Facebook 1.5 Now Officially Available for Download!

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

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

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

This is also available in app world on my 8830.

Upgrading to official now.

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!

sweet!

*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!!!!!

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

I was starting to think it would never happen!!

Hopefully the servers won't crash! :)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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! :)

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

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

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*

It just automatically went back to ATT.

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.

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

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

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!

just kidding.

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

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

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?

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

YEAH!!

not downloading for me

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.

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

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

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

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.

is anybody getting a http error 500?

If I load from the site I get an error pop up. In app world there is no downloading link.

1.5 has been great so far; the menu options for the Storm are larger for pressing and I can view the status of more friends and comments.

Just downloaded the app on my storm. found it easier just to go to blackberry.com/facebook and download it from there!

i kept getting the internal server error untill i pulled the battery and then tried again
i downloaded it and now the berry is re-booting

finally it cames!

damn anyone else having problems getting it? i tried blackberry.com/facebook, mobile.blackberry and the app world still has the old 1.002

And... not impressed...

Holy crackberry batman, RIM released facebook 1.5. And to think all this time we thought the joker, riddler, and cat woman were up to no good and were preventing it from ever seeing the light of day.

still no chat! Ugg! When will the BB version ever catch up with the iPhone version! We want chat!

Still no icon after 3 download attempts...

you dont have to wipe your device yo load this version if you were using the leaked beta...just delete through your application menu and install the newer version

Error: A problem occurred while trying to render the page. Happens everytime I click on the link. :(

I did the FB 1.5 update, and now the "next two upcoming items" on my calendar no longer show up in my home/theme page (though they are still, thankfully, in the calendar views). This is not good. Does anybody have an idea how I can get my "next two upcoming events" view back on my main/theme screen?

UPDATE: If I create a calendar item (in the calendar app, not Facebook), and assign it to the (new?) Facebook selection for "send using" (instead of my usual default email address), that event DOES show up on the front theme view.

i also keep getting this stupid internal server error

Don't notice any difference though...

Why is this crap asking my contacts for their phone numbers? Jeez

Downloaded it, so far I love the new bigger menus for the storm. I must investigate it more.

i like it better but i think they can improve alot more.
i like how you can comment on someones status without having to go to the mobile site

Glad to see that the "What's on your mind" FINALLY syncs between my BB & my computer, can't wait to see what else it can do.

Okay I only upgraded to 1.5.0.30 yesterday and I installed .31 over the top, it works okay, but if it's hogging resources, do I have to delete it all over again and start from scratch?

too bad the link doesn't work...argh!

I cant wait to download this.

After the restart her background had changed and it deleted one of her picture folders. Thanks RIM

so excited finally been waiting for this for a long time.

I dont get it, cant I just upgrade my FB to this new version?

1) Won't download OTA or on my desktop. Guess I'll have to wait!

2) No chat still??? WTH RIM? At least "Palringo" does a good job with facebook chat. Worth checking out if you like facebook chat and get bored often!

Does anyone else notice that it only adds birthdays to your calendar and not actual events??

woo hoo dl now

I wish this would work already, why isnt it working for someo of us but working for others?

It doesn't look any different at all for me on my Storm.

Still sucks compared to the iPhone's. I guess it doesn't matter for me since I have the Storm as my personal phone and iPhone as the company, but still. I prefer typing on the Storm and at least I can comment on stuff now.

RIM is really starting to fall behind.

I downloaded this to my storm and it works great. My only gripe is that we still don't have live news feed...only good thing about iPhone's facebook application...

IT DOUBLED ALL OF MY CALENDAR EVENTS! WTF?! Now every event I have in my calendar has one in blue (blackberry) and a copy of that event in green (facebook). How do I fix that? So annoying!

Finally got 1.5...There's now a "download" box rather than a simple text link and I was able to download it fine.

If any of you were using the leaked version and have problems, I'd recommend re-installing 1.2 and then installing the final 1.5...I did just that and have no problems whatsoever.

I honestly totally forgot about it!! haha

the facebook just found all the girls whose numbers I randomly got at bars.

facebook is like the trapper keeper of 2009

FINALLY!

Does this works on 5.0?

Wow, I was waiting until May but Facebook jumped the gun! Awesome!

I'd be excited if it automatically linked all the Facebook accounts to my Contacts and synced their data through it. There's a lot of people I have on Facebook but don't have an email directly written down for, not taking the time to manually copy them all. As it is, its a nice solid small step up from the previous version, but really nothing to get excited about.

