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[Android Apps and Games] oVeRdOsE.:
from my experience with facebook on - chrome/ frost/ metal, none of them makes messenger work well.

Can't tell if its user related or not, but here what issue I have since for ever :

- messenger group that are already created : I receive all message.

- Someone , somewhere send me a PM, I WON'T receive it until I click on his name, then I can see all his message. That means, he had to post on my wall to warn me about a PM.

Of course I can install messenger app to avoid this, but it won't happen :p
[Android Apps and Games] kptkill:
[MENTION=5230774]asdfasdfvful[/MENTION] could you please add an option (perhaps not as the default option) to put the mobile useragent back? The desktop UA breaks events, which is my primary facebook usecase. I've been using build 2509 in web only mode, w/ no issues, and ended up rolling back due to events not working correctly in the newer builds.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Messenger notifications should work, and as of now it will ping you all messages, even if it's muted (tracking bug here). You should get PMs too unless they fall under message requests, and it has at least been working for me.

I would look into fixing the links to convert them to mobile variants first before messing with user agents again. If you want you can always build from source (one line change), but I don't want to have to deal with custom variants depending on the use case since there's already so many features that I don't personally use and have to test. Tracking bug here
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Test Build v2592

Contains multiple fixes, including disabling swipe for certain post pages, and fixing mobile urls
[Android Apps and Games] ALYSKY:
The application works great, so far no problems.

One request - could you reduce the waiting time by holding the photo to open the zoom window (there e.g. I can download picture)?
[Android Apps and Games] konenas:
frost scam?

Some time ago, I started to use frost, but in a week or so, facebook blocked by account saying that some unusual transactions made and probably my password was stolen.

Never before I had that experience with facebook.

I've stopped using frost and until now (2 weeks) everything is OK.

EDIT: I'm going to test the new version 2.4.0 and I'll comment afterwards

EDIT2: As I said, I tested version 2.4.0 for a week and it's OK.

No scam. Sorry for the post, I was furious.
[Android Apps and Games] Ryakna:
Scam? Are you serious?

As you probably noticed, the app is open source, you can check it yourself.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If I have time I'll make the time the same as a typical long press, but otherwise I don't plan to make it configurable. Some people will want shorter wait times whereas others want longer ones.

There have been cases of phishing warnings by Facebook, but an unusual transaction sounds unrelated. That has hopefully been fixed by 2.4.0
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
v2.4.1 has been released
[Android Apps and Games] Artur_D:
What about full width image (without margins). In previous releases it World. Now, after problems with blocking accounts, it is not working. Any fix soon?

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[Android Apps and Games] wuub:
Very small bug in 2.4.1

In settings, appearance, web text scaling

The slider moves and changes the text size but the value remains at 100%

I did say very small ;)
[Android Apps and Games] konenas:
EDIT2: As I said, I tested version 2.4.0 for a week and it's OK.

No scam. Sorry for the post, I was furious.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I'll take a look. I think it's a change on Facebook's end depending on user agents.

Weird. I'll take a look
[Android Apps and Games] wuub:
Just checked and it's not their anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
What's not there? the margins?
[Android Apps and Games] wuub:
The bug I reported. The slider now shows the right percentage when increasing or decreasing the web text scaling.

I guess the quote was truncated.
[Android Apps and Games] romualdrichard:
Hi,

When searching someone and after clicking the profile, I get an error. ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME
[Android Apps and Games] Naudiz:
Same here.

Actually it seems to try loading the profile link in an external browser. Happens since a few days, most likely due to a change in Facebook's code.
[Android Apps and Games] Furax31:
Same problem.
[Android Apps and Games] louca:
Me too. This means that the app is not usable at the moment. Hope in a fast update, otherwise I should return to the stock s**t.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Bug has also been reported at https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/issues/1586.

I've kind of been busy doing other stuff for the past 1.5 months, but I'm looking into bringing back a couple hours a week again to work on Frost. I still use the app, so rest assured that issues like this will definitely be fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
This is all strange.

I am still on v2.3.0

And it seems fine for me.

But I do not post, I use frost just to check up on things.

With all the issues people seem to have on newer versions, I never updated since 2.3.0

And it works for me :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] ALYSKY:
Hi, how to fix this? Its very often and annoing :/
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
If you just read, pre 2.3.0 is probably better. A lot of bugs were introduced after the user agent, but it's on Facebook's end. That bug for instance resolved itself.

