yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] Saral Yukihira:
Installed and trying

Thanks,Installed and trying：p
[Android Apps and Games] OSheden:
Could you please share a mirror for facebook-lc-v13.1. I can't download from AFH (not a surprise though).

Thanks.

EDIT: the download is slow but it seems to work now.
[Android Apps and Games] gregsoir:
could you please block "my day" for Poland? i suppose it has some other "montage" settings than other countries and it has to be blocked separately.
[Android Apps and Games] payjo73:
Failed

Can't install on my Xperia Z5c,,
[Android Apps and Games] JUSTINMARMER:
Edit: nevermind. Working now.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Hmm. Are you talking about the main app, or Messenger?

If you're seeing the wannabe snapchat stories bar in the main so, you might be in an A/B experiment of some sort. Naturally, there are multiple code paths for elements that largely accomplish the same thing, and I've only managed to locate the ones that apply to me. Perhaps in the next version I could try to hit both paths, but that's also kind of risky since I can't test mods to features I can't see myself. This means if I mess up, it may force-close for you and it will be tough to figure out why...
[Android Apps and Games] gregsoir:
I meant the messenger app. screenshot attached. at the times when it was possible to turn off "my day" manually, i had to find "poland montage" (cant remember the proper name, will search for it later, edit: it's poland montage feature) in internal settings and turn it off, standard "wave2 montage" didn't work for Poland. my knowledge about backend is kinda zero, but if i can help you somehow, just say.
[Android Apps and Games] 请叫我鲍鱼9:
Thank you so much.

I tried to find an FB without an advertisement, and finally the xda guy was awesome!：困
[Android Apps and Games] wonsky21:
I found a weird bug, don't know if it is from this mod, or Facebook app itself... After cold start of app first post is almost never fully loaded.
[Android Apps and Games] Jigneshg:
Try clearing the cache data of the app and retry
[Android Apps and Games] wonsky21:
Did it few times, it is always back.
[Android Apps and Games] victorvscn:
How did you even get it working, though? Really struggling here on a stock S9+.

Facebook App Manager, Installer and the app itself (katana) are installed as system.

If I keep them or disable them through SABS or ADB PM UNINSTALL --USER (...) I get:

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE].

Regardless of adding the -D switch to the install command, both in adb install and in adb shell pm install. If I update from the installed Facebook I get:

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Package com.facebook.katana signatures do not match the previously installed version; ignoring!]

If I change app package name it installs, but I get an error on login (looks like Facebook does a serious number of hard link to app resources).
[Android Apps and Games] apples723:
This MOD is ****ing amazing! I love it so much!
[Android Apps and Games] Beakhole:
Can a future release remove the "Popular Across Facebook" posts?

Pictured here:

It's not actually popular across Facebook. It's just another ad.
[Android Apps and Games] payjo73:
After the update to Nougat was finally successfully installed on Xperia Z5 Compact unroot
[Android Apps and Games] the stranger94:
Same problem, how do you install it?

Tapatalked with my A8 2018 (SM-A530F)
[Android Apps and Games] vivid69:
I never was able to install 13.1. I'm still running 12.3 with no ads or nags.
[Android Apps and Games] the stranger94:
Ok but how? :asd:

I've Facebook preinstalled (like you on te s8) and the phone doesn't let me install a non official version over it :look:

11,12 or 13 I've always the problem of the stock app

Disable it doesn't change nothing...

Tapatalked with my A8 2018 (SM-A530F)
[Android Apps and Games] Mangtas_666:
Download AppClone at playstore then clone the debullshified fb and then install it.
[Android Apps and Games] vivid69:
I used SABS to disable the preinstalled Facebook and then APK editor to rename the package name of version 12.3. I just renamed it .catana and installed with no issues, but no luck with 13.1. It does install but always force closes on me.
[Android Apps and Games] the stranger94:
I've tried a couple of cloner but they never works, I'll try this one.