Now my calender items dont show up on my front screen.

Beware, the FB 1.5 client seems to change the default calendar service. I installed the new official FB 1.5 client this afternoon, and it changed my default calendar service to Facebook. I read a posting in the 8830 forum stating this can cause duplicate, triplicate, ... calendar entries on your BB during sync.

Im not noticing any difference in the 2 versions

About freaking time...

i upgraded to the facebook 1.5 on my storm (bell 4.7.0.122) and here are my notes:

ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

* can integrate facebook messages into blackberry message inbox. (i find this to be a little annoying - how many copies of your messages do you really need on your device? this is why i didn't install the twitter clients that use the native inbox -- start following a lot of people and see how cluttered your inbox gets)

* can connect blackberry contacts with facebook friends. when you connect a facebook friend to a contact, you're given the option to connect it to an existing contact, or create a new one. the neat feature is that it uses your friends' facebook profile picture as the new contact's picture. facebook needs to work on this feature though: 1. even if your friends have their numbers listed on their profiles, facebook mobile still sends out requests to these friends (i can see how this is logical for friends who don't list their phone number on their profile, BUT for those that do -- seems rather unnecessary); 2. when creating a new contact, the facebook client doesn't seem to capture all of the friend's contact info (photo, email, phone # or something)

* can connect blackberry calendar with facebook (haven't tried this yet -- if it's anything like synching the contacts...forget about it)

* can comment on a friend's status

* can view friends' phone numbers (if they posted on their profiles), and call directly from facebook mobile

* can send phone number requests to friends

OVERVIEW

nice additional features...but this release was just all hype, in my opinion. had the new features worked and worked differently...then i'd be excited. when will facebook chat become part of facebook mobile? facebook chat, i'd like you to meet facebook mobile...

thanks to the guys who found out about it changing the default, this was killing me for the past 2 hours

Was nice to see how it would work on my 8130. I like ability to check for upgrades of Facebook within the program.

my version 1.2 stopped working, I knew something had to be up, i'm glad its a new version!

I'm honestly not impressed with it. The iPhone's FB app, and even the MySpace app for BB's blow this out of the water. Most of the functionality still just takes you to the mobile site instead of everything being inside the application, like MySpace is. Oh well. Hopefully the contact synchronization works well.

nice you get a free reboot :-P

So I admit, I haven't read all of the comments here so I apologize if this has already been answered, but can someone tell me exactly what has been updated with this release? Don't get me wrong, I am happy it has been released because now I don't have to wait for it with anticipation, but I gotta say, I have downloaded and I am not sure exactly what's new about it. Haven't really seen any improvements...Anyone found any?

I don't appreciate all the garbage that it automatically downloads and installs.

I was also hoping that 1.5 would be more like the extremely useful Facebook iPhone app, but it's just 1.2 with those sync options. Oh, wait, sorry, it also has sliding effects. Wooooooooow.

Who wrote this RIM? Facebook? Or 3rd party? I mean if its RIM then let facebook do it? If its facebook then damn hire some 3rd party to do it. Why is it that the iphone version has so much more stuff. Shouldnt we be able to do all that minus touch?

Facebook 1.5 is no different than the previous version. I was very disappointed as I was hoping this would be close to the FB for iPhone app. It has a few features that sync with your device, such as contacts and calender but is very much a useless application.

Even in the new 1.5, Facebook looks like it is coming from the 80s.

I guess BB programmers has different esthetic standards comparing to iPhone ones.

my calendar :(

.....finally

Anyone on the Beta 5.0 OS with an 8900 got this working?

The updated contact information is pretty cool

I love the integration with the calender. Except when I had alarms going off left and right. NOT WHAT I WANT. There should be away to tell it what to do with alarms. basically, no alarm, but i like the fact it syncs to the calender. Needs to also be able to sync to the one that is in the default services and not its own so it appears on the today themes

I actually like the integration of FB messages into the native BB inbox. I don't get a ton of e-mails through FB - don't think many people do - so this doesn't pose any clutter or organizational threats.

NOTE - Depending on your current FB mobile settings, you might have text messages set up for when you get an e-mail. Since FB messages are now integrated into the BB inbox, simply uncheck the text message option in your FB mobile options. Otherwise you'll get things twice and use up your message plan if not unlimited.

FB chat would be a definite plus. Fortunately, Palringo takes care of me there...on both my BlackBerry and my laptop.

Lots of hype, little substance, appreciate the effort. Maybe better next time...

so this is what we were waiting for?

