UPDATE 28/06/2010
- Matchbox Mobile is working on a new Microsoft Facebook version which should fix most of the annoying bugs. No ETA.
- Here you can find Richard @ MatchboxMobile quote

Originally Posted by MatchboxMobile  

Hi all,

Sorry for not having posted in some time, I've been off work for health reasons. I did want to let you know though that work on the new version is <finally> underway, and my hope is it'll fix most of the issues you're experiencing, certainly all the major ones. It's a bug fix only release, sorry no new features. I don't have an ETA for the release, but I'd expect it to be in the Aug timeframe.

Thanks for your patience guys, again I'm sorry updates haven't been coming a lot faster but unfortunately we're not in control of the process.

Richard @ Matchbox

Microsoft Facebook 1.2 is available on the Marketplace; Here you can find attached the CAB file (1.2 a.k.a. 1.1.0.17).
This version is out on the Windows Marketplace for Professional devices so it should work on every WM 6.5.x touchscreen phone and screen resolution.

If you should experience any problems, let me know so that I can add them to the bug list

NOTES:

- Matchbox Mobile, the developer of the Facebook app on MS behalf is checking this topic.
If you should experience any bugs or if you have some suggestions for future versions of this app, feel free to join the discussion
thanks to Richard and Matchbox Mobile for helping us out and gathering infos and bugs to improve the application

- For more info, please check the discussion linked in the following link:

INSTALL
- If you had my previous 1.1.0.14 CAB, please remove that using the remove programs applet prior to install the new update.
- Download and install "Microsoft Facebook 1.1.0.17.cab". This is the original Microsoft Facebook CAB available on the marketplace.

- The previous 1.1.0.14 install files are still attached for archive reasons.

WHAT'S NEW
CURRENT VERSION: 1.1.0.17
- Bugfixes (?)
- Pokes seems to be working now.

Version 1.1.0.14
- Hopefully some bugfixes and improved speed
- Improved notifications system
- "View Comments"
- "Comment"
- "Like" (or "Dislike")
- “Search” (for new contacts or existing ones).

KNOWN TWEAKS
- Change Image Cache: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1&postcount=13(thanks to owziee)
- Change Facebook language: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...7&postcount=66 (thanks to Real_Justus)

WHAT'S STILL MISSING (compared to other platforms FB apps)
- Live feed and chat.
- It's not possible to check who has "liked" any post/image/etc.

REPORTED PROBLEMS

1.1.0.17
- On some devices, after viewing a photo album, MS Facebook is unable to view any other contact's album pictures and generate their album list.
- On some configurations, MS Facebook is unable to remember login credentials after closing the app.

1.1.0.14
- Slow page scrolling reported on some devices.
- After viewing a photo album, MS Facebook is unable to view any other contact's album pictures and generate their album list.
- dominicanman912 reports that MS Facebook changed the volume keys mapping, so he's unable to change the volume anymore. There are no other reports of this issue.
- Facebook throws out an error while trying to fetch the inbox.
- megapinky is reporting he's unable to change photo to see another ones in the picture view, with gestures not working.
- Sometimes MS FB will not post updates once submitted; you'll need to try multiple times until your wall gets updated.
- pndragon reports that his all his news feeds are showing up as double posts.
- On i8000 if you should have install problems try follow this guide (thanks to b006): Restall v1.1 from Marketplace to override the preinstalled version, then go to Main Storage in settings and delete it (uninstall). Next install this version 1.2, not in main (since the preinstalled v1.1 is there to avoid conflicts) but in other storage options you have.
- On some devices, Facebook throws out an error message while trying to poke someone.

If a new Microsoft Facebook client version should pop up on the Marketplace, on the Microsoft Download web site or here, please remove the previous version using the remove programs applet prior to install the new update.

Here u can find attached some screenshots and the cab files:


Enjoy

Thanks!!

MS needs to speed up the development on this app because iPhone's and Android's facebook apps are way better then what we're getting (haven't used blackberry's fb app yet)

Anytime
imho I think that if MS decided to not release this version for Pocket PC it means that they're preparing something better compared to the Smartphone version, and hopefully we'll have some updates for MWC

Fantastic! Working great on my HD2.

Thank you A LOT!

Big thank you for sharing this update with us!!! Isn't it strange that they released an update for smartphones and no update for PPC???

I think PPC's are more popular than smartphones...

Yeah, it's strange that they didn't posted that in the touchscreen marketplace, also because there's a huge version bump (from 1.0.0.7 to 1.1.0.14) and some very welcome new features; when first extracted the original CAB wouldn't even install on my HD2 so I had to build it from scratch, so hopefully they're doing something better for our WM Professional devices.

Scrolling is very very slow.. Need to drag using the scroll bar to scroll down faster.. Is there a fix?

working well on HD2, thank you! much appreciated

Originally Posted by st3ph3nt3  

Scrolling is very very slow.. Need to drag using the scroll bar to scroll down faster.. Is there a fix?

Will look into that, but as far as I know there's no solution. As it's an application released to work only on non touchscreen devices, they probably didn't put much attention into (kinetic) scrolling. If I had to scroll down faster I used the scroll bar, too, but imo that's not too much of a hassle

Thank you for this. its at least a little more usable then the rubbish microsoft have on the ppc at the moment.