Edit: the appclone doesn't work. Remains on a black screen

Thanks a lot, I will try it. Even 12.3 it's more than OK for me.

Is SABS this one?

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-sabs-simple-adblocker-samsung-t3751722/amp/

(I see several link removed)

Can you share with me the apk renamed please?

Tapatalked with my A8 2018 (SM-A530F)
[Android Apps and Games] Mangtas_666:
It would be easier if your rooted.
[Android Apps and Games] Hagueyno1:
Help, new to this.

I can't get the app to install on my note 8, I've disabled everything to do with Facebook and uninstaled all the updates associated with them, I've deleted messenger but yet still I get app not installed, apps from unknown sources is on too, so do I need some other app to help install this Facebook mod? I'm desperate to try it out is all. Cheers ppls. J.
[Android Apps and Games] selw0nk:
So I get this error page when viewing groups before joining them. I don't have this problem on the official app.
[Android Apps and Games] redultra82:
Seems facebook is more and more trying to push people away from using this type of app

This morning news feed wont load, then memories wont load with error and says to log back in, news feed then having random stuff from days ago

Similar with messenger telling me to log back in etc

Shame as its official crap app or wrappers and even they seem to have issues now
[Android Apps and Games] Cryptecks:
FWIW, I haven't noticed any of those issues (in the US, Verizon LG G6). A lot of times in the morning and early evening US time, Facebook simply struggles, whether it's desktop or mobile, as people first get to work and/or get home. That said, they definitely would like to do what they can to push people away from apps like this, but I will use it until I literally can't anymore haha.
[Android Apps and Games] Kira.Lawliet:
I'm getting random force closes on Oreo, lg g6 on the latest (previous versions were smooth though). Other than that, no issues
[Android Apps and Games] Robert342:
Use ArtDeoptimiser if you have Xposed for this crashes.

Sent from Redemi 4X Qualcomm arm 64 (Resurrection Remix based on OS 7.1.2)
[Android Apps and Games] Beakhole:
Today I started seeing video ads. Is this something that sometimes happens when the most recent version of the app gets old enough?
[Android Apps and Games] 3lMghraby:
I have installed latest 190 from play store

there is a huge performance difference (official mushc faster)

but the bloat is too much however I will stick to it untill a new rebase update for arm64 is available

thanks for your hard work
[Android Apps and Games] Naruyasha:
This app worked great until today Sept 23rd... Now every video has an annoying ad :( waiting to see if there's any update for this.
[Android Apps and Games] farscape1a:
+1
[Android Apps and Games] hs420:
Got an app update nag this morning on 13.1
[Android Apps and Games] stiggerby:
Getting the odd update nag too, but other than that still water tight.

Awesome stuff dev :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] sontacken:
hi OP, thank you very much for this mod but i have a question.

Can you stop newsfeed automatically refreshing.

in old version facebook have option choose on/off automatically refreshing in background
[Android Apps and Games] Flounderist:
Hi [MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION], can't get anymore in messenger app. The update notice is blocking the app.

:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] deggar:
First off, excellent work. Thank you.

My pet peeve is the constant shuffling of the newsfeed. Any thoughts if it is possible to stop the newsfeed from reorganizing itself?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Hmm. I'd double check that you're using the latest posted release of the Messenger app. The version linked directly under the link for the main FB app is what I'm currently using, and it works for me...
[Android Apps and Games] Flounderist:
My fault. I installed v178 and it is working fine. BTW I get the update notification on fb too :p
[Android Apps and Games] gregsoir:
[MENTION=5029215]evilwombat[/MENTION] any chance you could look into that "my day" thing in messenger (poland montage), which i described few posts ago?
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
anyone who has successfully renamed the package name, can you please guide me.

I have tried Apk editor and app cloner with almost all available settings, still cant rename the package.
[Android Apps and Games] ahrion:
You can't just rename the package. You'll have to also changed the namespace which will require you to replace Landroid/com.xxx and Lcom.xx and so on and so forth.
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
Crap.

