will take 7 days to find the malicious app. (And if you don't get a failure within the first two days, your phone will have 3/4s of it's apps installed - that's not too bad).
The thing is though, even if you had an app compromise your phone, it might not be an "app" that is doing the dirty work any longer. For example, the most recently discovered malware ran rooting exploits against the device, and once successful, downloaded and installed "other stuff". That "other stuff" could be native binaries. So, examining permissions in the system manifest doesn't necessarily guarantee that you have exhaustively looked at your phone, or discovered all possible means of interacting with the SMS system.
It might be "just an app", though - and if it were me, the first ones that I would suspect are non-Market apps, or apps that *cough* got downloaded from "freeware" sites.
Thanks for the responses. I actually did a fresh flash last night. First thing I installed was tubemate (running through non market apps) and it did it. Ironically I added some money to my account to see if I could get the number it was trying to text. Apparently it still couldn't go through.
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I had a game from a Chinese developer that stole my gmail. Log into yours from the website and see if you get a red warning.
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viogrep said:
Thanks for the responses. I actually did a fresh flash last night. First thing I installed was tubemate (running through non market apps) and it did it. Ironically I added some money to my account to see if I could get the number it was trying to text. Apparently it still couldn't go through.
Sent from my FroShedYo V10-ERIS using XDA App
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I'm always amazed when something I suggested actually works. LOL. It's just that I'm used to things being more complicated than I hope.
Glad you figured out the trouble!
Thanks bt and RW for the help.
As far as the gmail thing... I use a different gmail address on my phone with email forwarded (different pass)...
If it gets taken I just stop the forwarding and make a new one. Makes things a more simple. Sure, they can see past emails, but they cant request passes/info from other sites... (I also monitor the login IPs in gmail, religiously. Just a habbit.)
viogrep said:
Thanks bt and RW for the help.
As far as the gmail thing... I use a different gmail address on my phone with email forwarded (different pass)...
If it gets taken I just stop the forwarding and make a new one. Makes things a more simple. Sure, they can see past emails, but they cant request passes/info from other sites... (I also monitor the login IPs in gmail, religiously. Just a habbit.)
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You're welcome. You could just change your password from the web if your phone gets stolen.
Especially since it's the gmail address you use on your phone that everything is sync'd to, not the one that's forwarding to it. So if you got another Android phone you'd lose all your contact info and bought and installed apps info, calendar and such. Unless you sync them manually which is so much harder in my experience.
Or you could use one of the many free apps out there that would let you remotely do many things to your phone. Turn the GPS on, triangulate your phone, make your phone scream, do a factory reset to erase everything...
Just a suggestion.

How to disable search for DLNA servers in Gallery app?