If it's saying that your feed has ended, maybe to check to see if the same problem occurs with your browser. Content you see from their website and their app may differ. I think sorting by most recents also produces that issue sometimes.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Test build v2661

Contains a lot of internal refactoring, and some additional fixes. See https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/blob/dev/docs/Changelog.md#v242
[Android Apps and Games] richarshub:
Such a great alternative for Facebook app, keep up the good work. Im going to give it a try and give some feedback later
[Android Apps and Games] Artur_D:
No margins images still not working. It is must have feature for me so I revert to 2.3 where working great

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[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Have you tried other wrappers since Frost's changes? Do they work there? The best fix is to revert back to the mobile user agent, but that was potentially the cause (among other things) for the phishing accusations. I may build another test build in the future to try that out, but if others have it it's likely that they switch user agents too
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
To clarify, is this different with every post? I haven't tested 2.3 in a while, but on my desktop there is no difference when switching user agents, and in the test build most images seem to be the same width (margins may be from facebook). If the image widths vary, it might be a different layout than what I'm seeing. Also keep in mind you can always long press images to view it fullscreen
[Android Apps and Games] Artur_D:
I tried few FB client and stayed with Frost because no one suports full width screen. I have to revert to 2.3 version because no other new ver. support this feature. I don't want to press every time image to show in full screes as 2.3 version show all images "in full screen". It is huge difference and big waste of screen space (this is why using Frost instead official FB. Why, why... show so small images as there is so much space). See screens: first 2.3 ver, second newerst one.

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[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
A bunch of elements are hardcoded with maxWidth so it is nontrivial to fix it without distorting other stuff. You'll probably have to stay on 2.3 until I see if changing user agents will work
[Android Apps and Games] danmaman:
Hello buddy....

Where I can find frost 2.4.2 apk?

On github there is no apk

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
Change log says for v242. App in settings says v241. Did I mess up the install?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I added the apk. Upload failed before

This is normal. Test builds are basically pre release, so I'll update the changelog as I go and only update the version once the release is uploaded
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
After using the test build for a few days I have not encountered any new problems.

There has been a miner issue of pressing the notification icon just displaying the last used notification vice the list.
[Android Apps and Games] jojo8686:
Thanks for share
[Android Apps and Games] ALYSKY:
Comments not loading
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
Did you tap on the word Comments?
[Android Apps and Games] jewnersey:
Much appreciated!
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
Is it possible to use desktop version (view) of Facebook inside the app?
[Android Apps and Games] GreatLordAnt:
Same issue here. I'm getting this on many third party clients so I'm assuming fb changed something.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Can't replicate this, but Facebook does glitch from time to time. It may fix itself

No, and I currently don't intend on supporting it, since the desktop version is completely different. If you need some quick access, I'd recommend just using your browser
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Version 2.4.3 is up
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
Notifications stopped working for me a while ago (long before 2.4.3 update), manually fetching notifications gives an error.
[Android Apps and Games] ParanoidVisitor:
Hi. Is there any chance that Frost will run on Bromite SystemWebView ?
[Android Apps and Games] weazie:
Hi,

Long time Frost user. :)

Suddenly all the statuses (the text that other users have inputted) is black on AMOLED and Glass themes, and therefore unreadable. On white theme it's black and readable.

This happened without any change on my part. I tried erasing data, uninstalling and reinstalling. EDIT: Now Fixed.

EDIT: Also, if the text is cut on a longer status update, the "see more"-link has changed place, and tapping on it doesn't seem to have any effect.
[Android Apps and Games] fitittome:
Agreed. Must be changes at FB. Tried with v2.4.3.

---------- Post added at 08:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:56 AM ----------

It work fine.
[Android Apps and Games] Naudiz:
Confirmed. As per today most text is black on black now in AMOLED theme.
[Android Apps and Games] ParanoidVisitor:
Yes, sorry, my bad
[Android Apps and Games] gnashville:
Had black text issue today. An upgrade from 2.4.1 to 2.4.3 fixed it on my Galaxy S7 running Pie (One UI)
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
Clearing the app storage fixed the black text in AMOLED for me (2.4.3).
[Android Apps and Games] Naudiz:
Black-on-black text issue fixed itself for me after temporarily switching to light theme and one day later back to AMOLED.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
In the future, there is no need to erase data if UI problems occur. Most of Frost's UI is web based, so it is far more likely that the problem is a change on Facebook's end.

As people have noticed, Facebook changed their styles and reverted it back.

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I also have a new test build:

https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook-APK-Builder/releases/tag/v2738

which has a lot of internal fixes, and fixes link sharing to Frost. Unfortunately right now it goes to the desktop url, but I may look into using mobile agents in the future. It was previously removed due to phishing accusations, but it was one of several factors
[Android Apps and Games] Terminator.J:
I've searched a bit through the thread & googled and didn't see anything about this yet; I can't save images any longer since switching to Android 10. I've granted Frost storage permission, no dice. Tried clearing app storage & cache and re-granting permission, tried versions 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, and the recently linked test build... No luck. I've used it on a different A10 rom on my device before, and it worked (2.4.1 & 2.4.3 did, 2.4.2 had the same error) fine. I submitted a bug report via email, but is there any quick fix y'all are aware of?
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Try 2.4.4. Forgot to mention that I made a new release a few days ago
[Android Apps and Games] Terminator.J:
That sorted it, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
This also fixed notifications for me!
[Android Apps and Games] Rascarcius:
Is it normal that videos are played in low quality? I have good connection and I do not see any option to change the video quality.
[Android Apps and Games] ChrisChristian:
Nice:svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] w1nst0n_fr:
I don't use Facebook but I'm glad I can replace the crappy and privacy-invasing official app on the phone of my friends and family members.

by this lightweight open-source one.

