Facebook Message Notification/Alert Problem

[Spiceinsoup]

Hello my fellow Droid X users. I've come seeking help from your collective wisdom.

So I have added my facebook account to my phone and my problem is that I am not always receiving notifications that I have gotten facebook messages. I can go into messaging and into facebook to see my messages. I don't know how often those messages are refreshed but I don't always receive new messages. Sometimes I receive a message 30 min. later and sometimes it's like 2 hours after the post time. And on top of that sometimes I go to check the inbox and find that there was a new message and I just didn't get a notification. I don't want to go hit refresh to get new messages, cause that kinda defeats the purpose of the notifications.

When it does work, I do like it but the inconsistency of updating my inbox and sending me notifications is really bugging me. I also have facebook for android, set the notifications to 30 mins but sometimes I don't even receive those notifications. Is it possible that the app is interferring with the messaging inbox or something?

I've googled a bit and all I can find pre-droid x posts and facebook contact sync issues nothing that seems like what I'm dealing with.

Hopefully someone can help me before I try calling moto support, ugh.

 

[mkthnx001]

You will find that no matter what, you will never get rock-solid/accurate notifications with Facebook using the default "Social Networking" app, or the "Facebook for Android" app. However, I have heard of something called "Bloo" that supposedly works; Google it.

Another method is to enable e-mail notifications through Facebook.

 

[Spiceinsoup]

Damn I was afraid of that I'll give Bloo a try.

 

[Spiceinsoup]

I've installed Bloo and set it to check for notifications every 2 minutes and sent some messages to myself. It's been more than two minutes and no notification, it seems as spotty as the messaging facebook inbox.

 

[cwalexander]

Setting your gmail account as your login for facebook will cause a conflict. I wasn't getting any notifications through the facebook app after i changed my email login for FB. I would get the email but the app wouldn't notify me. I had to go into the FB account settings and uncheck all the boxes for notifications so FB doesnt email me when i get comments, wall posts....etc. Now it works as intended.

 

[Spiceinsoup]

Hmm I'll give that a try.