Facebook (build 141046) randomly downloading to my phone...anyone else?

**cpolism** · 03-14-2013, 10:45 AM

Facebook is downloading something to my phone, I have no idea what it is. Never gave access to this, and I manually update all my apps. Pulled the battery to stop it, and it's right back at it. What's the deal with this?

**La Duquesa** · 03-14-2013, 12:37 PM

omg Im having the same problem. I reset my phone and it started back up asw soon as the phone turned on. Is there anyway to stop this??

**angccat** · 03-14-2013, 12:51 PM

The same thing just happened to me. I restarted my phone and it is still running. I saw another post on another website about this and it was in the same time period as us.

**rbess1965** · 03-14-2013, 12:51 PM

Mine to. What the hell?

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**angccat** · 03-14-2013, 12:52 PM

I just stopped it. I have an htc one x. I went to downloads, I selected it, and pressed delete. Hopefully you can you do the same.

**Jennifer Stough** · 03-14-2013, 01:00 PM

The solution is to either turn on WiFi, click the download, it will open an in app update. allow the new build to install, or manual force stop the install by going to your download manager and trashing it.

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**cpolism** · 03-14-2013, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by angccat

I just stopped it. I have an htc one x. I went to downloads, I selected it, and pressed delete. Hopefully you can you do the same.

Yes, I ended up long pressing it in the notification pull down, hit "app info" and then force close/cleared data and that seemed to do the trick. Unfortunately now i'm getting the process.com.gapps or whatever the error code is. None of my apps are working. Excellent.

**Sahil Kothari** · 03-14-2013, 01:11 PM

go to settings>applications>manage applications. then switch to the "all" tab. find download manager and force stop it.

**Lauren Bradford** · 03-14-2013, 01:24 PM

This started today for me as well. What's going on? I have disabled Download Manager but then I got another error. I am using the VZW Galaxy Nexus.

**LouieO** · 03-14-2013, 01:30 PM

I had the same thing all morning. I finally stopped it manually. I would still like to know what that is or if its really from Facebook?

**cpolism** · 03-14-2013, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Sahil Kothari

go to settings>applications>manage applications. then switch to the "all" tab. find download manager and force stop it.

Ha! Thanks. I guess I just disabled it when I canceled out the download from this facebook crap. That took care of the problem. Thanks again.

**crester** · 03-14-2013, 02:03 PM

Did anybody actually let it finish and see what the update was?

**cotys** · 03-14-2013, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Sahil Kothari

go to settings>applications>manage applications. then switch to the "all" tab. find download manager and force stop it.

On Jelly Bean, it just starts right back up again after a force stop.

**pellis56** · 03-14-2013, 03:44 PM

angccat you are awesome I spent almost an hour on the phone with tech support and never got rid of it they said the next thing was to master reset my phone. Well I was waiting til I got home from work so I could upload my pics to my pc and after seeing your post and tried it it worked Whoot!!!! Whoot!!! Thank you again, and again, and again. I have been dealing with this for about the last 5 hours maybe longer. You are the one!!!!

**steveinil** · 03-14-2013, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by La Duquesa

omg Im having the same problem. I reset my phone and it started back up asw soon as the phone turned on. Is there anyway to stop this??

GN here too long press on the downloading app in the notification pull down then open app info then force stop the download manager then clear data worked for me so far been about 30 min or so

**Lesley Smith** · 03-14-2013, 05:13 PM

I uninstalled Facebook then turned on Wifi and connected to a network. It stopped after that. I then reinstalled Facebook. What a mess.

I have a Revolution, by the way.

**LouieO** · 03-14-2013, 05:18 PM

This thing has been going all day. There is no progress bar to show if there is an end to this.

**mydrinknmyrobot** · 03-14-2013, 05:51 PM

IT'S SKYNET!!!!

but yeah mine is doing it too, i went to the downloads folder and cancelled it. so it stopped...for now.

**brittany571** · 03-14-2013, 06:16 PM

**brittany571** · 03-14-2013, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by angccat

I just stopped it. I have an htc one x. I went to downloads, I selected it, and pressed delete. Hopefully you can you do the same.

This worked for me! Finally after uninstalling Facebook twice resetting my phone and shutting down the download manager its self it was really that easy lol THANK YOU

**hummingbird314** · 03-14-2013, 11:16 PM

I've had the same problem on my HTC Rezound for a week. I tried everything and this finally worked. I put it in airplane mode then only turned on the WiFi. It finished the download within a few seconds and hasn't come back. I read on another droid forum that the download needs a WiFi only connection and I keep my phone on LTE so that was my problem.

**Elizabeth Rodriguez2** · 03-15-2013, 05:23 AM

Hadn't tried the WiFi option and realized when I saw this that mine was off but this did the trick... Thanks!! This was on my Google Nexus and for some reason the update has not happened on my tablet yet... Nexus 7....strange.

**marie727** · 03-15-2013, 05:41 AM

Yea, my husband has gS2. When he opened fb it said a new fb build has to download and replace the old fb build..

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**Cassidy Williams** · 03-15-2013, 07:04 AM

Made this account just to let you know what I did to solve this problem. I took the battery out, without turning off my phone. Then I took out the sim card. Turned the phone back on. Go into your download history, it will show things you download all month and things that are processing. It will show Facebook build paused. I clicked the box next to it, gave me the option to cancel/clear selection hit cancel download. Good luck