But i saw many posts in this thread where users stating they changed the package name using apk editor.

Anyways, anyone who has successfully changed the package name, can you please share the apk file? Want to install it on Note 9 which has facebook pre-installed.
[Android Apps and Games] Y0sHii:
I have completed this on the Note 9 with FB Pre-installed by using the ADB command to force delete the app (After being disabled through a package disabler, dont know if this helped). I ran the command pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.packagename.here and then installed the FB Mod here normally and it worked. Remember i don't know if disabling the app had anything to do with the success tho. Also if you decide you want the normal FB back you can just uninstall the modded one and got to the playstore and get the regular one back. I also kept the normal FB messenger separate app installed and it works fine alongside the modded FB.

goodluck :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] Beakhole:
If you have Xposed, My Day Off Xposed works perfectly for me.
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
I did that, the apps are removed successfully, still can't install fb lc. Says can't install app..!

Removed all 3 fb app, Facebook system, katana & Facebook service
[Android Apps and Games] Spansgood:
Help

I tried doing exactly what you said you did But it doesn't seem to be working. I'm using an S9 plus. It acts like its gonna install then it hangs in says app not installed. I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to using ADB but I'm pretty sure I did it right. Would you be so kind as to walk me through exactly what you did?
[Android Apps and Games] gregsoir:
thanks but I'm on Pie, can't use xposed (and i don't really want to)
[Android Apps and Games] sontacken:
anyone know this :(
[Android Apps and Games] vallhalla:
Is there any way to force the Messenger to use the old look/design? I hate the new design and features of Messenger and I don't even wanna see it. I downloaded v134 and it was perfect (old style blue bar on top) but after some time this **** updates itself, even though I disabled the auto-update setting.

How can I force it to stay in the old style and not update itself? Is there some way I could block the update server or whatever without loosing other functionality?
[Android Apps and Games] Robert342:
You wanna stay with v. 134?

Sent from Redemi 4X Qualcomm arm 64 (Resurrection Remix based on OS 7.1.2)
[Android Apps and Games] Y0sHii:
Alright this is roughly what I did because i can't re create the whole pre-installed FB thing with factory restoring. DISREGARD what i previously posted with that uninstall command use the commands below

1. Create an ADB (assuming you know how to make a CMD in the same folder etc, Run "ADB devices" make sure it says device and not unauthorized

2. now you'll force uninstall all Facebook apps including: FB, FB update manager and messenger. USE THIS COMMAND: adb uninstall[SPACE]com.packagename.here

3. after all that has been uninstalled then you can download the most recent FB mod and install it after restarting your phone and it should work.

If this doesn't work then I'll factory restart my phone and do the process all over from the top to make sure i can get it to work for anyone having issues. Below ill show a small snippet of what it should look like if it uninstalled successfully.

View attachment 4606555
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
still no luck. i get this error

C:\Users\adb uninstall com.facebook.katana

Failure [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]
[Android Apps and Games] Y0sHii:
Hmm, try using this then: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.katana
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
Tried it first, it was success still cant install the app. Says " Cant install the app"
[Android Apps and Games] Y0sHii:
Try this https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/remove-bloatware-your-lg-v30-no-root-needed-0180884/

That's the closest I can find to an exact step by step to removing Facebook bloat and installing over it.
[Android Apps and Games] Spansgood:
not working for me. this is the error I get. :confused:

https://imgur.com/PuYXJTV
[Android Apps and Games] Ainz_Ooal_Gown:
I may have missed it, but does this remove the Video ads that play on Facebook. I am a beta tester on both Facebook and Messenger so it may be a beta thing that's still not released to the public but God is it annoying
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
The update nags are back. This means time to rebase. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem very quickly - apktool is not able to produce a working APK of the latest version, even if I make no modifications. I am running into a SIGBUS error at the login screen:

