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Ed Hansberry
02-21-2010, 04:00 PM
<p>Microsoft has released version 1.2 of the Facebook app for Windows Mobile devices. If you launch the Marketplace app, you should get notified. Arne Hess over at The::Unwired also noted that if your Marketplace app has updated itself, you will be able to install it to your storage card if desired. My client hasn't done that yet though - I am on Verizon so it may be a carrier issue. I did get the Facebook 1.2 notice though, so it resides in my&nbsp;main memory.</p><p><img alt="?" border="0" src="http://www.ehansberry.com/ppct/2010/20100221-facebook12.jpg" /></p><p>The main feature updates are the ability to "like" a comment or to add to comments. You can see additional screenshots at Arne's site showing those features in action.</p>

freitasm
02-21-2010, 08:57 PM
Not available in Windows Marketplace yet... *sigh*

Ed Hansberry
02-22-2010, 06:19 AM
Not available in Windows Marketplace yet... *sigh*

Yes it is. Maybe they haven't rolled it out to all geographical locations yet. As Arne said, Germany has it and so does the US. I don't know about other locations. could also be a carrier issue. I wonder if trying WiFi would yield different results. For that matter, I wonder if the Marketplace would update on my device via WiFi.

freitasm
02-22-2010, 06:34 AM
I am using the new Marketplace, with the United States as default selection. It's not showing any updates available.

martin_ayton
02-22-2010, 10:48 AM
I'm in the UK, on T-Mobile. No Marketplace update, no Facebook update. Facebook 1.2 isn't anywhere on the Marketplace. Bizarrely, if I search for 'facebook' in the marketplace I get no results at all despite v1.1 being at the top of the 'Most Popular' category. Oh, and a WiFi connection makes no difference at all.

Is this broken, or what? And by 'broken' I mean I'm sure that it's all working exactly the way MS wants it to; it's the concept that's broken.

griph
02-22-2010, 10:52 AM
I'm in the UK, on T-Mobile. No Marketplace update, no Facebook update. Facebook 1.2 isn't anywhere on the Marketplace. Bizarrely, if I search for 'facebook' in the marketplace I get no results at all despite v1.1 being at the top of the 'Most Popular' category. Oh, and a WiFi connection makes no difference at all.

Is this broken, or what? And by 'broken' I mean I'm sure that it's all working exactly the way MS wants it to; it's the concept that's broken.

This all seems very half assed - what are MS up to? :confused: Needless to say I have never had to do this with App Store - it just works!

Ed Hansberry
02-22-2010, 03:05 PM
I am using the new Marketplace, with the United States as default selection. It's not showing any updates available.

Don't know what to say. Not sure how the marketplace determines who gets what apps when. All I know is, when I launched Marketplace, it told me FB 1.2 was available and I downloaded it.

Rob Alexander
02-22-2010, 06:53 PM
Don't know what to say. Not sure how the marketplace determines who gets what apps when. All I know is, when I launched Marketplace, it told me FB 1.2 was available and I downloaded it.

Same here. I just opened Marketplace (I still have the older one) and asked it to show me new programs. This was about a page down the list and I clicked install and that was it. It may have been different for me, though, because the older Facebook app came in ROM on my phone so I wasn't asking Marketplace to detect an update to something it had previously installed.

Jason Lee
02-22-2010, 11:20 PM
So the Windows Mobile Marketplace has never worked on my WM 6.0 HTC TyTN II. I'm still running the original ship ROM.

As soon as I run Marketplace it takes up 99% of the CPU. As you can imagine it is horribly slow.
I did manage to find Facebook 1.2 but cannot actual get the product page to load so I can download it.
At this point I cannot even exit Marketplace. I have to use SK Tools to kill the process.

If I go to Microsoft's wonderful mobile site it still offers me Facebook 1.0.0.7p and not the new 1.2.

I absolutely hate apple but geez MS... Is this the kinda of experience you want to present to your users? Come on now.. Let's try to do one little thing right.

And on that note... Does anyone have any idea how I can actually get this new Facebook program?

