Facebook Messenger App Download Free For Android
Keiko Bludworth
Within the last couple weeks the ability to receive and send messages via Facebook Messenger has disappeared from from my infotainment system when connected to Android Auto. Before I was able to get notifications ant it would then read it out loud if I wished then ask if I would like to reply. It was very nice. Now there is no response with messenger. Even worse is that the app is muted on my phone when connected so I get no notifications of new messages. Also when ask assistant to send a message via Messenger it replies with, "I can send messages with Facebook Messenger yet" Did facebook messenger lose the ability to work with Android Auto? It's so odd that it just stopped working all of the sudden.
-Reality: While it's required to download if you are using Facebook's mobile app on the iPhone or Android smartphones, you can avoid it if use the Facebook messenger service on your desktop or laptop, iPad or even the mobile Facebook website.
-Reality: Facebook's terms of service are the same for all its mobile apps, including the main Facebook app. You can read it here: m.facebook.com/policies. What's upsetting people is the list of "permissions" they see when they download and install the app on an Android phone. It's a long list with 10 items, each of which states that the app needs access to features on your phone including contacts, calendar, location data and Wi-Fi information. Sure, that's a lot of personal data. But it's the same data most messaging apps have access to. On the iPhone, users don't get the list of permissions when they install the app, but when they use it, permissions pop up individually. You can view the app's list of permissions here: . Click "view details" under Permissions.
To achieve this level of granular control you want you will struggle on the Meraki for the reasons previously outlined. You would need a firewall that supports HTTPS inspection, which basically decrypts the traffic to be able to differentiate between facebook messenger and regular Facebook.
I have an interesting scenario which I cant seem to find a solution to. I am hoping the community will be able to point me in the right direction. I need to block facebook messenger on a wifi network. To be more specific I need to block the facebook messenger (android & apple) application while mobile devices are on our wireless network. I have successfully blocked facebook web chat in the browser, but mobile devices on our wifi are still able access messenger. I dont want to block HTTPS completely, as many services utilize HTTPS. I dont want to block the entire facebook.com either since there is a need to use facebook.
Does anyone know what port the facebook messenger (android & apple) app uses to communicate? I read facebook implemented MQTT which uses 1883 and 8883 for SSL communications. However blocking these ports has had no impact. Maybe the app has hard coded IP addresses which it uses to avoid using DNS. If so, using DNS filters (i.e. OpenDNS) would not work. I would appreciate any insight anybody has regarding this matter. Thank you.
They might be using MQTT without using the standard ports. I found a post that mentions FB Messenger for Windows using ports 62656, 62859 and 63965, but it's a couple of years old, and might not apply to ios or android either.
To be honest I dont know which one of these blocks accomplished my goal, but as of now when you log into facebook the chat window at the bottom shows "disconnected". This is a win in my book. Navigating the site has not presented any problems thus far.
The facebook messenger app however has not been effected. I would like to thank @Chris75 for his recommendation. I have enabled Instant Messaging on my OpenDNS and I will test to see if this resolves my problem. I have to admit there is VERY little information regarding how the facebook apps operate. Short of utilizing a major UTM appliance (i.e. Watchguard) I was stumped. Blocking HTTPS works, but in this scenario I need to excise the disease not cut off the limb.
For those of you whom are curious I have some additional information regarding this topic. First let me address the last question. By blocking the domains I mentioned the apps were unaffected. Blocking the domains I mentioned only prevented users from using facebook chat in their browsers. Upon initial login to facebook it looks like you are connected to chat, but then a few seconds later it shows you disconnected. Works great.
I blocked both immediately. As I mentioned in my first post, Facebook is using the MQTT protocol for messenger. In addition I have found that blocking these two domains works as well to block the messenger app:
The trade off is that apps that need to connect to Facebook will be unable to connect as well. Now let me be clear, by blocking these two domains you will not effect the Facebook app. This will block the facebook messenger app. If you want to make sure the facebook app has no problems you can whitelist graph.facebook.com.
Hi guys. I have a Samsung Note 3. I'm having an issue which started recently where Facebook Messenger video messages that I send do not have any sound. When I press and hold the video record button in the app and then release the button to replay a recording there is a slight click sound and then total silence throughout the video. Oh my dad that the camera works perfectly in the phone and all videos work as they should. I've done absolutely everything I can think of including uninstalling both Facebook and the messenger app, reinstalling, clearing cache for the apps, clearing cache for the phone, wiping your phone to factory settings and reinstalling everything and a few others to no avail. Any ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated as I'm totally fed up with this issue. TIA
Oh. You can add following CSS in the Custom CSS option at the Super Socializer > General Options page in the admin area to fix the alignment of the Facebook Like icon.
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