I found this looking around xda I did not make this but try to share when I can :good:
Facebook Chat Re-Enabler
Hello guys. As most of you know, chat in Facebook app doesn't work anymore and now you need to install Messenger app.
I made this simple app to enable chat again in main Facebook app without installing Messenger.
Disadvantages of Facebook+Messenger installed at same time: HUGE battery drain and RAM consumption, resource eater.
Advantages of Facebook Chat Enabler: It's only an enabler and is never executed by the system, meaning no battery drain/RAM consumption/resource eating at all. (Facebook app itself drains battery)
You don't need to do anything else, just download and install. After installation, no icon is showed in menu and chat will magically work!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-facebook-chat-enabler-t2934179
Related
I only need Twitter and Facebook ( G+ would be a bonus )
So far every application I use, regardless if it's seesmic, hootsuite or tweakdeck, does not work well.
Seesmic and Hootsuite does not have a unified wall for all tweets and status update like tweetdeck does.
Tweetdeck (and the modified "Tweakdeck") does not support full Facebook functionality. Sometimes I would be missing notification for certain tweets or post as well.
Seesmic does not allow one to view who has "liked" your post.
It is issues like this that annoys me since at times I cannot respond to friends or other people. Every app has to lack something. I cannot find an app does function like Facebook + Twitter. Somebody SIMPLY has to take out certain features.
I'm hoping for someone on XDA to prove me wrong. Any suggestions for a better social networking application?
DISCLAIMER
MYSELF, THE GOOD PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM, AND/OR THE DEITY YOU PRAY TO ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE. THERE IS ALWAYS A RISK AND FRANKLY IT IS HIGHER FOR MX2 USERS SINCE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SBF OPTIONS. TO SUM IT UP, IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE, YOU AGREE TO THIS IF YOU CONTINUE BELOW!
UPDATES
02/23/2012 - Thanks to jonb42 who pointed out a typo I made on DataCollectorProvider, I had it listed as DataCollectorService. In addition, because I ended up freezing some other things he mentioned I initially didn't list I have now listed them. There is still plenty more one can freeze as an FYI.
02/17/2012 - It was pointed out by someone that freezing Yahoo Contacts will destroy your contacts app. This was certainly the case with 2.3.5 for me, however it so far has NOT done this in 2.3.6. If I remember correctly even in 2.3.5 you could freeze Yahoo Contacts but you also had to freeze a few other apps for your contacts to function. If anyone else does this please feel free to report back on this.
02/17/2012 - Previously I had various apps that required a battery pull marked as such. A budy of mine used the guide and had totally different results as to what applications required a battery pull so I removed said warnings as they seem to be sporadic.
Why are you doing this?
I am making this thread for anyone with the MX2 running 2.3.6 looking for a way to get more performance out of their phone. To be clear this DOES NOT apply to the Droid X2, you fellows have a few custom ROM options which are far easier to implement, unfortunately most Milestone X2's are now at 2.3.6 and don't have said options since most custom ROMs are based on 2.3.4 or 2.3.5.
Prerequisites
Your phone must be rooted.
You SHOULD have CWR (recovery) on your phone and functioning, and have done a backup of your WORKING phone.
You must have Bloat Freezer or a similar app with the ability to freeze apps. I like Bloat Freezer personally (http://www.bloatfreezer.com/) but many others use Titanium Backup. You can even do it by hand if you like. Regardless thank you to Trey Holland for developing Bloat Freezer.
Explanation of Process
The basis for speeding up your phone by freezing apps is ... well manufactures install a lot of applications that run in the background that you will never, ever, ever use. These said apps eat processor time, RAM, and just in general are annoying to geeks. In the case of Motorola most of these apps are part of "blur", which is part of the "Motorola Experience". By freezing these apps you can return system resources and speed up the phone, or at least it did for me. The down side is YOU CAN BRICK YOUR PHONE ... see above disclaimer!!!.
So how does this work?
Basically, with your program of choice you choose to "freeze" given applications. The thing to remember is these programs (whether it is Bloat Freezer or Titanium Backup) will display ALL running applications on your phone. Some of these applications can, and in fact are ABSOLUTELY necessary for your phone to be useful. If you freeze the wrong application you can literally make your phone useless.
In addition, after freezing some applications your phone will not be usable for a bit until you pull the battery, replace the battery, and power it back on. I personally don't know of a way around this with some apps your phone simply will "freak out" and the battery pull is the only option.
You are wrong about some stuff and I think you are dumb, so there ...
If you know I have something that is inaccurate here, please message me so I can update this HowTo, my goal is to help the community which has been awesome to me. I will accept any feedback that isn't overtly negative.
What I Froze
Ok so this is the list of applications I was able to freeze and still have a functioning phone. As mentioned above I use very few widgets and the like, so it is completely plausible that some of these might wreck some functionality you rely on. Previously I only listed apps that were typically running. I am now listing all apps that I froze. To be blunt, only apps that run on a continuous basis will really affect performance, but I hate stuff being enabled I don't use so this is my complete list.