Thanks for creating and maintaining this ! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] EwOkie:
Possible to...

Text to look like Facebook where Bold Text is same and info on posts

Enable/Disable Active status?

Location On/Off?
[Android Apps and Games] Brandon1234567:
I'm having some issues with my most recent stories on Facebook. It doesn't work on any third party app at all. Btw does anyone know why the guy who develops simple for Facebook is so rude?
[Android Apps and Games] Albyfenix:
Hello guys, is there an option to enable video autoplay when scrolling? If I go to chrome in m.facebook.com it's working, but not in Frost app. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
I jumped ship from Simple to this and think it's great. One minor thing that would be nice is when amoled theme is selected that the frost splash screen also be amoled. Otherwise still getting use to it and enjoying it.
[Android Apps and Games] Dabarr:
Great app! I haven't looked through all posts and it probably has been mentioned already. But I would love to have the option to increase the font size. Is that possible somehow?

Never mind, I've found it! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Brandon1234567:
So you got no problems with the most recent posts?

Update: it's fixed now. So nvm. That said ehh really don't ask for support from the simple app creator. He'll just insult you. This is personal experience. I dunno about anyone else though.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
Late replies but I've sort of been away from personal development for a while (just laziness, no other reason). I don't get notified from xda (despite having it enabled), so if you have a github account, you'll get faster responses by posting issues.

This is possible, but involves somewhat of a hack as splash screens are loaded before anything else (including theme settings). The solution would be to make a bunch of splash screens myself, and create a new app shortcut to accommodate themes. This also means I will only have a select amount of presets, and you'd have to re-add the shortcut to your launcher with every theme change. I feel like the current blue is somewhat neutral for both light and dark, and hopefully it won't be a big deal to look at.

See https://github.com/AllanWang/Frost-for-Facebook/issues/1612

Basically because of the current user agent, auto play is not supported.

The most recents page has always been buggy, and has often shown no content or different content from top stories. Without "aggressive recents" enabled in Frost, I don't filter out any posts, so that's a problem on Facebook's end.

As of now, I won't be adding additional theme/styling configs.

It seems like in the message tab, going to the bottom for active friends may allow you to toggle your status.

I'm not sure what you are asking for with location. The only time Frost will allow location usage is if you post a location status. Frost is also not meant to run in the background for location updates.

Video and photo qualities are all pretty low, which is the outcome of using the mobile site. If you open `touch.facebook.com` on desktop, you'll see a similar drop in quality. The full quality comes from using facebook.com, so I would need to figure out ways to get that working. It has been a long term feature request of mine to produce higher quality media.
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
Have you disabled email notifications by any chance?

I find that I rarely get notifications from the XDA Labs app but I do consistently get email notifications.

See https://xdaforums.com/usertag.php?do=profile&action=options
[Android Apps and Games] EwOkie:
What option in setting

When you tap a picture in a post it pops up to zoom in?
[Android Apps and Games] BillGoss:
Just tap on a picture and then tap on View Full size.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
I have not disabled email mentions. Looking at it today, I got an email from your message here, but none of the ones afterwards. My notifications are supposed to be instant, but something is clearly wrong. I've tried updating the settings a few times over the years, but it seems to just be broken.

I will continue to monitor xda given that it's where I started all of my development, but my priority would be towards github issues. Not sure if it's just me, but even posting a reply like this takes 5-10 seconds to continue.
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
I have tried blocking "Nametests" posts and it keeps returning. I see it blocked in settings but still see it in the Newfeed. So am l missing a step to block this?
[Android Apps and Games] buffaloquinn:
I've been having an issue with the pop-up of friends when typing in comment boxes. It seems to respond once I hit the third or fourth letter but the pop-up is all the same color as the background. It works correctly when I start a new post from scratch however.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Getting suggested for you posts now showing in app
[Android Apps and Games] NikolaLFC13:
I have an issue with News Feed with the latest version of Frost. The latest few posts in my feed just keep repeating themselves endlessly when I scroll down. I deleted the cache and data, logged in again but nothing changed. For what it's worth, I'm using Xiaomi 9T Pro with Android 10 and MIUI 11.0.6.0. Has anyone else run into a similar issue?
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
I just tried latest test version 2763, working well but still shows 'suggested' posts.