First off head the warning and remove the beta before installing the final release.

So what does 1.5 give us that 1.2 didn’t?

• All facebook notifications can be read via your “messages” where you get your email. SMS etc..
• Events get posted to your calendar
• You have the option of merging your facebook contact with your Blackberry contacts.
• Some screen to screen animation

Some features I would have liked to have seen (and still hope to)

• Facebook Chat (though maybe as a separate client)
• Update my profile details
• Write a note (this omission surprises me)
• Send an invites to an event in my Blackberry calendar to facebook friends

So is it worth the upgrade/Installation? I’ll say “yes”; it does make performing certain actions easier, but this version doesn’t do it any better than 1.2. The big selling point is that version 1.5 is now more integrated with your blackberry, but this is more of an evolutionary step. In fairness to RIM, Facebook has been bouncing around with their format of the site – I can’t imagine how difficult this must have made the developers jobs.

What's new on it? I just downloaded it and it seems to be exactly the same as 1.2.* that I had before. =(

Anybody know how to access your own profile with the new 1.5 update? Befor eyou could go to your friends list and find your own name then link to profile. No longer have that option. Any other way to get to your own profile?

I'm not too fond of the facebook app.

Phew, it's about time. Love It.

I am elated to have Facebook 1.5 on my Storm. I have had the 9530 now for about 3 weeks. I loved it on my Bold so the change over of applications were a bit difficult to swallow.

Now if Beejive were to get it together for the storm, I will be a happy camper. I received an email from them previously stating that the Storm version would be out in two weeks. I emailed yesterday for an updated ETA and was informed that it will be another several weeks before the version is available - anticipated ETA....midde of MAY! :o(

Downloading it right now

FaceBook 1.5 rocks on my 8900...finally I can have facebook messages in my Messages folder and yeah! I can reply from there itself ...no more going to mobile site for replies :-) eeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Just DL new facebook. No Icon on main screen. It shows uo on my applications. Please Help!!

I have been running the leaked version of 1.5 for a couple weeks now on my 8900 and it has worked just fine.

Where would I see this database (below article statement)to verify it was duplicated????? I really do not want to perform a wipe.

"The official version doesn't seem to recognize the in-between leaked version, so it creates a new duplicate database."

After hitting the download button, i get this: Application "Facebook" already exist. Replace version 1.3.0 eith version 1.5.0.321. Press yes and see this:
"Facebook: Research in Motion Limited" contains a different version of module "net_rim_bb_facebook," which is also used by "Facebook" If you procedd "FAcebook" may cease to function properly. Proceed?
At which point I cancel the download.

Does it really send them a message requesting their number?

That's retarded. I won't be adding any contacts from FB until that "feature" is removed.

Does 1.5 automatically give status updates?

I have the 8330 Curve with the 4.5.0.131 OS. It seems that after installing the new Facebook, it seems to conflict with my Today Plus themes. It no longer shows the calendar or message entries. I've tried reinstalling the themes and switching to the BB Dimension Today Plus theme and no dice.

Been seeing a lot of complaints about it not being good, but I'm very happy with the new additions to the Storm. As soon as it was released I hopped right on the download, and spent a few hours figuring out how to best use the new features. Facebook chat would have been nice, but whatever. I'm wondering when we're gonna get the official Crackberry review tho???

I use ACT for my contact management, and CompanionLink through Desktop Manager for syncing my BB Curve 8330. After downloading Facebook, I performed a sync. However, my calendar will not sync. My contacts and memos still sync, but it completely skips over the calendar sync. It worked previously before I installed Facebook. Has anyone else noticed this?

I personally don't see any difference on my Storm. Am I missing something?

Better than the previous version but still a complete joke. Blackberry is falling into the same old groove palm did. They clearly missed the boat again.

Man I was pumped about this until I remembered I am not a 14 year old girl

When i find a friend in my friends lists and sync them with a blackberry contact, its awesome. However, i just noticed it sent a phone number request to all of the people i synced.

Is there any way to stop this?

its a different version. so i just uninstalled the previous 1.5.24 and then downloaded the new 1.5.31 works fine. seems pretty much the same though. awesome....

Can we at least have an option to disable the request? =_+'

I've been checking my memory before installing FB 1.5 last night and today. I have a 8310 Curve and the memory went down from about 15-16 MB to 8 MB. I've only done a bit of calling, sms, twitterberry, and facebook.

I'm going to wait until later in the day and check. Probably will need to soft reset or do a battery pull.