09-29 22:13:35.209 30907 31030 F libc : Fatal signal 7 (SIGBUS), code 1 (BUS_ADRALN), fault addr 0xc52b2885 in tid 31030 (Fg_Shared1), pid 30907 (facebook.katana)

EDIT: I tried running zipalign (this time, -f -p 8) like I did with Messenger, but this didn't seem to help. Then, I tried switching from jarsigner to apksigner. This "might" be helping, but too early to tell. If this works, hopefully the next person running into the above error will find this helpful :)

EDIT 2: The rebase is coming along. I've got most of the basic patches ported over, but a few remain. Plus, this has been tested for only about ten minutes. Then comes the hard part of figuring out what new junk had been added in this version, and how to remove it...
[Android Apps and Games] stiggerby:
Go wombat! :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] pratik_193:
You forgot Evil ?
[Android Apps and Games] stiggerby:
How can someone who makes such an awesome mod be evil? Lol

But yeah, I forgot... :D
[Android Apps and Games] vasilis_:
What are the differences between msg lite 26 and msg lite 37 please?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
One's an older version. Msg lite doesn't have any modifications, aside from being signed with me key, for compatibility with the main app. The only modded messenger is the latest one (see top post, right under the main FB link) and that's to get rid of ads in the conversation list.
[Android Apps and Games] k54k54k54:
I agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!

this is one of the best mod that I've ever seen !!! :eek::eek::eek:
[Android Apps and Games] Ayman ae:
Gambatte wombat
[Android Apps and Games] redultra82:
Tried again to see

React to post then go back and not there

Issues with new feed loading or stuff from days ago

Battery wise the official Facebook doesn't seem to be bad, at times it's better than this mod

I'll try the next release as always

Thanks for continued work on this mod
[Android Apps and Games] anykiel91:
They definitely changed something with videos and ads. I started getting them again mid way thru video, sometimes few minutes worth of ads that cannot be skipped :(
[Android Apps and Games] deggar:
To highlight wombat's fine work, I have been using lc-v3 for some time. Still works great, no ads in video and best of all no newsfeed shuffle when I hit back due to being built on fb 117.0.0.18.47.
[Android Apps and Games] choobs95:
Same here, no ads so far..
[Android Apps and Games] ahrion:
Have you tried using baksmali instead of apktool?
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
You kind of need both. Apktool deals with the outer format, whereas baksmali will disassemble the bytecode once you have DEX files in hand. Apktool actually includes baksmali, and in simpler applications it's possible to have apktool do the disassemble/reassemble for you. It's actually kind of nice :)

Regardless, it does look like the crashes I was seeing were related to using jarsigner vs apksigner. I've got a good deal of stuff ported over, and am trying out a new version now. One thing I haven't dealt with is the Tabs. It looks like FB removed the marketplace tab on their own, to which I say good riddance! But there's a Groups tab now, and it looks like they might be making these more customizable in the future. Thus, I might leave the tabs as is for now, unless they get annoying.

It also looks like some of the group feed stuff (suggested members and the like) changed a bit, and I've had to change how this is patched. I'm doing this patching in two places, but I'm wondering if I can get away with just the one. Fingers crossed that it will work.... Hopefully I will have reasonable confidence in this to post it soon.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Obviously ads are back and you're looking at updating. One thing I noticed when I used the official up to date version just before using yours is they removed the option to turn off push notifications "until I turn back on". Now the longest time is 8 hours.

Do you think you would be able to add the option to turn off until turned back on manually? I usually wouldn't request this but I think it's somewhat relevant because turning off push notifications noticeably helps with scroll lag (At least on my nexus 5 it does) and decluters a feature you may not want. I think its crazy Facebook are forcing us to have push notifications.