Accounts Storage
Admin Notifier
AdService
Amazon Kindle
Amazon MP3
Android Live Wallpapers
AtCommandService
Battery & data manage
Battery Manager
Bluetooth Share
BluetoothDun
Bookmarks Widget
Books (x2)
Calendar Service
Certificate Manager Content Provider
com.motorola.* (This means all apps that begin with com.motorola)
Contacts Sync
ContactsData
Corporate Sync Authenticator
Data Collection
Data Collector Service
Data Manager Service
DataCollectorProvider
Desk Home
Device Statistics Services
DLNA
DlnaSystemService
DMService
Downloads
DRM Protected Content Storage
Email
Email Authenticator
Emergency Alerts
Facebook Authenticator
Files (You should have another File Manager if you freeze this, or you may not need a File Manager)
Flicker Authenticator
FM Radio
RMRadioService
FOTA
Global Unplug
Google Backup Transport
Google Partner Setup
Google Search
Help Center
Home (DO NOT DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE A REPLACEMENT LAUNCHER)
Home screen tips
InPocket
Kpi Logger Services
LastFM Authenticator
Live Wallpaper Picker
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Media audio effects
Messages
Messaging
Motorola * (This means all apps that start with Motorola EXCEPT SEE BELOW FOR MOTOROLA SERVICES)
Motorola Services (DO NOT DISABLE THIS IF YOU USE MOTOROLA'S LAUNCHER "HOME")
MS Exchange Service
Music Visualization Wallpapers
My Uploads
Myspace Authenticator
News
News & Weather
OMA Client Provisioning
OMA Download
Orientation Notifier
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Pico TTS
Policy Manager Service (both of these)
Quick Contact
Quickoffice
Rich Clipboard
Rich Location
Setup data encryption
Social * (This means all apps beginning with Social)
Sticky note
Suggestions * (This means all apps beginning with Suggestions or is just Suggestions)
Swype
Task Manager
Tasks
Toggle Widgets
TTS Service
Twitter Authenticator
Universal Inbox
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Weather
Work Contacts
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo! Mail Authenticator
YouTube
YouTube Authenticator
Credits
I did not come up with the above lists on my own, I reviewed many threads but the following are the two main ones I referenced (please note these don't specifically apply to the MX2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-972459.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217134
Other Apps
As I mentioned my list above concentrates mostly on apps that were always running, but I have since updated the list to show some I just froze because I didn't want to see them in my apps list. Regardless there are still many more that you could freeze.
Closing
I hope this is useful to someone, I have received an extreme amount of help from many people in this community and want to try and give something back. If you have comments or suggestions please feel free PM me. Good luck to all!
Thanks so much!
Clcrawl,
this post has transformed my phone! And it saved me a lot of the legwork to find out which things I could freeze on the Milestone X2. Here's a list of what I had on my phone in case it is helpful for anyone: I am on ACS Alaska carrier so no doubt that's why the difference.
- Blue italics are items on your list that were not on my phone.
- No formatting = froze without having to pull battery & no ill effects so far - watch this space!
- Red = things I have a question about, some of them not on your list...
- Magenta Bold = things I froze that were not on your list
Accounts Storage
Admin Notifier
AdService
AtCommandService
Battery & data manager
Battery Manager
Bluetooth Share
BluetoothDun
Bookmarks Widget
Calendar Service
Certificate Manager Content Provider
com.motorola.android.extdispservice
com.motorola.android.mirrorservice
com.motorola.android.portal
com.motorola.hiddenmenu
com.motorola.atcmd.plugin.epu ?????
com.motorola.phoneaddons
com.motorola.photowidget ?????
com.motorola.spellcheckservice ?????
Contacts Sync
ContactsData
Data Collection
Data Collector Service
Data Manager ServiceDataCollectorService - is this a typo and really DataCollectorProvider???
Desk Home
Device Statistics Services
Downloads
DRM Protected Content Storage
Dinasystemservice ????
DMService ?????
Email
Emergency Alerts
FOTA
Global Unplug
Google Backup Transport
Google Partner Setup
Google Search
Help Center
Home (DO NOT DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE A REPLACEMENT LAUNCHER)Home screen tipsInPocket
Kpi Logger Services
Media audio effects
MediaSync ????
Motorola Dock Service ?????
Motorola Indexing Service
Motorola Services (DO NOT DISABLE THIS IF YOU USE MOTOROLA'S LAUNCHER "HOME")
Motorola Storage Monitor
MS Exchange Service
NewsNews & WeatherOMA Client Provisioning
OMA Download
Orientation Notifier
Pico TTS
Orkut authorization
Photobucket authorization
- also froze a bunch of other services I don't use like twitter auth...
Policy Manager Service (both of these)
Quick Contact - I think I use this. Needs research...