In my home network I have 3 DLNA servers that allow streaming of all myvids/music.
When connected to wifi on my S3, if i open the Gallery app it automatically searches and parses all files on available DLNA servers.
This drains a huge amount of battery life! and it does this every time the gallery is started.
So far I have not found a way to disable this search or even to limit the servers.
I am running stock everything.
I first thought it was the "All Play" service but disabling it did not help. I know believe it may be a part of the Gallery app itself.
Any thoughts/ideas on how to disable that functionality in the gallery app?
Note- this is not the same as DLNA file sharing. disabling that only disables sharing of files from the s3 to other clients.
This annoys me as well. As much as it is kinda cool functionality to have, every time I go to show a picture of something on the phone at home, it spins up the hard disks in my 2 NAS devices for no reason. An option to turn this off would be great...
I have the same problem. My WD MyBook Live, and media players in the network show up in the gallery and slow it really down. I hope somebody has a solution to this as so far I only can stop it selecting the option "View by" "Content in device" but that can not be saved.
Here is something i have found.
If you select "View By " from the Gallery options menu then choose "Content in Device" it disables the DLNA view.
BUT
only for that instance of gallery.i.e. if gallery app is killed then you will have to choose option again.
Still you only have to do it every time you reboot your phone.
there is another thread just like this that has opped up same section slightly different request.
Ill pop a link from this thread into the other and see if we can get an answer. Have you disabled the media scan function in the wi-fi section?
SkillfulMmd said:
there is already a thread on the Q&A section about this problem found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704575
You should post in here to collate the information and of course use the search feature next time
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The thread you posted was only started yesterday. This one here has been here for a week.
Either way ill jump on the other one and get the guys to jump over and get to answer I know you can remove the image cache but I'm not sure about the continual load because even if you remove the cache it will just keep updating it.
You can also root your device and manually remove the Allshare apk's. but that removes the allshare functionality of course.
I have done this on my S3 and gallery no longer searches for DLNA servers.
I've decided to use BubbleUpnP for DLNA streaming purposes instead.
Any luck?
Just got my S iii and am having same issue. I vaguely remember it asking about dlna upon setup, but I cannot find how to disable it loading pics from my PC every time I open gallery. Battery killer! Btw, there is nothing in the other thread mentioned about this. Has anyone figured it out?
kunalnarsey said:
In my home network I have 3 DLNA servers that allow streaming of all myvids/music.
When connected to wifi on my S3, if i open the Gallery app it automatically searches and parses all files on available DLNA servers.
This drains a huge amount of battery life! and it does this every time the gallery is started.
So far I have not found a way to disable this search or even to limit the servers.
I am running stock everything.
I first thought it was the "All Play" service but disabling it did not help. I know believe it may be a part of the Gallery app itself.
Any thoughts/ideas on how to disable that functionality in the gallery app?
Note- this is not the same as DLNA file sharing. disabling that only disables sharing of files from the s3 to other clients.
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I haven't seen any comments on here in several months, has this been resolved? (Aside from getting a replacement Gallery-style app.)
I'm new to Verizon and have the S3 (Verizon model of course) and have the same problem. I turned off all DLNA settings but the Gallery app still searches. I have Plex Media Server at home (Mac version), so Gallery gets extremely sluggish when I'm home and have WiFi turned on. It's sluggish to the point that I have to slowly enter Task Manager to exit it; no sense even trying to get the "Content in Device" option set because it never sticks and takes almost forever to get to because of the sluggishness.
I also went to the other forum link posted above, but that seems to be talking about WiFi always scanning, not this Gallery/DLNA issue, unless I'm missing something...? :angel:
specialNoob2012 said:
I haven't seen any comments on here in several months, has this been resolved? (Aside from getting a replacement Gallery-style app.)
I'm new to Verizon and have the S3 (Verizon model of course) and have the same problem. I turned off all DLNA settings but the Gallery app still searches. I have Plex Media Server at home (Mac version), so Gallery gets extremely sluggish when I'm home and have WiFi turned on. It's sluggish to the point that I have to slowly enter Task Manager to exit it; no sense even trying to get the "Content in Device" option set because it never sticks and takes almost forever to get to because of the sluggishness.
I also went to the other forum link posted above, but that seems to be talking about WiFi always scanning, not this Gallery/DLNA issue, unless I'm missing something...? :angel:
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on my rooted note 2 I used rom toolbox to permanently remove anything 'allshare' related, as I don't use that stuff. It resolved my issue with gallery slowing. I have plex installed, but it is not sharing photos.
Deleted.
I think I managed to solve this on my device.
I went into the "more settings" under wireless and network. And into "Allshare cast" when I turned this off my gallery suddenly started working again.
*edit*
Nevermind, it was just for a few minutes. The app started to slow down after I closed and opened it again.
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Guys, this is an old post, but the same keeps happening with newer models, and i didn't want to use a third party app. I downloaded an app called DisableService (needs root) and disabled the service SystemService inside NearbyService. The nearby devices list has disappeared from the gallery's menu and the gallery starts up a lot faster. I have yet to try if the gallery will still spin up my nas but i'm very optimistic.
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[Q] HTC One M8 error bug

Hi,
I have an unrooted HTC One M8 running Marshmallow 6.0 and HTC Sense 7.0. A few days ago, I decided to do a factory reset to increase its speed a bit. However, from then on it started displaying the error message "The process com.htc.sense.socialplugins has stopped". I can just click it away and nothing happens, but I get it about 100-200 times a day, basically crippling the phones usability.
When looking into RAM usage, the process com.htc.sense.socialplugins appeared to be linked to the app 'Google+ for HTC Sense'. I tried looking for that app but it can't be found in the apps list in settings, so there is no way to disable it as far as I can tell.
So my question is: How can I disable/remove/fix the Google+ for HTC Sense app?
Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a different solution to this problem, I'd be happy to hear it. For now I've tried a second factory reset, wiping the cache partition and disabling/removing any HTC app I could find.
Thanks!
uninstall king might help you to remove that system app if you have root access.
The solution turned out to be embarrassingly simple. If anyone else happens to stumble upon this thread looking for the same answer as I was, try this:
In Settings > Apps, system apps are hidden by default. By selecting Options > Show system apps (or something similar) you can reveal HTC's social apps: Google+ for HTC Sense, Facebook for HTC Sense, Twitter for HTC Sense, and so on. You can now disable those apps.