The new FB app is great. Updated apps are good. For those that can not see any value in that, keep your remarks to yourself. I know this is a blog, but do we as humans always have to spew negative comments to make ourselves feel better. Have a coke and a smile. Life is not that difficult.

This messages had been bought to you by someone that enjoys life and lives his blackberry storm. Thank you.

i uninstalled 1.3 first, did a battery pull, installed 1.5, did a battery pull. when my storm rebooted my calendar was gone from my today theme. went to default services and facebook had set itself as my default calendar. i then changed it back to my default and it still would not come back on my today theme. i had even set facebook not to integrate with my calendar (i dont need everyone knowing my biz schedule!) and it still did this. i uninstalled 1.5 and now my calendar is back to normal. not too sure where to go from here...

What changes did they make?? I'm not seeing any... call me crazy... :)

I don't understand how the facebook sycing pictures works, my address book pictures have not been updated, and i have that option checked to do it.

From the little I just used it after updating... I'm liking it! Esp the photo comments. when you click on a notif about someones comment. it shows the latest comment no matter whos name you click on, then the preceding comments. That's all i looked at. and when you go to the menu from the blackberry button its a lot more spaced out and a lot easier to navigate.

Are you kidding me.. still having to go to mobile facebook in the browser to see someone's profile.. What good is an app that takes you into the browser?? I was really let down by this.

I installed Facebook 1.5 on my 8900 and I opted to NOT sync my Facebook calendar. It ended up syncing anyway. Worse yet, I have duplicate appointments for everything on my calendar. I changed my default calendar back to my gmail calendar (as instructed in previous comments) and I reran google sync and I still have duplicate appointments. Someone said they had success with their calendar after uninstalling facebook. Is uninstalling my only option? Or do I need to delete every duplicate appointment? Extremely annoying if the latter...

BE CAREFUL!! I just downloaded the new Facebook and I have a little issue. I bought a AppleBerry theme yesterday from Crackberry. I particularly liked the AppleBerry Glass theme because of the calender display on the home screen. Well... I downloaded the new Facebook last night. Not realizing that when I chose to " connect to BlackBerry contact" to use their profile pictures on my Storms contacts list, I inadvertantly have displayed those contacts birthdays. So now instead of seeing the next 10 calender events, like I had prior to the Facebook download, I now see birtdays. Can someone help! I REALLY liked the theme I purchased, now I don't know how to correct this issue.

I am a little nervous about utilizing all the functions of the new app. "...and you acknowledge that access to this data (e.g. by applications) will no longer be subject to your and your facebook friends privacy settings once stored on your blackberry device." What are they trying to say? That EVERY contact, whether they belong to facebook or not, can have their information taken and used by whoever, whenever... and not just by Facebook but by the other 3rd party apps (such as games and whatnot) that has access to your page? I just would like that clarified prior to screwing all 1000+ contacts on my phone.

I'm not going to spam my friends with request for there phone numbers! This is ridiculous. I will just keep the version I have!

Just realized that when Facebook hijacks your emails (gmail specifically), it does not sync back to your actual inbox. This was one of the great upgrades to BIS lately. Outside of that, the phone number request is really my only real issue.

You guys are great. I love to read the comments before I download because there are always helpful things that help me to make better decisions.

the beta didn't work on my BBerry Pearl 8100.....but this one does....it works on my BBerry pearl os 4.5 and this is sweet has hell.....so i am soooooo addicted to crackberry that due to this app i'll be addicted to FB as well.....hope i don't get fired XD

Yessss it looks the same but it have several different features. I really like it.

i want to uprgrade to os 4.5 or higher
how can i do that i cant find where or how to do it anywhere!!
my device manager says theres no new update ready, but i know there is!!!

I have a storm and every since I downloaded the new facebook, my memmory can't get above 20MB. Usually it would be at 30ish and now everytime I check it's at 16MB, WTF! I might go back to the old FB.

i do not like this new version
i dont want to see everybody's facebook dp on my contacts list its just creepy
how do i downgrade to the old version?
cant seem to find the link

Picture upload quality is 100% better!

Lots of problems. It has messed up my phone's calendar.

i have a 9000 Bold and by mistake i upgrade the Facebook to v1.6, then now a can't enter facebook...

last time i download facebook v1.8 on my bold 9700 but cannot use (error 100), can give me fb v 1.5 to try

already install facebook v1.5 successful but icon fb have no in application folder. How to resolve. I dont want to register BIS at my service provider due to high amount need to pay monthly. I want to use Wi-Fi to surf Facebook application. Please advise.