Rich Clipboard
Setup data encryption
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Sticky note
Suggestions
Suggestions Core RuleChecker Services
Suggestions Poll Scheduler Service
SwypeTask Manager
Tasks
Toggle Widgets
TTS Service
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Weather
Work Contacts
Yahoo Contacts
Thanks much for the feedback Jonb42. You are correct on the typo on DataCollectorProvider and I will fix that. Very strange you don't have some of the things. The theory previously was all the MX2s had the same SBF, but this would suggest otherwise, unless your provider manually removed some of the stuff. As far as the other things, I think I pretty much froze everything else that you had in blue as well. I may just update the post and show everything I froze. Thanks much again for the feedback.
EDIT: After talking to a budy my color blindness screwed me here, you had most of the stuff I had as well I just didn't look for italics. I forget I am color blind *slaps forehead*
speed decreases
---Update----
Looks like freezing does not do the trick for everything. I still find processes running (com.motorola for instance) that I have frozen (and still appear frozen in TB's list).
Searching for why online I found a list of people renaming these apps to .bak and thus stopping them running for good.
This bring me to the question: what if all this freezing I've been doing without every having to pull the battery has been because the apps were not really being frozen??? Thus this list of freezable apps might not be truly safe!
I am going to start trying the rename apps process but carefully with the above in mind. Someone has written a script to do this automatically but it is for a Droid X2 of course so not quite applicable...
----End of Update----
_________________
When I first froze all these apps I restarted AND pulled my battery for good measure even though my phone hadn't crashed I thought it would make sense to do so.
On startup my phone's performance was amazingly good, I was able to open each app pretty fast (its all relative!) and return to the home screen fast, and I did this with enough apps that I knew I must be forcing some to unload from memory and knew that it was all nice and fast.
However over a bit of time I've noticed that my phone has slowed down again. Does anyone have any idea why this might be so?
Restarting does not seem to help. However, restarting + pulling the battery does help get me back to "snappy".
I'm running SD speed increase, set to 2048, and the supercharger script v8.
- Jon
I wasn't able to remove the Yahoo Authenticator without my Contacts constantly force-closing... I would strongly recommend keeping that one enabled if you value using that app. (Stupid Yahoo.)
I couldn't remove my Messaging app because it is the one way to access all my inboxes. Maybe I should just switch to K-9 Mail, but as it stands I kinda want work e-mail to come through.
Hello Everyone, this is my first post here
So ive been using the modded version of FB in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-facebookmod-material-design-layout-t2982613
and i have to say its really impressive, I enjoy using it, I also enjoy the Messenger Mod V2 (integrating Messenger within the app)
but I have an idea (or a request/suggestion lol), since this messenger mod is redirecting to messages tab in FB mobile website, is it possible for the mod to redirect to https://www.messenger.com/ and modify the resolution so it fits mobile screens. I know this is a PC website only (you will not get the log in prompt if you visit on mobile), but I was thinking if we can trick the website to think its PC, modify the resolution and integrate it within FB app, because Messenger website has more features than the mobile messenger page. I know its a long shot but like I said, its just a suggestion
Hi All,
I've been attempting to use an alternative to Message+ (Verizon) but so far I haven't found any at all that will work after a reboot. What occurs is the SMS is logged in logcat but it doesn't pass to the messaging app so there's no notification or read into the app itself.
Anyone using an alternative? Message+ is ok except it wants to use Google Play Services and I get a warning on startup.
Cheers, Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Messages by Google works fine for me, though it's pretty large when installed:/
Cheers
Kristof
Yeah and it requires Google Play Services.
If the device is rooted and all Verizon apps are stripped any messaging app works fine.
snoopy20 said:
Yeah and it requires Google Play Services.
If the device is rooted and all Verizon apps are stripped any messaging app works fine.
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how? is there a step-by-step guide?
Forgotten thread?
I am doing some test in this days with Simple SMS Messenger, installed from f-droid.
I disabled the battery optimization and enable background for the app. Then it seems to work, once you started the app after a reboot, it works good, even if I close the all the apps, and load a number of other big apps. Of course I am not granted that the garbage collector will not flush it any more. But I keep going with my tests.
What I cannot find is a way to let it start automatically after reboot.
Note that I still have play services active, though.
I know, it's an oxymoron for some of these apps/services, but unfortunately, I need them for business purposes. I am seeing many out-of-date apps and posts about this topic and wondered if anyone has any current suggestions.
I'm using Aurora Store, Aurora Droid, and Hermit. Hermit isn't always a great solution if I need to be in an app multiple times a day and I need to receive notifications. I will continue to use Hermit for apps that I only have to log into periodically, like Banks apps, but the experience isn't always the best if I'm in apps multiple times a day.
- Gmail - Migrated to ProtonMail, but still using FairMail to access Gmail
- Twitter - Hermit is an option, but I wouldn't mind testing some apps.
- Facebook - Currently using Hermit, but I think an app may work better.
- Instagram - Same ^
- What's App - I have it installed on another phone using a VoIP phone number but have WhatsApp Web To Go installed on my Android Phone. If there is another Privacy/Open Source alternative, I would like to try it.
- Telegram - Nekogram X
- Discord - Aliucord (I haven't tried it, but I will)
FB etc, you can't clean up a social and disinformation liability except by not participating or viewing.
You don't play the game, it plays you.