Samsung contacts app crashes when i try to view more information on number

good day everyone! i found this very helpful forum after searching for solutions to this problem I've been having and finding an eerily similar problem on a different Samsung device on a different thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/help/stock-contact-app-crashing-want-to-view-t3686983
like the person in this post, i used the stock Samsung phone/contacts app. when i tap in a number, and then on info, the app stalls then gives me "contacts has stopped" and gives me the option to open the app again. none of the solutions in that thread seemed to apply to my version of the app/os/phone (no way to roll back updates if that's what's causing it) and none of the usual culprits seem to be effecting it (purged cache and storage, reboots, no overlay apps, removed theming, etc)
is anyone else having this problem or know what might be causing it? contacts app version is 3.8.01.20 on Android 8.
thank you for any assistance!

Developer Warning for package

I am getting the error message: "developer warning for package failed to post notification on channel null" on some of the apps i use.
How can i get rid of it?
TegraY said:
I am getting the error message: "developer warning for package failed to post notification on channel null" on some of the apps i use.
How can i get rid of it?
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You can't unless your the developer of the app and write the code. If your not then the developer who codes the apps needs to fix that.
Google searching the error shows stuff like this (to give you an example why it's a code issue)
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android-o-how-to-use-notification-channels--cms-28616
scottusa2008 said:
You can't unless your the developer of the app and write the code. If your not then the developer who codes the apps needs to fix that.
Google searching the error shows stuff like this (to give you an example why it's a code issue)
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Thanks for replying.
I am geting this error message when i open the facebook or google chrome app. I am from austria and noticed this error when i was opening the app named quando. My friend has also the Galaxy s9 and he is not getting this error messages.
Does it has somthing to do with the development tools option that i activated on my phone?
TegraY said:
Thanks for replying.
I am geting this error message when i open the facebook or google chrome app. I am from austria and noticed this error when i was opening the app named quando. My friend has also the Galaxy s9 and he is not getting this error messages.
Does it has somthing to do with the development tools option that i activated on my phone?
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No, enabling developer options should not do this. If your wanting to find out for sure then just simply turn off developer options.
Taking the time to read the link I posted should help fill in what is going on. But it is a bit techy so I will try to summarize as best as I can. Android notifications have to be associated with a channel. If no channel is specified (or doesn't exist if it was) then the notification can't go anywhere and gets stuck in "null" space (pardon the sci-fi term).
As an example... Facebook wants to let you know something important, so it sends a Facebook notification via the Facebook notification channel. Up pops a notification that lets you know what Facebook had to tell you.
Now this example deals with the error your seeing. Using Facebook as an example again for this... Facebook wants to let you know something important. Facebook tries to send you a notification but when it tries to open the notification channel it can not. Because the software encountered a problem it lets you know that the notification couldn't because it couldn't find the channel to use for sending it.
Now I know you said your friend has the same phone and about the only difference(s) I can think of that would cause an issue like this is your running an older (or beta build) android OS. If your using a custom rom then you should get in touch with the people who created the rom and see what they can do to help.
Still even if none of those apply the developer of the software your using would have to resolve the issue. At the very least they are the best people to contact over your issue since they know more about the software they made
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I have this problem when I open messenger or when I chat with someone shows me this ""developer warning for package com.facebook.katana failed to post notification on channel null"" how can I solves this
Imirub said:
I have this problem when I open messenger or when I chat with someone shows me this ""developer warning for package com.facebook.katana failed to post notification on channel null"" how can I solves this
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The answer given is not wrong, feel free to Google search the error cuz it tells you the same thing I did. I even posted a link detailing the issue.
You have 4 options really
1. Get a hold of Facebook and have them fix the problem with the Facebook messenger software
2. Check if "show notification channel warnings" is toggled under developer options (if you have it enabled). If it is try toggling it off and see if that helps. if it doesn't then you have to go with option 1
3. If your using a custom rom (or modification to stock rom) contact the people who made the rom (or modification) and see if they have any ideas. When you guys ask for you don't indicate if your using stock, custom or modified OS's on your phone.. so this option might not apply, but its here as a "just in case it does".
4. Using a modified/custom apk? Did you get the apk from another source other then Google play? Did you do anything to the phone? You can try uninstalling the app and reinstalling it from Google play. If you did anything to the phone you can try factory resetting it, which would remove all your apps and reset the phone to its default settings. A factory reset would be a last resort IMHO because this means you have to set everything back up from scratch. If you do end up factory resetting the phone install messenger first and see if you get the same error. If this option doesn't apply then you gonna have to go with option 1.
Under normal circumstances you shouldn't be seeing this error, especially with a major brand like facebook. So I would start with what with (or on) your phone might be causing the problem. If the issue happens with Facebook messenger only then I suggest you contact Facebook for help.
scottusa2008 said:
2. Check if "show notification channel warnings" is toggled under developer options (if you have it enabled). If it is try toggling it off and see if that helps. if it doesn't then you have to go with option 1.
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Thank you! This one solved the problem!
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