I hope this could be looked at in future test / release builds.

TIA
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
This is likely not a problem with Frost. Facebook does duplicate content sometimes, so you can verify in your browser. For the most part, I don't think deleting cache/data will fix many problems, given how little Frost handles content. You can use it as often as you tend to clear cache/data for your browser.

Will take a look. Probably a site change

Will take a look

Blocking is currently only for notifications. Nothing is filtered in newsfeed.

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Feel free to post any other concerns here or on github. I've been away for this project for some time, but I'm hoping to provide some much needed updates this Friday. The other priority for me is adding friend request notifications, as I know that isn't super visible. It used to send a notification as well for requests, but now it doesn't.
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Could I suggest one request to consider, to have pictures fill the width of the screen. I previously used another FB wrapper that did this and imo improved the look of the news feed. It also benefits in that the pictures are clearer to see so there isn't so much of a need to enlarge to view. Just my opinion, obviously your decision. Look forward to next update.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
How accurate are other apps with this? Do they work for album photos? I think that was one of the problems with trying to make them full screen, as not all images can do that
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
If your referring to the large images, I just tried the other app and didn't have any issues. It has switchable option in settings to have wide images.

When someone posts several pics in a topic you see the initial 3-4 pics as a montage standard size but once clicked they display wide screen fine.
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
How does it work for albums? Each photo has specific dimensions so we can't arbitrarily remove the constraints.

Didn't read the whole thing, but that's what I expect. The new build fixes it within the newsfeed but haven't verified with the full image page yet

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Submitted a new build v2.4.5, which should be available on F-Droid in a few days
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
So far working great with full size images, thank you. The only minor thing now is I still get 'suggested for you' post. Is it possible to block these?
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
I like this full image option.
[Android Apps and Games] Artur_D:
no margins images is what I requested a long time ago. It was his waste of space, now I can back to frost. But... Still full width not working in multiple images. 1 image from Frost, 2 from other wrapper where it works correctly

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[Android Apps and Games] Artur_D:
One more issue: when text scale set to... for example 130%, second line of text is truncated

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[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
It is non trivial to change those sizes as the content will not wrap properly. For single image html it's a matter of removing the sizing restrictions

That probably can't be fixed on my end with ease. Facebook has a lot of hardcoded sizes which I will not be modifying
[Android Apps and Games] shovon:
Love this app. But it would be nice if it had these features

1. Option to select default video quality like we have on youtube vanced

2. Option to open/link messenger app from frost

& facing this issue

1. I can't fullscreen video if i turn off pip
[Android Apps and Games] Pinage:
Possible to default on click groups to go to groups directly instead of discover?
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
There is still no new version on F-Droid. I wonder if it is normal or is it something wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Has had loads of sponsored posts in last few weeks, hoping Dev will maintain updates.
[Android Apps and Games] khw1959:
Even without active development, this is still better than what's out there now. (I tried them)
[Android Apps and Games] mrsuperuser:
The app is great,

But sometimes i cant able to select reactions :/
[Android Apps and Games] asdfasdfvful:
It's been a while, but v2.4.6 is now available.

Adds a much needed fix for auto sizing text boxes, and prepares for upcoming changes
[Android Apps and Games] djcsurf:
Thanks for update, fyi suggested groups still show in newsfeed even tho I deselect the option in settings.
[Android Apps and Games] romualdrichard:
Hi, it looks like Facebook changed something. Theme is not working anymore for me. I have the last dev frost and theme is not applied.

Well, first time it's ok bit if you slide down to refresh, theme disappears.
[Android Apps and Games] O_DoC:
Hi,

Same 'refresh bug' with v2.4.5 last evening.

Have to re-open the app to get theme back.

Not an issue, but 'yes' liked previous post, something seems had changed on server side.

By the way, and may be a noob question, but how long (approximately) do the update usually take to be available on f-froid?

Thanks again for the great app!

Tapa'DoC'eD
[Android Apps and Games] CubaoX:
Last time it was about 2 weeks.
[Android Apps and Games] jabennett:
FYI, I'm seeing the same problem, but I can get the theme back by tapping on the icons (Feed, Most Recent, Notifications, etc.) instead of pulling down to refresh. Still a minor annoyance, but less disruptive than having to close and re-open the app.
[Android Apps and Games] whatsisnametake2:
as of today I can't access the messenger page. it just says go back to news feed.
[Android Apps and Games] t0ma5:
is not just Frost, all apps and mobile browser have the same problem. Check it out touch.facebook.com/messages and m.facebook.com/messages
[Android Apps and Games] whatsisnametake2:
oh dear. is that Facebook finally forcing everyone to use the messenger app? or is it likely to be temporary?