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Facebook 1.5 Now Officially Available for Download!

by Kevin Michaluk on 21 Apr 2009 04:56 PM
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Facebook 1.5 Now Available!

It's here!!! Head to mobile.blackberry.com on your Berry's browser to download!

* Note to existing Leaked Facebook 1.5 Users: If you previously were running a leaked copy of Facebook 1.5 on your device it sounds like you may need to do a handheld wipe to rid your BlackBerry of the leaked version's database. The official version doesn't seem to recognize the in-between leaked version, so it creates a new duplicate database. Deleting the leaked version and doing a battery pull before installing the official doesn't quite seem to do the trick. However, you can still install and run the new version even if you don't do the wipe... you're just hogging a bit of resources to no benefit. If you were running a leaked version, you can drop your findings on this in the comments. *

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Posted by perl_monk Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Man... about time! I hope it's out for the storm too.

 
 
Posted by varia (just didn't feel like log'n in) Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 1023 days ago

the picture and job updates are awesome. people's stupid facebook poses and such now appear in place of stored photos (can toggle the option on and off). now when someone give you their number you get to see their stupid mug and details right away, creepy and cool at the same time.

 
 
Posted by applejosh Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

And there was much celebrating in the streets. (Mainly because now there won't be as many threads asking "when?")

 
 
Posted by icedtee68 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

holy cow! its finally here! weve waited long enough!!!!

 
 
Posted by GMCM1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I wonder if they fixed the bug that asks for everyone's phone number?

 
 
Posted by robertpetry Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 1024 days ago

Nope. I just connected about 50 freind's profiles to their contacts and then found out AFTERWORD that it asks for everyone's phone number. Nice. Thanks for warning me every time Facebook...

 
 
Posted by matthew_i Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

This is also available in app world on my 8830.

 
 
Posted by haxit Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Upgrading to official now.

 
 
Posted by Anonymous000 Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 1024 days ago

mine is 1.5.0.31

 
 
Posted by thecrippler Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!

 
 
Posted by n0t0ryus1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

sweet!

 
 
Posted by klsmalls1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

*Gets on knees*

Dear Sweet Baby jesus, in your Macintosh/Microsoft best of Both worlds Hybrid manger, sipping on Smart milk from the sims, with your Poop-evaporating diaper and your "BB rules, Iphone drools T-shirt, We that you for letting RIM finally release this!, Baby Jesus, YOU ROCK!!!!!

 
 
Posted by qdenning Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Well that was a nice surprise before I shut down for the day!!

 
 
Posted by elvin1983 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I was starting to think it would never happen!!

 
 
Posted by Queen4111 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Hopefully the servers won't crash! :)

 
 
Posted by roeod4 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

 
 
Posted by roeod4 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

 
 
Posted by DistrictDon19 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

It wouldn't connect me to my account once i tried signing on, and even this second go-around it is a bit sluggish because of the increase in traffic :) funny that i saw this on facebook as i was about to sign off for the day, and i IMMEDIATELY flicked over to Crackberry.com to confirm the good news! :)

 
 
Posted by 1jaxstate1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

What the fark. It now says cingular instead of AT&T on the home screen. Strange.

 
 
Posted by QuIcKsIlV3r Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I've been using FB 1.5 for a few weeks now in beta for the Bold, but now its official. I love it

 
 
Posted by applejosh Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Installed...Uninstalled. I just don't get it I guess. The mobile site still seems better, at least for my lazy needs. Just not worth the 700+kb size to me. *shrugs*

 
 
Posted by Ravenell Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I'm not overly impressed with 1.5. Still nothing like the iPhone "equivalent."

 
 
Posted by Anonymous__ Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 1025 days ago

The FB apps for BlackBerry and iPhone really aren't equivalent. The BlackBerry app is all about pushing updates to you, new messages, wall posts, pokes, etc. It doesn't compete with the mobile website, but it does replace Facebook's SMS service. The iPhone app is meant to replace the website, and it allows you to view profiles and so on, but it doesn't have notifications of new messages like the BlackBerry app does (iPhone apps can't run in the background).

 
 
Posted by 1jaxstate1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

It just automatically went back to ATT.