Sven Johannsen
02-23-2010, 05:19 AM
Don't know what to say. Not sure how the marketplace determines who gets what apps when. All I know is, when I launched Marketplace, it told me FB 1.2 was available and I downloaded it.
Did you get 1.1 from the Marketplace? MS's FB app (v1.007) came installed on my Pure. I wouldn't expect the MP to know that and prompt me. Not sure what would happen if I got the new version from the MP. I know that it wouldn't replace the ROM version, but would the system be smart enough to replace the Progam icon's target application with the new version? Or would I end up with two progam icons that look identical. Probably best to move the current one to a temp folder. Then I wouldn't know if it would have done it right though. What a dilema.

Rob Alexander
02-23-2010, 05:41 AM
Did you get 1.1 from the Marketplace? MS's FB app (v1.007) came installed on my Pure. I wouldn't expect the MP to know that and prompt me. Not sure what would happen if I got the new version from the MP. I know that it wouldn't replace the ROM version, but would the system be smart enough to replace the Progam icon's target application with the new version? Or would I end up with two progam icons that look identical. Probably best to move the current one to a temp folder. Then I wouldn't know if it would have done it right though. What a dilema.

The older Facebook was installed in ROM on my HTC Imagio too. It didn't prompt me for a newer version on Marketplace, so I just went to the file and chose 'Install'. It was smart enough to do just what you said above. It removed the old icon (which I had moved into a sub-folder) and it put the new icon in the default location. So there's only a single icon and it starts the newer version.

Sven Johannsen
02-23-2010, 06:16 AM
The older Facebook was installed in ROM on my HTC Imagio too. It didn't prompt me for a newer version on Marketplace, so I just went to the file and chose 'Install'. It was smart enough to do just what you said above. It removed the old icon (which I had moved into a sub-folder) and it put the new icon in the default location. So there's only a single icon and it starts the newer version.
Well I was almost that succesful. In the first place the system didn't think I needed a new copy of MarketPlace, maybe because that too was in ROM. That resulted in my not getting the SD card option. It did install 'a new' version from the MP, removed the existing icon, which was in a Apps folder (which is where it was out of the box) and created a nice new icon in the root of the Apps panel (Start). I was not fortunate enough to get 1.2 though. My fresh copy is v1.1.0.17. Better than I had but not the latest as advertised in MP.

It's what I have always loved about PocketPC, Windows Moble, etc, the consistancy of experience. Hopefully WinPhone 7 Series will correct some of the uneccesary adventure.

Jon Westfall
02-23-2010, 05:33 PM
Seems like Marketplace's new version is rolling out rather slowly - my Touch Pro 2 still has the old non-SD version, and thus my facebook is still ROM stock. Hopefully the new version of FB will fix some annoying sync problems the old one had, namely infinite loops of updating, and huge gaps between Today's sync and the last successful sync (e.g., 1 hour ago -> 12 days ago).

Jon.

Rob Alexander
02-23-2010, 11:56 PM
Well I was almost that succesful. In the first place the system didn't think I needed a new copy of MarketPlace, maybe because that too was in ROM. That resulted in my not getting the SD card option. It did install 'a new' version from the MP, removed the existing icon, which was in a Apps folder (which is where it was out of the box) and created a nice new icon in the root of the Apps panel (Start). I was not fortunate enough to get 1.2 though. My fresh copy is v1.1.0.17. Better than I had but not the latest as advertised in MP.

There was some discussion of this on another forum. In fact, it seems to be the new version, but with the wrong version number in the About box. When I read that, I looked at mine and, sure enough, I have the 'Like' feature now even though it shows the same version number as yours.

frankenbike
02-24-2010, 12:00 AM
Marketplace is such a big pile of FAIL in so many respects.

For me, it appeared on Marketplace, but because it was installed, it said "Installed" instead of "Download". So I had to uninstall it (I couldn't remember if it came with the phone or I downloaded it myself). When I installed it, it posted that I installed "Facebook for Windows Mobile" on my wall.

Anyway, addresses a few of my major issues with the original. I can access comments now. I still wish it had a setting for "update on start" and "update on feed source change" or even a "live" setting. But 1.2 is a big improvement. Still don't know if it'll actually upload the videos though.

Oh, and it still doesn't allow you to delete wall posts or comments you decide you wish you hadn't posted (as far as I can tell).

Ed Hansberry
02-24-2010, 06:46 AM
Did you get 1.1 from the Marketplace? MS's FB app (v1.007) came installed on my Pure.

I had something from the marketplace - not sure if it was 1.007 or 1.1 or whatever, but yeah, MP only looks at apps it installed, not what is on your device.