For anyone interested in trying out the performance gains its in settings/notification settings/push/do not disturb.
[Android Apps and Games] deggar:
I've been using zipsigner to resign the lc apk and messenger apk of my choice. Do you have a zip align app for android (vice your windows based file) and does it make a difference? I've been using lc and messenger after using zipsigner and they install and use seems fine without zip align. Is it necessary to zip align?
[Android Apps and Games] ahrion:
Apktool pretty much does the work for you. However you can use small/baksmali to manually do what apktool it having a hard time doing. I did this with my Dolby ports that kept giving errors or weren't working with apktool. You can also deodex using the manual method as well. Once I figured out the manual method, that's all I do because it yields less problems than the very infrequently updated apktool. Manual method also yields cleaner code.

Rom kitchen does this too.
[Android Apps and Games] bohemist:
So far, so good. No ads.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Hmm. I've been using the 'zipalign' command-line application for Linux, which came with the build-tools in the Android SDK. I originally got turned onto the 'zipalign' path due to the SIGBUS crash in logcat, when signing/installing the apk using my old workflow. The associated error information pointed to an alignment fault (that is, trying to use a load-word instruction on a non-word-aligned address). I thought this was a side-effect of some startup optimizations that FB did (though from my Qualcomm days I seem to remember our CPUs being able to gracefully handle unaligned accesses, but that might depend on SCTLR?). Either way, the zipalign thing out to be a bit of a red herring, since switching to 'apksigner' (instead of using jarsigner) seemed to do the trick. So, if your workflow is working for you, I wouldn't worry about changing it.
[Android Apps and Games] evilwombat:
Okay.... I think I might have a first candidate of v14, if anyone is brave enough to try it. I've only been using it for a few days, but I am relatively happy with it so far.

Facebook LC 14.1 (Experimental)

I've rebased most of the patches from the previous version, with one notable exception: the tabs. It seems that FB has changed around how tabs are done, and the Video and Marketplace tabs are gone (?). Instead, there's a Groups tab and a Profile tab, the latter of which simply leads back to your profile (for vanity?). Either that, or I've found myself in a weird A/B experiment and things will revert to the old version shortly. I guess we'll wait and see.

Either way, I am willing to give this new tab layout a shot. After a day or two, the notification bubbles of the Groups tab are starting to get annoying, so I may revisit this.

In the meantime... I've been ridiculously busy (more so than usual). Turns out being in a startup is a ton of work (who knew? :)). Luckily, I was dog-sitting for a friend this past weekend, so I had some time to knock out this upgrade. I might have had a little help:

[IMG="This is how we do buddy-programming"]https://i.imgur.com/aVzivpU.jpg[/IMG]

If I get some free time soon, one thing I'd like to start looking into are video ads. I've heard them mentioned repeatedly, but I've only seen this once. Maybe I don't usually look at sources that include video ads? /shrug. Ironically enough, in order to try to rip the video ads out, I need a consistent way of getting them to show up in the first place (otherwise it's hard to see if what I'm doing is having any effect, and is not causing crashes, for example). So, if someone knows of a consistent source that runs video ads, please send it my way and I'll take a look when I get a chance. Hopefully things will start slowing down at work at some point, but we'll have to wait and see.

Anyway, for now, good luck, and have fun!

- evilwombat
[Android Apps and Games] borntokill:
Work Great for me! Thanks!!

S9 - renovate ice 1.2
[Android Apps and Games] Flounderist:
Just installed latest build, I cannot set up my language (Italian).

Apart this issue, app looks working fine.
[Android Apps and Games] onliner:
Only english works with latest version, but everything seems to be fine, no fc, lags or something like that.
[Android Apps and Games] borntokill:
LC 14.1 For me work in italian without any problem

S9 plus - Soldier rom
[Android Apps and Games] farscape1a:
If I may suggest, the videos from FailArmy have ads virtually every time. Maybe it'll give you an idea as to what the source is.

DLing 14.1 right now also. Thanks for all the hard work!!! :good:

Edit: 14.1 is dope! Nice and smooth. If I can request something though, would it be possible to make the search bar persistent? When I scroll up and if I don't scroll up enough, it reappears and "bounces" the feed back down. I've always found it annoying, so I figured I'd ask.

Thanks again! ??