 
 
Posted by perl_monk Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

On my Storm (Verizon), it seems like in the app store, they haven't finished uploading all of the supporting descriptions like the screenshots and the actual file. (it said that the side was "0 bytes" and the version was "0")

In the application center there was an update to app world, but nothing about the Facebook app. Also, I checked facebook app itself to see if I could grab the update from there. It said that I had the lastest version (I currently have 1.3.0).

However, when going to mobile.blackberry.com, it allowed me to download 1.5.0.31.

 
 
Posted by mcm180 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

well its about damn time!!!1 LETS hope it was worth the wait!!!

 
 
Posted by msbrandie Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I'm loving the updated version!!!
I can actually see the comments on the status messages...I hated having to log into the actual site

 
 
Posted by greatcasa Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Already found one glaring horrible problem. Anybody that you are "friends" with on Facebook, but have blocked seeing anything that they post (status updates, etc), when you go to status updates it show's EVERYONE!

 
 
Posted by msbrandie Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I think the previous one did that as well...
Or at least mine did

 
 
Posted by greatcasa Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

That blows, because if you play any type of application game like "Mob Wars" and you've become "friends" with people so they are on your team, but blocked them so you wouldn't see their stuff, now you get to see it all. If they don't come out with a fix for that I'll end up deleting soon.

 
 
Posted by Jeff Graham Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

You can delete those people once you've added them as friends. There's no reason to keep them around.

 
 
Posted by greatcasa Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 1024 days ago

Wait, you can delete those people after their apart of your mob and it won't remove them from your mob? Sweet!

 
 
Posted by djjackm Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

just kidding.

 
 
Posted by MDNomad Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Thats not really a joke... they should tell us about it now and get everyone hyped up about it so it will come out on the same time scale as 1.5.

 
 
Posted by beri Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

omg, finally i have been waiting for this for the longest!!! gettin it now!!

 
 
Posted by Crackilate Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

This sucker's huge, ~1mb! Did I just not notice the size of the old one?

 
 
Posted by Elsongs Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I keep getting a "HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error."
Is that because everyone's trying to download it or it's a problem on my end?

I did install the leaked 1.5 but the other week it stopped getting updates, so I deleted it and installed 1.2 again which I use right now. Will I have problems?

 
 
Posted by BBpixie Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I'm getting that error too. I have been using the original 1.2 FB for as long I remember. I never had the leaked 1.5 FB. What do I do? I WANT FB 1.5!!!

Edit: I turned wifi off, and now able to download 1.5 via EDGE network. Interesting. At least now I'm able to have the updated FB! yayyy

 
 
Posted by 1jaxstate1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I think they are just getting slammed. I was getting that too. I just kept trying and it finally downloaded.

 
 
Posted by kingpen Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

YEAH!!

 
 
Posted by wfubball Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

not downloading for me

 
 
Posted by Mathrin Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Does anyone know if you can delete the old database using BBFileScout before to reinstalling 1.5? I have the leaked copy and really don't feel like doing a wipe.

Then again, I could just do the wipe and upgrade my os to .266 and then download Facebook 1.5 afterwards.

 
 
Posted by Ash_786 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

It doesn't seem to be synchronising email addresses for me :-(

 
 
Posted by 1jaxstate1 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

I just deleted my leaked copy in the "Applications" menu. Everything loaded just fine after that.

 
 
Posted by mscooley Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Come on RIM...Upgrade your servers. You can't have this many customers and have servers fail within minutes of a download like this...

 
 
Posted by Adiliyo Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

is it supposed to look different from 1.3? on my storm it says it updated but it looks the same...?

i'm uninstalling it all and reinstalling now...just wondering.

 
 
Posted by q5ypdg9 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

Yes, it does look different; particularly the menu options are larger. I uninstalled v1.3 first then installed v.15.
There are some other aesthetic changes also.

 
 
Posted by JohnnyKenaya Wednesday, Apr 22, 2009 1024 days ago

...mine looks the same too...did uninstalling and reinstalling help?

 
 
Posted by varia (just didn't feel like log'n in) Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 1023 days ago

it still looks the same, the changes are subtle, the awesomenessnicity is in the details. it now has animated menu stuffs and other small unnoticables

 
 
Posted by eve6er69 Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009 1025 days ago

is anybody getting a http error 500?

 
 
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